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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
on the 22d, assigned to him the duty of organizing and instructing the volunteers who were then arriving in Richmond. General Lee had already selected the points to be occupied for the defense of the State and the number of troops to be assigned to each. These points were: Norfolk, in front of Yorktown; the front of Fredericksburg; Manassas Junction, Harper's Ferry and Grafton. Johnston was assisted in the duties assigned him at Richmond by Lieutenant-Colonel Pemberton, Majors Jackson and Gilham, and Capt. T. L. Preston, who had all recently reported for duty. Johnston was employed in this way some two weeks, when, Virginia having joined the Southern Confederacy, President Davis offered him, by telegraph, a brigadier-generalship in the Confederate army, which he promptly accepted, and on reporting to the war department at Montgomery was assigned by President Davis to the command at Harper's Ferry. He reached that place Friday, May 23d, accompanied by his staff, Col. E. Kirby Smith
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
tanley's Virginia batteries of artillery. Colonels Gilham and Lee were at Valley mountain, 28 milesage in the advance was already occupied by Colonel Gilham, and yet, to the surprise of every one, LoVa., cavalry; the Fourth brigade, under Col. William Gilham, to consist of the Twenty-first Virginiby Munford's battalion and followed by part of Gilham's brigade. The brigade of Colonel Burks was t Generals Lee and Loring, with the brigades of Gilham and Burks and the artillery and cavalry, were near the camp. The march began promptly, and Gilham addressed himself to the hard task of removinglike downpour of rain. Early the next morning Gilham retired from Valley mountain toward Huntersvilsed of the Twenty-first Virginia, under Col. William Gilham, located at Valley mountain and guardinnbrier and fall upon the rear of Fulkerson and Gilham, on the Huntersville line, and so open that rh of September the Confederate force under Colonel Gilham evacuated Valley mountain, and on October [4 more...]
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
the direction of Romney. Loring and the last two of his brigades joined Jackson on Christmas day of 1861. It was agreed that Loring should retain command of his own troops, the three infantry brigades under Col. William B. Taliaferro, Col. William Gilham and Brig.-Gen. S. R. Anderson, and Marye's and Shumaker's batteries, in all nearly 6,000 men, which increased Jackson's entire force, counting 2,000 or 3,000 militia, to about 11,000. Loring was recognized as second in command. Having y retreated precipitately to Hancock, leaving their stores and camp at Bath to be captured. Finding the enemy gone, Jackson ordered an immediate pursuit, his main body moving toward Hancock and driving the rear of the enemy across the Potomac; Gilham moved toward Sir John's run, but did no damage to the enemy retreating in that direction, as they were able to check his advance with a few men, along the narrow defile of the run, until after dark, when they made good their retreat over the Poto
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix. (search)
, James R., lieutenant-colonel; Pegram, John, lieutenant-colonel; Tyler, Nat., lieutenant-colonel. Twenty-first Cavalry regiment: Edmundson, David, lieutenant-colonel; Halsey, Stephen P., major; Peters, William E., colonel. Twenty-first Infantry battalion (Pound Gap battalion. Merged into Sixty-fourth Virginia): Stemp, Campbell, lieutenant-colonel; Thompson. John B., major. Twenty-first Infantry regiment: Berkeley, William R., major; Cunningham, Richard H., Jr., lieutenant-colonel; Gilham, William, colonel; Kelly, Alfred D., major; Moseley, John R., major; Moseley, William P., lieutenant-colonel; Patton, John M., Jr., lieutenant-colonel, colonel; Shipp, Scott, major; Witcher, William A., lieutenant-colonel, colonel. Twenty-first Militia regiment: Jones, Warner T., colonel; Seawell, William H., major, lieutenant-colonel; Taliaferro, Thomas S., major; Taylor, Fielding L., lieutenant-colonel. Twenty-second Cavalry regiment: Bowen, Henry S., colonel; Kendrick, Henry F., maj