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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 439 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 121 3 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 109 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 97 1 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 94 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 82 0 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. 61 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 42 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 41 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 30 2 Browse Search
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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
held their position with steadiness and nerve. Lieut.-Gen. J. C. Pemberton, commanding the Confederate forces, reported tha earthworks, and fell cheering his men to victory. General Pemberton called the attention of the war department to the Thixas, Col. H. B. Granbury. Under the order of Lieutenant-General Pemberton, this brigade left its camp near Jackson, on thneral Gregg but to await the movements of the enemy. General Pemberton had intimated that the main movement of the enemy waseneral Gregg, misled by the information received from General Pemberton, made his dispositions to capture a brigade of the enattached to the forces under the immediate command of General Pemberton. One, under Col. A. W. Reynolds, consisted of the Forlroad, on the night of May 15, 1863, as the rear guard of Pemberton's army then marching in the direction of Raymond, Miss. otect the railroad bridge over Big Black river in rear of Pemberton's line. The entire command in retreat crossed the bridge
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
the field again early in 1862 as colonel of the First Tennessee cavalry, winning compliments from his superior officers in every affair in which he was engaged. His name is mentioned in all the reports, and by his merit as chief of cavalry in Pemberton's department he richly earned the commission of brigadier-general, which was bestowed upon him December 29, 1862. He had acted as chief of cavalry for Van Dorn and Price in the campaign which culminated in the battle of Corinth. On the retrean repelling Sherman's attack in December. During the long and tedious siege of that important post in 1863, Vaughn was in command of the upper defenses of the city. At last, worn out and decimated, his brigade was surrendered with the rest of Pemberton's army, July 4, 1863. General Vaughn was soon exchanged, and sent with a brigade of mounted men to operate in east Tennessee and southwest Virginia. When General Hunter began his march against Lee's communications in 1864, Vaughn assisted in r