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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 78 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 74 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 51 3 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 27 1 Browse Search
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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 15 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 2 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The bloody angle. (search)
Turning his head, he saw within a few yards of him a large number of blue-coats, with muskets leveled at him and his men. He shouted to the officer, Don't shoot my men, and, of course, was compelled at once to surrender. Captain Carter reports General Johnson limping up and down on top the breastworks, not deigning to protect himself, with stick in hand, from his wound at Alleghany, his clothes torn, encouraging his men in every way, by word and deed. General Hancock said to General Harry Heth after the war that the attack on the salient was an accident, due to the location of a white house in front of it, which afforded a conspicuous object for the centre of his lines of battle for attack, and that he was not aware of the existence of a salient. He furthermore said that he had 30,000 troops, in five or six lines of battle, and could have carried the salient, even had the artillery been in place. The salient was a weak position, affording a divergent, instead of a conv
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.38 (search)
urthouse, May, 1864. In the desperate battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, in May, 1864, when Grant and Lee were approaching Richmond on parallel lines, the Crenshaw Battery, of Pegram's Battalion, Army of Northern Virginia, was ordered by General Harry Heth to change its position to another part of the field. While the guns were being limbered up, General Jubal Early rode up and asked the captain of the company where he was going. The captain pointed to the position assigned him, when General Early asked him who had ordered him to go there. The captain replied, General Heth. Well, says General Early, if he has ordered you there, you would better go, but I don't see how you will ever get there. 'Twas a pretty warm place to have called forth such a remark from General Early. The guns were pulled out, the cannoneers mounted, and the horses went galloping down a lane formed by a row of cedars on each side to the new position assigned the battery. Notwithstanding the company fac