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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 85 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 43 1 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 11 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., John Morgan in 1864. (search)
General A. G. Jenkins, with his cavalry brigade, detached from the Army of Northern Virginia, put himself in front of Crook, but was not strong enough to cope with him. Morgan hastened the four hundred dismounted men of his command to the assistance of General Jenkins. Colonel D. H. Smith, commanding them, reached Dublin on the morning of the 10th and found General Jenkins there, hard pressed by the enemy, and that gallant officer severely wounded. Smith at once reported to Colonel John. McCausland, who had taken command, and the timely reinforcement restored the battle, which had been sorely against the Confederates. Holding the enemy in check until sunset, the Confederates retreated to New River Bridge and encamped in a position to protect that structure. [See map, p. 478.] In the meantime General Morgan, with Giltner's brigade and the two battalions of Cassell and Kirkpatrick, sought Averell. He was convinced on the 9th, by the reports of his scouts, that Averell's first blo
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of New Market, Va., May 15th, 1864. (search)
g the Blue Ridge, swoop down upon Lynehburg from the west. Successful resistance to his progress in the valley being impossible, Breckinridge directed Brigadier-General McCausland to take position in Hunter's front and obstruct his march as much as possible, and report his daily progress, while Breckinridge moved all the rest of y, where General R. E. Lee quietly ended his days as its President. From Lexington Hunter proceeded to Buchanan in Botetourt County, only slightly impeded by McCausland, who gallantly fought his advance at almost every mile as best he could. At Buchanan the torch again did its work. Colonel John T. Anderson, an old gray-hairermy corps. That day I had been ordered, with my own and Brigadier-General William L. Jackson's brigade of cavalry, to go ten miles out to New London, reenforce McCausland, and assume command of the three brigades, and retard Hunter as much as possible, to give time for the whole of Early's corps to come up by rail from Richmond.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Lynchburg expedition. (search)
,----; 1st N. Y. (Veteran),----; 21st N. Y.,----; 1st Md., P. H. B.,----. Second Brigade, Col. John E. Wynkoop: 15th N. Y.,----; 20th Pa.,----; 22d Pa.,----. Second cavalry division, Brig.-Gen. William W. Averell. First Brigade, Col. James N. Schoonmaker: 8th Ohio, Col. Alpheus S. Moore; 14th Pa.,----. Second Brigade, Col. John H. Oley: 34th Ohio (mounted infantry),----; 3d W. Va.,----; 5th W. Va.,----; 7th W. Va.,----. Third Brigade, Col. William H. Powell: 1st W. Va.,----; 2d W. Va.,----. Hunter started on this expedition with about 8500 men of all arms. After uniting with Crook and Averell at Staunton his force was about 18,000 strong. The Confederate Army. The forces resisting Hunter's advance were commanded by Generals W. E. Jones (killed at Piedmont), J. C. Vaughn, John McCausland, W. L. Jackson, and J. D. Imboden. General John C. Breckinridge's division and Jubal A. Early's corps arrived at Lynchburg in time to defend the place against Hunter's meditated attack.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 10.75 (search)
f Breckinridge's infantry under Wharton, and McCausland's cavalry. As soon as the remainder of my i turned off from Salem toward Lewisburg, and McCausland had struck his column and captured ten pieced of four small brigades, to wit: Imboden's, McCausland's, Jackson's, and Jones's (now Johnson's). T, leaving considerable stores in our hands. McCausland burned the bridge over Back Creek, capturingidge demonstrated against Maryland Heights. McCausland had occupied Hagerstown and levied a contribidge and the bridge on the Georgetown pike. McCausland, crossing the river with his brigade, dismouion, but he was then gradually forced back. McCausland's movement, which was very brilliantly executo move up rapidly with Gordon's division to McCausland's assistance, and, striking the enemy's lefteorgetown pike, having marched twenty miles. McCausland, moving in front, drove a body of the enemy'pieces of horse-artillery with the cavalry. McCausland reported the works on the Georgetown pike to[1 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at the Monocacy, Md.: July 9th, 1864. (search)
e's Brigade: 3d Ala.,----; 5th Ala.,----; 6th Ala.,----; 12th Ala.,----; 61st Ala.,----. Ramseur's division, Maj.-Gen. S. D. Ramseur. Lilley's Brigade: 13th Va.,----; 31st Va.,----; 49th Va.,----; 52d Va.,----; 58th Va.,----. Johnston's Brigade. 5th N. C.,----; 12th N. C.,----; 20th N. C.,----; 23d N. C.,----. Lewis's Brigade: 6th N. C.,----; 21st N. C.,----; 54th N. C.,----; 57th N. C.,----; 1st N. C. Batt'n,----. cavalry, Maj.-Gen. Robert Ransom. [Composed of the brigades of McCausland, Imboden, W. L, Jackson, and Bradley T. Johnson. The latter brigade was sent before the battle to cut the Northern Central and the Philadelphia and Baltimore railroads. ] artillery, Lieut.-Col. J. Floyd King. [Composed of Nelson's, Braxton's, and McLaughlin's battalions.] With the forces above enumerated General Early continued his movement on Washington. In his official report he says that in the action at the Monocacy our entire loss was between 600 and 700, including the cava
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 10.78 (search)
nths, as described by General Early in his Memoir, to which readers are referred for much that is here necessarily omitted or summarized, were his defeat of Crook and Averell with heavy loss at Kernstown, July 24th; his cavalry expedition under McCausland into Pennsylvania and burning of Chambersburg in retaliation for Hunter's burning of houses in the valley; Averell's surprise and defeat of McCausland's and Bradley Johnson's cavalry at Moorefield, August 7th; Sheridan's arrival in command withMcCausland's and Bradley Johnson's cavalry at Moorefield, August 7th; Sheridan's arrival in command with large reenforcements, August 7th, which necessitated Early's withdrawal to Fisher's Hill, when Sheridan advanced; Sheridan's withdrawal in turn to Halltown, near Harper's Ferry when General Early received at Strasburg reenforcements of Kershaw's division of infantry and Fitz Lee's of cavalry; finally, General Early's stay of a month, from August 17th to September 17th, in the lower valley, at and near Winchester, keeping the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the canal obstructed, and threatening
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864. (search)
----; 60th Va., Capt. A. G. P. George; 45th Va. Battalion, Capt. W. B. Hensly; Thomas Legion, Lieut.-Col. James R. Lowe. cavalry. Lomax's division, Maj.-Gen. Lunsford L. Lomax. Imboden's Brigade: 18th Va.----; 23d Va.----; 62d Va.----. McCausland's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. John McCausland: 14th Va.----; 16th Va.----; 17th Va.----; 25th Va.----; 37th Va. Battalion,----. B. T. Johnson's Brigade: 8th Va.----; 21st Va.----; 22d Va.---; 34th Va. Battalion,----; 36th Va. Battalion,----. Jackson's Brig.-Gen. John McCausland: 14th Va.----; 16th Va.----; 17th Va.----; 25th Va.----; 37th Va. Battalion,----. B. T. Johnson's Brigade: 8th Va.----; 21st Va.----; 22d Va.---; 34th Va. Battalion,----; 36th Va. Battalion,----. Jackson's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. H. B. Davidson: 1st Md.----; 19th Va.----; 20th Va.----; 46th Va. Battalion,----; 47th Va. Battalion,----. Rosser's (Fitz Lee's) division, Maj. Gen. Thos. L. Rosser. Wickham's Brigade: 1st Va.----; 2d Va.----; 3d Va.----; 4th Va.----. Rosser's Brigade: 7th Va.----; 11th Va.----; 12th Va.----; 35th Va. Battalion,----. Payne's Brigade: 5th Va.----; 6th Va.----; 15th Va----. artillery, Col. T. H. Carter. Braxton's Battalion: Va. Battery (Carpenter's); Va. Battery (Ha
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign. (search)
Barringer's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Rufus Barringer: 1st N. C.,----; 2d N. C.,----; 3d N. C.,----; 5th N. C.,----. Beale's Brigade, Capt. S. H. Burt: 9th Va.,----; 10th Va.,----; 13th Va.,----; 14th Va.,----. Roberts's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. William P. Roberts: 4th N. C.,----; 16th N. C. Batt'n,----. Rosser's division, Maj.-Gen. Thomas L. Rosser. Dearing's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. James Dearing, Col. A. W. Harman: 7th Va.,----; 11th Va.,----; 12th Va., Col. A. W. Harman; 35th Va. Batt'n,----. McCausland's Brigade: 16th Va.,----; 17th Va.,----; 21st Va.,----; 22d Va.,----. artillery, Lieut.-Col. R. B. Chew. Chew's Battalion: Va. Battery (Graham's),----; Va. Battery (McGregor's),----. Breathed's Battalion, Maj. James Breathed: Va. Battery (P. P. Johnston's),----; Va. Battery (Shoemaker's),----; Va. Battery (Thomson's), G. W. C. Lee's division, Maj.-Gen. G. W. Custis Lee. [Composed of Barton's and Crutchfield's brigades, with Tucker's naval battalion attached.] The following bat