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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
and to destroy also, as far as possible, the property in the yard. Records War of Rebellion, Vol. II, p. 21-23. This was attempted, but with partial success, General Taliaferro, with the assistance of Colonel Andrew Talcot, saving many of the guns and much of the Material. Ibid, p. 781. On the 22d April, by the authority of the Governor of the State of Virginia, Brigadier-General Ruggles assumed command of the volunteers and militia along the line of the Potomac, extending from Mount Vernon south to the mouth of the Rappahannock, with headquarters at Fredericksburg. Records War of Rebellion, Vol. II, p. 775. Brigadier-General Philip St. George Cocke had his headquarters temporarily at Alexandria, where he remained until the 27th, when he retired to Culpeper until ordered to Manassas Junction. Ibid, p. 823. As we shall see as we go on, on the points thus taken by the Virginia troops were afterwards formed the divisions and corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, and