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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 22 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 18 0 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 12 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 8 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1864., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 6, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Gen. W. F. Smith alias old Baldy. (search)
Gen. W. F. Smith alias old Baldy. --We find the following in the Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat: The reference in the telegraphic column to Gen. W. F. Smith as "Old Badly," may not be generally understood. Being in his division, in Franklin's corps, nearly a year, we always noticed his designation as "Old Baldy" by the West Pointers, the General being bald headed. In the "History of the 33d New York Volunteers" is an account of Gen. McClellan's visit to the picket reserve, in a ravine near the Chickahominy, with Gens. Porter, Gorman, Smith and others. While there, McClellan having divested himself of his coat climbed a tall tree overlooking the plateau toward Richmond, only five miles distant. On coming down he approached Gen. Smith and remarked, "Old Baldy, we've got them!" How well we had "got them" the sequel showed. In less than 48 hours Jackson and his cohorts pounced with resist less fury upon the right of our army, and shortly after we commenced the disastrous retre