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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.9 (search)
d promised an officer of his command to take the earliest opportunity to send them to his family. Kindness to his mother. General Anderson said: Major, you will do me a great favor if you will allow me to do this, as General Lytle has placed me under peculiar obligations by having sent my old mother through the Federal lines in his own ambulance. I then gave him all the effects except a small wicker flask, which I retained as a souvenir. General Anderson sent these articles through Bragg's headquarters to Rosecrans' command under a flag of truce. During the action, after the killing of General Lytle, I received a wound which gave me some concern, and I asked General Anderson's permission to ride back to the hospital, and that I would report at dawn in the morning. I rode through the woods without guides, except the stars and the sounds, and it was after midnight when I reached the field hospital of our division on the Chickamauga river, at Alexander's bridge. After som
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
ad not landed. The Confederate forces under Bragg, outside of Fort Fisher, consisted of a small the rebellion. Soon after this battle, General Bragg, the department commander, ordered Hoke's ry with the white forces stormed Fort Fisher. Bragg moved Hoke's two brigades forward to attack. e order to charge, a courier came to Hoke from Bragg, ordering him to withdraw to Sugar Loaf. My r that all had not been done to save it. General Bragg has been severely censured in the officialnce the war has told me that he concurred with Bragg. The impartial reader of history must decide.eaching Goldsboro we moved to Kinston, and General Bragg was reinforced by troops from Hood's army,t in this assault. The next day, March 9th, Bragg attempted a flank movement around the enemy's man's great army was coming via Fayetteville. Bragg, with all the odds and ends, and Hoke's and Higman, and Hagood were placed in the line under Bragg, with the brigade of North Carolina Junior Res[4 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Meade's temper. (search)
remarkable illustrations during General Lee's mystifying flank movement from the Rapidan toward Washington in the fall of 1863. General Meade, finding the Confederates on his right flank, and threatening his communications with Washington, fell back rapidly from the line of the Rapidan, first to the Rappahannock, and ultimately behind Bull Run, concentrating his army in the vicinity of Centreville. It was then well known that General Lee had recently detached Longstreet to the assistance of Bragg at Chattanooga, and that consequently he was still probably inferior in strength to the Union army, although that also had been reduced by two corps, sent to reinforce Rosecrans, after the Battle of Chickamauga. The Washington authorities, therefore, correctly viewed General Lee's advance as a big bluff, which ought to be called, and constantly urged General Meade to make a stand and fight. Lincoln's note. In a short note to General Halleck, the Federal general-in-chief, dated October