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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 19: battle of Chickamauga (search)
BucknerStewartBate, Brown, Clayton 4 PrestonGracie, Trigg, Kelly3 Army of Tenn., Gen. Bragg, derson, Deas, Manigault, Helm, Adams, Stovall, Gracie, Trigg, Kelley, Kershaw, and Humphreys were no6 Total1991,475301,7044,174 Buckner Preston Gracie9057626682128 Trigg4623142811536 Kelly6624133hearing of the coming of Bushrod Johnson's and Gracie's brigades, he decided to await their arrival several hundred yards to go and Johnson's and Gracie's brigades, ordered up in support, had from 80was advancing with the brigades of Johnson and Gracie, with those of Jenkins and Benning upon the lein front with artillery, but were driven in by Gracie's brigade. Gracie was wounded in the skirmishGracie was wounded in the skirmish. The Federal line was formed just in rear of the town, with a large hotel building on the edge of yards of the hotel, which was soon charged by Gracie's brigade and taken possession of. Meanwhile Kside had the worst of it. The casualties in Gracie's brigade162 In Johnson's they were60 And[2 more...]
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 21: the movement against Petersburg (search)
no sounds of battle from Smith, Kautz withdrew, with a loss of 43 men, and went into bivouac. After the fighting began, Beauregard had recognized that he would need every available man to defend the city, and he ordered Johnson to leave only Gracie's brigade in his lines, and to come to Petersburg with the rest of his division. Johnson brought about 3500 men, which, with Hoke, gave Beauregard in the morning an effective force of about 14,000 infantry. During the night he built a temporarying the long day were they able to make any headway. The 5th corps had now arrived and one division of the 6th. About dark in the afternoon, Redan No. 3, on the left, had been taken and held temporarily by Ledlie's division of the 9th corps. Gracie's brigade, which had just come in from Bermuda Hundreds, was put to charge them, and drove them out, capturing over 1000 prisoners. After the fighting ceased, Col. Harris superintended the withdrawal of the troops from the temporary line to the n
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 22: the Mine (search)
would have been directly beneath them. Work was not only kept up, however, on the flanks, but at two other positions farther to the left, known as Colquitt's and Gracie's salients, countermines were also begun; at Colquitt's on the 10th and at Gracie's on the 19th. All four of our mines were constantly pushed until the 30th, wheGracie's on the 19th. All four of our mines were constantly pushed until the 30th, when the explosion occurred, the total length of our galleries being then about 375 feet. Of the two galleries on each side of the mine, one, which was unoccupied, was destroyed by the explosion. In the other, the miners were at work, but, though much shaken up, the galleries were not crushed and the miners climbed out and escaped. 22d S. C. 5 companies170 In Pegram's battery out of 30 Present 22278 Including these, Johnson reports the casualties in his division (Elliott, Wise, Ransom, Gracie), as follows:— Killed, 165; wounded, 415; missing, 359; Total, 938. There are no returns for Mahone's and Hoke's divisions. Hoke's division was composed
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 23: the fall of 1864 (search)
ar young officer who had been a classmate of Pegram's at West Point in 1854, as follows:— Gen. Gracie, who showed such tact in getting Gen. Lee to descend from a dangerous position, was killed nent referred to as follows: — Gen. Lee was making an inspection along the line occupied by Gen. Gracie's troops; the fire of the enemy's sharpshooters was uncomfortably accurate along there and ths. Of course all who saw it realized his danger, but who was to direct his attention to it? Gen. Gracie at once stepped to his side. The minnies whistled viciously. Gen. Lee, oblivious to his own danger, quickly realized Gen. Gracie's and immediately removed from the point of danger. That is all but it showed tact on the part of the latter. Gen. Gracie was killed Dec. 3 by a shrapnel shoGen. Gracie was killed Dec. 3 by a shrapnel shot from Battery Morton which killed also two others with him. He had just received a furlough to visit his wife and child in Richmond but had missed his train. I have already said that the fall of