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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Annual reunion of Pegram Battalion Association in the Hall of House of Delegates, Richmond, Va., May 21st, 1886. (search)
evitable lemon and nodding approval as your canister tore through the huge columns, while Captain Pegram cried out in great glee: Pitch in men, General Jackson's looking at you—it seems but yesterday that A. P. Hill paused near this flag amid the fiery pang of shells on the slopes of Gettysburg to shake hands with Major Pegram, who, with the fever still upon him, had ridden ninety miles in an ambulance to command his guns on those fateful three days—it seems but yesterday that we saw Lee and Gordon and A. P. Hill and Early grouped about this flag as it dallied defiance in the centre of the forty guns commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Pegram crowning the heights of Spotsylvania. Who can ever forget the stirring scene as the enemy gallantly debouched from the woods on that day, brigade front, moving across the open ground to attack, colors flying and men cheering. On the Confederate front all was silent; a dozen rounds of canister had been run up to each gun, the guns already shotted, p
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Extracts from the diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John G. Pressley, of the Twenty-Fifth South Carolina Volunteers. (search)
James F. Izlar. First Lieutenant, Samuel N. Kennerly. Second Lieutenant, Samuel Dibble. Second Lieutenant, George H. Elliott. Yeadon Light infantry (co. H). Captain, S. LeRoy Hammond. First Lieut., Whitemarsh B. Seabrook. Second Lieutenant, F. G. Hammond. Second Lieutenant, F. C Jacobs. Clarendon Guards (co. I). Captain, Y. N. Butler. First Lieutenant, Joseph C. Burgess. Second Lieutenant, John J. Logan. Second Lieutenant, F. B. Brown. Ripley Guards (co K). Captain, W. B. Gordon. First Lieutenant, F. J. Lesesne. Second Lieutenant, S. N. McDonald. Second Lieutenant, E. R. Lesesne. July 23d to 31st.—The health of the regiment growing worse. Our medical staff were kept very busy, and we heard of the death of several of our comrades in the general hospital in Charleston. The regimental hospital was constantly full. It was distressing to see the shortened line of the regiment on dress parade. Some of the companies had scarcely a platoon of men fit for dut
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Ceremonies connected with the unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee, at Lee circle, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 22, 1884. (search)
ing from their own cheerless lot to their distant homes, the tidings they received from wives and children and aged parents told of burning roof-trees, of flight before invading armies, of want, desolation and despair. And yet they fought on; defied ill-omened augury; dared fate to do her worst; and with a sublime confidence and matchless devotion such as, I dare to say, no other cause and no other commander ever inspired, they stood by Lee to the very last. And when the end came, when Gordon had fought his corps to a frazzle, and when in fierce combat every other corps had been torn into shreds; when a mere remnant was left surrounded on every side by foes in such overpowering numbers that further resistance would have been a wanton sacrifice of precious lives; and when, at last, Lee submitted to the inevitable and yielded his sword to the victor, these grim warriors gathered round him, seeming more affected by his humiliation than by their own calamity, and with tearful eyes an
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Report of the conduct of General George H. Steuart's brigade from the 5th to the 12th of May, 1864, inclusive. (search)
brigade, of Rodes's division, and the three Virginia regiments were consolidated with the remnants of Jones's brigade, of Gordon's division. In these separate commands a warm feeling always existed between the men who had stood firmly by each other after describing the death of General Jones, and the discomfiture of his brigade, says: Daniel's brigade of Rodes's, and Gordon's of Early's were soon brought up and regained the lost ground, the latter capturing, by a dashing charge, several hundre; and Steuart in time to assist in rallying Battle, when these two brigades advanced as heretofore described. Daniel and Gordon, both advancing on the traveled road, instead of the pike, found Doles's front, and there rendered that prompt assistanceas sent to his assistance, as he was three hundred yards to the left of Doles; but it is safe to infer that as Daniel and Gordon were not with Steuart, and yet being in the front, they must have been with Doles. The history of this part of the line
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
hat before Lee had received these reinforcements, with an army of 61,953 men, he had inflicted a loss upon the enemy of 33,100. Is that not enough for the vindication of Lee's strategy and of his army's skill and discipline? So that if we suppose the two armies starting out on the campaign with equal numbers, Grant would have had no army left after the battle of Cold Harbor on the 3d June. Within one month Lee would have entirely destroyed it. But there was, nevertheless, much truth in Colonel Gordon's remark. Our system of battle required too much exposure of our officers. Our officers had to lead rather than to direct. It was example and not order so much by which our troops were guided. And undoubtedly it was fearfully expensive in officers. Again and again regiments, and sometimes even brigades, came out of battle under subalterns Had our men been better drilled many valuable officers might have been spared to have devised, guided and directed subsequent battles. A distin
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters and times of the Tylers. (search)
The President called an extra session to meet in September, 1837. This extra session witnessed, to quote the language of our writer, the debut in Van Buren's message of the new system of finance, Vol. I, page 584. It also witnessed, as he observes, a split in the ranks of the Democratic party. This faction called themselves conservatives, among which were some men of great virtue and ability— Rives, Tallmadge and Legree being of that party. But what is also remarkable Calhoun, Tazewell, Gordon, Troup and many others of the Whig party, who had been bitter opponents of the Jackson measures, co-operated with the Democrats on the specie platform of the sub-treasury. We will not trace out at this time the history of the sub-treasury. It was a scheme used as a substitute for a national bank, and its very existence depended upon and practiced daily all of the essential features of banking, except lending money on good security. In the Whig National Convention, on December 4th, 1839,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg—Address of Colonel C. S Venable (formerly of General R. E. Lee's staff), of the University of Virginia, before the Virginia division f the Army of Northern Virginia, at their annual meeting, held in the Virginia State Capitol, at Richmond, Thursday , October 30th, 1873. (search)
the lines. Under his eye, Rodes's troops and Gordon's brigade, which had been brought up from the return of his artillery. He also sent to General Gordon, commanding Early's division, asking a reireached the front. Before he arrived Brigadier-General Gordon, commanding Early's division, in obed hundred yards off. It was a critical moment. Gordon halted his column, and with that splendid audarom the trenches, confronted their advance. Gordon soon arranged the left of his division to makeHancock's left and centre were thus checked by Gordon's audacious line of skirmishers and Lane's dison's division had been immediately attached to Gordon's command, and at an early hour a portion of GGordon's men were set to work to make a strong entrenched line, about three hundred yards in rear of ent of the early morning of the 12th, when General Gordon led the charge, passing over the similar owithout unjust discrimination, we may say that Gordon, Rodes and Ramseur were the heroes of this blo[7 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Long's memoir of General R. E. Lee. (search)
be a forgery, from internal evidence as well as from the testimony of the family. 7. We are sorry to see also that, on page 338, the author copies an error, into which Jones, in his Reminiscences of Lee, was led, in attributing the incident of Gordon's men refusing to go forward unless General Lee would go to the rear to the tenth of May, 1864, instead of to the twelfth, the real day, as General Early, Colonel Venable, General Gordon, and others showed, and we have several times published inreal day, as General Early, Colonel Venable, General Gordon, and others showed, and we have several times published in our papers. But let us say again that despite these blemishes the book is a valuable contribution to our Confederate war literature, and we cordially commend it as worthy of a place in every library. May our gallant friend, General Long, live to write other books, and our good friend, General Wright, be spared long to continue his valuable services to the War Records office.