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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.9 (search)
all wicker flask, which I retained as a souvenir. General Anderson sent these articles through Bragg's headquarters to Rosecrans' command under a flag of truce. During the action, after the killing of General Lytle, I received a wound which gaveer 8, 1862, and, when exchanged, was promoted to brigadier-general, November 29th. Thereafter he served actively under Rosecrans till he was killed while leading a charge of his brigade at the battle of Chickamauga. General Lytle had much literary n in 1857. No book collection of his verses has ever been made. On the death of this brilliant poet-soldier, General W. S. Rosecrans issued the following: headquarters, Cincinnati, O., January 8, 1864. As Brigadier-General Wm. H. Lytle fel Chickamauga, Ohio lost one of her jewels, and the service one of its most patriotic and promising general officers. W. S. Rosecrans, Major—General. [A paragraph in the preceding very interesting account, to which attention is called, is correct
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Meade's temper. (search)
ight flank, and threatening his communications with Washington, fell back rapidly from the line of the Rapidan, first to the Rappahannock, and ultimately behind Bull Run, concentrating his army in the vicinity of Centreville. It was then well known that General Lee had recently detached Longstreet to the assistance of Bragg at Chattanooga, and that consequently he was still probably inferior in strength to the Union army, although that also had been reduced by two corps, sent to reinforce Rosecrans, after the Battle of Chickamauga. The Washington authorities, therefore, correctly viewed General Lee's advance as a big bluff, which ought to be called, and constantly urged General Meade to make a stand and fight. Lincoln's note. In a short note to General Halleck, the Federal general-in-chief, dated October 16, 1863, President Lincoln, touching upon the situation as he understood it, and pointing out the probability of General Lee's inferiority of numbers, closes with the followi