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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Brook Church fight, and something about the Fifth North Carolina cavalry. (search)
camped May 23d near Hanover Junction, recuperating a little from the terrible ride and fighting of the Sheridan raid. Late that afternoon an order came to each captain of our regiment for a detail of picked men for specially dangerous work. The Fifth regiment furnished about 225 men and officers, under command of Major Mc-Neill. There were surely not over 1,000 men on the expedition from our brigade. Wilson's wharf was a fortified post of great natural and artificial strentgth on the James river, far below City Point, and consequently fully in the enemy's lines. It was forty-seven miles in a straight line, by best military maps, from Hanover Junction. It consisted of a fort built in semi-circle form on a bluff of the river with each end resting on the James, with heavy parapets and a canal of water the entire front of the half circle. There was open ground for several hundred yards all around the fort covered with abattis and large fallen pine trees to impede assailants. If w
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
The fall of Richmond. [from the Richmond, Va., dispatch, February 3, 1902.] Graphic description of events of evacuation-day. Surprise and consternation. Faith in Lee and his men so great that both citizens and Officals were unprepared for Abandonment of City—From Gay to Grave— boys and their Plunder—Searching for Bev. Tucker— personal recollections of General Meade. The following personal reminiscences of the evacuation of Richmond are contributed to the Dispatch's Confederate Column by Rev. Dallas Tucker, now of Bedford City: In this article I do not propose to describe any of the military operations which led up to the evacuation of Richmond, nor, of course, what occurred in connection with it in official circles. Of these, I was then too young a lad to know really anything, and I am not now sufficiently informed or competent to write on these subjects. What I shall record here will be, as the title indicates, reminiscences of things which came under my per
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.17 (search)
Williamsburg Junior Guards. [from the Richmond, Va., dispatch, December 1, 1901.] Battle-Roll of a gallant band, Worth preserving. The Thirty-second Virginia Regiment was organized in 1861, by Colonel B. S. Ewell (late emeritus president of William and Mary College), the brother of General Richard S. Ewell, and classmate of General U. S. Grant and other celebrities, at West Point. The Colonel afterwards served on the staff of General Joseph E. Johnston, in the South. On our retreat from the Peninsula, when General Joseph E. Johnston came down from Manassas to assist General J. Bankhead Mc-Gruder, who was confronted by the superior forces of General Geo. B. McClellan, we dared to hold a company election at Bottom's bridge, by bivouac, when quite all the officers were changed. In the face of the enemy, such would never have been allowed in any European army. It was accomplished, however, without a hitch of unpleasantness. Octavius Coke, brother of your fellow-townsmen
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
The peace conference in Hampton Roads. [from the Richmond, Va., times, February 9, 1902.1 Errors corrected as to General Lee in the breach to the finality of possible endeavor. Gen. Lee did not Contemplate Early surrender. Lincoln offered no Terms—The veteran statesman Denies that the Confederate commissioners coulde year 1865, the prospects of the Southern Confederacy were gloomy indeed. Grant with his hosts had swung around upon a new base, and was at City Point on the James river threatening Petersburg and Richmond, then defended by the Army of Northern Virginia under the incomparable Lee. That army during the preceding year had covered ry convention and the suspension of hostilities would be the restoration of the Union. On January 12th Mr. Davis handed to Mr. Blair the following letter: Richmond, Va., Jan. 12, 1865. F. P. Blair, Esq.: Sir,—I have deemed it proper and probably desirable to you to give you in this form the substance of the remarks made by
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.20 (search)
Battle of Bethel. [from the Richmond, Va., dispatch, October 13, 1901.] First engagement of the War between the States. Barely mentioned in history. Of sufficient importance to be recorded on its Pages—Men engaged in it on both sides who afterwards became famous. Forty years ago the tenth of last June, the first battle of the Civil War was fought at Bethel Church, Va., between the Federal forces of General B. F. Butler (with General Pierce in immediate command) and the Confedch of the enemy, all unsuspecting, and he rises up from behind a masked battery and delivers his fire for the first time! Early in June, 1861, the Confederates established an outpost at Bethel Church, on the Peninsula formed by the York and James rivers, about thirteen miles from Yorktown, eight from Hampton, and eight from the now-flourishing town of Newport News, but which was then an insignificant hamlet. Federal raiding parties had previously visited Bethel and inscribed on its church wa
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.21 (search)
Cruise of the C. S. Steamer Nashville. [from the Richmond, Va., dispatch, March 18, 1901.1 By Lieutenant W. C. Whittle, C. S. N. In 1861 the Nashville, then used as a freight and passenger steamer, was seized in the port of Charleston, S. C., by the Confederate authorities, and soon fitted out for the purpose of taking Messrs. Mason and Slidell to Europe. She was a side-wheel, brigrigged steamer, of about twelve or fourteen hundred tons, and was therefore deemed by them too large a vessel to run the blockade. That purpose was accordingly abandoned. Captain R. B. Pegram, then in command of the Nashville, fitted her with two small guns and made her ready for sea, with a full crew of officers and men. The following is a list of her officers: Captain, R. B. Pegram; First Lieutenant, Charles M. Fauntleroy; Second Lieutenant, John W. Bennett; Third Lieutenant, William C. Whittle; Master, John H. Ingram; Surgeon, John L. Ancrum; Paymaster, Richard Taylor; Chief Engineer, James Hood;
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
Roster of Goochland county Troop. [from the Richmond, Va., dispatch, December 29, 1901.1 The following roster of the Goochland Troop, after much agony and bloody sweat, has been at last made up, and it is thought to be correct as possible by those who are likely to know. It was prepared in collaboration. This list of gallant comrades would never have crystalized but for the energy of Comrade Charles H. Powell. After the elapse of more than a quarter of a century, it looks out from behed by Fitzhugh Lee in General Orders, No. 1, to the Army of Northern Virginia, Lee's division, April 4, 1864. Resolutions to the honor and memory of James Pleasants may also be found among the records of the Southern Historical Society, at Richmond, Va. The original Roll. Officers. Julian Harrison, captain; dead. G. F. Harrison, first lieutenant. A. M. Hobson, second lieutenant; dead. John D. Hobson, third lieutenant. W. R. Fleming, first sergeant; dead. John A. Picket, s
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.25 (search)
very much by so arranging it as that I may get the information in time to turn upon them before they get away. Be sure to barricade the roads with felled trees, in case they start in that direction, and also send information to our wagon trains, in rear of General Lee's army. Communicate with me by way of the Telegraph road. I left a small picket at Ashland, which, however, may run in at any moment. I have not yet learned whether the enemy has passed Yellow Tavern or passed near James river. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. E. B. Stuart, Major-General. With the intuition of a great soldier Stuart threw himself on Sheridan's rear, and thus drew him away from Richmond to give time for troops to get into the city to defend it. In the ensuing fight Griffin, of course, had his battery well out of the fighting line, and it was captured by the enemy. Stuart instantly charged with a regiment and recaptured the guns. In a moment they were retaken by the Federa
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.26 (search)
In a Federal prison. [from the Richmond, Va., dispatch, September 8, 1901.1 Interesting career of Lieutenant W. W. George, of Echols' brigade. His escape from Fort Pulaski. With several Companions he cut through the casemates with an Oyster—Knife and an iron Clevis—a cat for dinner. The following incidents in the prison life of Lieutenant W. W. George, one of the 800 (Morris Island), is a unique, interesting and truthful narrative of a Confederate soldier. Lieutenant George is a descendant of a long line of ancestry, who were among the first settlers of the southwestern part of this State, where their early days were spent in continuous war with the Red Men. Lieutenant George—a worthy son of a worthy sire, reared in the seclusion of the mountains, an athlete by nature, and a soldier by birth—responded promptly to his country's call, and followed the fortunes of his brigade (Echols') from the Kanawha to the Blue Ridge, and until he was finally thrown into the vo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.27 (search)
Company G, Twenty-Sixth Virginia regiment. [from the Richmond, Va., dispatch, June 26, 1901.1 The following is a muster-roll of the above company: Captain Robert H. Spencer; living. First Lieutenant Robert B. Roy; died at home. Second Lieutenant M. B. Davis; killed at Hatcher's Run. Third Lieutenant A. P. Bird; wounded at Johns Island; died at home. First Sergeant Jacob W. Turner; living. Second Sergeant William J. Jackson; died at home. Third Sergeant William J. N. Y. William Thurston; died at home. Edward D. Tuttle; living. Jerome Tuttle; died at home. Baylor Wheeler; died at hospital. Levi Wyatt; living. Thomas W. Wyatt; died at home. John Wyatt; living. Andrew Wyatt; died on James river. William M. Wyatt; died at Elmira, N. Y. Robert S. Wyatt; died at home. Lemuel R. Walton; living. Reuben Walton; wounded at the Howlett House, May 20, 1864; died at home. James Yarrington; killed at Petersburg, June 15, 1864.
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