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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 3 3 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
t.-Cols. O. P. Anthony, J. Dickey and J. P. Crawford; Majs. H. M. Dunwoody, James Dickey and J. P. Crawford; Capts. (A) S. Alexander (killed) and W. R. McLean, (B) W. H. Chastain, (C) J. W. Brooks, (F) T. M. Jones, (H) William F. Davis, (I) S. A. McLendon, (K) Richard Hobbs. The Fifty-second regiment Georgia volunteers had at first the following field officers: Col. Wier Boyd, Lieut.-Col. C. D. Phillips, Adjt. W. A. James. The captains were: (A) S. H. Vandiviere, (B) J. J. Moore, (C) R. R. Asbury, (D) John A. Parker, (E) D. W. Killian, (F) S. M. Beck, (G) Lewis B. Beard, (H) W. W. Brown, (I) John R. Russell, (K) T. F. Cooper. The Fifty-second was assigned to Kirby Smith's department of East Tennessee in the spring of 1862, served in Stevenson's division, which recaptured Cumberland Gap, and then marched into Kentucky. In the fall it was sent to Mississippi, was greatly distinguished at Chickasaw Bayou, and in the spring and summer of 1863 participated in the battles of the camp
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16: (search)
en or more; and after a terrific hand-to-hand struggle the Confederates were compelled to abandon most of the captured battery. The fight here, one of the most famous incidents of the Atlanta campaign, was maintained on the Confederate side by Stovall's brigade, commanded by Col. Abda Johnson, consisting of the Forty-second Georgia, Lieut.-Col. L. P. Thomas; First State troops, Col. John Brown (mortally wounded), Lieut.-Col. Albert Howell; Forty-third, Colonel Kellogg; Fifty-second, Capt. R. R. Asbury; Forty-first, Maj. M. S. Nall; Fortieth, Captain Dobbs. The Forty-second regiment had the honor of capturing a number of guns supposed to be part of the DeGress battery; the First regiment captured the line in its front with two guns, and the remaining regiments took the Federal lines up to a point near Bald hill. In the same fight Manigault's South Carolina brigade bravely participated, capturing the guns of DeGress' battery on the north side of the Georgia railroad. The location