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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
eneral Polk, commanding the advance forces, was directed in the following note: headquarters Army of Tennessee, Lafayette, Ga., 6 P. M., Sept. 12th. Lieutenant-General Polk: General,—I enclose you a dispatch from General Pegram. This presents you a fine opportunity of striking Crittenden in detail, and I hope you will avail yourself of it at daylight to morrow. This division crushed, and the others are yours. We can then turn on the force in the cove. Wheeler's cavalry will move on Wilder so as to cover your right. I shall be delighted to hear of your success. Very truly yours, Braxton Bragg. To attack at daylight on the 13th. Upon further information the order was renewed in two notes, at later hours of the same day as follows: headquarters Army of Tennessee, Lafayette, Ga., 6 P. M., Sept 12th, 1863. Lieutenant-General Polk, Commanding Corps: General,—I enclose you a dispatch marked A, and I now give you the orders of the Commanding General, viz: to attack at
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Chickamauga. (search)
eneral Polk, commanding the advance forces, was directed in the following note: headquarters Army of Tennessee, Lafayette, Ga., 6 P. M., Sept. 12th. Lieutenant-General Polk: General,—I enclose you a dispatch from General Pegram. This presents you a fine opportunity of striking Crittenden in detail, and I hope you will avail yourself of it at daylight to morrow. This division crushed, and the others are yours. We can then turn on the force in the cove. Wheeler's cavalry will move on Wilder so as to cover your right. I shall be delighted to hear of your success. Very truly yours, Braxton Bragg. To attack at daylight on the 13th. Upon further information the order was renewed in two notes, at later hours of the same day as follows: headquarters Army of Tennessee, Lafayette, Ga., 6 P. M., Sept 12th, 1863. Lieutenant-General Polk, Commanding Corps: General,—I enclose you a dispatch marked A, and I now give you the orders of the Commanding General, viz: to attack at
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 72 (search)
urned in quick haste to Cave City. On the 16th (two days later) General Bragg moved up and surrounded these forces, then reinforced and numbering 4,500 under Colonels Wilder and Dunham (Wilder afterwards commanded a cavalry brigade, known as Wilder's Lightning Brigade), who on the morning of the 17th of September surrendered, withWilder afterwards commanded a cavalry brigade, known as Wilder's Lightning Brigade), who on the morning of the 17th of September surrendered, with a very large supply of quartermaster and commissary stores. The 10th Mississippi was marched in to receive the surrender and occupy the forts and fortifications in return for and in compliment of its gallant fight on the 14th. I, with my company (K), was placed in command of Fort Craig, their extreme left fort, and where WalthaWilder's Lightning Brigade), who on the morning of the 17th of September surrendered, with a very large supply of quartermaster and commissary stores. The 10th Mississippi was marched in to receive the surrender and occupy the forts and fortifications in return for and in compliment of its gallant fight on the 14th. I, with my company (K), was placed in command of Fort Craig, their extreme left fort, and where Walthall had so gallantly assaulted three days previously. In the engagement of the 14th our loss, particularly in the 10th Mississippi regiment, was frightful. My company was a large one, and lost thirty-two in killed and wounded. And here let me add, that the account given of this battle in the American Cyclopedia, Vol. 16, page