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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
e for a long time that morning, while trying to rally the retreating Confederates. He was on Old Traveler. General Gordon pleading. The second occasion occurred just six days thereafter, early on the ever-memorable 12th of May, 1864, when Hancock, by night surprise, had captured the angle occupied by General Johnson, and captured nearly his entire division, with many pieces of artillery. General R. E. Lee again attempted to lead the fresh troops coming up to retake our lost works. I wae? You've had us waked up before day and brought out of our shelter into the rain. He replied: We will have the Yankees over here directly to take breakfast with us. A gallant officer. It was hardly dawn, and pouring down rain, when Hancock landed his 40,000 men against Johnson's Division, in the toe of the horseshoe, when his 3,600 as brave men as the world ever saw, with its commander, who had won the sobriquet of Bull Johnson, were overpowered and captured. We, being immediatel
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.54 (search)
the Union armies. At seasons he bore a conspicuous part for his cause in shaping military events. At the outbreak of the war, Buckner, then about thirty-eight years old, at the very zenith of his powers, was undoubtedly the most influential Southern rights man in his native State of Kentucky, by reason of his military education and experience, his wealth and high social connections. He had graduated front West Point in 1844, number eleven in a class of twenty-five cadets. Besides Generals Hancock, Pleasanton and Frost, his classmates, Buckner had, as associates in the academy, in the classes above and below him, many lads who afterwards distinguished themselves on both sides—U. S. Grant, McClellan, Kirby Smith, Jackson, Pickett, Wilcox, Franklin, Porter, Baldy Smith, Steele, Rufus Ingalls, and others of lesser note. Grant and Buckner were together three years at West Point, Grant having graduated in the class of 1843. Buckner took part in the Mexican war as Second Lieutenant
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.57 (search)
Colonel David Branson; 2d United States Texas Cavalry (not mounted), Lieutenant James W. Hancock. Colonel Barrett, in his official report—Vol. 48, Part 1, page 266,ain William Robinson, of D. C. Gidding's Regiment, in a heavy skirmish with J. W. Hancock's Company, of the 2d Texas. and a company of the 34th Indiana. A regimente enemy. In obeying this order the sergeant and his men captured First Lieutenant James W. Hancock, Second Lieutenant Thomas A. James, Hancock's brother and about tHancock's brother and about twenty of Hancock's Texans, but not a gun was fired, though several attempted to escape capture by trying to swim the river, and were drowned. While it was GeneraHancock's Texans, but not a gun was fired, though several attempted to escape capture by trying to swim the river, and were drowned. While it was General Slaughter's command that won the last battle of the war, yet to Colonel Ford is due the honor of precipitating the battle and gaining the victory, and inflicting aed in the last fight of the war was because they outran our cavalry horses. Hancock's company and the Indiana troops several times saved the negroes. These veter
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.59 (search)
and Ream's Station, August 25th. In the last-named battle it had to crawl through an almost impenetrable abattis, under a heavy fire of musketry and artillery. Captain Holland, of Company H, was among the first to mount the works, and seeing that they were still manned and but few of his own men were up, he yelled out: Yanks, if you know what is best for you, you had better make a blue streak toward sunset. They made the streak, and the men often laughed and said Grant would have to send Hancock back North to recruit his command. General Lee, in speaking of this fight to General Lane, said that the three North Carolina brigades, Cook's, McRea's and Lane's, which made the second assault, after the failure of the first by other troops, had, by their gallantry, not only placed North Carolina but the whole Confederacy under a debt of gratitude which could never be repaid. In writing to Governor Vance about the same battle, he said: They advanced through a thick abattis of felled tree