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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 34: (search)
d with great fury. The enemy was repeatedly repulsed, but again pressed on the attack with fresh troops. Once he succeeded in penetrating an interval between General Gregg's brigade on the extreme left and that of General Thomas, but was quickly driven back with great slaughter by the Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment, then in reserve, and the Forty-ninth Georgia of Thomas's brigade. The contest was close and obstinate; the combatants sometimes delivered their fire at a few paces. General Gregg, who was most exposed, was reenforced by Hays's brigade under Colonel Forno. Gregg had successfully and most gallantly resisted the attack until the ammunition Gregg had successfully and most gallantly resisted the attack until the ammunition of his brigade was exhausted and all his field officers but two killed or wounded. The reenforcement was of like high-tempered steel, and together in hand-to-hand fight they held their post until they were relieved, after several hours of severe fighting, by Early's brigade and the Eighth Louisiana Regiment. General Early drove th
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 35: (search)
d from Harpers Ferry, was now ordered to reenforce General Jones. He moved to his support and attacked the force now flushed with success. Hill's batteries were thrown forward and united their fire with those of Jones, and one of D. H. Hill's also opened with good effect from the left of the Boonsboro road. The progress of the enemy was immediately arrested, and his line began to waver. At this moment General Jones ordered Toombs to charge the flank, while Archer, supported by Branch and Gregg, moved on the front of the enemy's line. After a brief resistance, he broke and retreated in confusion toward the Antietam, pursued by the troops of Hill and Jones, until he reached the protection of the batteries on the opposite side of the river. It was now nearly dark, and McClellan had massed a number of batteries to sweep the approach to the Antietam, on the opposite side of which the corps of General Porter, which had not been engaged, now appeared to dispute our advance. Our troo
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 37: (search)
d his line until the arrival of reenforcements. Thomas came to the relief of Lane and repulsed the column that had broken his line, driving it back to the railroad. In the meantime a large force had penetrated the wood as far as Hill's reserve, where it was met by a fire for which it was not unprepared. General Hill says: Reports of the Army of Northern Virginia, Vol. II, p. 463. The advancing columns of the enemy encountered an obstacle at the military road which they little expected. Gregg's brigade of South Carolinians stood in the way. The advancing Federals were allowed to approach quite near, when that brigade poured a withering fire into the faces of Meade's men, and Early's division from the second line swept forward, and the contest in the woods was short and decisive. The enemy was quickly routed and driven out with very heavy loss, and, though largely reenforced, was pressed back and pursued to the shelter of the railroad embankment. Here he was gallantly charged b
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 39: (search)
d applied for reenforcements, he instructed Major General Stevenson as follows: From information received, it is evident that the enemy is advancing in force on Edwards's Depot and Big Black Bridge; hot skirmishing has been going on all the morning, and the enemy are at Fourteen-Mile Creek. You must move with your whole division to the support of Loring and Bowen at the bridge, leaving Baldwin's and Moore's brigades to protect your right. In consequence of that information, Brigadier General Gregg, who was near Raymond, received cautionary instruction; notwithstanding this, he was attacked by a large body of the enemy's forces, and his single brigade, with great gallantry and steadiness, held them in check for several hours, and then retired in such good order as to attract general admiration. Meantime, bodies of the enemy's troops were sent into the interior villages, and much damage was done in them, and to the defenseless, isolated homes in the country. General Johnsto
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e with Lee concerning terms of surrender, 559. Great Britain, status of neurality, 10. U. S. demands for reclamation, 224-25. Accusations of U. S. government, 229, 231-32. Alabama claims, 236. Result of Geneva Conference, 236-37. Attitude concerning blockade of Confederate ports, 317-18, 321-22. Reply to arbitration suggestion, 319. Result of professed neutrality, 320. Greeley, Horace, 517. Green, Gen. Martin E., 198, 334, 343, 350, 352. Death, 349. Greer, Justice, 234. Gregg, General, 273, 283, 297, 339. Battery's defense, 556. Grierson, Colonel, 335. Griffith, Gen., Richard, 102, 131. Death, 121. H Habeas corpus, Writ of, suspension, 409-11. Hagerty, Thomas, 200. Hahn, Michael, 248. Hale, Christopher, 230. Halleck, Gen. Henry W., 8, 58, 499, 500. Commander of U. S. Department of the West, 15. Advance to Corinth, Miss., 58-59. Hamilton, Alexander, 4. Hampton, General, Wade, 79, 131, 270, 424, 426, 532, 534, 537, 538, 539, 540, 544, 547, 550, 582,