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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter XI (search)
s repulsed in the same manner, my brigade charging upon the enemy with loud cheers and driving them back with their empty rifles. The next morning he relieved General Early's pickets with 130 men under the brave Col. N. J. George, First Tennessee, who is always ready and anxious for the most daring service. Soon the brigade was a, charged with empty guns under Lieut.-Col. N. J. George (Colonel Turney having been wounded early in the action) across the railroad track, with Hoke's brigade of Early's division, and forced the enemy to retire in confusion. Gen. R. E. Lee, referring to this action in his official report, said Archer and Lane repulsed that portter and took possession of Spottsylvania Court House. Receiving reinforcements, General Grant renewed the attack and was handsomely driven back. On the 10th, General Early, commanding Hill's corps, drove the enemy from a position he had taken between Shady Grove church and the court house, taking one gun and a few prisoners, in w
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
gia, but was sent back to Virginia and assigned to the command of a brigade of cavalry attached to the division of General Lomax, operating in the valley under General Early. This brigade consisted of the First Maryland and the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Virginia battalions of cavalry. After the war, Gen When Tennessee was making ready to cast in her lot with the Southern Confederacy, the young lawyer entered the Fourth Tennessee regiment as a captain (May, 1861). Early in 1862 he became lieutenant-colonel of the regiment. As such he shared in the hardships and glories of the campaigns of Shiloh, Bentonville and Murfreesboro, in duty he was engaged in the battle of Piedmont, and after the death of General Jones assumed command and brought off the shattered forces successfully. He was with Early in his successful campaign against Hunter, and in the last advance in Maryland and the valley of Virginia. Being wounded near Martinsburg, he was furloughed and r