Hope all will find interesting some of the excerpts concerning former Confederate officials.
Friday, March 16, 1883, Vol. III, No. 4.(Page 28)
“Jackson Herald, Robert S. Howard, Jefferson, Ga., Friday, March 16, 1883
“Attorney General, Emory Speer has appointed George S. Thomas, Esq., of Athens, his deputy.
Mr. Stephens’s remains will be removed to his home at Crawfordville, for permanent interment, as soon as a suitable place can be prepared.”
“In Memorial. (Page 28)
Funeral Services of Georgia Great Statesmen (Gov. Alexander H. Stephens).
Atlanta Georgia, March 8 – It is difficult to conceive a finer set of addresses than those delivered today.
They were grand, philosophical, eloquent tributes to the deceased....
General Gordon delivered an eloquent speech and offered appropriate resolutions. Judge Crawford
spoke touchingly, General Toombs arose shedding tears and unable to speak audibly. He spoke one
hour, with many of his old flashes of eloquence.....Gen. H. R, Jackson paid an impassioned tribute. It
was the most poetic of the addresses. Col. C. C. Jones made an eulogy...
The procession was grand and imposing. Eight pairs of black horses drew the splendid hearse.
The carriages seemed innumerable. Thirty military companies, having 700 soldiers in attractive
uniform, marched to marshal music.....
At the grave Bishop Beck with closed the funeral services. The body was placed in the vault of
David G. Cotting, former Secretary of State”.
Friday, April 20, 1883, Vol. III, No. 9. (Page 40)
“Georgia News.
General Toombs, who speaks seven languages, repeated a day or two ago that he landed in Europe
after the war almost without a cent to his name. Within a short time, however, he received $5,000
from an acquaintance for an opinion on some American securities. Gen. Toombs, who, by the way,
is nearly 74 years of age, is greatly; grieved on account of his wife’s failing health.”
Friday, July 20, 1883, Vol. III. No. 22 (Page 63)
“The wife of Gen. Robert Toombs, of Washington, fell from her bed to the floor the other day and sustained slight injuries, which delayed the family’s midsummer pilgrimage to Clakesville.”
Friday, July 27, 1883, Vol. III, No. 23. (page 64)
“Re-Union of the 18th Ga. Regiment.
The following is a list of the surviving members of Co. “C”, 18th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, Confederate
States Army:
John F. Espy, Captain; J. B. Silman, Captain; H. W. Bell, 1st Lieutenant; J.W. Strickland, Orderly Sergeant; H, C. Barnett, Sergeant; J. W. Doster, Corporal; T. H. Niblack, J. M. Wilhite, W. C. Davis, A. J. Bell, W. L. Thurmond, Oscar Adair, H. C. Gilbert, A.D. Stapler, W. A. Watson, J. N. Orr, R P. Potter, J. A. Weir, L. I. Hutchins, Elijah Ervin, T. L. Harrison, J. W. Lord, R. H. Hilton, F. Hilton, Ben Franklin, A. A. DeLaperriere, Thomas Rogers, A. W. Potts, Thomas Moore, H. P. Davis, H. J. Randolph, Jr., Jones, Dailey, J. M. Story.
This company carried into the war 84 men and was recruited with 49 more men, and came out of the war with 34 men,
losing near three-fourths of their number, slain in battle and died from sickness. Thirteen of above named survivors were wounded. This leaves only eighteen men out of 133 that escaped death or wounds in the late war.
The survivors of the above company who desire to attend the reunion in Atlanta the 1st day of August, residing in Jackson County, are requested by the members residing here in Jefferson to come to Jefferson Monday evening, July 30th,so they may be ready to take the train Tuesday morning for Atlanta.
(Note: C. C. (Charles C.) Vandiver served in this company. He died in Richmond, Va. (Probably Measles) November 1861)