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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 3,199 167 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 564 2 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 550 26 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 448 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 436 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 390 0 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 325 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 291 1 Browse Search
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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 1: (search)
while conversing with the messengers of General Beauregard, having remarked that he would soon be ser of the fort, or words to that effect, General Beauregard was induced to address him a second lettks in Fort Sumter were in a blaze, wrote General Beauregard to the secretary of war at Montgomery, aecisive contest. On the 20th of June, General Beauregard, commanding the army of the Potomac, hea 6-pounder guns. On the 11th of July, General Beauregard wrote to the President that the enemy waith this disposition of his little army, General Beauregard awaited the development of the enemy's m000 effectives, with fifty-five guns. General Beauregard had planned an attack on Mc-Dowell's lef Bull run, but behind it, and in rear of General Beauregard's extreme left. Both generals, whose he in the skill and indomitable courage of General Beauregard, the high soldierly qualities of Generalper's battery, and by Early and Stuart. General Beauregard ordered the advance of his center and ri[18 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
Port Royal harbor was defended by two forts, Walker and Beauregard, the former on Hilton Head island, and the latter on Bay of metal. In planning the defense of Port Royal, General Beauregard designed that batteries of 10-inch columbiads and ri but of this armament Walker could use but thirteen, and Beauregard but seven against a fleet attacking from the front. Theoo light to be of any use. The twenty guns of Walker and Beauregard that were used in the battle with the fleet, were whollyrteen were 42, 32 and 24 pounders. Of the seven guns in Beauregard, one was a 10-inch columbiad, and one a 24-pounder, rifn batteries poured forth a ceaseless bombardment of both Beauregard and Walker, but paying most attention to the latter. sitions from the forts (never less than 2,500 yards from Beauregard and 2,000 from Walker), made the contest hopeless for th-General Donelson, had been sent to Corinth to reinforce Beauregard in the west, and Dunovant's Twelfth, Edwards' Thirteenth
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
of Goldsboro. On the 29th of August, General Beauregard, who had been in command of the army in the command at Charleston in September, General Beauregard made a careful inspection of the departmton and Savannah and their dependencies, General Beauregard received the following reply from Pemberent points. Upon this communication, General Beauregard endorsed: Approved as the minimum force ina organizations. Upon taking command, General Beauregard assigned Gen. S. R. Gist to command the f Foster, General Whiting telegraphed to General Beauregard urgently to send troops to his assistanconly by its forts and a small garrison. General Beauregard promptly sent a division of two brigadesear off Cape Fear. General Whiting wrote General Beauregard that a storm at sea, which had lost the the division under Gist was returned to General Beauregard, except Harrison's Georgia regiment, NelReturning these troops, Whiting wrote to General Beauregard: I send you this note by your able Briga[6 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
's regiments at Corinth the Kentucky campaign battle of Murfreesboro. In April, 1862, following the battle of Shiloh, in response to the urgent call of General Beauregard, at Corinth, Miss., for troops to reinforce the army he then commanded, the Tenth South Carolina, Col. A. M. Manigault, and the Nineteenth, Col. A. J. Lythgbrigade was commanded by Colonel Manigault, and known as Manigault's brigade. Lieut.-Col. James F. Pressley took command of the Tenth. Covering the front of Beauregard's army, on May 2d, Manigault's brigade was brought into prominent notice by the firm stand it made against the enemy's advance. The supports on its right and lthier camp, and early in August it was concentrated near Chattanooga for an aggressive campaign in Tennessee and Kentucky. General Bragg was now in command, General Beauregard having been called to Charleston. Bragg crossed the Tennessee, moved over the Cumberland mountains and entered Kentucky. When the army moved against Mun
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
the year 1863, pointed to an attack upon either Charleston or Savannah. General Beauregard, commanding the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, with te independent companies of cavalry. Besides the South Carolina commands, General Beauregard had under his command in the State the North Carolina brigades of Generalar Savannah and on the coast of Georgia. It will be recalled that when General Beauregard assumed command in South Carolina, October 1, 1862, General Pemberton, atvalry and heavy artillery, and fifteen light batteries, an estimate which General Beauregard approved as the minimum required. It was with great concern, therefore, nd gunboats ran up and down the river with impunity. It was arranged by Generals Beauregard and Ripley to surprise and capture one or more of them. These arrangeme Moultrie, and the batteries defending the outer harbor. On April 7th, General Beauregard commanded a force of 22,648 effectives, of all arms, for the defense of C
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
ckson. On May 2d the secretary of war telegraphed General Beauregard as follows: Advices show the enemy abandoning their 8,000 or 10,000 men to General Pemberton's relief. General Beauregard replied that he had returned to North Carolina Cooketisfied the secretary, and on the 4th he telegraphed General Beauregard to hurry the 5,000 troops on as soon as possible. battalion being attached to Walker's brigade. By General Beauregard's order of May 4, 1863, the command of Carolinians auson's battery, Capt. T. B. Ferguson. On the 5th, General Beauregard telegraphed General Pemberton that he would send twoinst the attack of the Federal division. Writing to General Beauregard from Canton, on the 25th of May, General Gist said: olina, and on May 15th the secretary of war directed General Beauregard to send Evans' brigade with all dispatch to General ernor of South Carolina, the mayor of Charleston and General Beauregard all remonstrated with the President against strippin
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 13: (search)
jectives. The department commanded by General Beauregard had been stripped almost bare to reinfor Against this depletion of his infantry, General Beauregard, the governor of the State, the mayor of For the immediate defense of the city, General Beauregard had in position, on the islands and in these representations were made by him to General Beauregard on the 24th of May, and the work on the the general commanding the district, or General Beauregard, realize the true character of the attacoody siege of Wagner. But the truth is, General Beauregard did not believe an attack would be made Ripley again, with the tardy consent of General Beauregard, sent two companies of the First South Cionary measure the works were ordered by General Beauregard, and more appreciated as being necessaryd Stevenson subsequently. On the 9th, General Beauregard telegraphed Mr. Davis of the presence inong's brigade on Folly island, persuaded General Beauregard to look for the attack on the south end [1 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
in Jackson's corps, army of Northern Virginia, and was now serving under General Beauregard, was ordered to take command on Morris island on the 13th of July, and reassault, was read by the Confederate signal corps and duly transmitted to General Beauregard. Maj. Lewis Butler, Sixty-seventh Ohio, in Colonel Putnam's column, wailled. He bore testimony to the care of the Federal wounded, saying that General Beauregard's order directed that special care be taken of the wounded captured at Was island, in his demand for Sumter and the evacuation of the island, gave General Beauregard four hours to answer, failing in that time to receive his reply he threatnotice whatever. This act of uncivilized warfare was properly rebuked by General Beauregard, and due time was allowed for the removal of women and children, and the hin effective range of its guns. Why, then, was it held? The answer is, General Beauregard estimated it, if no longer an outpost of Fort Sumter, as indeed an outpos
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
nsidered one of the most daring exploits of the war, and inspired Beauregard to ask for the purchase of swift torpedo boats from English buildsting shell, waving his hat in triumph. Early in February, General Beauregard was advised of Gillmore's expedition in Florida, threatening ampaigns in Virginia and Georgia, heavy drafts were made upon General Beauregard's forces. On March 17th, the First and Second cavalry were oTucker, Wallace, Boykin, Trenholm and Magee were ordered from General Beauregard's department to Virginia. On April 14th, General Evans' brig, and Company A, siege train, were ordered back from Florida. General Beauregard, on the 20th, was assigned to command of the department of Sohs since Major-General Gillmore, United States army, notified General Beauregard, then commanding at Charleston, that the city would be bombar be removed and thus women and children be spared from harm. General Beauregard, in a communication to General Gillmore, dated August 22, 186
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 18: (search)
, with a brigade including the Hampton legion cavalry and Seventh South Carolina cavalry. Gary opened the battle at Nance's shop and contributed materially to the victory. Meanwhile other gallant South Carolinians had been on duty under General Beauregard, guarding the approaches to the Confederate capital, and holding back the advance of the Federal army under Gen. Ben Butler. These South Carolina commands were Brig.-Gen. Johnson Hagood's brigade; Evans' brigade, under Col. Stephen Elliottes; Lieutenant-Colonel Pressley, and Captain Stoney, of the staff, were seriously, and Lieutenant-Colonel Blake, Twenty-seventh, and Captain Sellers, Twenty-fifth, slightly wounded. At the battle of Drewry's Bluff, May 16th, according to General Beauregard's report, Hagood and Bushrod Johnson were thrown forward and found a heavy force of the enemy occupying a salient of the outer line of works. . . . Hagood with great vigor and dash drove the enemy from the outer lines in his front, capturin
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