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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: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Newport News and Yorktown. (search)
Newport News and Yorktown. For two days past, reports have reached this city from various sources, in regard to heavy firing heard in the direction of Newport News, and the inference has been that a fight has been going on between Gen. Magruder and the enemy. A correspondent of the Dispatch writes from Camp Vincent that "on the 23d inst., some heavy firing commenced in the vicinity of Newport News and lasted until 4 o'clock the next morning; and at 8 o'clock discharges of musketry and cappose for reinforcements. I discerned, with my glass, a transport coming from the Rip Raps, and another putting out to sea. All the Federal tents in the vicinity of Hampton were struck as soon as the firing commenced. We supposed that our hero Magruder had routed the enemy again." Notwithstanding these statements of our correspondent, and others, equally positive, that we have received, we ascertained from Mr. Charles H. Wynne, of the Howitzer Battalion, who came up in the York River trai