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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 310 68 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 306 36 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 305 15 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 289 5 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 262 18 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 233 13 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 204 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 182 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 170 8 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 146 14 Browse Search
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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 4: Yorktown and Williamsburg (search)
an unusual amount of sickness resulted. Gen. D. H. Hill wrote in his official report:— Our Ren returned to the field, and the division of D. H. Hill, which had only advanced a short distance frout in observation beyond our left flank. D. H. Hill and Early both went with this left column, a Hancock's position, but suggested an attack to Hill. Hill approved, but referred the question to JHill approved, but referred the question to Johnston. Johnston, who had left the battle entirely to Longstreet's direction, referred it to the l and it was assured. But this message taken to Hill did not satisfy him. He was a brother-in-law ofan attack which might have routed Hancock. But Hill, to lose no time, began the formation of the fos over half a mile, much of it wood and swamp. Hill placed the four regiments in a line of battle ehe led the two right. But Early mistook one of Hill's commands to his own wing, for the order to chd been begun, it also advanced without orders. Hill, tangled in wood and swamp with the two centre [1 more...]
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 5: Seven Pines or fair Oaks (search)
ston by D. H. Hill soon after noon on the 30th, Hill was informed in reply that he would lead an attnned in accordance with the intimation given D. H. Hill about noon. The conference was prolonged mp, was instructed verbally to form his own and Hill's division in two lines crossing the Williamsbu position on the Nine Mile road, and to support Hill's attack upon the Williamsburg road by his attaons holding two other lines partly intrenched. Hill may carry the first line and even have some suc now being reenforced by Kearny's division, but Hill received also a reenforcement of R. H. AndersonSo terminated what should properly be called D. H. Hill's Battle, for the whole, as we shall see, emes and places, and under different commanders. Hill's battle was fought principally against Keyes'son down the Nine Mile road to cooperate with D. H. Hill's attack down the Williamsburg road. By ch over toward the York River Railroad, and find Hill's troops, while the remaining brigades moved do[27 more...]
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, chapter 7 (search)
Longstreet, with his division and that of Gen. D. H. Hill, will cross the Chickahominy at or near that point, Gen. D. H. Hill moving to the support of Gen. Jackson, and Gen. Longstreet supporting Gee had had on June 23 Longstreet, A. P. Hill, D. H. Hill, and Jackson, to meet in conference at his h Creek, opening the road to Longstreet's and D. H. Hill's divisions. A. P. Hill's division moved son's artillery fired by mistake into the head of Hill's advancing column. The trap was sprung, but tour divisions, —his own, Ewell's, Whiting's, D. H. Hill's, — and Lawton's large brigade in addition.h. But in the slow marching of the morning, D. H. Hill, with characteristic aggressiveness, had man drive the Federals toward me, I directed Gen. D. H. Hill to move his division to the left of the r. It was about seven o'clock when at last D. H. Hill, Ewell, Lawton, and a part of Winder were alk was his weakest point. It was not found. D. H. Hill would have attacked it even before A. P. Hil[11 more...]<
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, chapter 8 (search)
rd's letter. Hampton's crossing. Franklin's comments. D. H. Hill's explanation. battle of Frazier Farm. bayonet fightinised his own three brigades under Winder, Ewell's three, D. H. Hill's five, Whiting's two, and Lawton's one, — in all 14 brintry referred to by Franklin as having crossed were only D. H. Hill's skirmish-line. No effort was made to cross anything mncealed in a dense wood close by. A battery of 28 guns from Hill's and Whiting's artillery was placed by Col. Crutchfield ineems to have made it imperative he should have done. D. H. Hill (who was Jackson's brother-in-law), writing in the Centunvention, for the nonce, below their wonted tension. D. H. Hill does not comment upon this explanation, but it will not nd 30, in fact dated from the very first of the Seven Days. Hill submits his own explanation of the matter as follows:— ree brigades—Rodes's, Garland's, and G. B. Anderson's of D. H. Hill's division—had had killed and wounded the first day at
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, chapter 9 (search)
gun. Wright's report. Semmes and Kershaw. D. H. Hill's report. Toombs's report. casualties. Lenative of this section, and had described to D. H. Hill its striking features, noting, — its comiver road, and was not engaged. Longstreet and Hill were in reserve behind Magruder; and Ewell's aner, not made absolute. Magruder, Huger, and D. H. Hill, with their 14 brigades, were notified as foas quickly overwhelmed. The artillery under D. H. Hill, which had been engaged at White Oak Swamp td continued until about half-past 3 o'clock. D. H. Hill thus describes that in his front, — InstLongstreet at once to move his own division and Hill's to the left: Longstreet had rejoined his trooattached to Huger. Farther to the left came D. H. Hill's five brigades. Magruder's brigades consumof musketry, but no sooner was it heard than D. H. Hill's division was also put in. Fitz-John Port themselves to be the only ones engaged. D. H. Hill, whose advance was across the plateau, thus [7 more...]<
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 10: Cedar Mountain (search)
et and Jackson were made lieutenant-generals, and the whole army was definitely organized into corps. Some improvement was also made in our armament by the guns and rifled muskets captured during the Seven Days, and my reserve ordnance train was enlarged. Lines of light earthworks were constructed, protecting Chaffin's Bluff batteries on the James River, and stretching across the peninsula to connect with the lines already built from the Chickahominy to the head of White Oak Swamp. Gen. D. H. Hill also constructed lines on the south side of the James, protecting Drury's Bluff and Richmond from an advance in that quarter; and Gen. French at Petersburg, as already mentioned, threw lines around that city, from the river below to the river above. Just at the beginning of the Seven Days Battles, President Lincoln had called from the West Maj.-Gen. John Pope, and placed him in command of the three separate armies of Fremont and Banks, in the Valley of Virginia, and McDowell near Fre
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 11: second Manassas (search)
about 50,000, and in five days more he would have near 130,000. The situation was desperate, and it required a desperate remedy. Two divisions of infantry, — D. H. Hill's and McLaws's, — two brigades under Walker, and a brigade of cavalry under Hampton, which all together would raise Lee's force to 75,000, had been ordered up f charged the lines, and took them with eight guns. Our cavalry, following the movement, gathered 300 prisoners. Next morning Jackson came up with Taliaferro's and Hill's divisions at an early hour, and, about the same time, a Federal brigade, sent by rail from Alexandria, advanced from Bull Run in line of battle, expecting to drie would have about 107,000 in the field. Lee also had some reenforcements coming, and already at the Rappahannock River. They were the divisions of McLaws and D. H. Hill, each about 7000; Walker's division about 4000; Hampton's cavalry 1500, and Pendleton's reserve artillery 1000 — total 20,500. Having telegraphed Halleck tha<
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 12: Boonsboro or South Mountain, and Harper's Ferry (search)
al copy of Lee's order No. 191, addressed to D. H. Hill, fell into McClellan's hands on Sept. 13 soo order should have issued from Lee's office for Hill. Jackson so understood it, and, with his usualof the order, with his own hand made a copy for Hill, and sent it. This copy Hill received and caref, then in camp at Hagerstown. Four brigades of Hill's division were at different points, from two tre ordered to march in the morning to reenforce Hill, and Lee and Longstreet returned with them to Tigade arrived in time to hold the position. D. H. Hill never failed to get good fighting out of hises, were attacking it and gradually outflanking Hill's positions. By 3 P. M. they had occupied grou to climb the hills from the west in support of Hill's five brigades, now much reduced by their long conflict. Hill, in his report, says: — Had Longstreet's division been with mine at daylight instreet and Hill repaired as the firing ceased. Hill made a report of the situation. Darkness had s[10 more...]
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 13: Sharpsburg or Antietam (search)
e, with the 14 brigades under Longstreet and D. H. Hill, in line of battle in front of Sharpsburg ale's brigade, on their right, connected with D. H. Hill's division. Hays's brigade had also just beattle had been held by three brigades, which D. H. Hill had had near at hand and in reserve,— Colquiix brigades, about 3600 strong, were sent to D. H. Hill's division. But Armistead's brigade was pred rear, French soon came into collision with D. H. Hill's advanced brigades. These made a stubborn been routed and badly cut up at Turner's Gap. Hill reports:— Garland's brigade (Col. MacRae coe enemy's, four were killed and six wounded. Hill now had left in the sunken road only two of hison's division— some three or four thousand men, Hill reports, which had taken position in his rear. action here was of a very animated nature, for Hill, being reenforced by the division of Anderson, d G. T. Anderson of D. R. Jones's division. D. H. Hill, himself on foot (having had three horses ki[12 more...
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 14: fall of 1862 (search)
916 2D corps, Jackson's Ewell'sLawton's, Early's, Trimble's, Hays's, Latimer's Battalion 6 Batteries, 26 Guns7,716 D. H. Hill'sRodes's, Dole's, Colquitt's, Iverson's, Ramseur's H. P. Jones's Battalion, 5 Batteries, 22 Guns6,944 A. P. Hill'sFiel Anderson's Division7,639Ewell's Division7,716 Hood's Division7,334A. P. Hill's Division11,554 McLaws's Division 7,898D. H. Hill's Division8,944 Pickett's Division7,567Jackson's Division5,005 Ransom's Division3,855Reserve Artillery473 Reserve Arnside's strategy of its only merit. It had been his hope to find Lee's army somewhat dispersed, as indeed it had been; D. H. Hill's and Early's divisions having been at Skinker's Neck and Port Royal, 12 to 22 miles away. But they were recalled on te divisions of Early and Taliaferro — Early on the right —a short distance in rear, and a fourth one by the division of D. H. Hill in rear of that. Burnside was losing one of the advantages of his superior force by concentrating it upon too short a
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