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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 7: (search)
ed to give him up, as no longer worthy of his confidence or affection. General Robert E. Lee has so happily expressed all these various emotions, in a couple of letne of these letters is addressed to General Winfield Scott, and the other to General Lee's sister. Arlington, Va., April 20, 1861. General:—Since my intervontinuance of your happiness and prosperity, and believe me most truly yours, R. E. Lee. Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, Commanding United States Army. Arlingtors, and shower upon you every blessing is the prayer of your devoted brother. R. E. Lee. In the winter of 1860, I was stationed in the city of Washington, as theoys, to boot. Virginia, for instance, at the same time that she sent young Robert E. Lee to West Point, to be educated, put in the public treasury not only money enor the education and maintenance of three Massachusetts boys! How ungrateful of Lee, afterward, being thus a charity scholar of the North, to draw his sword against
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 16: (search)
h, so long as the enemy shall continue so to treat the like number of prisoners of war, captured by them at sea, and now held for trial in New York as pirates. As these measures are intended to repress the infamous attempt now made by the enemy, to commit judicial murder on prisoners of war, you will execute them, strictly, as the mode best calculated to prevent the commission of so heinous a crime. The list of hostages, as returned by General Winder, was as follows: Colonels Corcoran, Lee, Cogswell, Wilcox, Woodruff, and Wood; Lieutenant-Colonels Bowman, and Neff; Majors Potter, Revere, and Vogdes, and Captains Ricketts, McQuade, and Rockwood. These measures had the desired effect; the necessity, that the Federal Government was under of conciliating the Irish interest, contributing powerfully thereto—Colonel Cor coran, the first hostage named, being an Irishman of some note and influence, in New York. President Lincoln was accordingly obliged to take back his proclamation, a
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 28: (search)
umerate these battles, as follows: Seven Pines; Mechanicsville and Beaver Dam; Gaines' Mills; Savage Station; Frazer's Farm; and Malvern Hill;—names sufficient alone to cover the Confederate cause with immortal glory, in the minds of all true men, as the highest qualities of courage, endurance, patriotism, and self-sacrifice, that any men could be capable of, were exhibited on those fields, destined to become classic in American annals. Following up the defeat of McClellan, by Johnston and Lee, Stonewall Jackson gained his splendid victory of the Second Manassas over Pope; defeating him with great loss, and driving him before him to the gates of Washington. Thus, notwithstanding our disasters in the West and South, an entirely new face had been put upon the war in Virginia. The enemy's capital, instead of Richmond, was in danger, and McClellan was hastily withdrawn from Fortress Monroe, for its defence. We must now pause, for we have brought the thread of the war down to the c
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 32: (search)
fter they had acknowledged the war, as a war, which carried with it an acknowledgment of the right of the Confederate States to fit out cruisers, they stultified themselves by calling her pirate, and privateer. They were afraid to speak the truth, in conformity with the facts, lest the destruction of their property, for which they hoped ultimately to be paid, should seem to be admitted to have been done under the sanction of the laws of nations. They could as logically have called General Robert E. Lee a bandit, as myself a pirate; but logic was not the forte of the enemy, either during or since the late war. Before we commence operations, a glance at the personnel of the ship may not be uninteresting. If the reader is to embark on the cruise with us, he will very naturally desire to know something of his future shipmates. Having made the cruise in the Sumter, he is, of course, acquainted with the officers of that ship, and if, after the fashion of the sailor, he has formed a
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 46: (search)
ederacy had greatly brightened in consequence. Lee followed up this movement with the invasion of Harper's Ferry was captured by a portion of Lee's forces; the battle of Sharpsburg was fought ( September, 1862) without decisive results, and Lee recrossed his army into Virginia. In the Wesdy fight. He retreated in good order. After Lee's retreat into Virginia, from his march into Maossed the Rappahannock, on his way to Richmond. Lee had no more than about one third of Hooker's fo Taylor's hands. After the defeat of Hooker, Lee determined upon another move across the enemy'srder. Hooker followed, keeping himself between Lee and Washington, supposing the latter to be the object of Lee's movement. But Lee moved by the Shenandoah Valley, upon Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.Lee moved by the Shenandoah Valley, upon Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. Hooker now resigned the command, for which he found himself unfitted, and Meade was sent to relie Pemberton was surrendering Vicksburg to Grant, Lee was preparing to withdraw from Gettysburg for t[2 more...]