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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Notes of a Confederate staff-officer at Shiloh. (search)
ough draught of it. Afterward the copies were made by an aide-de-camp on the staff of General Bragg. These orders were delivered to Generals Polk and Hardee by 1:40 A. M., as shown by their receipts, which I required to be taken. The orders to General Breckinridge were given by telegraph, he having been called by me to the military telegraph office nearest his headquarters to receive them and to answer queries regarding his command. As I find from a paper officially signed by me April 21st, 1862, this reserve consisted of 6436 rank and file effectives. ( Official Records, Series I., Vol. X., p. 396.)-T. J. Thus did it happen that the Confederate army was brought to undertake the offensive at Pittsburg Landing. Ii. Upon quitting General Bragg's quarters I proceeded immediately to the tent of Colonel A. R. Chisolm, aide-de-camp to General Beauregard, separated from my office by some thirty or forty yards, roused him from sleep, and asked him to inform the general at daylig
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1862. (search)
easy, we are going to the right place. His face glowed with animation, and I meant to appear cheerful to him, but I found, after he was gone, that my face was bathed in tears. They all looked as if the world were bright before them, and we were feeling the appalling uncertainty of all things. A mother stood by, straining her weeping eyes for the parting glance at her first-born; and so many others turned their sad, weary steps homewards, as their dear ones passed from their sight. April 21st, 1862. The ladies are now engaged making sand-bags for the fortifications at Yorktown ; every lecture-room in town crowded with them, sewing busily, hopefully, prayerfully. Thousands are wanted. No battle, but heavy skirmishing at Yorktown. Our friend, Colonel McKinney, has fallen at the head of a North Carolina regiment. Fredericksburg has been abandoned to the enemy. Troops passing through towards that point. What does it all portend? We are intensely anxious; our conversation, w
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Fighting Jackson at Kernstown. (search)
w Market. In this engagement our forces captured one company of cavalry, and inflicted other heavy losses upon the enemy, our loss being light. For his success General Banks received that night the thanks of the President. On the 19th and 20th our forces, under General Williams, advanced and occupied Harrisonburg, while Shields's division held the roads to Luray, the crossings of the Shenandoah, and New Market. General Banks, in General orders, no. 20, dated New Market, Virginia, April 21st, 1862, congratulated Battle-field of Kernstown, Va., September, 1885. On this side of the stone-wall Jackson formed his line of battle, March 23d, 1862.--See F on map, p. 307. the troops under his command upon the success of their achievement, and the permanent expulsion of the rebel army from the valley of Virginia. General Shields, who had remained out of the field on account of wounds received in the engagement of the 22d of March with Ashby's cavalry in front of Winchester, now
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The invasion of Maryland. (search)
ake a map. One of our officers carefully sighted a gun, touched it off, and dropped a shell into the hands of the man at the little table. Major Alfred A. Woodhull, Surgeon, U. S. A., wrote from David's Island, N. Y., July 16th, 1886: General Longstreet's best shot was undoubtedly the shell that shattered the plane table that First Lieutenant Orlando G. Wagner, Topographical Engineer, was using in front of Yorktown, when he was mortally wounded, precisely as described. He died April 21st, 1862. Early on the morning of September 17th, 1862 (about 8 or 9 o'clock), I was standing near the guns of Captain Stephen H. Weed, 5th Artillery, when a small group came in sight, directly in our front, about a mile away. There was no firing of any importance at that time on our left, and Captain Weed, who was a superb artillerist himself, aimed and fired at the single mounted man and struck the horse. I witnessed the shot, and have no doubt it was the one General Longstreet commemorat
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), Confederate correspondence, Etc. (search)
. Clay, Assistant Adjutant General. headquarters Army of the Mississippi, Corinth, Miss., April 21, 1862. Capt. D. B. Harris, Chief Engineer, Vicksburg, Miss.: Captain: Understanding that there pectfully, your obedient servant, G. T. Beauregard, General, Commanding. Columbus, Miss., April 21, 1862. Col. Thomas Jordan,. Assistant Adjutant-General: dear sir: You are aware how important tty. Yours, truly, B. R. Johnson. headquarters Army of the Mississippi, Corinth, Miss., April 21, 1862. Lieut. Col. R. B. Lee, Chief Commissary Army of the Mississippi: Colonel: The general corvant, A. R. Chisolm, Aide-de-Camp. headquarters Department of East Tennessee, Knoxville, April 21, 1862. Brig. Gen. C. L. Stevenson, Cumberland Gap: sir: The major-general commanding directs meur obedient servant, H. L. Clay, Assistant Adjutant-General. headquarters, Richmond, Va., April 21, 1862. Brig. Gen. Humphrey Marshall, Commanding, &c., Lebanon, Va.: General: I wish to call you
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 138 (search)
ntly his traitorous flag. The enemy had from six to ten pieces of artillery and from eighteen hundred to two thousand men. We approached to within thirty miles of Norfolk, and undoubtedly the defeat of one of their best regiments, the Third Georgia, produced considerable panic at Norfolk. I have the honor to be, respectfully, J. L. Reno, Commanding Brigadier-General Second Division. Report of Lieut.-Col. Kimball. headquarters, Ninth regiment N. Y. V., Roanoke Island, N. C., April 21, 1862 Colonel: I have the honor to report that in pursuance of your order of the eighteenth inst., I left this camp at eleven o'clock of that day, and proceeded to your headquarters with the Ninth regiment New-York volunteers, numbering an aggregate force of seven hundred and twenty-seven men, with whom I embarked on the transport steamer Ocean Wave. I then proceeded to land my command at the point designated by you, the whole force having to wade middle deep in water in order to reach the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 147 (search)
ghtly. Private Cyrus Romain, company H, in the thigh, slightly. Lieut. Leaf, of Col. Bayard's First Pennsylvania cavalry, was the only commissioned officer wounded. In this regiment, there were three killed, and eight wounded. The infantry sustained no loss. A number of men are missing; but as they are coming in from time to time, it is probable all will return. We have no opportunity to estimate the loss of the enemy. Rebel account of the occupation. Fredericksburgh, April 21, 1862. To the Editor of the Richmond Examiner: The report of the advance of the Federal forces reached Fredericksburgh Thursday afternoon. As late as midnight Thursday night, Gen. Field, who was in command of the confederate troops, assured citizens that he did not believe, from the reports brought in by his pickets, that the Yankee force was sufficient to threaten an attack which involved the occupation of the town. The citizens and the civil authorities rested, therefore, hopefully on th
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 23 (search)
er forty-five years of age, and physically fit for service, in guarding posts, railroads, and bridges, in apprehending deserters, and, where practicable, assuming the place of younger men detailed for duty with the nitre, ordnance, commissary, and quartermasters' bureaus of the War Department, would, it is hoped, add largely to the effective force in the field, without an undue burthen on the population. If to the above measures be added a law to enlarge the policy of the act of twenty-first April, 1862, so as to enable the department to replace not only enlisted cooks, but wagoners and other employs in the army, by negroes, it is hoped that the ranks of the army will be so strengthened for the ensuing campaign as to put at defiance the utmost efforts of the enemy. In order to maintain, unimpaired, the existing organization of the army until the close of the war, your legislation contemplated a frequent supply of recruits, and it was expected that before the expiration of the th
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 97 (search)
Doc. 94.-rebel partisan Rangers. In the rebel House of Representatives, on the fifteenth of February, Mr. Miles, from the Committe on Military Affairs, reported a bill to repeal an act to organize partisan rangers, approved April twenty-first, 1862, and for other purposes. The bill being taken up, Mr. Miles advocated its passage. He said the Senate bill, in relation to cavalry, contained a provision to abolish corps of partisan rangers; but the Committee had deemed it too sweeping in its character, and had stricken it out. The House objected to the bill altogether, and refused to pass it. The Committee had instructed him to report the present bill, which they thought was demanded by the necessities of the service. It was a measure warmly urged by General Lee and other distinguished officers. The bill was debated, amended, and passed in the following shape: Section 1. The Congress of the confederate States of America do enact, That the act of Congress aforesaid be, and
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 57 (search)
the river fleet under his command. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, John K. Mitchell, Commanding C. S. Naval Forces, Lower Mississippi. (K.) River defence, C. S. Gunboat Warrior, Fort Jackson, April 21, 1862. Commander J. K. Mitchell, Confederate States Navy: Sir: I am in receipt of an order from Major-General M. Lovell, dated twentieth instant, in which I am directed to place myself and my whole command at this point under your orders. Everyficer. The company of Confederate recruits, under Lieutenants Dixon and Blow, were detailed to report to Captain Mitchell, C. S. Navy, for duty on board the Louisiana, as per instructions dated headquarters Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April twenty-first, 1862, where they remained until the evening of the twenty-fourth instant. Captain Lartigue's company did good service as scouts and sharpshooters, manly of them being out at all times. On the night of the twenty-third, seven of them were sen
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