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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 6 : Federal armies, Corps and leaders (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letter from a Virginia lady to the Federal commander at Winchester . (search)
Letter from a Virginia lady to the Federal commander at Winchester. By Mrs. Dr. R. C. Randolph.
[The following letter, written in the winter of 1863-4, by a lady residing in Clarke county, explains itself and gives a vivid picture of life in that region during the period of which it speaks.
If it had been written some months later when Sheridan was carrying out his wicked threat to make the Shenandoah Valley such a waste that a crow flying over would be compelled to carry his own rations, there would have been a still more vivid story of outrage and oppression; but that chapter will yet be written.]
The officer in command the 26th of October may remember the capture of young Thomas Randolph at his father's house.
On the Wednesday following, a part of the same command returned by this route, parties from which were visiting the yard and house for some time after the head of the column had gone by. At first their wants were supplied, so far as our present restrictions en
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), History of Lane 's North Carolina brigade . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes on Ewell 's division in the campaign of 1862 . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis , Jefferson C. , 1828 -1879 (search)
Davis, Jefferson C., 1828-1879
Military officer; born in Clarke county, Ind., March 2, 1828; served in the war with Mexico; was made lieutenant in 1852; and was one of the garrison of Fort Sumter during the bombardment in April, 1861.
The same year he was made captain, and became colonel of an Indiana regiment of volunteers.
In December he was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers, and commanded a division in the battle of Pea Ridge early in 1862.
He
Jefferson C. Davis. participated in the battle of Corinth in 1862; commanded a division in the battles of Stone River, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga in 1862-63; and in 1864 commanded the 14th Army Corps in the Atlanta campaign and in the March through Georgia and the Carolinas.
He was brevetted major-general in 1865, and the next year was commissioned colonel of the 23d Infantry.
He was afterwards on the Pacific coast; commanded troops in Alaska; and also commanded the forces that subdued the Modocs, after the murder of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Randolph , Edmund (Jennings) 1753 -1813 (search)
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), An independent scout. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.28 (search)