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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.28 (search)
The first day at Gettysburg. [from the Richmond times, April 12, 1896.] Tribute to brave General Harry Heth who opened the great battle. A description by an eye witness. Interesting observations of Jaquelin Marshall Meredith, Chaplain of Heth's Division—His version of the cause of failure. To the Editor of the Times : Sir,—I have read with regret the war of words in regard to cause of failure on the part of the Confederates at the battle of Gettysburg. In the various accounts of the battle, not one has come from an eye-witness of the first day's fight, of July 1, 1863. Not one of these accounts, that I have seen, have done simple justice to the brave and gallant division of General Harry Heth and its faithful commander, upon whom rested the responsibility of opening the battle. As chaplain of 47th Regiment of Virginia Infantry, Brockenbrough's Brigade, first A. P. Hill's Divison, Jackson's Corps, and afterwards Heth's Division, of A. P. Hill's Corps, I witnessed t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.46 (search)
Battle of Sailor's Creek. for further account of this battle, see ante page 83:—Recollections of a participant as to the part taken therein by Hunton's Brigade. [from the Richmond Dispatch, April 12, 1896.] part taken in it by the Savannah guard. But few survivors now of the guard. To the Editor of the Dispatch. The Savannah Volunteer Guards Battalion fought its last battle at Sailor's Creek, in which engagement many Savannahians were killed and wounded. The Guards were known in the Confederate army as the 18th Battalion of Georgia Volunteers, which was commanded by the gallant Major (afterward Colonel) W. S. Basinger, a distingushed lawyer and citizen of this city, but now residing at Athens. The battle of Sailor's Creek was one of the several battles which took place after General Lee evacuated Petersburg, and just before the surrender of the army at Appomattox. The Confederate army, says the Savannah News, of the 5th, decimated and starving, was bravely trying