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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 123 3 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 117 1 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 101 3 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 58 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 50 16 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 41 3 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 39 5 Browse Search
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States 28 12 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. 19 1 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 18 8 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
at that time was composed of the divisions of Magruder (commanded by D. R. Jones), Longstreet, D. H.ering the crossing of White Oak swamp against Magruder's corps. The South Carolina troops with MagrMagruder were the brigade of General Kershaw and Capt. James F. Hart's Washington artillery. Hart's batorce sufficient to attack, sent for aid, and Magruder was sent to him. Neither of these divisions wanxiously to hear from Huger on his left, and Magruder and Holmes on his right. He felt sure that Jp his whole army. He resolved to attack with Magruder, Holmes and Huger; holding A. P. Hill and Longstreet in reserve. To Magruder was assigned the attack on Porter's position—the strongest on Malvebe general along his whole line; Holmes, then Magruder, then Huger, then Jackson. In spite of McCleot attack at all, deeming it perfect madness; Magruder and Huger, from the difficulty of communicati but they did not make the attack until after Magruder's and Huger's brigades had been successively [10 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
th Carolina and Burt's Eighteenth and Featherston's Seventeenth Mississippi. In the original Confederate plan of battle, July 21st, he was to have taken a prominent part in the fight, but the actual events of the day confined him to demonstrations against the Federal flank. Soon afterward his brigade was composed of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth South Carolina regiments, until February, 1862, when he was assigned to command of Gen. Sam Jones' Georgia brigade. He was in charge of General Magruder's first division, including the Georgia brigade of Robert Toombs and his own under George T. Anderson, during the retreat from Yorktown, and the battles of Gaines' Mill, Savage Station and Malvern Hill, and other engagements of the Seven Days before Richmond. In the Second Manassas campaign he commanded a division of Longstreet's corps, Drayton's brigade having been added to the two previously mentioned. He drove the enemy through Thoroughfare Gap, held the extreme right next day, con
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
e. In the early part of the war of the Confederacy Carolus A. Simpson was a student in the South Carolina college, at Columbia, but he left his studies in the spring of 1862, and enlisted in Company A, Third South Carolina regiment, as a private. He was identified with the career of this regiment during the remaining three years, and by reason of gallant conduct and ability rose to the rank of acting sergeant-major of the regiment. He was first on duty on the Virginia peninsula under General Magruder, and subsequently was in most of the battles of his regiment, including Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg, but in the latter fight was severely wounded and captured by the enemy. Though soon afterward exchanged he was kept from duty in the field by disability until after the battle of Gettysburg. Subsequently he was with Longstreet's corps in Georgia and Tennessee, and took part in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Bentonville, finally