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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 347 7 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 317 55 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 268 46 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 147 23 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 145 9 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 141 29 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 140 16 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 134 58 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 129 13 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 123 5 Browse Search
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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)
rom danger of insult, to attack and overcome the rebel forces under Jackson and Ewell, and render the most effective aid to relieve General McClellan and capture Ricly, Pope, writing to Banks, one of his corps commanders, said, Let Bayard amuse Ewell with cavalry. He felt himself master of the situation until on the morning of ured. A second advance was made by Heth's and Pender's divisions, and Lieutenant-General Ewell, coming up with two of his divisions, joined in the engagement, and thht of Hill's corps. This success and the partial successes of Longstreet's and Ewell's corps on the 2d, determined General Lee to continue the assault the next day,On the 5th of May, Major-General Warren, with the Fifth Federal corps, attacked Ewell's corps, and was repulsed with a loss of many prisoners and four pieces of artio enable him to bury the Federal dead in front of Johnson's division. Lieutenant-General Ewell, commanding the department of Richmond, reported to the secretary of w
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
d to serve with distinguished ability until the end came and the banners of the Confederacy were furled forever. At the evacuation of Richmond he commanded the division of Anderson's corps, comprising the brigades of Wallace, Moody, Ransom and Wise, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia troops; was engaged in severe fighting preceding and during the retreat, and after the battle of Sailor's Creek was ordered by General Lee to collect all the scattered forces of Anderson's and Ewell's commands. In 1866 he resumed his favorite occupation, that of a teacher, and served as professor of engineering, mechanics and natural philosophy in the Western military institute at Georgetown, Ky., until 1880. On December 7th of that year he died at Brighton, Ill., at the age of sixty-three years. Brigadier-General William McComb Brigadier-General William McComb, a gallant Tennessee soldier, was a native of Pennsylvania. About 1856 he went to Montgomery county, Tenn., where he