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Title: Autobiography and reminiscences of Theophilus Noel
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Noel, Theophilus, 1840-
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate
Publisher: Chicago : Theo. Noel Company Print, c1904
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ther he was going to evacuate,fall back, retreat and let the Yankees come in and burn thecity, as they had all other towns on their march to the sea sofar. He listened to their talk very patiently, and pointing to hishat on the far end of the table, said: Ladies, if my hat knewwhat I was going to do, I would burn it. They retired with-out any further adieu, or without scarcely bidding the generalgood-night. General Joseph E. Johnston was one of the great men ofthe Confederacy, and but for Mr. Davis ambition to be thewhole thing and nothing short of it, Sherman would nothave reached the sea when he did or in the way he did. John-ston had been pulled back and transferred and superseded sooften that the people had lost confidence in the President, asmuch as had the soldiers lost all sorts of respect for him. Iwell know that this will not sound good to many of the stay-at-homes and the encumbrances and other degenerated descend-ants of today who have been made to believe that Mr. Jeff 306
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ANOTHER WAR CHAPTER. $°7 Davis was a second George Washington. But for GeneralMiles having ordered shackles on him in his prison in FortressMonroe, Davis would have passed away and beyond recall.The indignities that were heaped upon him on this occasionmade out of him a new man in the hearts of all men wor-shippers of the opposite sex. Davis was a man that could appearin a room of fifty women who had their fifty sweethearts withthem, all of whom would be dismissed in favor of Mr. Davis. He was, to me, one of the most peculiar and unpleasantlooking men I ever had to do or deal with. This General Milesproved to be a great Indian fighter and came very near provingthat about a dozen or more connected with the War Departmentin Washington should have been taken out and shot for feedingthe soldiers in Cuba on embalmed beef. This might have beendone but for the fact that the Southern Democrats hated Milesso badly they would rather have seen all the soldiers in Cubasacrificed to Mammon and th

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