previous next
[97]

Southern Historical Society Papers.

Vol. VIII. Richmond, Va., march, 1880. no. 3.

History of Lane's North Carolina brigade.

By Brigadier-General James H. Lane.

No. 4.

Battles around Richmond (concluded)--report of Colonel Lane.

headquarters Twenty-Eighth regiment, North Carolina Volunteers, Near Richmond, July 12, 1862.
Brigadier-General L. O'B. Branch, Commanding Fourth Brigade, Light Division:
General — I have the honor to report that on Wednesday, the 25th of June, I left camp with my regiment, numbering four hundred and eighty, and with the balance of your brigade proceeded up the Telegraph road, crossed the Chickahominy on the morning of the 26th, and advanced towards the Meadow bridge. Two of my companies were ordered to Mrs. Crenshaw's bridge to apprise Lieutenant-Colonel Hoke, with a portion of his regiment which was doing picket duty on the south side of the Chickahominy,


Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Telegraph (New Mexico, United States) (1)

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
James H. Lane (3)
R. F. Hoke (1)
Crenshaw (1)
L. O'B. Branch (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
July 12th, 1862 AD (1)
June 25th (1)
26th (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: