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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 102 0 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 34 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 11 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 2 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) 2 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Longstreet's division — Yorktown and Williamsburg. (search)
of the line of the Rapidan, where it remained until the 30th of April, when it joined General Jackson in the Valley. On the arrival of General Johnston on the Peninsula, the Confederate forces now numbering fifty-three thousand, were positioned as follows: Gloucester Point, Yorktown, and the adjacent redoubts were held by D. H. Hill's division. Longstreet in the centre held the line of the Warwick, embracing the works at Wynn's mill, and dams No. 3 and No. 2. The brigades of Brigadier-Generals Featherston, Colston and Pryor, were now added to his command, which was styled the Central forces. General Magruder's division held the Warwick below Longstreet's right, and embracing dam number one and Lee's mill. The division of General Smith was held in reserve, portions of it occasionally relieving brigades in the trenches at exposed points. The actual hostilities between the two armies were limited to sharp-shooting and artillery duelling until the 16th of April, when an attem
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Fredericksburg. (search)
m rations were issued by the Commissaries, and many women and children encamped in the forest in brush and blanket shelters, where the sight of their cheerfully borne sufferings nerved many a heart for the coming struggle. On the 22nd of November, the whole of the First Corps was concentrated and in position as follows: Anderson held the crest of hills from Banks's Ford to Hazel Run, with his brigades in the following order, from left to right, viz: Wilcox, Wright, Mahone, Perry and Featherston. McLaws stood upon his right with Cobb, Kershaw, Barksdale and Semmes. Pickett formed on McLaws's right with Jenkins, Corse, Kemper, Armistead and Garnett. Hood held the extreme right, and extended his line to Hamilton's crossing, over five miles distant from the left flank; his brigades being Laws's, F. T. Anderson's, Benning's, and the Texas brigade under Robertson. Ransom, with his own and Cooke's brigades, formed the reserve. The Engineer and Artillery officers were ordered to as
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 9.91 (search)
ilcox's Brigade. Brig.-Gen. C. M. Wilcox. 8th Alabama. 9th Alabama. 10th Alabama. 11th Alabama. Anderson's Va. Bat., (Thomas Artillery.) Pryor's Brigade. Brig.-Gen. R. A. Pryor. 14th Alabama. 5th Florida. 8th Florida. 3d Virginia. Featherston's Brigade. Brig.-Gen. W. S. Featherston. Colonel Carnot Posey. 12th Mississippi. 16th Mississippi. 19th Mississippi. 2d Mississippi Battalion. Chapman's Virginia Bat., (Dixie Artillery.) Hood's division. Brigadier-General John B. HoodBrig.-Gen. W. S. Featherston. Colonel Carnot Posey. 12th Mississippi. 16th Mississippi. 19th Mississippi. 2d Mississippi Battalion. Chapman's Virginia Bat., (Dixie Artillery.) Hood's division. Brigadier-General John B. Hood. Hood's Brigade. Brigadier-General John B. Hood. 18th Georgia. Hampton's S. C. Legion. 1st Texas. 4th Texas. 5th Texas. Whiting's Brigade. Colonel E. M. Law. 4th Alabama. 2d Mississippi. 11th Mississippi. 6th North Carolina. Artillery. Major B. W. Frobel. Bachman's South Carolina Battery. Garden's South Carolina Battery. Reilly's North Carolina Battery. Kemper's division. Brigadier-General James L. Kemper. Kemper's Brigade. Colonel M. D. Corse. 1st Virginia. 7th Virginia