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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Review of the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
open field nearby. Brigadier General Kershaw says he bivouacked two miles from Gettysburg, and was ordered to move at 4 o'clock on the morning of the 2d. General E. P. Alexander, commanding Longstreet's reserve artillery, arrived at 9 A. M., and was directed to accompany McLaws and Hood in the attack on the left. General Mc-Laws' partially disabled and silenced. Pickett was waiting the signal for him to move, and the supreme moment had now arrived when the order was to be given. When Alexander, in charge of the advance artillery, and who was to give the signal, informed Longstreet that his ammunition was nearly exhausted, the latter advised him to stop Pickett until his ammunition was replenished, to which Alexander replied there was no ammunition with which to replenish, and that if the assault was to be made, it should be made at once. General Longstreet says, That he then saw there was no help for it, and that Pickett must advance under his orders. The impression that a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General J. E. B. Stuart in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
can be no doubt that the march of Stuart's horsemen was seriously impeded by the captured wagon train which he took along. This is also the judgment of Gen. E. P. Alexander, who says, page 375, In saving a large number of wagons instead of burning them, and in delaying twelve hours to parole his prisoners instead of bringing ald appear Stuart would have marched to Gettysburg. Instead he marched to Hanover. Gen. Kilpatrick in his report says Stuart was making for Littletown. Gen. E. P. Alexander, in his important work, p. 375, says that had Gen. Stuart's column here followed the direct road via Littletown to Gettysburg, only about sixteen miles awa30th of June. But, as I have said, the question is of no importance in the argument on behalf of the accuracy of General Lee's statement in his report. Gen. E. P. Alexander is another witness in both these points. He says, p. 379, that on June 28th, General Lee still believed Hooker had not crossed the Potomac; that he issued
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Index. Alexander, Gen. E. P., 125, 222. Allen, Major W 16. Anderson, Gen. Joseph R., 6. Anderson, Gen. R. H., 173. Andrew, Gov. John A., 246. Andrews, Gen., on Battle of Gettysburg, 128. Andrews, Col. of Artillery, surrendered, 213. Armistead, Gen. L. A., 144; heroic death of, 150. Arms, &c., of the C. S. Army, 3. Army of Northern Virginia, surrender of, number paroled, 177. Arsenals of the Confederacy, 6, 12. Atkinson. John Wilder, commander of 10th and 19th Battalion, C. S. Artillery, 353. Beard, Dan W., 304, 355. Baldwin, Lt. Col. B. G.. 16. Barron, Commodore, 59. Basseler J. H., 266. Battine, Capt. Cecil 112. Bayne, Lt. Col. T. R., 16. Bethesda Church, Battle of 236 Bidgood, Adjutant Joseph V., 319. Black Eagle Company, Roster of, 52. Blockade running, 3. Bloody Angle, Battlefield of, 164. Blunt, killed, Private, 200. Breathed, Jim, 25. Breckinridge, Gen. J. C., 247. Brehm Henry G., 266. Broun,