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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 718 4 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 564 12 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 458 4 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 458 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 376 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 306 2 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 280 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 279 23 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 237 5 Browse Search
Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence 216 6 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Ranaway--$100 reward (search)
rly hour this morning, keeping them at bay. No demonstration was made against the upper ford, where I was stationed. The enemy's flank was thus exposed to us. Gen. Fitz Lee determined to take advantage of this, and about 10 o'clock crossed over at Raccoon ford with a brigade of cavalry and our force of infantry — about two regimene array on the wide extended plain. We were in an open field, as level as a floor; they occupying the only eminence in the vicinity. Orders soon came from General Lee (Fitz.) for us to advance and charge them. --There was no flanking, no shelter, no protection whatever to our men, but the manner in which our lines advanced driven beyond the Rappahannock, at Kelly's ford. A decided victory has been gained by our troops. The moral effect gained by the movement of our Commanding General, Lee, cannot be over-estimated. In conclusion, it gives me great pleasure to bear testimony to the valor and fighting qualities of our cavalry. In the past, they m
The Daily Dispatch: October 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Runaway--$200 reward. (search)
The Western soldiers. --The common conceit that the Western soldiers of the United States fight much better than those of the East does not seem to be sustained by the testimony of that portion of the army of Gen. Lee which has lately had an opportunity of comparing the prowess of the two sections. The Western Yankees seem to be pretty much the same stuff as those of the East, except perhaps the Kentucky and other Southern elements in their ranks. The armies so often beaten at our own doors have in fact been made up of the best fighting materials that the North and Europe could afford — the old regulars of the United States, and the Irish and Germans, but for whom the Yankees proper would long ago have been annihilated. The Western troops of the United States have hitherto had so vast a preponderance in numbers and munitions of war, that we have been borne back by the weight of enormous odds; but even that advantage is beginning to fail. Properly organized and handled, our tr