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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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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Ewell or search for Ewell in all documents.

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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
heavy firing heard down the river about two o'clock yesterday morning proceeded from the enemy's gunboats shelling the woods below Chaflin's Bluff. The Yankees have a decided passion for this sort of artillery practice, on which they waste their ammunition to no purpose. From Northern Virginia. The quiet that has prevailed for some days past on Gen. Lee's lines still continues, and beyond a small skirmish yesterday morning in the neighborhood of Hanover Junction, in which some of Gen. Ewell's command are reported to have been engaged, there is no event incident worth mentioning in that carter. By changing his line of operations Gen. Lee has lost nothing, the movement having been necessitated by Grant's change base, his object being to keep the enemy fill in his front. An officer who left the yesterday represents that our troops are in fine condition, in the best of spirits, and anxious for another collision with the Yankees. They are perfectly confident of their ability
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
brave cohorts of the South have with unbroken front, in line of battle and on the march, opposed the enemy and beaten them back. One other event occurred yesterday, which, en passant, I will relate. About three o'clock on yesterday afternoon, Gen. Ewell moved forward with a sufficient force in order to feel the enemy's position on their extreme right, our left. General E. struck their columns near the main road leading from Fredericksburg to Spotsylvania Court House, some eight miles from theng them any harm save shooting and capturing a few mules.--About nine o'clock the fighting ceased, and our boys fell back to their entrenched position. During the engagement we lost some two hundred and fifty men killed, wounded, and missing. Gen. Ewell's horse was shot from under him, giving him a hard fall, but he is all right again, and is to-day in the saddle. It is conjectured that the enemy must have lost fully five hundred in killed and wounded. At least their prisoners, of whom w