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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Glimpses of the Confederate army (search)
of the accompanying article recalls: When Virginia threw in her lot with her Southern sisters in April, 1861, practically the whole body of students at her State University, 515 out of 530 men who were registered from the Southern States, enlisted in the Confederate army. This army thus represented the whole Southern people. It was a self-levy en masse of the male population. The four men in the foreground of the photograph are H. H. Williams, Jr., S. B. Woodberry, H. I. Greer, and Sergeant R. W. Greer of the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston, S. C. marching upon their homes, and it was their duty to hurl them back at any cost! Such were the private soldiers of the Confederacy as I knew them. Not for fame or for glory, not lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but, in simple obedience to duty as they understood it, these men suffered all, sacrificed all, dared all—and died! I would like to add a statement which doubtless will appear paradoxical, but which my knowledg
The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], The battle near Charleston. (search)
he fight was desperate, but the Louisiana battalion, under Lieut. Col. McHenry, came up at the critical moment in gallant style, and the repulse of the Highlanders was no longer doubtful. The enemy was, for the last time, forced back with great slaughter, and the day was won. Casualties. The Mercury gives a list of casualties in the several commands, which we omit. Col. Lamar was wounded, but continued to fight. Capt. Samuel J Reed, Lieut. Humbert, Lieut. J. J. Edwards, and Lieut. R. W. Greer are among the officers killed, and Capt. H. C. King was mortally wounded. The relative losses. Our total loss, as nearly as we can ascertain, was about 40 killed and 100 wounded. The enemy's was far heavier. We buried yesterday one hundred and forty dead Yankees left upon the field. We say Yankees, using the designation as one common to the whole army of invaders; but, in truth, the men who did the fighting against us yesterday morning were nearly all Europeans, and, in the l