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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 123 3 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 117 1 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 101 3 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 58 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 50 16 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 41 3 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 39 5 Browse Search
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States 28 12 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 19 1 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 18 8 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
n, as the left must be, when at a support, a charge, a present and a slope arms, and always, in cavalry, when the bridle-arm is used. The ladies — the ever ready and patriotic friends for soldiers — could, in one hour, shape and cut out, from a single piece of cotton, one thousand of these stars; and a general order from headquarters requiring them to be worn by all, would protect our brave men at once from the dreadful disasters — recently so frequent — resulting from these terrible mistakes. A very unmerited censure, it seems to me, has been cast by one of your Yorktown correspondents on Col. Magruder, for failing, on a recent occasion, to send out guides with videttes and scouting parties, by which failure, it is supposed, two of our scouts were fired upon by a party of our own men. It is not easy to see how any number of guides could have prevented this casualty. The unhappy mistake arose from the want of some such distinction in dress as that above suggested.
The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Judge Parker's charge to the Grand Jury of Frederick county, Va. (search)
credited by high official authority to the gallant commandant, I lost no time in reporting myself at "Headquarters," and need not say that I found in Col. John B Magruder all that my fancy had painted of the Virginia gentleman, the frank and manly representative of the chivalry of the dear Old Dominion. There, too, I met with Majbeth City Cavalry, and smoked a pipe with that warm-hearted prince of gentlemen, Robert Shield, the Sheriff of the county of York, bade the gallant and brave Colonel Magruder adieu, and, through dust and sunshine, returned to the ancient city of Williamsburg, to partake of the hospitalities of one of her most modest and most gifteable battle of Bethel, had been committed to the earth. His brother, under a flag of truce, came after the body from New York. It was disinterred by order of Col. Magruder, and sent on to the lines under escort of the Charles City Cavalry, Captain Douthat, and a detachment of the Howitzers. In silence this guard of honor moved o