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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 70 4 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 40 4 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 29 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 28 2 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 25 3 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 22 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 19 9 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 18 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 16 0 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 16 0 Browse Search
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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 2 (search)
d, crossing the valley under the fire of the Federal artillery, formed on the right, and in advance of his line. Although, even after this accession, the Confederate force was less than that of a Federal brigade, Bee maintained the fight for some time with such appearance of equality as to inspire in him the hope, apparently, of holding his ground until effective aid could reach him. At length, however, finding himself engaged with fivefold numbers in Burnside's, Porter's, Sherman's, and Keyes's brigades, and in danger of being enveloped by the coming into action of Heintzelman's division, he fell back to the position he had first chosen; crossing the broad, open valley, closely pressed by the Federal army. Fortunately Hampton, hastening up with his legion, had reached the valley when the retrograde movement began. He promptly formed his battalion and joined in the action, and, by his courage and admirable soldiership, seconded by the excellent conduct of the gentlemen he had
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 5 (search)
orps, were on and above the railroad, and Heintzelman's and Keyes's below it, and on the Williamsburg road. The last two, af upon my first design — that of assailing Heintzelman's and Keyes's corps as soon as, by advancing, they should sufficiently at might cross the Chickahominy to assist Heintzelman's and Keyes's corps; or, if none came, he was to fall upon the right fld drove them back to the main position of the first line of Keyes's corps-Casey's division. It occupied a line of rifle-pits's position, bore a prominent part in the last contest. Keyes's corps, united in this second position, was assailed with ps at Fair Oaks was six miles from those of Heintzelman and Keyes, which were near Bottom's Bridge; but the Confederate forcelthough his statement shows clearly that all his troops and Keyes's Kearney's division; Hooker's was not engaged. that foughing ranking officer, he could have united Heintzelman's and Keyes's corps to his own, and attacked the Confederates both in f