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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
organization of the famous Richmond Howitzers, which had been, as we have already mentioned, in barracks since the middle of March; who were to fire the first gun at the enemy in Virginia, that at the steamer Yankee from Gloucester Point on the 7th May, and whose fortune it was soon to be, with the First North Carolina regiment, engaged in the first battle of the war, excepting Fort Sumter—the battle of Big Bethel, June 10th. History of Howitzer Battalion, pamphlet No.1, page 14. By thee rate of from five hundred to one thousand a day were arriving from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and even Kentucky; some at Richmond, some at Harper's Ferry, and some at Petersburg. Richmond Enquirer. On May the 7th, Governor Letcher directed General Lee to assume the command of all the volunteer or other forces from Virginia, and other States which were in Virginia, until further orders were received from the President of the Confederate States. Recor
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg—Address of Colonel C. S Venable (formerly of General R. E. Lee's staff), of the University of Virginia, before the Virginia division f the Army of Northern Virginia, at their annual meeting, held in the Virginia State Capitol, at Richmond, Thursday , October 30th, 1873. (search)
oops in Hancock's front, made an attack, which was repulsed with heavy loss to the attacking column. The repulse of this attack of Burnside on Wilcox's front, the splendid execution done by the artillery of Heth's line on the flank of the attacking party, and the counter attacks by brigades of Hill's corps, sent out in front of our lines during the day, have been recorded by the graphic pen of General Early, who had been assigned to the command on account of General Hill's sickness on the 7th of May. General Hill, though unable to sit up, in these days of Spotsylvania would have himself drawn up in his ambulance immediately in rear of the lines. Such was his anxiety to be near his troops. The restoration of the battle on the The Campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg. 533 12th, thus rendering utterly futile the success achieved by Hancock's corps at daybreak, was a wonderful feat of arms, in which all the troops engaged deserve the greatest credit for endurance, constancy, an