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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., Chapter 26: battle of Fishing Creek. (search)
e's and Saunders's independent cavalry companies a-a vanguard, Zollicoffer's brigade ; thus Walthall's Fifteenth Mississippi Regiment in advance, followed by Rutledge's battery, and Cummings's Nineteenth, Battle's Twentieth, and Stanton's Twenty-fifth Tennessee Regiments. Then came Carroll's brigade, as follows: Newman's Seventeenth, Murray's Twenty-eighth, and Powell's Twenty-ninth Tennessee Regiments, with two guns under Captain McClung, and Wood's Sixteenth Alabama Regiment in reserve. Branner's and McClelland's battalions of cavalry were placed on the flanks and rear. A cold rain continued to fall upon the thinly-clad Confederates, chilling them to the marrow, but they toiled painfully along. The road was rough, and very heavy with the long rain following severe freezes. Unencumbered with artillery, the infantry would have made poor progress in the darkness, rain, and mud, but, as the guns from the first began to mire down, the foot-soldiers were called on to help them al
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7: military operations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Eastern Kentucky--capture of Fort Henry. (search)
oops were composed of the Tennessee regiments of Colonels Newman, Murray, and Powell, with two guns commanded by Captain McClung, marching in the order named. Colonel Wood's Sixteenth Alabama was in reserve. Cavalry battalions in the rear; Colonel Branner on the right, and Colonel McClellan on the left. Independent companies in front of the advance regiments. Following the whole were ambulances, and ammunition and other wagons. Following these as a reserve were the Sixteenth Alabama, Colonel Wood, and Branner's and McClellan's battalions of cavalry. The whole force was between four and five thousand strong. At early dawn, Zollicoffer's advance met the Union pickets. General Thomas had been advised of this movement. He had made! dispositions accordingly, and the pickets, encountered by the Confederate vanguard, were of Woolford's cavalry. These fell slowly back, and Woolford reported to Colonel M. D. Manson, of the Tenth Indiana, who was in command of the Second Brigade, s
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 15 (search)
In front moved the brigade of Gen. Zollicoffer, consisting of the Fifteenth Mississippi regiment, commanded by Lieut.-Col. Walthall, in advance, and the Tennessee regiments of Colonels Cummings, Battle, and Stanton, with four guns commanded by Capt. Rutledge. Then moved the brigade of Gen. Carroll, consisting of the Tennessee regiments of Colonels Newman, Murray, and Powell, with two guns commanded by Capt. McClung. Then moved the Sixteenth Alabama regiment, Col. Wood, as a reserve, and Branner's and McClellan's battalions of cavalry. In advance of the column moved the independent cavalry companies of Capts. Bledsoe and Saunders. In the gray dawn, about six o'clock, two miles from their camp, the pickets of the enemy fired upon our advanced cavalry and wounded one in the arm. Then two companies of the Mississippi regiment were deployed on the right and left of the road as skirmishers, and advanced parallel with the road. On the left, in an open field, was a house near the
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 27 (search)
rdnance, Major Cabell, Chief Quartermaster, Captain W. H. Fowle, Chief of Subsistence Department, Surgeon Thomas H. Williams, Medical Director, and Assistant-Surgeon Brodie, Medical Purveyor, of the general staff attached to the Army of the Potomac, were necessarily engaged severally with their responsible duties, at my headquarters at Camp Pickens, which they discharged with an energy and intelligence for which I have to tender my sincere thanks. Messrs. McLean, Wilcoxen, Kincheloe, and Branner, citizens of this immediate vicinity, it is their due to say, have placed me and the country under great obligations for the information relative to this region, which has enabled me to avail myself of its defensive features and resources. They were found ever ready to give me their time, without stint or reward. Our casualties, in all sixty-eight killed and wounded, were—killed, and—wounded, several of whom have since died. The loss of the enemy can only be conjectured; it was unquest
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.), Regiments, &c., in Confederate service. (search)
tryCol. A. Fitzgerald   Col. Preston Smith Promoted Brigadier-General. P. A.       1stTennesseeRegimentInfantryCol. Turney   2dTennesseeRegimentInfantryCol. W. B. Bate Promoted Brigadier-General. 3dTennesseeRegimentInfantryCol. Jno. C. Vaughan Promoted Brigadier-General. 1stTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. McNairy   2dTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. Biffle   3dTennesseeBattalionCavalry  Afterwards formed into a regiment [see 1st regiment cavalry]. 4thTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. Branner   5thTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. McClelland   6thTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. Logwood   7thTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. Bennett   8thTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. J. W. Starnes   9thTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. Gantt   10thTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. E. S. Smith   11thTennesseeBattalionCavalryLt. Col. Gordon   1stTennesseeBattalionInfantryMaj. W. L. Eakin Afterwards 59th regiment, Col. Cooke. 1stTexasRegimentCavalryCol
The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Paducah. (search)
e aid of a little work and the proper armament.--Where our fortifications are finished, we can say to the Northern invaders, come and fall back like the wave that would try to roll over the pillows of Hercules. Since our advent into Kentucky, we have been doing picket and scouting duty, capturing arms and taking prisoners. A number of muskets, rifles, and captains' swords have been our trophies. On day before yesterday our affairs seemed to take a different turn. Cols. Rains and Branner started on a scouting picket expedition, taking twenty-six men with them. Near Barboursville they were fired on by an ambushed force of the enemy. They fired their pistols, put them to flight, and returned to camp. The order "To horse" went forth, and we were in the saddle pretty quickly.--Our route was down Cumberland river, through narrow defiles and pleasant fields. Capt. Rowan's company not carrying guns, Capt. Plumlee was on the right wing of the vanguard of cavalry, Capt. A. Rowan
The Daily Dispatch: December 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Ruins of Hampton village. (search)
Damage to the Lick Creek Bridge repaired accident on the South-side road Lynchburg, Dec. 4, --President Branner, of the East Tennessee railroad, telegraphs here that the bridge over Lick Creek is all right, and that the trains are passing over. He will have a line of packets at Union on Thursday to carry passengers around that bridge. The South-Side train failed to connect with the Western to-day, in consequence of an accident about two miles below this city. The engine run over a bull, which caused the mail car to be thrown from the track. The car was much damaged, but no person was hurt.
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], A "Battle-Flag" for the Powhatan Troop. (search)
From the South. We present the following as embracing a full compilation of the latest and most interesting news transpiring in the Southern Confederacy: From East Tennessee. We take the following items of East Tennessee news from the Knoxville Register, of the 14th instant: Late from Zollicoffer's Command.--We are indebted to Mr. J. N. Thomas, of the Tullos Rangers, of Colonel Branner's Cavalry Battalion, who arrived here yesterday direct from General Zollicoffer's camp, for the following particulars of the movements in that region: Gen. Zollicoffer has crossed the Cumberland river at Mill Spring, and advanced some four miles on the road to Somerset. The enemy is reported to be from four to six thousand strong some miles beyond Somerset On Sunday last there was a skirmish between our pickets and the pickets of the Lincolnites at Somerset, the result of which was that thirteen Lincolnites were killed and fourteen taken prisoners. On our side no casualties oc
The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Tennessee. (search)
d to fall back with their train to Jonesboro', but some one had removed some of the rails of the track, and the train ran off. We have heard of no casualties, except we understand that the President of the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad, Mr. Branner, was on the train, and was thrown out of the cars and had his face considerably bruised and cut.--On their way up from Knoxville to Watauga bridge the Yankees captured two trains at Morristown, which is about half way between Knoxville and Jonm Jonesboro' to Knoxville, a distance of a hundred miles, and of the East Tennessee and Georgia railroad from Knoxville to Loudoun, a distance of thirty miles, and have three trains to give them facilities for moving troops and supplies. Mr. Branner, the President of the East Tennesse and Virginia Railroad, has been much, censured for suffering three of his trains to be captured by the enemy, and some even suspect him or his conductors or engineers of disloyalty. We hope such is not the
The Daily Dispatch: September 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
one. Hassell turned off whistling, and said no more. When the train was captured at Knoxville Col. Foster compelled Mr. Branner, the President of the road, to get on the train with the soldiers at Mossy Creek, and go up the road with them. They stated that they were going through to Bristol. Branner expostulated with them, but was forced to go. They passed on safely until they arrived at Jonesboro', wholesome of our men had moved the switch, and the cars were run off the track. It was ats, and getting the cars on the track, the party, numbering some 400 soldiers, set out again for Bristol, still keeping Mr. Branner on the train with them in a conspicuous place, where he could be seen. A number of incidents are related as having oc carried off a la African conversion. Another was running up the platform, and happening to run up to the spot where Mr. Branner stood, and hearing him advise some of the cheering party to keep quiet and not be so fast, struck his head in his huge