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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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General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter3 (search)
thern Virginia was forty-seven thousand two hundred, of whom four thousand eight hundred belonged to the Acquia district, and three. thousand seven hundred to that of the Valley. The figures are taken from the return in my possession. Brigadier-General D. H. Hill had succeeded Brigadier-General Evans in the command of the troops near Leesburg, the latter being transferred to South Carolina. Early in December, Major Blair, the chief commissary of the army, was compelled by ill health to leavuantity of rain that fell, and of snow, always melting quickly, made a depth of mud rarely equaled. The Confederate troops fought bravely and well wherever they encountered those of the United States, in 1861. At Bethel, under Magruder and D. H. Hill; at Oakhill, under Price and McCulloch; on the Gauley, under Floyd; on the Greenbrier, under H. R. Jackson; on Santa Rosa Island, under R. H. Anderson; at Belmont, under Polk and Pillow; on the Alleghany, under Edward Johnson, and at Chastenall
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 4 (search)
te with any Confederate forces that might be sent to oppose him should he move by the Lower Rappahannock or Fort Monroe. Brigadier-Generals Whiting and D. II. Hill were ordered to march on the morning of the 7th: the first from the Lower Occoquan and neighborhood of Dumfries, with his own, Wigfall's, and Hampton's brigades, t day before. Much provision was left at Manassas, and salt meat at Thoroughfare. The country people were invited to divide this meat among themselves, as soon as Hill's brigade, in passing, had taken as much of it as it could transport. General Stuart occupied the line of Bull Run with the cavalry, during the night of the 9t promoted to command Smith's division. When it was ascertained, about the 5th of April, that the Federal army was marching from Fort Monroe toward Yorktown, D. H. Hill's, D. R. Jones's, and Early's divisions, were transferred from the Army of Northern Virginia to that of the Peninsula. The former was thus reduced to four div
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 5 (search)
ederate right wing, Longstreet's the centre, D. H. Hill's the left, and Smith's the reserve. The fiy Longstreet and Stuart to be so sharp, that D. H. Hill's division, which had marched several miles, no lurkers or stragglers from Longstreet's and Hill's divisions. The day after the action those by New Kent Court-House, and Longstreet's and Hill's that by the Long Bridges. In these marches t at least. This fact was reported to me by General Hill soon after noon. He was informed, in reply,n until two o'clock, Longstreet put his own and Hill's in motion toward the enemy, in order of battl to the southeast into White-oak Swamp. General Hill pursued the enemy toward Bottom's Bridge, me brigade was near the left of Longstreet's and Hill's line, learned that a strong body of Federal td to struggle. The loss in Longstreet's and Hill's divisions was about three thousand; Longstreder the protection of these intrenchments while Hill was gathering the arms scattered in woods and t[19 more...]
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 12 (search)
Kinston in heavy force, and was then but nine miles from the place. He suggested that the troops just arrived at Smithfield from Charlotte could join him in a few hours, and that such a reinforcement might enable him to win a victory. Major-General D. H. Hill, who commanded the troops referred to, was, for the object in view, placed under General Bragg's orders. The troops were united at Kinston on the 7th. Clayton's division, the remnant of it rather, which reached Smithfield during the dad-pieces were captured in the engagement and pursuit. In reporting this success by telegraph, at night, General Bragg said: The number of the enemy's dead and wounded left on the field is large. Our own loss, under Providence, is small. Major--Generals Hill and Hoke exhibited their usual zeal, energy, and gallantry. The two parties skirmished a little on the 9th, in front of the position taken by the enemy the evening before, which had been intrenched in the mean time. On the following morn