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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
usly concentrating about Warrenton, and on the 5th of November, President Lincoln issued an order relieving Mc- Clellan from command and giving the army to General Burnside. The new commander took charge on the 9th, and on the 15th began his march on the chord, while Lee took the arc. Burnside's plan was to beat Lee to Fredericksburg, cross the river on pontoons and seize the heights, and move upon Richmond from that point. The advance of Burnside's army reached Falmouth on the 17th. Colonel Ball, with a regiment of Virginia cavalry, a regiment of infantry and two batteries of artillery, prevented a crossing and held the city of Fredericksburg. On the 22d, at 8 p. m., General Lee informed President Davis by telegram from Fredericksburg, that General Burnside's whole army was on the left bank of the river opposite Fredericksburg; that he was on the heights with four divisions of Longstreet's corps, Pendleton's reserve artillery, and two brigades of Stuart; that the Fifth divisio
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
e political arena, but has filled various important municipal positions at Graniteville. Beaufort W. Ball Beaufort W. Ball, of Laurens, S. C., was born in Laurens county, S. C., November 16, 183Beaufort W. Ball, of Laurens, S. C., was born in Laurens county, S. C., November 16, 1830, the son of John Ball, a planter, who died when his son was three years old. His ancestry, both on the maternal and paternal sides, is English, and his mother's uncles were soldiers in the revolutionary war. Colonel Ball was educated at Erskine college and at the South Carolina college, from which he graduated in 1851. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1854, and was practicing hisn joined Lee's forces at Amelia Court House, and was with them on the retreat to Appomattox. Colonel Ball had three horses killed under him, one at Riddle's shop, in a hard fight with Grant's rear guturing Major-General Gregg of the Federal cavalry, an acquaintance of Rosser's at West Point. Colonel Ball was a member of the State constitutional convention of 1865, has represented his county one t