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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)

80,822 effectives present for duty. Gen. Alfred Cumming's brigade, Stevenson's division, was die occupying. The remainder of the service of Cumming's brigade on the 25th is well described by Geegiment fell back or was withdrawn. Brigadier-General Cumming now reported to me with the remainded point. [A charge being suggested] Brigadier-General Cumming gallantly proposed to lead it with ts. I immediately consented, and directed General Cumming to prepare for the charge, and went to thmy's right flank. . . . In the meantime, General Cumming, having placed the Fifty-sixth Georgia inthe Georgia regiments. Colonel McConnell, of Cumming's brigade, and other gallant soldiers who fell Slaughter, the last regimental commander of Cumming's brigade, was wounded. Captains Morgan and vance Captain Cody and Lieutenant Steiner, of Cumming's staff, were badly wounded. The Georgianseir ground, repulsing every assault, and that Cumming's brigade had actually charged and routed the[2 more...]

wart's division, and Reynolds' brigade, near the base of the mountain, and Brown's, Pettus' and Cumming's brigades on the opposite heights to the east, and maintained a brisk skirmish with the enemy ay the Thirty-ninth Georgia was exposed to a lively fire of shells, which failed to move them. Cumming's brigade suffered a loss of 1 killed and 25 wounded. Meanwhile a serious attack was made atision, composed of Brown's Tennessee brigade, Reynolds' North Carolina and Virginia brigade, Alfred Cumming's Georgia brigade, and Pettus' Alabama brigade. Maj.-Gen. Stewart's division, composed of Strger share of the fighting fell to Stevenson's division, in which was the Georgia brigade of Alfred Cumming, which won from General Stevenson the remark, I was much gratified by the gallantry with whi 1,300 men in killed and wounded. Among the wounded of the army were Gens. Patton Anderson and Cumming. Hardee at this time learned the real disposition of Sherman's army from a captured officer

. Moise. Brig.-Gen. R. H. Anderson had a brigade command in Hampton's cavalry. In the foregoing infantry organizations are represented the consolidated fragments of the brigades of Brig.-Gens. John K. Jackson, H. R. Jackson, H. W. Mercer, Alfred Cumming and M. A. Stovall, which had participated in the operations up to that time in their original organizations, but in very reduced numbers. Stovall's and Jackson's brigades of Clayton's division were together but 416 strong in the battle of Kinston, March 10th, and lost 70. Cumming's brigade had 23 effectives. Under the command of Col. Robert J. Henderson, during the fighting at Bentonville, March 19th to 22d, it was warmly commended by General Stevenson for gallantry in repulsing a flank attack of the enemy, and received upon the field the thanks and compliments of General Johnston. In the same combat J. A. Smith's brigade was in the front line of battle and in the corps command of General Bate. In the charge on the Federals,

rig.-Gen. R. H. Anderson. Brig.-Gen. Alfred. Cumming. Brig.--Gen. V. J. B. Girardey. Brig.-Gen. Phpromoted to brigadier-general. Brigadier-General Alfred Cumming Brigadier-General Alfred CummiBrigadier-General Alfred Cumming, a native of Augusta, Ga., was appointed to the United States military academy in 1845, and graduter being speedily advanced to higher duties, Cumming was in command of the regiment on the Yorktow Savage's Station and Malvern Hill, where Colonel Cumming was wounded. During the Maryland campaigDuring the subsequent siege of Vicksburg, General Cumming and his brigade performed their part and nforce General Cleburne on the extreme right, Cumming obtained permission to advance and engage the Federal fortified position at Jonesboro, General Cumming fell with a wound which terminated his mi his army in North Carolina, and consolidated Cumming's brigade with two others, General Cumming waGeneral Cumming was named as commander, but he was still upon crutches and unfit for duty. He afterward made his hom[3 more...]

Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)

vate James Jennings, Company I. Vol. XIX, Part—（804) In Wilcox's brigade, commanded by Col. Alfred Cumming, army of Northern Virginia, Maryland campaign. （812) 12 killed and 63 wounded, Marylandughter commanding; district of the Gulf, commanded by General Forney, October 31, 1862. （1069) Cumming's brigade, department of the Gulf, General Buckner commanding, April, 1863; Col. J. T. HoltzclaVol. Xv—（850) Slaughter's brigade, army of Mobile, Gen. J. H. Forney, October 31, 1862. （0069) Cumming's brigade, Western division, army of Mobile, General Buckner, April, 1863. Vol. XXIII, Partmained there until February, 1863. Its first brigade commander was General Slaughter; then General Cumming. Transferred to Bragg's army, it was under General Clayton until his promotion; then under Slaughter; district of the Gulf, General Forney, October 31, 1862. （0069) Second brigade, General Cumming, Western division, department of the Gulf, General Buckner commanding. Vol. XVI

Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)

i—（499) Very highly commended in Col. W. L. Powell's report, January 20, 1862, of contest for possession of the schooner Andracita, formerly J. W. Wilder, near Fort Morgan. Crocheron Light Dragoons, Capt. E. M. Holloway. Vol. XXIII, Part 2—（945, 958) Mentioned among escorts, Polk's army corps, Atlanta, July and August, 1863. Nos. 51, 59, 74—Same mention, September, 1863, to June, 1864. Dorrence Rangers, Capt. John W. Murrell. Vol. Xv— (850) Army of Mobile, October 31, 1862. （1069) Cumming's brigade, Buckner's corps, department of the Gulf, April, 1863, near Mobile. No. 42—（39) Department of the Gulf, June 8, 1863, at Pascagoula. Captain Goldsby's Company Mounted Infantry. No. 65—（442) August 30, 1864, Brigadier-General Asboth, U. S. A., says of skirmish at Milton, Fla.: Came upon Captain Goldsby with about 100 men. No. 78—（814) In Liddell's brigade, department of the Gulf, September 3, 1864. No. 104—（1261) Mentioned by Col. S. Jones, Demopolis, Al

Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)

, November 20, 1862, east Tennessee. No. 36—（318) Mentioned for gallant conduct at Baker's Creek. （640) Mentioned at Fort Gibson; four pieces captured. No. 37—（63) Mentioned in Col. D. B. Hill's report of Champion's hill. （95, 96) Mentioned by General Stevenson at Baker's Creek, May 16, 1863. Stevenson says: Captain Waddell fought one of the guns with his own hands. （99) Loss, 9 killed, 10 wounded, at Baker's Creek. （101) Mentioned by Gen. S. D. Lee, at Baker's Creek, (05) by Gen. A. Cumming, (110, 111) by Gen. F. M. Cockrell, who reports Waddell as a gallant, fearless officer. (326) In Gen. S. D. Lee's brigade, Vicksburg, July 4, 1863. （328) Loss, 9 killed, 30 wounded, at the siege. (350) Mentioned in Gen. Stephen D. Lee's report. (352) Waddell was gallant and vigilant. （375) Mentioned by General Hebert. No. 38—（612) In Tracy's brigade, January 31, 1863. （613) Ordered to Vicksburg. (703) In Stevenson's division, April 20th. （1059) Same assignmen

Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)

orders of November 27th: It was Pettus' brigade which first checked an enemy flushed with victory on Lookout Mountain, and held him at bay until ordered to retire. On the next day, on the right of Missionary Ridge, the whole division (Brown's, Cumming's and Pettus' brigades) fought with a courage which merited and won success. Whatever the issue with other commands, he said, the men of his division could look back to Missionary Ridge with the pride of soldiers entitled to the admiration of ter General Pettus, in the battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, Rocky Face near Dalton, Resaca, New Hope church, Kenesaw, the various battles around Atlanta, and at Jonesboro. The day after the battle at Jonesboro he took command of Cumming's brigade, which he reorganized. On the 17th of September he was commissioned brigadier-general, with temporary rank. In December it was made permanent. In the Tennessee campaign, under Hood, he commanded Cantey's old brigade, the Seventeenth

Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)

h. Third brigade, Brig.-Gen. Thomas H. Taylor, Brig.-Gen. Alfred Cumming—Five Georgia regiments: Thirty-fourth, Thirty-sixl and Green. Stevenson, with the brigades of Lee, Barton, Cumming and Reynolds, left Edwards in the evening. The road southening the Clinton road into Edwards. Stevenson brought up Cumming to Lee's right, and Barton to the right of the latter. vision of the enemy in column of brigades attacked Lee and Cumming. They were handsomely met and forced back some distance, y charged the enemy, supported on the left by a portion of Cumming's and Lee's brigades, and drove them back beyond the origitook position near Edwards, where he was joined by many of Cumming's men. Loring, meanwhile, had been ordered up with his divhe forts adjacent, Reynolds next to the Hall's Ferry road, Cumming on the left center, and Lee, with Waul's legion, on the ley from fever, half of those on duty being under treatment; Cumming, that about half his men were fit to take the field; Reyno

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 21 (search)

l grave. On the 12th of January last another of our companions-Captain DeRosset Lamar—was taken from us. He was an aide-de-camp at first to Brigadier-General Robert Toombs, then to Major-General William H. T. Walker, and lastly to Brigadier-General Alfred Cumming. When General Cumming was wounded, Captain Lamar was assigned to duty with Colonel Roman as an Assistant Inspector-General. Then, on the 15th of February, after a long illness, Private Eugene Conner, of the Washington Artillery, General Cumming was wounded, Captain Lamar was assigned to duty with Colonel Roman as an Assistant Inspector-General. Then, on the 15th of February, after a long illness, Private Eugene Conner, of the Washington Artillery, found friendly sepulture in our Confederate section. And, on the 18th of last month, Private William Teppe, of Company D, Fifth regiment, South Carolina cavalry, Butler's division, Hampton's corps, Army of Northern Virginia, responded to the trump which summoned him to the bivouac of the dead. Alas! the circle of our fraternity is narrowing. It will grow rapidly smaller as the years roll on; and soon, aye, very soon, so far at least as we are concerned, there will be only silent graves t

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