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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 309 19 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 309 19 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 170 20 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 117 33 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 65 11 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 62 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 36 2 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 34 12 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 29 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 29 3 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
I am your ob'dt. serv't, Thos. H. Hicks. Nov. 27, 1860 South Carolinas in the Field. The Life and correspondence of Gen. John A Quitman is published. The following is an extract of the description of the battle of Churubusco: Colonel Butler, of the South Carolinas, had left his sick bed against the remonstrances of his friends to lead the Palmettos to the combat. Early in the engagement his horse was shot under him. Soon after he received a painful wound in the knee, and yielded the command to Lieutenant-Colonel Dickinson.--Taking the Palmetto flag from the hands of Sergeant Beggs, Dickinson placed himself in front, and Beggs was immediately shot down. Col. Butler new came up to resume the command, and was killed by the side of Dickinson while standing under the flag. Dickinson himself soon fail mortally wounded, (he died some weeks afterward,) and Major Gladden received it from his hands and committed it to Lieut. Baker, who being unable, from debility and exhaust
The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1860., [Electronic resource], South Carolinas in the Field. (search)
South Carolinas in the Field. The Life and correspondence of Gen. John A Quitman is published. The following is an extract of the description of the battle of Churubusco: Colonel Butler, of the South Carolinas, had left his sick bed against the remonstrances of his friends to lead the Palmettos to the combat. Early in the engagement his horse was shot under him. Soon after he received a painful wound in the knee, and yielded the command to Lieutenant-Colonel Dickinson.--Taking the Palmetto flag from the hands of Sergeant Beggs, Dickinson placed himself in front, and Beggs was immediately shot down. Col. Butler new came up to resume the command, and was killed by the side of Dickinson while standing under the flag. Dickinson himself soon fail mortally wounded, (he died some weeks afterward,) and Major Gladden received it from his hands and committed it to Lieut. Baker, who being unable, from debility and exhaustion, to carry it, Major Gladden placed it in the hands of P