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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 25 3 Browse Search
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 15 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 1 Browse Search
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 1 1 Browse Search
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y of arms and ammunition, in charge of Lieut.-Col. J. M. Heck, were about to march toward him, and Llater the Twenty-fifth Virginia, under Lieut.-Col. J. M. Heck, a prominent lawyer of Morgantown. Lechville cavalry, to Beverly, whence he detached Heck's regiment, two guns and the cavalry by the Par of the 11th, having heard nothing from Pegram, Heck, at the instance of several of his company offi remain in camp and surrender; but he directed Heck to immediately withdraw the small remaining forcould find his way up and across the mountain. Heck then directed him to lead the retreat, accompand to tacitly concur in this view; but Lieutenant-Colonel Heck and Capt. J. B. Moorman, of the Pendluld safely lead the whole command out that way. Heck urged trying this, considering that better thanegram's command had he boldly pushed forward as Heck and Moorman urged. Pegram surrendered 22 officers and 259 men of Heck's regiment, and 8 officers and 166 men of his own. Returning to General G[1 more...]
ant-colonel; Hamrick, Joseph A., major; Hammet, J. P., major; Maury, Richard L., major, lieutenant-colonel; Terry, William R., colonel Twenty-fifth Cavalry regiment: Edmundson, Henry A., lieutenant-colonel; Hopkins, Warren M., colonel; McConnell, Sylvester P., major. Twenty-fifth Infantry battalion Local Defense Troops: Bossieux, Louis J., major; Elliott, Wyatt M., major, lieutenant-colonel. Twenty-fifth Infantry regiment: Duffy, Patrick B., lieutenant-colonel; Harper, Wilson, major; Heck, Jonathan M., lieutenantcol-onel; Higginbotham, John C., major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Lilley, Robert D., major, lieutenant-colonel; Porterfield, George A., colonel; Rege, Albert G., major; Robinson, John A., major, lieutenant-colonel; Smith, George H., colonel; Thompson, William T., major. Twenty-fifth Militia regiment: Arnold, Mark, colonel; Arnold, P. M., lieutenant-colonel; Lewis, H. B., major. Twenty-sixth regiment Cavalry (formed from Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Cavalry ba
October 15, 1891. Brigadier-General R. D. Lilley Brigadier-General R. D. Lilley entered the Confederate service in the spring of 1861 as captain of the Augusta Lee Rifles, a volunteer company, which marched through the mountains under Col. J. M. Heck, after the battle of Philippi, to recruit the forces in western Virginia. At Huttonsville, General Garnett ordered two regiments to be formed from the volunteer and militia organizations, and the Rifles was assigned to the Twenty-fifth Virginia infantry, under Colonel Heck. This regiment occupied Rich mountain, and there Captain Lilley, in command of his company, took part in the defense of Camp Garnett. During the night retreat from that post, he and part of his company followed the lead of Major Hotchkiss, over the mountain, and reached Beverly in safety; but the remainder of the column became separated and were captured by McClellan. He remained with the army of the Northwest through the fall and winter of 1861, and shared