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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for B. S. Ewell or search for B. S. Ewell in all documents.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.17 (search)
Williamsburg Junior Guards.
[from the Richmond, Va., dispatch, December 1, 1901.]
Battle-Roll of a gallant band, Worth preserving.
The Thirty-second Virginia Regiment was organized in 1861, by Colonel B. S. Ewell (late emeritus president of William and Mary College), the brother of General Richard S. Ewell, and classmate of General U. S. Grant and other celebrities, at West Point.
The Colonel afterwards served on the staff of General Joseph E. Johnston, in the South.
On our retreat from the Peninsula, when General Joseph E. Johnston came down from Manassas to assist General J. Bankhead Mc-Gruder, who was confronted by the superior forces of General Geo. B. McClellan, we dared to hold a company election at Bottom's bridge, by bivouac, when quite all the officers were changed.
In the face of the enemy, such would never have been allowed in any European army.
It was accomplished, however, without a hitch of unpleasantness.
Octavius Coke, brother of your fellow-townsmen