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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gordon's assault on Fort Stedman, [from the New Orleans Picayune, October 25, 1903.] (search)
been aroused, not even among the enemy's pickets, some of whom were not over fifty yards distant from our men. I had selected to lead the storming party, Captain Anderson, of the 49th Virginia, and Lieutenant Hugh P. Powell, of Company A, of the 13th Virginia, officers belonging to my old brigade, who were personally known to epped to one side and fired three pistol shots in rapid succession. The last report was scarcely heard before the recumbent figures sprang to their feet and Captain Anderson commanded, Forward! Double-quick! and his men moved off at a trail arms, and not a word was spoken or a sound heard except the regular beat of their feet atrained and daring men, pouring forth their deadly contents on every side and making a mark of every head that showed itself, is next to an impossibility. Captain Anderson and Lieutenant Powell both fell on the breastworks, the first mortally wounded, and the latter killed outright. The storming party was thus left without a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.17 (search)
s division of cavalry from General Lee's army. There was much marching up and down the Valley and manoeuvering for position on the part of Generals Early and Sheridan. Notwithstanding his immense superiority of force, General Sheridan would not join battle. At last General Grant paid General Sheridan a visit, with a plan of battle in his pocket, and with the intention of urging him to fight, when he ascertained that Sheridan had just been informed by a female spy in Winchester that General Anderson, with Kershaw's Division, had been recalled to General Lee's army —such was the pressing need for reinforcements there-and Sheridan had already determined to attack, so Grant did not divulge his plan. The withdrawal of Kershaw's Division from General Early's army was most unfortunate for the Confederates. Notwithstanding the presence of Sheridan's immense force at Berryville, ten miles from Winchester, General Early boldly, or rashly, marched to Martinsburg, twenty-two miles from Win