The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between the States (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War Between the States
The address on Mr. Lincoln was prepared and delivered at the request of R. E. Lee Camp No. 1 of Confederate Veterans in October, 1909, two years after the publication of the first edition. It was published by order of the Camp, and the edition then published has been exhausted for some time. The author has had numerous applications for additional Copies which he has been unable to supply. He has, therefore, thought it wise to add that address to tis edition, and in addition, to publish a new and larger edition of it in pamphlet form.
The address on Chief Justice Taney was delivered before the Virginia State Bar Association at its annual meeting in 1911. It was received by that body with evident commendation, and has been in great demand and widely circulated. It is believed that this address will also add consider able interest to this volume.
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Hunter Holmes McGuire was an American physician, teacher, and orator.
Background
Hunter Holmes McGuire was born on October 11, 1835 in Winchester, Virginia. He was the son of a physician and surgeon, Dr. Hugh Holmes McGuire, and of Ann Eliza (Moss) McGuire. He was a descendant of Edward McGuire of County Kerry, Ireland, who settled in Virginia in 1747.
Education
Hunter McGuire received his premedical education at Winchester Academy and later studied at the Winchester Medical College, from which he received his diploma in 1855. The year following, he matriculated at both the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, but was forced to return home because of an attack of rheumatism. In 1857 he was elected professor of anatomy in the College at Winchester, but he resigned the position after one session and went once more to Philadelphia, where he established a quiz class and pursued further studies. John Brown's raid gave rise to such intense sectional feeling in 1859 as to lead to a mass meeting of Southern medical students in Philadelphia and a resolution that they go South. McGuire was the leading spirit in this movement and assumed the expenses of such of the three hundred students as could not pay their own way to Richmond. He resumed studies there and acquired a second medical degree. He then went to New Orleans, where he established a quiz class in connection with the medical department of the University of Louisiana.
Career
When Virginia seceded from the Union, he volunteered as a private soldier and marched to Harpers Ferry. He was soon commissioned as a medical officer, and in May 1861, he was made medical director of the Army of the Shenandoah, then under command of "Stonewall" Jackson. Later, when Jackson organized the First Virginia Brigade, he asked that McGuire be made its surgeon. Thereafter he served as chief surgeon of Jackson's commands until the latter's death. He was also his personal physician. Subsequently he was surgeon of the II Army Corps, under General Ewell, medical director of the Army of Northern Virginia under General Ewell, and medical director of the Army of the Valley of Virginia, under General Jubal Early. It is said that he organized the "Reserve Corps Hospitals of the Confederacy" and that he perfected the "Ambulance Corps. " The latter consisted of a detail of four men from each company to assist the wounded from the field to hospitals in the rear. The men wore conspicuous badges, and no other soldiers were permitted to leave the ranks during battle for the purpose of rendering aid. Just what constituted the "Reserve Corps Hospitals of the Confederacy" does not appear from any available records. McGuire was always active in securing the release of captured Union medical officers, and when he was himself captured by General Sheridan's troops in March 1865, he was at once paroled and in two weeks released.
In 1865, he was elected professor of surgery in the Virginia Medical College, and served as such until 1878, when he resigned; in 1880, he was made professor emeritus. Always an ardent Southerner, when in his later life his attention was called to the "efforts of Northern writers and their friends to pervert the world's judgment and secure a world verdict in their favor, " he at once undertook a campaign which resulted in the appointment of a committee to examine the school histories in use in Virginia, in the reorganization of the Virginia School Board, and in the condemnation of offending books. His account of the death of his own good friend, "Stonewall" Jackson, is touching and beautiful in its simplicity and in the pictures which it evokes so vividly. His death, after six months of invalidism, resulted from cerebral embolism.