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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
in the presence of royalty, as he rode by. General Lee instantly took off his own hat and treated oon lost their confidence and respect. But General Lee was an exception to this rule. The soldierhe fight. The men began to shout: Go back, General Lee! Do go back! General Lee to the rear--Genil now. Will you boys? Is it necessary for General Lee to lead this charge? Loud cries of No! no! General Lee to the rear! General Lee to the rear! We always try to do just what General Gordon ward! Charge! and remember your promise to General Lee! Not Napoleon's magic words to his Old Guaerted disaster into a brilliant victory. General Lee's horse was led back through the color compn the same day near the bloody angle, where General Lee was only prevented from leading Harris' Misndence between Hon. John Thompson Mason and General Lee, in which the fomer details the incident asures than these, and yet so unconscious was General Lee of their bearing that he mingles two into o[16 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reminiscences of Lee and Gordon at Appomattox Courthouse. (search)
Reminiscences of Lee and Gordon at Appomattox Courthouse. By A private soldier. Having served during the late unpleasantness only as a private, sometimes in thnd the division was withdrawn to a ravine crossing the main road along which General Lee was moving towards Appomattox Court-house. The contour of the ground was suhe road, and in a few minutes the painful fact was realized that the army of General Lee had been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources. Just at n's mouth, now wept at the thought of final defeat. It was now known that General Lee had gone to meet General Grant (under the mythical apple tree?), and anxiousand announced the terms of surrender as he passed, and asked the men to give General Lee, who was following him, a hearty cheer, for he was feeling greatly depressedd to a walk, and as the men gave, in good old battle style, three cheers for General Lee, he lifted his hat (Traveler stopped) and bestowed upon them only such a loo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), History of Lane's North Carolina brigade. (search)
ntry and shells, was opened upon us, causing one of the wings of the Seventh to give way. On asking the cause of this, I was informed by some of the company officers of the Seventh, whose names I do not know, that Colonel Campbell had ordered them to fall back, and as there was a large pond of water in my rear, I led my regiment out of the woods by the left flank, when I met you and was ordered back. I then marched up the road and wheeled my entire regiment into the same piece af woods. Colonel Lee followed with his regiment, which he intended posting on my right, but the enemy opened upon him just as he was about to turn the angle of the road, and his right was thrown into confusion. This caused Companies D, A and I, of the right wing, and Company H, to the left of the colors, in my regiment, to give way. Company D promptly reformed and came into line; the other three companies, I am told, reformed and attached themselves for the remainder of the day to other regiments. They were
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Lee to the rear --the incident with Harris' Mississippi brigade. (search)
ying the position you did upon the staff of General Lee, I feel that I am warranted in calling uponincidents of the twelfth of May, connecting General Lee with your brigade in the bloody battle of tThe men shouted their promise with a will. General Lee then gave me orders to guide the brigade to in grandeur above those two occasions when General Lee went into the charge with the Texans at theition. The danger, however, was great, and General Lee sent his trusted Adjutant, Colonel W. H. Tare line, as it rushed on, the cry, Go back, General Lee I go back! Some historians like to put thif Fort Harrison), turning his horse towards General Lee, remonstrated with him. Just then I called not repeat the details here. Suffice it to say Lee yielded to his brave men, accepting their promies as follows: The homely simplicity of General Lee in these scenes of the 6th and 12th of May,e it has been by various writers of the life of Lee confounded with the other two incidents of a li[16 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Literary notices. (search)
opular Life of General R. E. Lee. The design of this book is clearly indicated by the following letter of dedication to Mrs. Lee: My Dear Mrs. Lee: With your permission I dedicate to you this life of our beloved hero. It may seem daring inMrs. Lee: With your permission I dedicate to you this life of our beloved hero. It may seem daring in one so unpracticed to attempt a theme so lofty. But I have hoped that the love and admiration I felt for General Lee would inspire me with ability to present him to others as I knew him. Other writers will exhibit his public life, his genius andGeneral Lee would inspire me with ability to present him to others as I knew him. Other writers will exhibit his public life, his genius and magnanimity. I wish to show more of his domestic character and private virtues; his unwearied industry, his self-control and self-denial, his unselfish temper; his generous kindness, his gentle manners; his modesty and moderation in success; his p of ancient or modern literature would be searched in vain for more beautiful specimens of letter-writing than some of General Lee's letters which are given in this book. In a word, it is a work to carry into our homes, to put into the hands of our
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Operations of General J. E. B. Stuart before Chancellorsville. (search)
have either omitted remark on this subject or have implied that General Lee received opportune intelligence of what was passing on his left.between his advance and Fredericksburg. Nor is it possible that General Lee received timely information of the Federal operations. It is ina battle upon unequal terms. Two brigades (Mahone's and Posey's) of Lee's army were stationed at United States ford, and their commander onlbable than that they constituted a part of a column of attack on General Lee's position at Fredericksburg. Even though they moved out from Kence, with as much of detail as was practicable, was telegraphed General Lee from Culpeper Courthouse. There was one regiment of cavalry, thVirginia, Colonel J. Lucius Davis, serving on detached duty with General Lee at Fredericksburg, and picketing the fords at Germana, Ely's, &cls of information he had gotten important, although he knew that General Lee had been warned by telegraph of the advance, he ordered me, as h
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), McClellan and Lee at Sharpsburg (Antietam).--a review of Mr. Curtis' article in the North American review. (search)
McClellan and Lee at Sharpsburg (Antietam).--a review of Mr. Curtis' article in the North Americgain in action, though all day, up to the 19th, Lee held the field and dared him to try to take it. 2d. Lee crossed the Potomac on the morning of the 19th--not as Mr. Curtis puts it, the night oas would have included nearly all of the men in Lee's army. Northern accounts at the time put the 2,000. The most authentic estimates of all of Lee's casualties on the field of Sharpsburg will no growls over the conclusion of those defeats of Lee: He leaves us the debris of his late camps, twoorps. During the day Stonewall Jackson came to Lee — his force was 9,793 infantry, which brought LLee's whole army up to 27,253 infantry, and less than 8,000 cavalry and artillery — and this was allnd with these, we learn from McClellan himself, Lee drove from the field, demoralized, 87,164 men-- Or 1,000 more than all the infantry with which Lee fought Antietam! It is injudicious at this l[10 more...]<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Telegrams from General Lee's headquarters in September, 1864. (search)
Telegrams from General Lee's headquarters in September, 1864. September 16, 1864. Brigadier-General John Gregg, via Chaffin's Bluff: Telegram received. Endeavor to ascertain nature of reported movement of the enemy, as also their strength, and of what composed. W. H. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant-General. September 16, 1864. Governor Z. B. Vance, Raleigh, North Carolina: Twenty-six hundred muskets have been sent to you, and orders have been issued for one thousand to be sent from Salisbury. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant-General. headquarters Petersburg, Virginia, 17th September, 1864. General J. A. Early, Winchester, Virginia: A deserter reports arrival here of Eighth corps under General Lew Wallace. General Wallace is said to be here. Is report correct? R. E. Lee. Petersburg, Virginia, 17th September, 1864. His Excellency Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Virginia: W. B. Swittell, Company E, Fourth North Carolina regiment infantry,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Hardee and the Military operations around Atlanta. (search)
d Jonesboroa before daybreak, expecting to find Lee and Cleburne there. To my disappointment I found Lee not until eleven A. M. Three brigades of Lee, which had been left on picket, did not get up lines could be adjusted, I ordered the attack. Lee's corps was on the right. Cleburne had orders to turn the enemy's right flank, and Lee to begin the attack when he should hear Cleburne's guns. Lee, mistaking the guns of Cleburne's skirmishers for the main attack, began the movement before Clent my Chief-of-Staff, Colonel Roy, to Lieutenant-General Lee to ascertain whether his troops were in condition to renew the attack. General Lee expressed the decided opinion that they were not. Immck Lee. In view of the demoralized condition of Lee's troops, as reported by the same officer, I withdrew a division from Cleburne to support Lee. It now became necessary for me to act on the defensy rail, I am informed, is twenty-one miles. and Lee's corps on the road from Jonesboroa to Atlanta,[9 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Some of the secret history of Gettysburg. (search)
ircumstance connected with the battle, and with Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania, to which scarcely an unbroken front, still frowned menacingly upon Lee's gallant boys in gray. Such being the positio a dispatch from Adjutant-General Cooper to General Lee, informing the latter that President Davis,ourt-house to attack Washington, so soon as General Lee had drawn Hooker's (Meade's) army sufficienavis, and his renegade adjutant-general, to General Lee, are a more important acquisition than the ntents would indicate. They reveal the plan of Lee's campaign, wherein and wherefore it was not cahington, which was to be effected in this wise: Lee was to draw Hooker into Pennsylvania sufficient0 men, or any number of men, to co-operate with Lee. From the otherwise unaccountable retiring on from Richmond that a part of the plan of General Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania was the concentr raises questions of curious interest. Had General Lee suggested such a plan in a previous letter,[1 more...]
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