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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Operations South of the James River. (search)
larm-bell was rung in the city about 9 o'clock, and every man able to shoulder a musket hurried out to the lines. Colonel F. H. Archer, a veteran of the Mexican war, who had commanded a Confederate battalion in my brigade in 1862, but now commandingrrived from Petersburg with a note from General Wise, saying that the enemy were advancing by the Jerusalem road upon Colonel Archer's position, and that reinforcements were on the way. I left my aide, Lieutenant J. T. Tosh, in command at lunette 16,Federal cavalry still moving to our right, parallel to our intrenchments.--Arrived at lunettes 27 and 28 I found that Colonel Archer had disposed his small force very judiciously in the low trenches A wagon had been overturned across the road and, toused while waiting for the arrival of their battery. So far from being dismayed, the brave civilians around me, with Colonel Archer at their head, offered to charge the battery, but I knew that the moment they left the cover of the trenches to cross
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 11.81 (search)
time General Lee was thus expressing himself to Colonel Paul, the whole of Smith's corps was actually assaulting the Petersburg lines. But General Lee finally said that he had already issued orders for the return of Hoke's division; that he would do all he could to aid me, and even come himself should the necessity arise. The Confederate forces opposed to Smith's corps on the 15th of June consisted of the 26th, 34th, and 46th Virginia regiments, the 64th Georgia, the 23d South Carolina, Archer's militia, Battle's and Wood's battalions, Sturdivant's battery, Dearing's small command of cavalry, and some other transient forces, having a real effective for duty of 2200 only. These troops occupied the Petersburg line on the left from Battery No. 1 to what was called Butterworth's Bridge, toward the right, and had to be so stationed as to allow but one man for every 4 1/2 yards. From that bridge to the Appomattox — a distance of fully 4 1/2 miles--the line was defenseless. Early in
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Petersburg and Richmond: December 31st, 1864. (search)
W. B. Lowry; 26th Miss., Col. A. E. Reynolds; 42d Miss., Col. A. M. Nelson. Cooke's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. J. R. Cooke: 15th N. C., Lieut.-Col. W. H. Yarborough; 27th N. C., Col. J. A. Gilmer, Jr.; 46th N. C., Col. W. L. Saunders; 48th N. C., Col. S. H. Walkup; 55th N. C., Col. John K. Connally. MacRae's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. William MacRae: 11th N. C., Col. W. J. Martin; 26th N. C., Col. J. R. Lane; 44th N. C., Col. T. C. Singeltary; 47th N. C., Col. G. H. Faribault; 52d N. C., Col. M. A. Parks. Archer's Brigade, Col. R. M. Mayo (also in command of Walker's brigade, following): 13th Ala., Col. James Aiken; 1st Tenn. (Prov. Army), Col. N. J. George; 7th Tenn., Col. J. A. Fite; 14th Tenn., Col. Wm. McComb. Walker's Brigade: 2d Md. Batt'n, Lieut.-Col. J. R. Herbert; 22d Va. Batt'n, Lieut.-Col. E. P. Tayloe; 40th Va., Lieut.-Col. A. S. Cunningham; 47th Va., Capt. C. J. Green; 55th Va., Col. W. S. Christian. Johnson's Brigade: 17th and 23d Tenn.,----; 25th and 44th Tenn.,----; 63d Tenn.,----.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign. (search)
nston; 30th N. C., Capt. David C. Allen. Cook's Brigade, Col. Edwin A. Nash: 4th Ga., Col. Edwin A. Nash, Capt. J. M. Shivers; 12th Ga., Capt. J. N. Beall; 21st Ga., Capt. Ed. Smith; 44th Ga., Capt. John A. Tucker; Ga. Battery (Patterson's),----. Archer's Battalion, Temporarily attached during the retreat. Lieut.-Col. F. H. Archer: 3d Battalion Va. Reserves, Capt. John A. Rogers; 44th Battalion Va. Reserves, Capt. A. B. Morrison. Early's division, Brig.-Gen. James A. Walker. Johnston's Lieut.-Col. F. H. Archer: 3d Battalion Va. Reserves, Capt. John A. Rogers; 44th Battalion Va. Reserves, Capt. A. B. Morrison. Early's division, Brig.-Gen. James A. Walker. Johnston's Brigade, Col. John W. Lea: 5th N. C., Col. John W. Lea, Capt. J. M. Taylor; 12th N. C., Capt. P. Durham; 20th N. C., Lieut. Archibald F. Lawhon; 23d N. C., Capt. Abner D. Peace; 1st N. C. Batt'n, Lieut. R. W. Woodruff. Lewis's Brigade, Capt. John Beard: 6th N. C., Capt. Joseph H. Dickey; 21st N. C., Capt. John H. Miller; 54th N. C.,----; 57th N. C., Capt. John Beard. Walker's (late Pegram's) Brigade, Maj. Henry Kyd Douglas: 13th Va., Capt. George Cullen, Jr.; 31st Va., Maj. William P. Cooper; 49