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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 241 7 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) 217 3 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 208 10 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 169 1 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 158 36 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 81 1 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 81 1 Browse Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 72 20 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 71 3 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 68 16 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. (search)
were able to do this because, as I have told you, the second brigade did not stand up to the line of the stone wall and rail fence, so that the division was bent backward in the centre, as it were, the ends on the right and left standing fast; at least so it seemed, for there was a great deal of smoke and a terrific noise to confuse one's power of calm observation. This was the pinch, and the officers knew it. Gen. Gibbon had just been hit, some one said, and almost at the same time Gen. Hancock was badly wounded, and both were taken off the field to the rear. But I recollect seeing Gibbon's aid try to rally the men, and do it manfully too. He did a man's part in steadying the line. So did Webb, who was on foot in the midst of the men. Entreaty, command, expostulation, encouragement, were employed. Webb was everywhere. So was Col. Smith, of a Pennsylvania regiment. At this time the enemy were crowding over the stone fence near the clumps of trees, and their red flags were wa