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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate Army. (search)
. C., Col. B. H. Rutledge; 5th S. C., Col. John Dunovant; 6th S. C., Col. Hugh K. Aiken. Fitz. Lee's division, Maj.-Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. Lomax's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Lunsford L. Lomax: 5th Va., Col. Henry C. Pate; 6th Va.,----; 15th Va.,----. Wickham's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. Williams C. Wickham: 1st Va.,----; 2d Va., Col. Thomas T. Munford; 3d Va., Col. Thomas H. Owen; 4th Va.,----. W. H. F. Lee's division, Maj.-Gen. W. H. F. Lee. Chambliss's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. John R. Chambliss, Jr.: 9tBrig.-Gen. Williams C. Wickham: 1st Va.,----; 2d Va., Col. Thomas T. Munford; 3d Va., Col. Thomas H. Owen; 4th Va.,----. W. H. F. Lee's division, Maj.-Gen. W. H. F. Lee. Chambliss's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. John R. Chambliss, Jr.: 9th Va.,----; 10th Va.,----; 13th Va.,----. Gordon's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. James B. Gordon: 1st N. C.,----; 2d N. C., Col. C. M. Andrews: 5th N. C., Col. S. B. Evans. horse artillery, Maj. R. P. Chew. Breathed's Battalion, Maj. James Breathed: Hart's (S. C.) Battery; Johnston's (Va.) Battery; McGregor's (Va.) Battery; Shoemaker's (Va.) Battery; Thomson's (Va.) Battery. Richmond and Petersburg lines, Gen. G. T. Beauregard. Major-General George E. Pickett commanded at Petersburg. Ransom'
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan's Richmond raid. (search)
On the 9th of May, 1864, at 6 A. M., this magnificent body of 10,000 horsemen moved out on the Telegraph Road leading from Fredericksburg to Richmond. According to a Southern authority it took four hours at a brisk pace to pass a given point; to those who viewed it from behind barred windows and doors it was like the rush of a mighty torrent. The column as it stood, fours well closed up, was thirteen miles long. It had been moving at a walk for two hours before the enemy caught up, and Wickham's brigade began to harass Sheridan's rear. It made no difference in the progress of the Union column, although numerous little brushes occurred. In one of these the 1st North Carolina Cavalry charged our rear-guard, consisting of the 6th Ohio Cavalry and a section of the 6th New York Battery. In the melee a Confederate officer cut his way through the column to the rear piece; placing his hand on the gun he exclaimed, This is my piece. Not by a d----d sight, replied a cannoneer, as with