Identifier: boysof61orfoury00coff (find matches)
Title: The boys of '61; or, Four years of fighting. Personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull run to the fall of Richmond
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896
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Publisher: Boston, Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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t holding a commission from theRebel government, he was fighting for the Confederacy, andwas ranked with Morgan and Mosby. He was an ally of JeffDavis and General Lee. When were his acts disavowed by theRebel government ? What restraint was ever laid upon him ?He passed from the scene of massacre, lighted by the flames of 1864.) SHERMAN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 443 the burning town, safely into the Rebel lines, where instead ofoutlawry he found protection and favor. On what page of Con-federate history shall we read the remonstrance of Lee, Davis,Stephens, Toombs, or Breckenridge ? Where is the protest ofthe chivalrous gentlemen of the South ? What action wastaken by the Rebel Congress ? Vain the search for disavowal of or protest against the act.The historian of another generation will be able to pass rightjudgment upon all that has transpired during these dark yearsof anarchy and revolution, sorrow, tears, and anguish. Thoverdict of posterity will be just, and will endure through theages.
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MISSISSIPPI RIVEll HOSPITAL STEAMER. 444 THE BOYS OF 61. T>ec. CHAPTER XXVII. SOUTH CAROLINA BEFORE THE WAR. To fully comprehend the fitting punishment of South Caro-lina we must keep in remembrance her position before thewar. We must behold her as she appeared in 1860, — theleader and chief conspirator against the Republic. She had always taken a prominent part in the politicalaffairs of the nation. Although a State, she was hardly a re-publican commonwealth, and very far from being a democracy.The State was ruled by a clique, composed of wealthy men, ofancient name, who secured privileges and prerogatives forthemselves at the expense of the people, who had but littlevoice in electing their lawgivers. The basis of representation in the Legislature was exceed-ingly complex. In the House of Representatives it was a mix-ture of property, population, white inhabitants, taxation, andslaves. In the Senate it consisted of geographical extent, whiteand slave population, taxation, and pr

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