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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 156 156 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 102 102 Browse Search
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A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 77 77 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Virginia, or Merrimac: her real projector. (search)
rter was brought before the public. It attracted attention, and the statement of Justice appeared. Mr. J. W. H. Porter's Correct Version of the Converting of the Merrimac into an Iron clad is, in the main, a repetition of what was published in 1862, with some variations and additions. Mr. J. W. H. Porter says: Lieutenant John M. Brooke, of the navy, was considering the question of an iron-clad. He was in a position where he could command the ear of Secretary Mallory, of the Confederate is made a part of these presents. In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Patent Office has been hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at the city of Richmond, this 29th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1862. Seal of the Patent Office, (Our First President.) Confederate States of America. (Signed) T. H. Watts, Attorney-General. Countersigned and sealed with the seal of the Patent Office. Rufus H. Rhodes, Commissioner
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Magruder's Peninsula campaign in 1862. (search)
Magruder's Peninsula campaign in 1862. The Peninsula campaign, conducted on the Confederate side by General John Bankhead Magruder, though unduly subordinated in the already-written history of the war, conspicuously comprised a rapidly-recurring series of some of the most brilliant achievements of the soldiership of the South. The Peninsula, between York river on one side and James river on the other, with Hampton Roads, or the southern extremity of Chesapeake Bay, making its seaboard boundary, is, in some of its associations, as historic ground, perhaps, as any similar-sized district of country within the limits of the United States. The sad site of Jamestown, in its almost vestigeless ruins, is in itself a poem of pathos, carrying us back to the first successful attempt to establish an English colony in the New World, with all the perils and privations, all the heroic and romantic reminiscences of the contests between the white man and the red man, interwoven with that event
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
n history. After his march to Cumberland and Romney in the winter of 1861-‘62, when many of his men were frost-bitten, and some perished from the intense cold, he had scarcely rested his weary legions when he begun his famous Valley Campaign of 1862, which won for his men the soubriquet of Jackson's Foot Cavalry, and for himself world-wide fame. When General Banks, supposing that Jackson was in full retreat up the Valley, started a column across the mountains to strike Johnston's army, whid from Port Republic on the march to Richmond, We are being largely reinforced, and after resting here for a few days we will proceed to beat up Banks' quarters again down about Strasburg and Winchester. I remember that one day in the summer of 1862 General Ewell rode up to the house of Dr. J. L. Jones, near Gordonsville, and asked: Doctor, will you please tell me where we are going to? No, General, was the reply, but I should like to ask you that, if it were a proper question. It is a perf
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.21 (search)
ly lifted into a saddle. Whether it was his huge boots or the saturnine temperament of the man, he nevertheless rode as if the horse was a mechanical one and not made of flesh and blood. If he tried a gallop, which was seldom, it looked as if rider and steed would soon part company, for his body rose and fell violently at every stride. But Butler never prided himself on his feats of horsemanship, and active field movement was not his forte. Major-General John Pope made himself famous in 1862 by issuing a grandiloquent bulletin to his army that until further orders headquarters would be in the saddle. Then the reverses to McClellan began, and Pope's headquarters were kept on the steady run by Lee all through the Virginia Valley. The soldiers used to say that Pope's hindquarters were in the saddle and his headquarters nowhere. But soldiers are always sarcastic. General Pope was a fine horseman, and looked exceedingly well in the saddle. General Sheridan did not appear to adv
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Thanksgiving service on the Virginia, March 10, 1862. (search)
the collection and compilation of Confederate records, and he answered as follows: war Department, publication office war Records 1861-1865, Washington, September 9, 1891. The questions propounded by your correspondent are difficult, and in the present light of official information cannot be answered accurately. We know of but one official statement of the forces of the Confederate army ever made. This was a report of General S. Cooper, adjutant and inspector-general, made march 1, 1862. The total of Confederate forces as reported by him at that date, including armed and organized militia, was three hundred and forty thousand two hundred and fifty-grand total officers and men. I think it probable that the Confederate Government had more troops at that date than at any time during the war. In this report Virginia has three battallions for the war—fifteen hundred; for twelve months, seventy-one regiments and nine battalions, two regiments, a number of battalions of arti
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A plan to escape (search)
A plan to escape In 1863, from the Federal prison on Johnson's Island. The following papers are preserved between the leaves of a manuscript diary of Captain L. W. Allen, covering a period of captivity in the Federal Prison on Johnson's Island, Lake-Erie, Ohio, In Volume VI, Virginia Historical Collections, New Series, of the Virginia Historical Society, Miscellaneous Papers, 1672-1865 is included a Memorial of the Federal Prison on Johnson's Island, 1862-1864, containing a list of prisoners of war from the Confederate States Army, and of the deaths among them, with Prison Lays, by distinguished officers, and the Papers, Volume XVIII, includes an account of Escape of Prisoners from Johnson's Island, December 31, 1863, pp. 428-431. The date of escape it appears, should be January 1, 1864, as under date of January 2d, Captain Allen records the thermometer registering from 20° to 30° below zero, more intensely cold the Yankees say than it has been for sixteen years, and that
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Thomas J. Jackson. (search)
to tell General Jackson that he had none; that the Hawks had eaten them all. His admiration for Early. There was a story in the army about General Early, for whose soldierly qualifications Jackson had great admiration. In the winter of 1862 and 1863, Early had command of the troops low down on the Rappahannock river. He had some guns on a high embankment trained to shoot at the enemy's gunboats if they made their appearance a mile or two down the river. The muzzles of the guns wereg March was there when Banks was sent against him. He fell back before Banks some forty miles, but then suddenly turned on him with only thirty-five hundred men and attacked him so fiercely that he retreated with all his troops. The campaign of 1862. In April, 1862, Jackson entered upon a new campaign in the Valley. How he in detail and with Napoleonic celerity whipped Milroy, Banks, Shields and Fremont in this campaign, and then suddenly swooped down upon McClellan at Gaines' Mill, when
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Valley after Kernstown. (search)
The Valley after Kernstown. Jackson's faith in his little Army—Orders to enforce discipline. The following letters (now published for the first time) from Jackson to Major (afterwards Colonel) A. W. Harman, who was commandant of the post at Staunton, which was the base of Jackson's operations in the Valley, throw interesting light upon the situation in the Valley early in 1862, and strikingly illustrate Jackson's attention to details. They are, as will be seen, accompanied by explanatory notes by Colonel Harman. The originals are in the handwriting of Jackson. He never employed an amanuensis. Faith in his little army. Mt. Jackson, March 28, 1862. dear Major: Your kind letter of the 26th instant is at hand, and I am much obliged to you for the information communicated, and also for your kind regards for me. I wish I could of had you on the 23d. I don't recollect of ever having heard such a roar of musketry. We must resolutely defend this Valley. Our little a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General R. E. Lee's war-horses. (search)
county, Virginia, (now West Virginia.) As a colt, under the name of Jeff. Davis, he took the first premiums at the fairs held in Lewisburg, in 1859 and 1860. He was purchased by Major Broun in the Spring of 1861 at the price of one hundred and seventy-five dollars in gold. The price paid by General Lee, (his own valuation, as Major Brown offered to present the horse to him,) was two hundred dollars. General Lee himself gave the name Traveller. When he returned to Richmond in the Spring of 1862, he brought back with him The Roan and Traveller. During the battles around Richmond, that summer, The Roan who had been gradually going blind, became unserviceable, and General Lee began to ride Richmond again, and continued to do so until the death of the horse soon after the battle of Malvern Hill. He now began to ride Traveller regularly. Traveller had no vices or tricks, but was nervous and spirited. At the second battle of Mannassas, while General Lee was at the front reconnoitrein
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston. (search)
in the field. Arms were expected from abroad, but had not come, and the manufacture was still undeveloped. By this council of war, a light is thrown on the military conditions, which, for succeeding months, were defensive only. In the penury of men and arms thereby revealed excessive forwardness was not obligatory. But the defensive was one which, whenever assaulted, as at Leesburg, displayed an undismayed and impenetrable front. At the close of the winter and opening of the spring of 1862, the time had come for Johnston to embrace in his vision and preparation, the four routes whereby McClellan might advance—the one chosen the previous July; another by Fredericksburg; the third and fourth by the lower Rappahannock, or the Peninsula between the York and James. The choice of the second route (joined to movements which, by the aid of the river, it was easy to conceal), would place McClellan at least two days nearer Richmond than was Johnston at Bull Run. Face to face with thes
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