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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 81 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 71 5 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 67 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 64 0 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 50 2 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 39 1 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 25 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 24 4 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 19 1 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 7 1 Browse Search
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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
Vicksburg, a Tennessee brigade, under Brig.-Gen. John Gregg, which had been on duty at Port Hudson made a memorable fight against great odds. Gregg's brigade consisted of the Third Tennessee, Coans of obtaining it, no course was left to General Gregg but to await the movements of the enemy. oved up rapidly and opened with artillery upon Gregg's pickets. General Gregg, misled by the infd for battle. This great array was met by General Gregg with an aggregate present of 2,500 officerry for at least two hours. The marvel is that Gregg, fighting almost ten times his number of vetericers of great intelligence and gallantry, and Gregg's generalship was inimitable. No wonder that ird Tennessee and Seventh Texas were, said General Gregg, in the most trying part of the engagementtieth and Fiftieth Tennessee, hotly engaged on Gregg's left, but receiving a dispatch from Colonel he brigade was ordered to withdraw. This, General Gregg said, was effected in admirable order. No[4 more...]
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
ovisional division, to which was assigned Gen. John Gregg's brigade, the Third regiment, Col. Calvr Col. John S. Fulton, Forty-fourth Tennessee, Gregg's Tennessee brigade, McNair's brigade, and Blettery of three guns was brought into action on Gregg's left. The enemy advanced on Johnson's and GGregg's brigades, and were easily repulsed, except on Gregg's left. The Fiftieth here lost 2 killedGregg's left. The Fiftieth here lost 2 killed and 45 wounded before it moved from its position. Johnson pushed his command forward with orders driven back with loss. About this time General Gregg ventured out too far in front of his brigaouthouses. Johnson advanced his whole line, Gregg's brigade under the gallant Col. Cyrus A. Suggp ahead of everything. The order was obeyed. Gregg's brigade, under Sugg, captured nine pieces ofant, able and efficient services in commanding Gregg's brigade. He is a good and meritorious officJohnson's brigade lost 299 killed and wounded. Gregg's brigade lost 585 killed and wounded; of thes[1 more...]
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
st of Harris' brigade in Fort Alexander. These two points were all that barred the enemy out of Petersburg, for Longstreet's forces which were to occupy the interval between the right of the Petersburg line and the Appomattox river had not yet had time to arrive. It was the obstinate defense of these works that enabled Lee to hold his interior line until night. When the overwhelming masses of the Federals after many repulses at last carried the two forts, only 30 of the brave defenders of Gregg were unhurt, and nearly 1,000 Federals had been killed or wounded. In the final charge at Appomattox, Wilcox had been ordered to support Gordon in the desperate attempt to force the way to Lynchburg. But the negotiations between Lee and Grant stopped the fighting before his troops became engaged. After the close of the war General Wilcox was offered a command in the Egyptian army, but declined. In 1886 he was appointed chief of railroad division in a government department at Washington,