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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 78 4 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Lee's final and full report of the Pennsylvania campaign and battle of Gettysburg. (search)
e of the brigades, being taken prisoner. General Heth then prepared for action, and as soon as Peion, and the engagement opened with vigor. General Heth pressed the enemy steadily back, breaking h arrived by the Middletown road, and forming on Heth's left, nearly at right angles with his line, barmly engaged with fresh numbers of the enemy. Heth's troops having suffered heavily in their protrng a number of officers, among whom were Major-General Heth, slightly, and Brigadier-General Scales,division formed his left, Anderson's his right, Heth's, under Brigadier-General Pettigrew, being in e column of attack, consisting of Pickett's and Heth's divisions, in two lines, Pickett on the rights daylight before their troops began to cross. Heth's division was halted about a mile and a half fa only a few days. The bridge being clear, General Heth began to withdraw. The enemy advanced, butmpleted by one P. M. Owing to the extent of General Heth's line, some of his men most remote from th[6 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraphs. (search)
a really beautiful picture, which we hope will adorn a very large number of our Southern schools and homes. Photographs of distinguished Confederates are somewhat common; but accurate, standard pictures are comparatively rare. We are indebted to Mr. D. H. Anderson, photographer of Richmond, for a lot of the latter class. He has presented us with superb photographs,and (most of them) excellent likenesses of Generals R. E. Lee, J. E. Johnston, Stonewall Jackson, Early, J. E. B. Stuart, Heth, Mahone, G. W. C. Lee, Lilly, Jno. S. Preston, Geo. W. Randolph, John Echols, Beauregard, B. T. Johnson and D. H. Maury, Colonels John B. Baldwin, Jno. S. Mosby and Robt. Ould, Captain M. F. Maury, Hon. Robt. Toombs, Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, Hon. H. B. Grigsby, Ex-Governor Wm. Smith, Ex-President John Tyler, Hon. J. L. M. Curry, and Rev. M. D. Hoge, D. D. This donation of Mr. Anderson is a highly prized addition to our collection of photographs, and we trust that other artists will be induced
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraphs. (search)
rthern Virginia has had a very efficient organization, and its annual reunions have been very delightful. General Fitz. Lee was its first president, and he was succeeded by General George E. Pickett, whose lamented death occurred while he held the position. The present organization is as follows: President, General W. H. F. Lee; Treasurer, Major Robert Stiles; Secretaries, Sergeant George L. Christian, Sergeant Leroy S. Edwards. Vice-Presidents--First, General R. Ransom; second, General H. Heth; third, General A. L. Long; fourth, General Wm. Terry; 5th, Captain D. B. McCorkle. Executive Committee--General Bradley T. Johnson, Major W. K. Martin, Colonel Thos. H. Carter, Major T. A. Brander, Private Carlton McCarthy. The annual orators of this division have been as follows: In ‘72, Wm. H. Payne and Colonel Jos. Mayo (in the absence of General John B. Gordon, orator elect). Colonel Charles S. Venable in 1873, Colonel Charles Marshall in 1874, and Major John W. Daniel in 1875
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General A. P. Hill's report of battle of Gettysburg. (search)
ed of the divisions of Major-Generals Anderson, Heth and Pender, and five battalions of artillery, u require. Accordingly, on the 29th I moved General Heth's division to Cashtown, some eight miles fr front. On the first of July, at five o'clock, Heth took up the line of march, with Pegram's battal) was disposed to dispute our further advance. Heth's whole division was now thrown into line: Davi of a hill overlooking the town of Gettysburg. Heth's division drove the enemy, encountering a detelation of the First Corps of the enemy. Major-General Heth was slightly wounded. Brigadier-General was ordered forward to the front, and relieved Heth's division, extending to our right and along a covering the whole front occupied by the enemy, Heth's division (now commanded by General Pettigrew)'s, now commanded by General Lane, and to order Heth's division, commanded by Pettigrew, and Lane's guns. The assault was then gallantly made. Heth's division and Trimble's two brigades on the le[3 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraphs. (search)
ciation unanimously re-elected the following officers: General W. H. F. Lee, President; Treasurer, Major Robert Stiles; Secretaries, Sergeant Geo. L. Christian and Sergeant Leroy S. Edwards; Vice-Presidents--First, General R. Ransom; Second, General H. Heth; Third, General A. L. Long; Fourth, General Wm. Terry; Fifth, Captain D. B. McCorkle. Executive Committee--General B. T. Johnson, Major W. K. Martin, Colonel Thomas H. Carter, Major T. A. Brander, Corporal Carlton McCarthy. In the absence of the President, the Second Vice-President, General H. Heth, presided over the meeting and at the banquet. We have received from Major I. Scheibert, of the Royal Prussian Engineers, a very kind letter, in which he expresses in high terms his appreciation of the value of our papers, and the great interest in the historical world which they create. We have not yet received his book on the Civil War in America, which he speaks of having sent, but hope that it will soon reach us. A d
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.34 (search)
, favorable to the Confederates, who were commanded by Gen. Harry Heth; by the brilliant action of Aug. 19th, in which the troops were immediately commanded by Heth and Mahone (the brunt of the fighting falling on Heth's division and Pegram's artillHeth's division and Pegram's artillery), and in which the enemy sustained a loss of many standards and above 2,700 prisoners; by the battle of August 21st, in l's Official Report. This brilliant stroke was delivered by Heth, under the immediate eye of A. P. Hill, and was mainly due e Richards, Twenty-seventh North Carolina, Cooke's brigade, Heth's division. General Lee, writing to Governor Vance under dn in the engagement at Reams' Station on the 25th instant. Heth, with a generosity as characteristic of the man as his taci, he adds, was 285; of this number only 59 were killed. In Heth's brigades it was probably less. --Transactions of Southerntary of War: General Hill reports that the attack of General Heth upon the enemy on the Boydton Plank Road, mentioned in