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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Fire, sword, and the halter. (search)
ccorded them in peace and war. What I write is history-every fact detailed is true, indisputably true, and sustained by evidence, both Confederate and Federal, that no man living can gainsay, and a denial is boldly challenged, with the assurance that I hold the proofs ready for production whenever, wherever, and however required. Perhaps no one now living was in a better. position to know, at the time of their occurrence, all the details of these transactions than myself. On the 21st of July, 1863, after General Lee had withdrawn his army from the battle-field of Gettysburg to Virginia, he, by special order, assigned me to the command of The Valley District, in Virginia. The district embraced all that part of Virginia west of the Blue Ridge Mountain, and so far to the southwest as the James river, in Bottetourt county. It was created as a separate territorial command in 1861-2, for General Jackson, and continued as such after his death up to the close of the war. I held the co
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 41: fall of Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. (search)
nd of colors as trophies of their prowess, but now the time had come when man could do no more. They were physically unable to make a sortie, and all hope of outside relief from Johnston was gone. General Pemberton therefore resolved to seek terms of capitulation, and the city surrendered to General Grant on July 4th. On May 9, 1864, General Pemberton resigned his commission and expressed his willingness to serve in the ranks; the President conferred on him a lieutenant-colonelcy of artillery. General Grant immediately telegraphed to Washington. The enemy surrendered this morning. General Sherman will face immediately on Johnston and drive him from the State. On July 17th, General Johnston abandoned Jackson and retreated into the interior. General Johnston is retreating on the east side of Pearl River, and I can only learn from him of such vague purposes as were unfolded when he held his army before Richmond.-Letter of President Davis to General Lee, July 21, 1863.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 99 (search)
Doc. 97.-Generals Meade and Lee. General Lee's despatch. headquarters Army Northern Va., July 21, 1863. General S. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector-General, C. S. A., Richmond, Va.: General: I have seen in Northern papers what purported to be an official despatch from Gen. Meade, stating that he had captured a brigade of infantry, two pieces of artillery, two caissons, and a large number of small arms, as this army retired to the south bank of the Potomac, on the thirteenth and fourteenth instants. This despatch has been copied into the Richmond papers, and as its official character may cause it to be believed, I desire to state that it is incorrect. The enemy did, not capture any organized body of men on that occasion, but only stragglers and such as were left asleep on the road, exhausted by the fatigue and exposure of one of the most inclement nights I have ever known at this season of the year. It rained without cessation, rendering the road by which our troops ma
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 112 (search)
to the battalion on the march. Major Bradley has relieved me almost entirely in this respect, and has otherwise shared with me fully the responsibilities of the command. Your obedient servant, William R. Marshall, Lieut.-Col. Commanding Seventh Regiment Minnesota Vols. Report of Colonel Samuel McPhail. headquarters First regiment Minnesota M. R., in camp on the Plains, August 5, 1863. Brigadier-General H. H. Sibley, Commanding Expeditionary Forces: General: On the twenty-first of July, 1863, pursuant to your order to recover the body of Dr. J. S. Weiser, Surgeon of the First Minnesota Mounted Rangers, murdered by the Indians, I proceeded to the hills in the rear of Camp Sibley, with companies A and D of my regiment. When some five hundred yards from camp, we were fired upon by the Indians, occupying the summit of the hill. I immediately ordered company A, under Captain E. M. Wilson, to advance and fire upon the enemy, which was done in good style. The ground being
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 119 (search)
Doc. 117.-Colonel Lakeman's report Of the operations of the Third Maine regiment. headquarters Third Maine regiment, in the field, Upperville, Va., July 21, 1863. Adjutant-General State of Maine: sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of the movements of my regiment, with its respective brigade and division of the Third army corps, since leaving Potomac Creek, Va.: On Thursday, June eleventh, my regiment was relieved from picket-duty on the Rappahannock River at twelve M., and at two P. M. took their position in line, and with the brigade marched to Rappahannock Station, from thence to Bealton Station, Catlet's Station, Manassas, Bull Run, Centreville, Gum Springs, and from thence to Monocacy, Md., where we arrived on the night of the twenty-fifth, performing a forced and very tedious march of twenty-seven miles that day, the rain having fallen heavily during the entire afternoon and evening. At Gum Springs, Va., four of my officers were captured by gue
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 144 (search)
Doc. 142.-cruise of the Florida. Official rebel account. C. S. Steamer Florida, St. George's, Bermuda, July 21, 1863. To the Editors of The Daily Journal. Wilmington, N. C. you and your readers are doubtless well aware that this steamer ran out of the harbor of Mobile on the sixteenth day of January, 1863, so I will say nothing on that head, but endeavor to give you a full account of what we have done since. Our first work was the hermaphrodite brig Estelle, of Boston, on her first voyage and homeward bound from Santa Cruz, with a full cargo of sugar and honey for the good people of Boston. But we consigned her to Old Father Neptune. She was valued at one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. In Havana we received our coal, stores, etc. At daylight on the morning of the twenty-second of January we catted our anchor and ran along the, coast eastward, and at eleven A. M. captured and burned the hermaphrodite brig Windward, from Matanzas, bound to Portland, and j
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The battle of New Market, Va., May 15th, 1864. (search)
The battle of New Market, Va., May 15th, 1864. by John D. Imboden, Brigadier-General, C. S. A. Cadet of the Virginia Military Institute in marching outfit. On the retreat of General Lee from Gettysburg, in July, 1863, he was not pursued by the Federal army into the Shenandoah Valley. After resting there and recuperating his shattered forces for a short time he crossed to the east side of the Blue Ridge. On the 21st of July, 1863, he assigned me to the command of the Valley District, comprising the country west of the Blue Ridge and as far south as James River in Botetourt County. This district had been constituted a separate territorial command in 1861-62 for Stonewall Jackson, and its boundaries were not changed during the war. When I took the command it was so little menaced that I had only my own brigade of cavalry and mounted infantry and General Gabriel C. Wharton's infantry brigade, McClanahan's six-gun battery, McNeill's Rangers, and two small battalions of cava
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 59: (search)
do Mar. 2, 1863 R. R. Cuyler. Schooner Advocate 600 00 240 85 359 15 do July 21, 1863 New London, R. R. Cuyler, Massachusetts. Steamer Anna 18,423 82 3,139 28 15,282 44 do July 21, 1863 New London, R. R. Cuyler, Massachusetts. Schooner Annie Dees 16,637 09 2,027 89 14,609 20 do Dec. 8, 1863 Seneca, G. W. Blunt, Cananda 6, 1865 Santiago de Cuba Schooner Delight 600 00 251 65 348 25 New York July 21, 1863 New London, R. R Cuyler, Massachusetts. Brig Delta 11,628 00 6,931 18 4,d, General Putnam, J. N. Seymour. Sloop Express. 600 00 247 65 352 35 do July 21, 1863 New London, R. R. Cuyler, Massachuselts. Sloop Emeline. 5,380 33 970 13 105 56 335 15 do   Roebuck. Sloop Osceola 600 00 240 95 359 05 New York July 21, 1863 New London, Massachusetts, R. R. Cuyler. Schooner Olive 1,750 00 274 20 1,475 80 do July 21, 1863 New London, Massachusetts, R. R. Cuyler. Steamer Ouachita 9,800 00 2,167 84 7,632 16 do Nov. 25, 1863 Memphis. Schooner Odd Fellow 7,
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)
Tavern, Va., May 11, 1864 1 Five Forks, Va., April 1, 1865 6 Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1863 6 Meadow Bridge, Va., May 13, 1864 2 Deep Creek, Va., April 3, 1865 1 Williamsport, Md., July 6, 1863 2 Cold Harbor, Va., June 2, 1864 3 Namozine Church, Va., April 3, ‘65 3 Boonsboro, Md,, July 8, 1863 5 White Oak Swamp, Va., June 13, ‘64 3 Appomattox Station, Va., Apl. 8, ‘65 3 Funkstown, Md., July 10, 1863 1 Nottoway C. H., Va., June 23, 1864 7 Picket Line, Va. 2 Chester Gap, Va., July 21, 1863 2 Ream's Station, Va., June 29, 1864 3 Place unknown 2 notes.--The above enrollment does not include the three new companies (K, L, and M) which joined in April, 1865, at the close of the war. The regiment was organized at Rochester in November, 1861, having been recruited in that city and in its vicinity. On arriving at Washington it was assigned to Banks's Corps, and was under fire, for the first time, at Winchester, May 25, 1862, where five dismounted companies were engaged. D<
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 45 (search)
R. T. Graham and subordinate commanders, marked B; report of Lieutenant F. Markoe, commanding Signal corps, marked C; list of officers and men captured by our forces on Morris Island, marked D ; papers relative to exchange of wounded prisoners, marked E; and list of negro prisoners, marked F. G. T. Beauregard, General, commanding. Report of Brigadier-General William B. Taliaferro of the bombardment and assault of Fort Wagner, July Eighteenth, 1863. Charleston, South Carolina, July 21, 1863. Captain Nance, A. A. G.: Captain: I have the honor to report, for the information of the Brigadier-General commanding the District of South Carolina, the operations of the troops of my command, on Morris Island, during the week commencing Monday, the thirteenth instant, and particularly the occurrences of Saturday, the eighteenth instant, which terminated in a most decisive and overwhelming repulse of the enemy: On Monday, the thirteenth instant, I made such an inspection of parts
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