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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 41 (search)
olonel Govan's skirmishers were also engaged. Ector's and Wilson's brigades were held in reserve, om General Walker, I moved my command with General Ector's brigade, about a mile and a half to the ommand of the division, consisting of Brigadier-General Ector's, Colonel Wilson's and my own brigade — the brigades of Ector and Wilson numbering about five hundred each, having suffered heavy losseance of the first brigade with the brigades of Ector and Wilson. Colonel Colquitt, upon advancing tion from which they advanced. The brigade of Ector and Wilson kept up their fire from the-------. to Major-General Walker. The brigades of General Ector and Colonel Wilson advancing, took up posi. I at once dispatched one of my staff to General Ector, who I knew was a short distance in our regallantly led them in again on the left of General Ector's brigade. During the first day's fight around to turn our right flank. Wilson's and Ector's brigades were already engaged, and were bein[15 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 46 (search)
uch morale and material, as to be of further use to the Confederacy. On receiving this information, I replied: I am trying to gather a force which may attempt to relieve you. Hold out. The same day I sent orders to General Gardner to evacuate Port Hudson. I then determined, by easy marches, to re-establish my line between Jackson and Canton, as the junction of the two commands had become impossible. On the twentieth and twenty-first May, I was joined by the brigades of Generals Gist, Ector, and McNair; the division of General Loring, cut off from General Pemberton in the battle of Baker's Creek, reached Jackson on the twentieth, and General Maxcey with his brigade, on the twenty-third, By the fourth of June the army had in addition to these been reinforced by the brigade of General Evans, the division of General Breckinridge, and the division of cavalry, numbering two thousand eight hundred men, commanded by Brigadier-General W. H. Jackson. Small as was this force — about t