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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 958 6 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 615 3 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 562 2 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 454 2 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 380 16 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 343 1 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) 340 20 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. 339 3 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 325 1 Browse Search
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 308 2 Browse Search
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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April, 1863. (search)
abolition song, John Brown, together with its parody, I'm bound to be a soldier in the army of the South, a Confederate marching song, and another parody, which is a Yankee marching song, We'll hang Jeff Davis on a sour-apple tree. Whenever I have dined with Confederate officers, they have nearly always proposed the Queen's health, and never failed to pass the highest eulogiums upon her majesty. 27th April, 1863 (Monday). -Colonel Bankhead has given me letters of introduction to General Bragg, to General Leonidas Polk, and several others. At 2 P. M. I called on Mrs. Bankhead to say goodby. She told me that her husband had two brothers in the Northern service-one in the army and the other in the navy. The two army brothers were both in the battles of Shiloh and Perryville, on opposite sides. The naval Bankhead commanded the Monitor when she sank. ... introduced me to a German militia general in a beer-house this afternoon. These two had a slight dispute, as the latte
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, May, 1863. (search)
soldier (Mr. Douglas) was on his way to rejoin Bragg's army. A Confederate soldier when wounded is for the Tennessean army, commanded by General Braxton Bragg. 26th may, 1863 (Tuesday). When . They belonged to Breckenridge's division of Bragg's army, and all seemed in the highest spirits, again at 7.30, by train, for Shelbyville, General Bragg's headquarters. This train was crammed toore. Rosecrans had wished to hand him over to Bragg by flag of truce; but as the latter declined tke up my quarters with him during my stay with Bragg's army, which offer I accepted with gratitude.s a Union hole. After my interview with General Bragg, I took a ride along the Murfreesborough rallantry in the field. Both Generals Polk and Bragg spoke to me of him as a most excellent and usem on Tuesday. He spoke to me in high terms of Bragg, Polk, Hardee, and Cleburne; but he described to him with the most profound attention. Generals Bragg, Polk, Hardee, Withers, Cleburne, and endl[7 more...]
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, June, 1863. (search)
specimen of the immense number of cavalry with Bragg's army. I got back to Shelbyville at 4.30 P. e, &c. Immediately afterwards he confirmed General Bragg, who then shook hands with General Polk, tffice before the enemy. By standing bail, General Bragg gave a most positive proof that he exonerarenfell: Colonel Grenfell was only obeying General Bragg's orders in depriving the soldier of his hs been Assistant Inspector-general of Gen-eral Bragg, was arrested a few days since by the civil au then there is no doubt that the course of General Bragg will be to dismiss him from his Staff; buto explain to them who I was, and show them General Bragg's pass, which astonished them not a littleion; but then he had not the veteran troops of Bragg or Lee. He told me that he (Beauregard) had ors differ from the blue battle-flags I saw with Bragg's army. They are generally red, with a blue Ser any circumstances. Unlike the cavalry with Bragg's army, they wear swords, but seem to have lit[4 more...]
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, Postscript. (search)
eir enemies. Although these Northerners belonged to quite the upper classes, and were not likely to be led blindly by the absurd nonsense of the sensation press at New York, yet their ignorance of the state of the case in the South was very great. The recent successes had given them the impression that the last card of the South was played. Charleston was about to fall; Mobile, Savannah, and Wilmington would quickly follow; Lee's army they thought, was a disheartened, disorganized mob; Bragg's army in a still worse condition, fleeing before Rosecrans, who would carry every thing before him. They felt confident that the fall of the Mississippian fortresses would prevent communication from one bank to the other, and that the great river would soon be open to peaceful commerce. All these illusions have since been dispelled, but they probably still cling to the idea of the great exhaustion of the Southern personnel. But this difficulty of recruiting the Southern armies is n