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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
timo, having received orders from Major-General McLaws to send forward two regiments to the support of Brigadier-General Kershaw's brigade, then engaged with the enemy, the Tenth Georgia, Colonel Cumming, and the Thirty-second Virginia, Lieutenant-Colonel Willis commanding, were ordered to advance. Very soon after, perceiving that the firing bore to our right, without waiting to communicate with the Major-General, I moved in that direction with the Fifth Louisiana, Colonel Hunt. These three rut two miles, it brought me into the Long Bridge road, near the point where General Longstreet had engaged the enemy the day before. I reported to General Lee, commanding, and was ordered by him to proceed to the Quaker road, in the direction of Willis's church. Proceeding, in obedience to orders, for about a mile through the woods, around Mrs. C. Gathright's farm, I met with Captain Satcatt, the commanding General's Aid, who informed me that the enemy were near this place about twelve o'clock
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
ding Ripley's brigade) pays a tribute to the memory of Major Robert S. Smith, Fourth Georgia, and speaks in the most complimentary terms of Colonel De Rosset, and Major Thurston, Third North Carolina, (the former severely, and the latter slightly, wounded,) and Captains Meares, McNair, and Williams, of the same regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel H. A. Brown, and Captain J. A. Hannell, acting Major of the First North Carolina regiment, are also highly commended. Lieutenant-Colonel Phil Cook, Captains Willis, De Graffenreid, and Lieutenants Hawkens, Bisel, Hulbert, Gay, (wounded,) Stephens, Exell, Snead, Cobb, (killed,) Macon, (severely wounded,) all commended themselves to my special notice by their gallant and meritorious conduct. Captain Rey, commanding Forty-fourth Georgia, and Captain Reid, Assistant Adjutant-General, are equally commended. Assistant Surgeon William P. Young remained on the field after he was wounded, caring for the wounded, and fell into the hands of the enemy. Pri
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Garland's report of the battle of seven Pines. (search)
Corporal Belate (wounded). Company K--Captain Butler (killed). Company L--Captain Perry (killed); Privates Herndon, Dampier, Horton and Wilder. Fifth North Carolina. Lieutenant J. M. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieutenant J. A. Jones. Company E--Sergeant J. M. Miller, Color-Bearer; Corporals L-Bain and Benjamin Rollins. Company H--Sergeant James Goodman (for gallantry here and Williamsburg). Second Mississippi battalion. Company A--Private Sutton; Company B--Private Willis; Company C--Private Williams; Company G--Sergeant Weeks; Company H--Private Hankinson. The field officers of the Twenty-fourth Virginia and the Twenty-third North Carolina being all absent, their lists of merit have not yet been forwarded. Captain Bondurant reports the fine conduct of Orderly Sergeant J. L. Moore and Private Joseph Blankenship. In this connection it is proper to say that the Jeff. Davis artillery Captain Bondurant, proceeded under orders from General Hill down th
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
lorous W. 43, mar.; laborer; Stockbridge. 15 Dec 63; 13 Jly 65 Charleston, S. C.; dis. $325. Willis, Jeremiah 21, mar.; farmer; Philadelphia. 9 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Wilson, Samuel R. 21, simes H. Sergt. 21, sin.; painter; New Haven, Conn. 28 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. New Haven, Conn. Willis, Franklin Corpl. 33, sin.; farmer; Chatham, Can. 27 Mch 63; killed 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Ft Wagner. $50. Williams, Joseph 21, sin.; farmer; Detroit, Mich. 4 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Willis, Charles J 24, sin.; machinist; Syracuse, N. Y. 29 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. wood, Charles CorpP. 21, sin.; barber; Owego, N. Y. 8 Apl 63; killed 18 Apl 65 Boykins Mills, S. C. $50. Jones, Willis 35, sin.; laborer Detroit, Mich. 11 Aug 63; 30 Aug 65 New York. —— Kelley, Daniel A. 19, s; laborer; Medford. 22 Apl 63; missing 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner; supposed died pris. $50. Taylor, Willis. 21, sin.; drummer; Kalamazoo, Mich. 23 Apl 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Teale, Jefferson 31, sin.; f
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 9: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
unded; Captain Russell was a prisoner. Corporal Bassett, Bright, Dyer, Flemming, Hazelton, Livingston, and Sergeant Whitten, of Company A; Gilson and Corporal Oakes, of Company B; Brown, F. H. Cochrane, Francis, Corporal Gray, Hines, Jewell, Stonehall, and Williston, of Company C; Bickford, Corporal Fay, and Corporal Wilcox, of Company D; Ide and Sparrow, of Company E; Sergeant Andrews, Hatch, Howard, and Hoxsey, of Company G; Corporal Cahill, Corporal DeWeale, and Duffy, of Company H; Sergeant Willis, of Company I; and Conlan, Daly, Livingstone, Montague, Roberts, and Watson, of Company K,--were killed. Corporal Buxton, Gilman, and Spalding, of Company A; Stephens (J.), of Company B; Donovan, of Company C; Daniels, of Company E; Moore, of Company F; Dillingham, Greene (M.), Smith, and First Sergeant Williston, of Company G; Sylvester, of Company I; and Hauboldt, of Company K,were mortally wounded. Ninety-nine others were wounded ; and fourteen men, besides four of the wounded, we
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 29: acts of homage (search)
London, catch the latest fashions and the latest slang of the literature of the day, learn the names of a great many authorlings who are happily not yet reprinted in this country, and come back thinking, like Sim Tappertit and his fellow-revellers, that there's nothing like life. They yearn to be cosmopolitan, whereas what they need is to be true men and women first, and let cosmopolitanism take care of itself. The most cosmopolitan American writers of the last generation were undoubtedly Willis and Bayard Taylor; but what has become of their literary fame? On the other hand, the American names one sees oftenest mentioned in European books-Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Whitman — are those of authors who never visited Europe, or under such circumstances as to form but a trivial part of their career. Who can doubt that, fifty years hence, the disproportion will be far greater than now? After all is said and done, the circle of American writers who established our nation's literature, hal
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 20: (search)
chmond. his movement towards Fredericksburg. the surrender of the town demanded. it is abandoned by the citizen-population. sorrowful scenes. Burnside forces the passage of the Rappahannock. the Confederate position. Burnside's hope to surprise Gen. Lee. how disappointed. the Confederate line of battle. the attack on the Confederate right. young Pelham's gallantry. the Confederate right broken. the battle restored. interest of the field on the left. the attack on Marye's and Willis' hills. gallantry of the Federals. they make six attacks. a terrible scene of carnage. Burnside's army driven into Fredericksburg. his appalling extremity. expectations in Richmond of the destruction of his army. he escapes across the Rappahannock. Gen. Lee's own explanation of his failure to follow up his victory. comparative losses in the battle. death of Gens. Gregg and Cobb. Gen. Lee's sentiment with respect to the objects of the war. operations in Tennessee. battle of Murfr
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Roster of Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
nton, Ma.Sept. 5, 1864Transferred Dec. 23, 1864, to 13th Battery. Peebles, John R.,28Groton, Ma.Nov. 11, 1864Deserted Feb. 17, 1865, Greenville La. Pelby, Charles,27Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Apr. 11, 1862, disability. Pilkey, Francis,33Hadley, Ma.Jan. 4, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Plymton, Andrew F.,35Milford, Ma.Sept. 5, 1864Transferred Dec. 23, 1864, to 6th Battery. Potter, Jeffrey M.,21North Bridgewater, Ma.Sept. 5, 1864Transferred Dec. 23, 1864 to 13th Battery. Potter, Willis S.,19Taunton, Ma.Sept. 5, 1864June 11, 1865, expiration of service. Prevoe, Joseph,29Hadley, Ma.Jan. 4, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Presby, Mason W.,30Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Deserted, Jan. 1, 1862. Prince, Amasa T.,30Brighton, Ma.Feb. 29, 1864Mar. 3, 1864, rejected recruit. Price, Theodore H.,38Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Died July .., 1862, Vicksburg, Miss. Ray, Charles,23Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Nov. 1, 1861, disability. Ricker, William,18Boston, Ma.Jan. 8, 1863Deserted
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 7: Cambridge in later life (search)
it. The pine was Shelley's one vast pine ; the rocks were those where Mignon's serpents cowered; the lake was the gloomy Mummelsee where the enchanted lily maidens dwell; the pine woods were such as Sterling describes in his Woodland mountains, where all grand ideal shapes go by. Yet it was all in the suburbs of Boston and I was nineteen. It takes time and the long years to saturate every locality with romance and tenderness, but we are doing it slowly and surely in this dear America of ours. To a literary fame, death comes like the leaves in Alice's adventures, by eating which one suddenly grew tall or short. How instantaneously Bayard Taylor's shrunk when he died; when he went to Berlin he had a series of parting fetes as if he were a leader in literature; the moment he died he became an insignificant figure. It was equally instantaneous with Willis and Tuckerman, before him. ... On the other hand, Hawthorne, Thoreau, and even Poe, suddenly rose in dimensions. The End
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, IV: the young pedagogue (search)
small. Ellery says he [Hawthorne] might live for $300, as he does at Concord —there his farm gives apples enough to pay his rent, $75. He sells these and fishes in the river in summer. His magazine articles are paid higher than any one's except Willis who gets $5 a page. He could get what he chooses, probably $30, $40 or $50 an article. He is to be a regular contributor to three magazines—the Pioneer, Sargent's, and the Democratic Review. This of course would give him $1000 to $1500 a year. He writes very slowly and elaborately. Willis probably can get $50 for an article. In planning his future, the young tutor wrote:— Spent the whole morning at home—reading Richter's Life and meditating and made the day an era in my life by fixing the resolution of not studying a profession. . . . The resolve is perfectly settled and perfectly tranquil with me, that I will come as near starving as Richter did—that I will labor as intensely and suffer as much—sooner than violate m
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