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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 103 5 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 98 0 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 89 13 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 81 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 43 9 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 43 1 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 42 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 39 9 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 37 3 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 36 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
wards night a warm fight ensued near the bridge over the river. The losses were slight, and the results unimportant. All day Monday our pioneer corps was busy at work, and at night our position was believed to be one of great strength. Early yesterday morning it was ascertained that the enemy were moving around on our left flank, as if to seize the road leading to Louisa C H. Just before day Gen. Early, who was in command of A. P. Hill's corps, moved to meet the enemy, taking with him Heth's division. He engaged the enemy on or near the Louisa C. H. road. The enemy were in heavy force. Our men drove them back from three lines of quite formidable breastworks, capturing three lines of breastworks, one gun and one caisson and about one hundred and fifty prisoners, including some of their wounded. We would have captured more of their guns and more prisoners, but for the fact that the enemy set fire to the woods in front of them, and so it was impossible for our troops to move u
The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The battle of the Wilderness. (search)
until night. His last advance against Hill's front was made just before dark, and was handsomely repulsed by Wilena's and Heth's divisions. His final attack upon Ewell was made after night against that part of the line held by Edward Johnson's divi, when they were attacked in front with great fury by a very heavy force. Under these untoward circumstances Wilcox's and Heth's divisions, which had done so well the evening before, were thrown into confusion and gave way, just as Kershaw double-qu latter succeeded in throwing three regiments of his old brigade, commanded by Col. Hinnegan, into line while Wilcox's and Heth's men were falling back over his troops, and with this small, but heroic band, he confronted the heavy masses of the enemy it was exposed. Gen Lee witnessed the unfortunate and unexpected confusion and withdrawal of the divisions of Wilcox and Heth, in both of which he had reposed so much confidence, and which had behaved so handsomely on former occasions, and tears ru