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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 60 (search)
Doc. 58.-battle of Chancellorsville, Va. Brigadier-General Howe's report. see volume VI. rebellion record. headquarters Second division, Sixth corps, May 10, 1863. Lieutenant-Colonel McMahon, Assistant Adjutant-General Sixth Corps: sir: I have the honor to report the operations of the Second division, Sixth corps, from the time it crossed the Rappahannock on the evening of the second of May, until it recrossed on the night of the fourth and fifth of May. The division crossed the river early in the evening of the second, and about twelve that night I received notice to march in rear of General Newton's division to Fredericksburgh. About three A. M., the rear of General Newton's division marched, and the head of my column reached Hazel Run some time after daylight, uninterrupted except by the troops in front. About eleven o'clock A. M. on the third, I received notice from the commanding officer of the Sixth corps that he was about to attack the enemy's position bet
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Stonewall Jackson's last battle. (search)
urg and Potomac railroad. And here, against our hopes, notwithstanding the skill and care of wise and watchful surgeons, attended day and night by wife and friends, amid the prayers and tears of all the Southern land, thinking not of himself, but of the cause he loved, and for the troops who had followed him so well and given him so great a name, our chief sank, day by day, with symptoms of pneumonia and some pains of pleurisy, until, at 3:15 P. M. on the quiet of the Sabbath afternoon, May 10th, 1863, he raised himself from his bed, saying, No, no, let us pass over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees ; and, falling again to his pillow, he passed away, over the river, where, in a land where warfare is not known or feared, he rests forever under the trees. His shattered arm was buried in the family burying-ground of the Ellwood place--Major J. H. Lacy's — near his last battle-field. His body rests, as he himself asked, in Lexington, in the Valley of Virginia. The s
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
wo pieces of National cannon. One of the litter-bearers was shot dead. The wounded general was borne on to the Wilderness tavern (where the Confederates had established an hospital), attended by Dr. Hunter McGuire. There his arm was amputated. His wife was sent for, and two or three days afterward he was removed to Gainey's Station, nearer Richmond. There, at the Chandler House, he remained until his death, which was caused chiefly by pneumonia. That event occurred on Sunday, the 10th of May, 1863. A few moments before he died. says an eye witness (Captain J. Hotchkiss), he cried out in his delirium, Order A. P. Hill to prepare for action-pass the infantry to the front rapidly — tell Major Hawks---- then stopped, leaving the sentence unfinished. Presently a smile of ineffable sweetness spread itself over his pale face, and he said quietly, and with an expression as if of relief, Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees. Jackson had ordered a forw
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, chapter 10 (search)
urg. notes,--Recruited in the Third Congressional District. It left Jackson, September 1, 1862, and after a short stay at Alexandria, Va., joined McClellan's Army at Sharpsburg, Md., a few days after the battle of Antietam. It was placed in the Ninth Corps, with which it marched to Fredericksburg, where it was under fire, with a slight loss in wounded men. It was then in the First Brigade (Poe's), First Division (Burns's). The regiment accompanied the Ninth Corps to Kentucky, and on May 10th, 1863, had a brisk fight at Horse Shoe Bend, Ky., on the Cumberland River, where it was attacked by General John Morgan, who was then making his famous raid. The regiment lost 5 killed, 19 wounded, and 5 missing. Its gallant defence, after being summoned to surrender by a vastly superior force, made this fight a notable one among the minor actions of the war. After participating in the Vicksburg campaign, and then in the fighting in East Tennessee, during which Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Smith,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 193 (search)
nt, A. Von Steinwehr, Brigadier-General Commanding Second Division. General Carroll's report. headquarters First brigade, Third division, army corps, May 10, 1863. Major John M. Norvell, Assistant Adjutant-General Third Division, Second Army Corps: sir: I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken bVolunteers. To H. C. Ranney, A. A.G., Tyler's Brigade, Third Division, Fifth Corps. Major Dawson's report. camp of the Sixty-First Pennsylvania Vols., May 10, 1863. sir: I have the honor to report in relation to the part taken by the Sixty-first regiment, Pennsylvania volunteers, in the late battle, that, agreeably to ade, First Division, Third Corps. Letter from General Schimmelfennig. headquarters First brigade, Third division, Eleventh corps, army of the Potomac, May 10, 1863. To Major-General Schurz: General: The officers and men of this brigade indignantly seek my tent with newspapers in their hands, and ask whether this is the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 198 (search)
energy displayed throughout the march by Lieutenant-Colonel Davis, and the officers and men of Ira Harris's Light cavalry, not one of whom but was willing to lose his liberty or his life, if he could but aid in the great battle now going on, and win for himself the approbation of his chiefs. Respectfully submitted, J. Kilpatrick, Colonel Comd'g First Brigade, Third Division Cavalry. Lieutenant-Colonel Davis's report. headquarters Twelfth Illinois cavalry, Gloucester point, Va., May 10, 1863. To Brigadier-General Rufus King, Commanding at Yorktown: General: In compliance with your request I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the Twelfth Illinois cavalry since leaving the main body of the cavalry corps, on the South-Anna, on the morning of Sunday last. My orders were to penetrate to the Fredericks-burgh Railroad, and, if possible, to the Virginia Central, and destroy communications. Should we cross the Virginia Central, I was to make for
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 31 (search)
spectfully, Your most obedient servant, R. H. Anderson, Major-General, commanding Division. Report of Major-General McLaws. Headquarters division, May 10, 1863. Major Taylor, A. A. G.: Major: On the first of May, instant, at twelve and a half o'clock at night, the brigades of Generals Kershaw, Semmes, and Wofford wy respectfully, Your obedient servant. J. J. Archer, Brigadier-General. Report of Brigadier-General Lane. headquarters Lane's brigade, camp Gregg, May 10, 1863. Captain R. H. Finney, A. A. G.: On the morning of the 1st of May my brigade moved from its position in the second line, near Hamilton's Crossing, along they, Your obedient servant, William Mahone, Brigadier-General. Report of Brigadier-General Wilcox. headquarters Wilcox's brigade, near Salem Church, May 10, 1863. Major Thomas S. Mills, A. A. G. of Division: Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of the part borne by my brigade in the recent engagements
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 3: in Memoriam (search)
in prison the winter before, was residing in Georgia. Lanier was later one of the first Southerers to express the sentiment of nationality. The stars of Night contain the glittering Day And rain his glory down with sweeter grace Upon the dark World's grand, enchanted face— All loth to turn away. Stonewall Jackson. From this humble grave on the green Virginia hillside, Jackson rises before the American people as one of the mightiest figures of a mighty conflict. When he died on May 10, 1863, in the little town of Guiney's Station, not far from the battlefield of Chancellorsville, his remains were taken to Richmond. In the Hall of Representatives the body lay in state while the sorrowing throngs passed by the open coffin in silence. In the Military Institute at Lexington, which Jackson had left two years before as an obscure professor, the remains of the illustrious leader were under the charge of the cadets, until his burial in the quiet cemetery above the town. The pure
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 41: (search)
to surprise our army system of breastworks prisoners. In the Spring of 1863 the enemy occupied his former position before Fredericksburg. He was in great strength, and, so far as we could learn, was preparing on the grandest scale for another advance against Richmond, which in political if not military circles was regarded as the objective point of the war. The consolidated report of the Army of the Potomac, then under the command of Major General Hooker, states the force present on May 10, 1863, to be 136,704. General Lee's forces had been reorganized into three army corps, designated the First, Second, and Third Corps. In the order named, they were commanded by Lieutenant Generals Longstreet, Ewell, and A. P. Hill. The zeal of our people in the defense of their country's cause had brought nearly all of the population fit for military service to the various armies then in the field, so that but little increase could be hoped for by the Army of Northern Virginia. Under th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Thomas Jonathan 1824-1863 (search)
gagement was at Falling Waters. Jackson commanded a brigade in the battle of Bull Run, where he received the name of Stonewall. A furious charge, made by a New York Thomas J. ( Stonewall ) Jackson. regiment, under Col. Henry W. Slocum, had shattered the Confederate line, and the troops had fled to a plateau whereon General Jackson had just arrived with reserves. They are beating us back! exclaimed Gen. Bernard E. Bee. Well, sir, replied Jackson, we will give them the bayonet. Bee was encouraged. Form! Form! he cried to the fugitives; there stands Jackson like a stone wall. The effect of these words was wonderful. The flight was checked, order was brought out of confusion, and ever afterwards the calm general was called Stonewall. He attained the rank of lieutenant-general, and was accidentally shot by his own men, while reconnoitring during the battle of Chancellorsville; and, from his wounds, and a sudden attack of pneumonia, he died in Guinea Station, Va., May 10, 1863.
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