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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
ge (the little mountains of Orange, as Light Horse Harry Lee called them), where they luxuriated amid the open ry picketed to these rivers on their northern sides. Lee had no misgivings about intrusting the care of Pope tnd General Prince captured. Jackson telegraphed to Lee: On the evening of the 9th instant God blessed our arms with another victory. Lee promptly responded: I congratulate you most heartily on the victory which God hasppearance during the day, having been sent forward by Lee, with the larger portion of his cavalry, to cover the right of Lee's general movement to the vicinity of Gordonsville. Stuart reconnoitered the Federal left, movint important line of communication between Jackson and Lee, and of supply for both armies. The Federal commandein force and fall upon Jackson, and by so doing draw Lee's attention from McClellan that the latter's army miged to Washington, thence to reinforce Pope, and while Lee was moving the whole army of Northern Virginia from R
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 18: (search)
Chapter 18: Lee's campaign against Pope in Northern Virginia. The battle of Cedar Run, as General Lee says in General Lee says in his report, effectually checked the progress of the enemy for the time; but the pressure from Washington was so great that Poed his Pennsylvania brigade to reinforce Lafayette in 1781. Lee, in expectation of this, had, on the 13th of August, orderedgstreet's movement and placing his cavalry upon the right of Lee's army when concentrated in Orange. Longstreet's troops rse, covering Raccoon and Somerville fords of the Rapidan. Lee, in person, followed and joined his army in Orange near the join him. Longstreet advised a movement to the left, so that Lee's army, with the Blue ridge behind it, might fall upon Pope's right; but Lee and Jackson thought it better to turn Pope's left and put the army of Northern Virginia between him and Washington, cutting his line of supplies and retreat. Lee's order of the 19th directed Longstreet to cross the Rapidan at Racco
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
ber 12, 1886. Major-General Lunsford Lindsay Lomax Major-General Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, a distinguished officer of the Confederate States provisional army, who rose from the rank of captain to that of major-general in the army of Northern Virginia, was born at Newport, R. I., the son of Mann Page Lomax, of Virginia, a major of ordnance in the United States army. His mother, Elizabeth Lindsay, was a descendant of Captain Lindsay, who commanded a company in the light horse cavalry of Harry Lee during the Revolution, and lost an arm in the war for independence. His father, also, was of an old Virginia family. Young Lomax was educated in the schools of Richmond and Norfolk, and was appointed cadetat-large, July 1, 1852, to the military academy at West Point, where he was graduated July 1, 1856, and promoted to a brevet lieutenancy in the Second cavalry. He served on frontier duty in Kansas, Nebraska and that region, with promotion to second lieutenant of the First cavalry, Sep