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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
ade Ritter. Major Van de Graaf was wounded before Richmond, and at Fredericksburg. Capt. S. D. Stewart was wounded before Richmond and killed at Chancellorsville; Capt. A. N. Porter was wounded at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; Capt. Wade Ritter was wounded, and Capt. T. B. Bush was killed, at Second Manassas; Captain Burton was killed at Cold Harbor. Extracts from official war Records. Vol. V—（529, 530) March 21, 1862, Mentioned by Gen. W. H. C. Whiting. （1030) January 14th, Wigfall's brigade, Gen. G. T. Beauregard's forces, near Dumfries. Vol. XI, Part 2—（276, 296, 309) Mentioned in reports of Seven Days battles, by Union officers. (487) June to July, 1862, in Archer's brigade, Jackson's corps, engagements around Richmond. (504) June 26th to July 1st, 19 killed, 79 wounded, in fights before Richmond. (897, 898) Gen. J. J. Archer, in his report of Mechanicsville and Gaines' Mill, says: The gallant and efficient Captain Van de Graaff, commanding the Fifth Alabama
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Wee Nee Volunteers of Williamsburg District, South Carolina, in the First (Gregg's) Regiment—Siege and capture of Fort Sumter. (search)
wo and a-half hours' fighting, the white flag appeared, and firing ceased. We soon learned that Anderson had agreed to surrender, and afterwards heard that Senator Wigfall, with W. Gourdin Young, of Charleston, had gone over to the Fort and offered to receive Anderson's surrender. It was agreed that he might salute his flag andnd private baggage. Everything else in the Fort was to be surrendered to the Confederate States. After these terms were agreed upon, the white flag was raised. Wigfall had come before the firing ceased, and had made his way into the Fort through one of the port holes of a casemate. Beauregard, seeing the white flag, sent Colonel James Chesnut, Captain Lee, Colonel Pryor, and Hon. William Porcher Miles, to communicate with Anderson. These gentlemen were astonished to find Colonel Wigfall in the Fort, and told Major Anderson that he had no authority to treat in Beauregard's name. Anderson threatened to run up his flag and renew the fight, but, after fu
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Henry Chase Whiting, Major-General C. S. Army. (search)
troops, while his engineering skill was freely drawn upon for the public welfare. General Whiting was assigned the command of the brigade of General Bee, killed at Manassas. This was composed of the 6th North Carolina, 4th Alabama, 2d and 11th Mississippi. Major J. S. Fairly, now Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Fairly, of Charleston, S. C., who served with distinguished ability on the staff of General Whiting, says, in a letter to the speaker: With Bee's and the Texas Brigade, under General Wigfall, the division went into winter quarters near Dumfries, Va., and built heavy batteries, commanding the Potomac river, sometimes inflicting loss upon the enemy attempting its navigation; but his great work and constant care during the whole winter, was, first to have his troops make themselves comfortable winter quarters; next, to organize them for the victories they were to win, by thorough drill—constant drill—by squad, by company, by regiment, by brigade, by division, or as the troops
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.40 (search)
Johnston has the clearest understanding of any of the military policy necessary to final success. In this I prefer him. I have always regretted that opinion of Mr. Stephens, because I have never been content to believe that the defence of Petersburg was the generalship of Lee as a feature of his strategy. When we come to institute parallels between the generals of our armies—one in Virginia and the other in the more Southern States—we encounter the resistance of President Davis or his government to all. That feature of our history is, for sentimental reasons, thus far suppressed. General Lee's greatness is apparent in the fact that, whatever his grievance, he never permitted the civil government to become openly at war with him. The two Johnstons, Beauregard, Hardee, Forrest, etc., and nearly all the civil leaders—Stephens, Toombs, Yancey, Wigfall, Rhett, etc.—were far from terms of peace with the President or with the War Department. John Witherspoon Du Bose. Wetumpk
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Why the Confederate States did not have a Supreme Court. (search)
e papers are not accessible to me, but I get a glimmer of the reason from a statement to me by Judge Keith, of the Supreme Court. He told me that when he was on picket duty he read by the light of a camp fire a long and venomous attack of Senator Wigfall on John Marshall and the centralizing tendencies of the Supreme Court of the United States. Now, when you touch one Fauquier man, the blood of every other Fauquier man, whether on picket or on the Supreme bench, grows red-hot, and I have ons of 1798, in the case of secession, set itself up to judge for itself, as well of infraction as of the mode and measure of redress. Mr. Calhoun wrote his book to establish the proposition, and I can well understand how President Davis, Senators Wigfall, Mason, and Hunter all agreed that there should be no Supreme Court, the creature of the Federal authority, to become a common arbiter in all time in disputes between States, or between States and the Federal government. The conclusion I ar
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Thomas R. R. Cobb. (search)
rfected my rebellion. I trust that my children may hereafter recur with pride to it, whether by others I am canonized a saint or hung as a traitor. The Secretary of War is filling the army with inexperienced boys while he is disgusting the real military men of the country. General Walker, of Augusta, has written saying he couldn't stand on military etiquette any longer and authorized me to tender his services for any appointment. I am going to see the President for him after dinner. Wigfall, of Texas, is here. He promises to be as troublesome to us as he was to the Congress at Washington. May 3.—We have in the Confederate States at least 100,000 stand of arms and ample ordnance for our necessities. We have powder enough to furnish our troops for a year's active campaign and 2,500, 000 percussion caps. Governor Brown did a dirty trick in Georgia. The convention ordered the arsenal at Augusta and the arms in it turned over to the government. Brown secretly sent Rockwell
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.38 (search)
to winter quarters along the Potomac in the neighborhood of Dumfries, some thirty miles below Washington. Shall I pause to describe to you this splendid body of men, as they stood for the first time on dress parade on the banks of the Potomac? Wigfall, McLeod and Rainey, of the First; Hood, Marshall and Warwick, of the Fourth, and Archer, Robertson and Botts, of the Fifth, composed the field officers of the regiments, and thirty as gallant captains as ere commission bore commanded the thirtyer troops upon which to rely. In truth, its signal achievements in the war of secession have never been surpassed in the history of nations. And hear what the greatest military chieftain of modern times, General Robert E. Lee, addressing General Wigfall, on the 21st of September, 1862, just after Sharpsburg, writes: General, I have not heard from you with regard to the new Texas regiments, which you promised to raise for the army. I need them very much. I rely upon those we have in all ou
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Hood's Brigade. (search)
to winter quarters along the Potomac in the neighborhood of Dumfries, some thirty miles below Washington. Shall I pause to describe to you this splendid body of men, as they stood for the first time on dress parade on the banks of the Potomac? Wigfall, McLeod and Rainey, of the 1st; Hood, Marshall and Warwick, of the 4th, and Archer, Robertson and Botts, of the 5th, composed the field officers of the regiments, and thirty as gallant captains as ere commissions bore commanded the thirty companer troops upon which to rely. In truth, its signal achievements in the war of secession have never been surpassed in the history of nations. And hear what the greatest military chieftain of modern times, General Robert E. Lee, addressing General Wigfall, on the 21st of September, 1862, just after Sharpsburg, writes: General, I have not heard from you with regard to the new Texas regiments, which you promised to raise for the army. I need them very much. I rely upon those we have in all ou
The Daily Dispatch: February 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he U. S. SenateNessrs. Seward. Mason. Hale. Cameron, Douglas, and Wigfall on the floor. In the U. S. Senate, on Thursday, Mr. Seward predead still lived, [Considerable applause in the galleries.] Mr. Wigfall said that he was in favor of the Union, if it could be administed the seceding States never would come back into the Union. Mr. Wigfall then branched off into an extended argument in defence of the ritisements offering a negro for sale and a reward for a runaway. Mr. Wigfall defended, at great length, the course of the seceding States. refused to meet the issue and to do nothing to preserve it. Mr. Wigfall rejoined, and in the course of his remarks asked Mr. Douglas upor. Mason, said he would move that the galleries be cleared. Mr. Wigfall wanted facts. He wished to have a specific statement of the Senat sort of dispatches he sent to Pensacola and Fort Sumter. Mr. Wigfall had no objection to reveal the contents of any dispatches he sen
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Compliment to a young Virginian. (search)
From Washington. Washington, Feb. 4. --Col. Hayne intended to leave to-day, but has delayed his departure until Wednesday, having been informed that the President is preparing a reply to his communication. Senator Wigfall and others have telegraphed to Montgomery, urging Alex. H. Stephens for President of the Southern Confederacy, in order to conciliate the conservatives. Secretary Black will be nominated for Associate Judge of the Supreme Court, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Daniel.
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