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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 17 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 13 1 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
ods' Twenty-Third South Carolina with some fifty men; Sturdivant's Battery and Taliaferro's Cavalry, with which he kept our forces at bay and punished them severely until they reached the Jerusalem plank road. General Kautz reports again that he captured all there were of Taliaferro's cavalry outside of the intrenchments. Wise further adds that he had the following additional forces: Major Archer's corps of reserves, second-class militia, and one howitzer under the command of Brigadier-General Colston, which forces he puts at less than one hundred and fifty; one company of convalescents of say a hundred men more, with say one hundred men for the two batteries of artillery, Graham's and Young's, and say one hundred and twenty men more for a company of convalescents, and a company of penitents. Penitents are soldiers who have been tried by court-martial and committed to prison for their crimes. In some emergencies at Richmond and Petersburg they were released and formed into c
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
owder explosion, 776. Clifford, Judge, reference to, 995 Clipper, Baltimore, extract from, 231; order published in, 233. Cobb's Hill, Confederates attempt to destroy signal station at, 681-683. Cochrane, John, letter from regarding Buchanan, 156. Cold Harbor, battle of, 669-710; Grant reinforced by Butler's troops at, 856, 862. Colfax, Hon., Schuyler, elected Speaker of House, 920. Colorado, The, at Fort Fisher, 798. Colquit's Brigade, sent to Chaffin's Bluff, 669 Colston, Brigadier-General, 679. Comstock, Colonel, conference with,--683; ordered to accompany Butler on Roanoke expedition, 783; leaves City Point, 785; reference to, 785, 791,817; reconnoitres Fort Fisher, 787; carries Butler's message to Porter, 788; ordered to report condition of Fort Fisher, 794; believes an attack would be useless, 796. Committee on Conduct of War sustains Butler regarding occupation of Manassas Junction, 223; examines Butler as to operations in Department of Gulf, 577