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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.49 (search)
ward, wading the Potomac up to our armpits, and carrying our cartridge boxes on top of our shoulders to prevent them from getting wet. We participated in the battle of Bristow Station, and there, on the 14th of October, General Carnot Posey was mortally wounded. We again fell back to the line of the Rappahannock, and passed the winter of 1863-64 near Orange Courthouse. Colonel N. H. Harris, of the 19th Mississippi Regiment, was appointed to succeed General Posey as our brigadier. General Grant took command of the army of the Potomac and began another On to Richmond. We were engaged in the battles of the Wilderness, and on the 12th of May, 1864, participated in the great battle of Spottsylvania Courthouse, retaking a salient angle captured from Johnson's Division. Just before entering this fight a shell exploded near a group of horsemen surrounding General Lee. He rode up to our regiment and asked how many rounds of cartridges have the men. He was answered, forty rounds in
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.52 (search)
ouse, April 9th, 1865. Lenient terms of General Grant. By General J. L. Chamberlain. It is anrs ago. When General Lee surrendered to General Grant, April 9th, 1865, the war was virtually ovthe 1st of April, 1865, served to prove to General Grant the fact which General Phil Sheridan hmoments after that our own beloved leader, General Grant, also accompanied by an orderly, came ridi it is told that both General Sheridan and General Grant commended him personally. This the Generatent two of the three senior officers whom General Grant had selected to superintend the paroles anstarted for Richmond, and that our leader, General Grant, was well on his way to his own headquartecalled, in Virginia. I was also told that General Grant had decided to have a formal ceremony with our men. I was told, furthermore, that General Grant had appointed me to take charge of this paistaken, there was some conference between General Grant and some of the members of his staff upon
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