St. Mary's of Old Montrose
St. Mary's of Old Montrose

Author: William Ruxton Fraser

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-26

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780331977004

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Excerpt from St. Mary's of Old Montrose: Or Parish of Maryton The substance of this volume appeared first in booklets, the contents of which were or iginally popular lectures delivered in connec tion with my congregation. I have frequently been requested to gather the matter of those booklets into one volume. It may be te garded as somewhat venturesome, for one who is blind, to undertake such a task. That would have been so in some circumstances; but with the effective aid which I have te ceived from my friend Mr W. F. Melvin, it has been in my case a light and easy task. In preparing the volume for the press, and in passing it through the press, I have te ceived such able help as only a large experience in similar matters would have enabled him to confer. Duplicate passages have been removed, and new matter is added. The original lectures being in connection with the congregation, it was deemed unadvisable, and it might have been invidious, to introduce into the narrative such a history of the Free Church as will be looked for in what pur ports to be a parochial history. Much of the information given I had acquired myself during my stay in the parish, but for a large part, especially the early days of the Free Church, I have been indebted to Miss J. A. Scott of Montrose, formerly of Dysart, and I desire to express my thanks to her here. Of course it will be understood that for the comments made on the information so re ceived that lady is not at all responsible. There are many other friends who, from first to last, have aided me, and I desire to ao knowledge my indebtedness to them all. Notwithstanding the important assistance which I have received, I am aware there will. 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.

Death of a Confederate
Death of a Confederate

Author: Arthur N. Skinner

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011-08-15

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0820342955

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Spanning nearly a century, the letters in this collection revolve around a central event in the history of a southern family: the death of the eldest son owing to sickness contracted during service in the Confederate Army. The letters reveal a slaveowning family with keen interests in art, music, and nature and an unshakable belief in their religion and in the Confederate cause. William Seagrove Smith was a private in the signal corps of the Eighteenth Battalion, Georgia Infantry. Smith was part of the force defending Savannah until it fell in late 1864, and then marched with General William J. Hardee in his famous retreat out of the city and through the Carolinas. Like so many other soldiers on both sides of the conflict, William Smith fell not at the hands of an enemy but from disease. He died in Raleigh, North Carolina, on July 7, 1865. A parallel and complementary story about William's younger brother, Archibald, also emerges in the letters. As a cadet at Georgia Military Institute, Archibald was (as his parents fervently wished) exempt from service; however, he ultimately saw--and survived--action before the war's end. Scattered among the many lines in the letters that are devoted to the two brothers are a wealth of particulars about agricultural, industrial, and social life in the family's north Georgia community of Roswell, the Smith family's flight from Sherman's invasion force, their lives as refugees in south Georgia, and a final reunion of the Smith brothers outside of Savannah just after the city's fall. Also included are a number of moving exchanges between the Smiths and the family that cared for William in his final days. A brief history of the Smith family through 1863 begins the correspondence, while the letters following the war reveal their fortitude in the face of William's death and the hardships of Reconstruction. The volume concludes with selected letters from the subsequent generation of Smiths, who conjure images of the Old South and revive the memory of William. Like the most distinguished Civil War-era letter collections, The Death of a Confederate introduces a personal dimension to its story that is often lost in histories of this sweeping event.