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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.9 (search)
isonburg-a ride to the rear. In search of gallant McNell—Gen. Wm. E. Jones and the telegraph Operators—Gen. John C. Breckinridge at Meeca time with much confusion, southward towards Staunton. General William E. Jones to the rescue. Jones, a good fighter, but sometimes sevJones, a good fighter, but sometimes severe in his manner, had been ordered to hasten up and oppose Hunter and protect the railroad at Staunton. Unadvised yet of Hunter's route andday night, and it rained all night, and Hunter was on ground new to Jones. Jones felt himself without sufficient force; and, more, he was inJones felt himself without sufficient force; and, more, he was in an ugly humor, as the sequel will show. About dark or later a courier galloped up to the little chicken-coop of an office in which three telegraph operators lay, two of them trying to sleep: General Jones's orders are one of you go at once and open an office at Meechum's River ain Alexander Baker, quartermaster of the post at Harrisonburg, General Jones, I come for specific orders, I said. We have three men here, w
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
tillery, left over 7,000 killed and wounded before the foot of Marye's Hill. The dead were piled sometimes three deep, and when morning broke the spectacle that we saw upon the battlefield was one of the most distressing I ever witnessed. The charges had been desperate and bloody, but utterly hopeless. I thought as I saw the Federals come again and again to their death, that they deserved success if courage and daring could entitle soldiers to victory. It was a wonder to me, said Congressman Jones, that any man escaped alive. I was a boy of twelve then, and I went on the field with my father the morning after the battle. I remember seeing a peach orchard, every tree of which had been literally stripped of its branches by flying bullets. The field was covered with the dead, and the sight was so terrible that I have never forgotten it. I remember, too, a story of the battle which my father told me. He had met in a North Carolina regiment a man whom he had known years ago, and t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.27 (search)
Desperate picket fight against superior force. From the times-dispatch, October 13, 1908. Fisher's Hill scene of battle Royal in Civil War when two hundred old Confederates oppose, with honor, Federal force of over 2,000. Late in March, 1863, General William E. Jones, going on a raid into West Virginia, left in the Shenandoah Valley, Company C, Seventh Virginia Cavalry, Captain John E. Myers, and Company E, Eleventh Virginia Cavalry, Captain Hess, both under the command of Major S. B. Meyers, with order to establish and keep up a rigid picket line across the Valley at any point he might think best. Not far south of Strasburg is an irregular chain of hills reaching nearly across the Valley, and along this chain Major Meyers thought proper to establish his picket line, with the reserve near Fisher's Hill, on the Valley Turnpike. The Valley Turnpike is cut in the steep western side of Fisher's Hill from summit to base, having a stone wall on its left or lower side and
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Monument to, at Fredericksburg, 174 Address of McClure at, 175 Hunter's Raid in 1864, a Charge Through Harrisonburg, 95 Jackson, on State Rights, Andrew, 67 Jackson, Stonewall, where he fell, 201 the right arm of Lee, 295 Jefferson, Thomas. On Central Government and Universal Suffrage, 65 The foremost man of all whose influence has led men to govern themselves by spiritual laws, 314 Jeffreys, Thos. D., 241 Johnston, Gen., Albert Sidney. A Tributary Epitaph to, 104 Jones, Gen. W. E., 100 Keenan, Death of Major, 200 Kentucky in 1788, 33 Kershaw, Gen. J. B., 23 Keysville Guards, 146 Roll of, 147 King, Col. H. H., 167 Lassiter, Charles T., Address of, 126 Lee, Gen. R. E. At Appomattox, 15 His self-denying greatness, 294 The quintessence of Virginia, 294 When a private soldier seized his bridle, 204 Lincoln, Abraham, His kindly feeling toward the South, 254 Emancipation Proclamation of, 60 McLaws, Gen. L., 24 Madison, James, small of stature, 4