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o Loretta Janeta Velazquez, a Cuban woman, claimed to have fought in the war disguised as a Confederate soldier, Lt. Harry Buford. She chronicled her amazing and harrowing adventures in an account called The Woman in Battle. o James Hamilton Tomb, a Confederate engineer on the innovative semi-submarine ship David, accepted a post-war offer from the Brazilian emperor as technical expert on torpedoes (submarine mines) in the Paraguayan War of 1865-1870. o Hunter Davidson, a Confederate torpedo (submarine mine) scientist, assumed the head of the Argentine Torpedo and Hydrographic Bureau for some years, training its leadership, and retired to Asunción, Paraguay, where he is buried. o John Randolph Tucker, head of the Charleston Confederate Naval Squadron, accepted a post-war position as Vice-Admiral heading the combined Peruvian-Chilean fleets in a Pacific conflict against Spanish coastal incursions. o John Newland Maffitt, who before the war captured illegal slave-trading ships, served the Confederacy as the CSS Florida's commander. Afterwards, he served in the Paraguayan war and commanded the Cuban gun-runner Hornet. o Thomas Jefferson Page, a Confederate naval commander who learned of the war's end in Cuba after sailing the ironclad CSS Stonewall from Spain, settled in Argentina, his son becoming an Argentine naval commander, his grandson an admiral. o After the war, many prominent governors and other Confederates established a colony, Carlotta, in Mexico.
The Soldier's Prayer in Camp. O Eternal God, who by Thy unsearchable wisdom, by Thy Almighty power and secret providence, dost determine the issues of human counsels, the events of war and the return of victory and peace, let the light of Thy countenance, and the blessed influence of Thy mercy, be once more shed upon this afflicted land. Pity the evils which we suffer under the power and tyranny of war, and although we acknowledge Thy justice in our sufferings and adore Thee in thy judgments, yet we beseech Thee to |
hearken to our prayers and provide a remedy for our calamities.
Let not the defenders of a righteous cause go away ashamed, nor their
counsels be bought to nought. Look with compassion upon our infirmities
and remember not our sins, but support us with Thy staff, lift us up
with Thy hand, and refresh us with Thy presence. And if a threatening
cloud should still overshadow us, illuminate our minds with divine truth
that with the eye of faith and hope we may see beyond it; catching a
glimpse of those mercies which in Thy secret providence and adorable
wisdom Thou mayest still vouchsafe to Thy unworthy servants amidst the
saddening scenes and hardships of war. Give us grace and strength diligently
to do our duty and cheerfully to submit to Thy will; and as we do put
our whole trust and confidence in Thy mercy, and have laid up all our
hopes in Thy bosom, let us never be put to shame or confusion before
our enemies: but as Thine are the strength and the power, O Lord of
Hosts, do Thou make bare Thy mighty arm and give us the victory. Place
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