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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 305 27 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 141 9 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 129 9 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 100 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 98 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 86 2 Browse Search
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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 74 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 65 5 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 63 7 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 24: (search)
c at the time, as I did not think it judicious to inform the enemy of the numerical weakness of our forces. The following statements have been taken from those papers by Major Walter H. Taylor, of the staff of General Lee, who supervised for several years the preparation of the original returns. A statement of the strength of the troops under General Johnston shows that on May 21, 1862, he had present for duty as follows: Smith's dvision, consisting of the brigades of Whiting, Hood, Hampton, Hatton, and Pettigrew10,592 Longstreet's division, consisting of the brigades of A. P. Hill, Pickett, R. H. Anderson, Wilson, Colston, and Pryor13,816 Magruder's division, consisting of the brigades of McLaws, Kershaw, Griffith, Cobb, Toombs, and D. R. Jones15,680 D. H. Hill's division, consisting of the brigades of Early, Rodes, Raines, Featherston, and the commands of Colonels Ward and Crump11,151 Cavalry brigade1,289 Reserve artillery1,160 —— Total effective men53,688 stateme
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 45: (search)
troops, manned a few sections of light artillery. After an engagement of thirty minutes, Kilpatrick's entire force began to retreat in the direction of the Meadow Bridge on the Central Railroad. At night his campfires were discovered by General Wade Hampton, who dismounted one hundred men to act as infantry, and, supported by the cavalry, opened his two-gun battery upon the enemy at short range. He then attacked the camp of Davies's and of a part of two other brigades. The camp was taken, aose upon his rear, finally reached the defenses of Richmond. There, out of respect to the field artillery he encountered, he turned off to cross the Chickahominy, and that night he was routed by the cavalry command of our gallant cavalier General Wade Hampton. Thus ended the combined movement with which Northern papers had regaled their readers by announcing as made with instructions to sack the rebel capital. During the first week in May, Major General B. F. Butler landed at Bermuda Hundre
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 51: (search)
burning of Columbia by attributing it to General Hampton's order to burn the cotton in the city, t very respectfully, your obedient servant, Wade Hampton. Were this the only instance of such bhomes they had made desolate; he informed General Hampton that in retaliation he had ordered a numbe put to death. To arrest this brutality General Hampton promptly informed him that for every soldour men who are caught burning houses. General Hampton's letter to General Sherman, February 27, 1865. This notice and the knowledge that General Hampton would keep his word produced, it is beliey the vigilant skill of our cavalry under Generals Hampton, Butler, and Wheeler, was steady and contgham on the 7th; the attack and defeat by General Hampton of a detachment on the 8th; the surprise d capture of General Kilpatrick's camp by General Hampton on the morning of the 10th, driving the ed skillful attack, led by Generals Hardee and Hampton, on the front and both flanks of the enemy's [6 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 52: (search)
nd Danville railroads, which connected our army with the south and west. This raid resulted in important injury to our communications. The enemy's cavalry tore up large distances of the tracks of all three of the railroads, burning the woodwork and laying waste the country around. But they were pursued and harassed by a small body of cavalry under General W. H. F. Lee, and on their return near Reams's Station were met, near Sapponey Church, by a force of fifteen hundred cavalry under General Hampton. That officer at once attacked. The fighting continued fiercely throughout the night, and at dawn the enemy's cavalry retreated in confusion. Near Reams's Station, at which point they attempted to cross the Weldon Railroad, they were met by General Fitzhugh Lee's horsemen and a body of infantry under General Mahone, and this force completed their discomfiture. After a brief attempt to force their way, they broke in disorder, leaving behind them twelve pieces of artillery, more than
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 54: (search)
could not value the good opinion of the man who, in regard to the burning of Columbia, made a false charge against General Wade Hampton, and, having left it to circulate freely for ten years, then in his published memoirs makes this disgraceful admission: In my official report of this conflagration, I distinctly charged it to General Wade Hampton, and confess I did so pointedly, to shake the faith of his people in him. . . . Memorandum, or basis of agreement, made this 18th day of April,other interview with Sherman, to renew his attempt to reach an agreement for a termination of hostilities. Meantime General Hampton, commanding the cavalry of Johnston's army, came to me at Charlotte, told me that he feared the army was to be surreshown to me on the marches from Charlotte, when the dark shadows which gathered round us foretold the coming night. General Hampton finding his troops had been included in the surrender, endeavored to join me to offer his individual service, and to
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
ension, 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, 584-85. Letter to Reverdy Johnson concerning the burning of Columbia, S. C., 532-33. Hancock, General, 76, 77, 435, 439, 542, 545, 547, 550, 555, 639. John, 230. Address to defeated South, 608. Conflict with Congress, 614-19. Impeachment, 614. General B. R., 359, 360, 361. Colonel Bradley T., 92, 424, 426, 446, 449. General Edward, 97, 434-35, 437, 438, 448. James, 630. Reverdv, 417. Letter from Hampton concerning burning of Columbia, S. C., 532. Johnston, Gen., Albert Sidney, 15, 16, 19, 29. 30, 31-32, 37-39, 40, 469. Extract from letter to Confederate Secretary of War, 31. Retreat to Nashville, 29-31. Evacuation of Nashville, 31-32. Ext