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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard. (search)
e Butler's co-operative move was being foiled, Grant was urging his sanguinary way from the northwa's force had also been depleted by drafts from Grant, but he still retained over ten thousand men. mptly followed upon the fall of Petersburg. Grant essayed the last desperate effort of his overlerve in his own operations. Beauregard, while Grant was still at Cold Harbor, had, in communicationt on the 7th and again on the 9th, forecasted Grant's strategy to be the move against which Generain a telegram of Beauregard: Have you heard of Grant's crossing the James river? and on the followhed General Beauregard: Have no information of Grant's crossing James river, but upon your report hrnful loss of life. The same authority places Grant's losses in these three days of battle at 15,0 attack of all the Confederate forces upon General Grant's left flank and rear should be made. Weir to continue the same mode of warfare. But Grant's sledge-hammer tactics were expended. He gav[2 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Crenshaw Battery, Pegram's Battalion, Confederate States Artillery. (search)
time became its commander, and surrendered as such; Hollis, who afterwards became our first lieutenant; Allegre, one of the noblest and best of soldiers; Allen, there were two of them, Bill, who in time was promoted to the lieutenancy, and Ralph, another one of that jolly throng; and Robert Ellett, that noble boy who gave up his life for the cause, and then, too, that modest, whole-souled soldier, George Young, another victim of that unequal struggle, who lost his life at Jericho Ford during Grant's flank movement from the Wilderness to the south side of the James; also the Smith boys, Hugh afterwards lieutenant, and Clinton, another one of the invincibles, with the Ratcliffe brothers, Walter and Willie. This is, I think, about the make — up of the Crenshaw Batterywith about eighty men and boys, as we marched to Camp Lee, all in bright uniforms, to commence the actual duties of the soldier. And just here let me say that Captain Crenshaw will ever be remembered by the remaining few