Civil War Sketches And Incidents

Author : Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; Nebraska Commandery
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330374818
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Sketches and Incidents written by Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States; Nebraska Commandery and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Civil War Sketches and Incidents, Vol. 1 Remembering the apparent unanimity with which the people of the south sustained the secession movement after hostilities had actually begun, we are apt to forget how devout was the love for the Union in some sections of the Confederacy. Nowhere, not even in Eastern Tennessee, was this sentiment stronger than in portions of the state of North Carolina. On the 17th of January, 1861, I was passing through the last named state on my way to Mi Hedgeville, Georgia. The southern heart was fast catching fire, and there were plenty of hot-heads to apply the kindling torch in North Carolina. Georgia had just passed her secession ordinance, and the half-grown, tar-heel boys were shouting for the side which promised relief from the dreary monotony of their lives. At every cross roads, and at every railway station, you were pretty sure to see two or three young men with the blue and white cockade (at that early day the emblem of treason) in their hats. Most of the old men on the train looked grave and troubled, but kept quiet. Ex-Governor Moorhead, however, a frank, plain-spoken old patriot, who had not long before quitted the gubernatorial chair of North Carolina, left no one in doubt as to what his sentiments were. He denounced secession as a crime and secessionists as fools, in language which was not to be mistaken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.