Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14., <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=davis,jefferson&n=1&type=person">President Davis</a> in reply to <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=sherman,w.,t.&n=1&type=person">General Sherman</a>., The letter of <a target="_blank" onclick="openPopupWindow(this); return false" href="entityvote?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0001&auth=davis,jefferson&n=2&type=person">Mr. Davis</a>., page 257

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The campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg —Address of Colonel C. S Venable (formerly of General R. E. Lee 's staff), of the University of Virginia , before the Virginia division f the Army of Northern Virginia , at their annual meeting, held in the Virginia State Capitol , at Richmond , Thursday evening , October 30th , 1873 .

Campaign of 1864 and 1865 .

Long's memoir of General R. E. Lee .

Field telegrams from around Petersburg .

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[257] enemy attacked with cavalry; driven off, and march continued, reaching Sailor's Run about 12 M., when it fought its last battle, and although broken down with hard marches, &c., the men fought with as much determination as on any previous field, repelling every attack, until surrounded by overwhelming numbers, when it, with the division, cut its way to Farmville as best it could, where as many of the division as were left rallied and continued the retreat to Appomattox Courthouse, and surrendered with the army.

Geo. K. Griggs, Colonel Thirty-eighth Virginia Regiment Infantry.

Richmond, VA. 1886.

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