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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memorial address (search)
before the world as one of the best and bravest of all our leaders. It was this same gift that enabled General Hill to select from the lieutenants of his regiment Robert F. Hoke to be made major of his regiment over ten competent captains. It was this intuitive perception of persistent pluck, dash and coolness that prompted him to love and honor George B. Anderson, William R. Cox, Bryan Grimes, Stephen D. Ramseur and Robert D. Johnston, and led him later to urge the advancement of Gordon, Colquitt and Doles, of Georgia. In June, 1861 (a few days after the fight at Bethel), in a letter to his wife he said of Stonewall Jackson, then a colonel in command of a brigade, I see that Jackson has had an engagement and taken many prisoners. I have predicted all along that Colonel Jackson would have a prominent place in the war. Battle of Bethel. On the 6th of June, 1861, Colonel Hill, then at Yorktown, was ordered to make a reconnoissance in force in the direction of Fortress Monroe, a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
eorge D. Parker. Some fifteen minutes before the surrender, while lying on a stretcher near General Whiting, outside of the battery, witnessing the grand pyrotechnic display of the fleet over the capture of Fort Fisher, I was accosted by General A. H. Colquitt, who had been ordered to the fort to take command. I had a few minutes hurried conversation with him, informed him of the assault, of the early loss of a portion of the work and garrison, and that when I fell it had for a time demoralizriver, where she had watched the battle, should not be alarmed, spoke lightly of my wound. I asked him to carry General Whiting to a place of safety, as he came a volunteer to the fort. Just then the near approach of the enemy was reported and Colquitt made a precipitate retreat, leaving our beloved Whiting a captive, to die in a Northern prison. One more distressing scene remains to be chronicled. The next morning after sunrise a frightful explosion occurred. My large reserve magazine, w
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
88. Charleston Convention of 1860, The, 154. Chew's Battery, 365. Chew, Col., Robt. Preston, 365. Chicago Light Artillery Co. A, its Claims as to Shiloh, 215. Chickamauga, Battle of, 141. Chickamauga. The C. S. Steamer, 278. Christmas of 1864, 272. Clark, Capt. M. H 310. Clayton, Gen. H. D, 146. Cleburne, Gen. P. R., 145; Anecdotes of, 299. Coke, Hon., Richard, 337. Coleman, Chew, 374. Cold Harbor. Battle of, 363, 368, 378, 380. Colorado, The, 269. Colquitt, Gen. A. H , 288. Colston, Gen. R. E., His Address before the Ladies' Memorial Association at Wilmington, N. C., 39. Confederate Camps, Papers of Value, 347. Confederate Point, 258 Confederate Soldier, The, his traits, 29, 221; trials, 34, 80; privations, 65, 359; morale of, 78; The Raw, 346. Confederate States Treasury Deposits, 304. Constitution, The Atlanta, Ga., cited, 165. Cornubia, The, 264. Crenshaw Battery, on the retreat from Gettysburg, 368. 374. Curtis, Gen.