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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 2 (search)
m, sir, respectfully, Your obedient servant, E. Taliaferro, Captain, and Ordnance Officer of Division. Report of Captain Lewis. headquarters Lewis's battery, December 18, 1862. Brigadier-General Wilcox, commanding Brigade: General: I beg to submit the following report of the part taken by my battery in the battle fought before Fredericksburg: I was placed in position on the hill immediately opposite the ford between Falmouth and Fredericksburg, on the night of the twenty-third of November, and commenced throwing up earthworks to protect the guns and cannoneers, which were completed before the enemy attempted to cross the river. On Thursday morning, the eleventh of December, after the signal guns were fired, we were at our guns, ready for action, and there remained, without firing a gun, until late in the evening, when I saw a column of infantry (about two regiments) advancing to cross the upper pontoon bridge, when I gave the command to commence firing. We fired
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 58 (search)
ing report of the operations of the Army of Tennessee, while it was under my command. Want of the reports of the Lieutenant-Generals, for which I have waited until now, prevents me from being circumstantial: In obedience to the orders of the President, received by telegraph at Clinton, Mississippi, December eighteenth, 1863, I assumed command of the Army of Tennessee, at Dalton, on the twenty-seventh of that month. Letters from the President and Secretary of War, dated respectively twenty-third and twentieth of December, impressed upon me the importance of soon commencing active operations against the enemy. The relative forces, including the moral effect of the affair of Missionary Ridge, condition of artillery horses, most of those of the cavalry, and want of field-transportation, made it impracticable to effect these wishes of the Executive. On the thirty-first of December the effective total of the infantry and artillery of that army, including two brigades belonging to