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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 2 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battery Gregg-reply to General N. H. Harris. (search)
of foe, friend and stranger in giving the credit of that defence to Harris's brigade. If we examine the February number of the Southern Historical Society Papers, referred to by General Harris as containing A soldier's Story of the war, by Napier Bartlett, giving an account of the defence of Battery Gregg, we will find, pages 84-5, as follows: The part taken in defence of Gregg by the Mississippians is thus described in the Vicksburg Times: Fort Gregg was held by the Twelfth and Sixteenth Mississippi regiment, Harris's brigade, numbering about one hundred and fifty muskets, &c., &c, no reference being made to any other infantry as forming a part of the garrison. Napier Bartlett, says General Harris in a letter designed to be an official report, says, General Wilcox ordered me to take position in front of the enemy, and detain them as long as possible, and then goes into details such as have already been given; but with this very important addition, preparations were now made by t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), An anecdote of Stonewall Jackson. (search)
when he found that he had done injustice to another.] The following little incident in the life of General Stonewall Jackson shows the hero as verily as any of the grand military achievements which later in life rendered him so famous. As I stood before his statue in the Capitol Grounds at Richmond the other day I ran over the four years of my cadet life at the Virginia Military Institute and remembered with pride that he was my professor. One day when my class was reciting to him on Bartlett's Mechanics, Cadet L----was sent to the blackboard, had his subject assigned him, which involved a great deal of analytical work. The work done, the cadet faced about, assumed the position of a soldier, saluted the Major (his rank at that time), and indicated his readiness to recite. During the demonstration Major Jackson detected, as he thought, some error in the work — may be the sign was plus when it should have been minus, or the reverse. The cadet ventured to insist that his work wa