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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of Fredericksburg.—From the morning of the 20th of April to the 6th of May, 1863. (search)
hortly after dark a courier summoned me to report to General Harry Hays, at Marye's Hill, for instructions. He informed me sed down the picket lines. Bully for Barksdale! bully for Hays! bully for the Washington Artillery! bully for Old Bob! cried still another. I lost no time in reporting to General Hays, and found General Barksdale with him at Marye's Hill. were approved, and I was instructed to carry them out. Generals Hays and Barksdale seemed to doubt whether General Early intthat the real attack would be at Hamilton station, and that Hays's brigade had been ordered back to that place. Barksdale tnts from the Howison Hill to the Howison House, and one of Hays's regiments still further to the right; the Washington ArtiEarly to reinforce Colonel Griffin, but received none. General Hays was sent to Taylor's Hill with three regiments of his b General Wilcox, who had been guarding Bank's ford, and General Hays, who had been sent to guard Taylor's Hill, moved back a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg—Address of Colonel C. S Venable (formerly of General R. E. Lee's staff), of the University of Virginia, before the Virginia division f the Army of Northern Virginia, at their annual meeting, held in the Virginia State Capitol, at Richmond, Thursday , October 30th, 1873. (search)
and General Lee became convinced that he was going to swing round to turn our right, he therefore ordered the artillery on a portion of our left to be withdrawn from the immediate front so as to be ready to move at a moment's notice. On that night General Johnson, hearing the enemy massing on his front, sent a message to his corps commander (General Ewell) asking the return of his artillery. He also sent to General Gordon, commanding Early's division, asking a reinforcement of two brigades (Hays's and Pegram's), which he placed in a second line on the rear of what he considered the weakest of his defences. The delay of the artillery and consequent disaster to Johnson's division are matters of record. The actual loss in captures was about three thousand men (his division was four thousand strong at the beginning of the campaign) and eighteen pieces of artillery, which the enemy did not get, however, for twenty hours. Johnson's message to his corps commander about the massing of th