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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 162 162 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 119 119 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 25 25 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 23 23 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 21 21 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 20 20 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 20 20 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 18 18 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 18 18 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Irene E. Jerome., In a fair country 17 17 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
y, by his energy, promptness and clearheadedness under all circumstances, that he possessed many of the elements of which great military leaders are made. He raised a company in Huntsville, Alabama, his present place of residence, as soon as it became apparent that war was inevitable between the Abolition Government at Washington and that of the Confederate States. This company formed a portion of the Fourth Alabama Regiment, to the colonelcy of which he was elected in the early part of May last, and was at once ordered to Virginia. He has been with General Johnston from the time of his occupancy of Harper's Ferry to the present. There is no officer in the Confederate army who has all his faculties more nearly under his complete control than the subject of this brief and imperfect sketch. In the hour of danger he is one of the coolest of the cool--one of the bravest of the brave. It is said by those who saw him in the battle of Manassas, when the shots were flying thicke