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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), War Diary of Capt. Robert Emory Park, Twelfth Alabama Regiment. January 28th, 1863—January 27th, 1864. (search)
d, became senior officer on the field under General Lee. His modesty caused him to turn over the cds more nearly than any of our generals. Truly Lee has lost his most reliable aid. His name and deg, the latter won, and his name was sent to General Lee. May 21. Officer of the guard for twenty pray for victory. We have every confidence in Lee and Stuart. July 4. A memorable, historic de of the secretaries. Countersign at night was Lee. August 28 and 29. Colonel Battle received hs. Bob Wynn and Win. Mayo were assigned by General Lee to Co. F, from Bragg's army, and reached ca Dec. 7, 8, 9 and 10. Quiet in quarters. General Lee issued an order suggesting the 10th as a dather at once, inclosing letter. Dec. 29. General Lee issued an order directing that furloughs be Jan. 4 and 5. Colonel Chilton, chief of General Lee's staff, answered my letter of inquiry of 2d jocular they are! Jan. 21. Order from General Lee to send applications for furloughs at rate [6 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Charles Jones Colcock. (search)
h Carolina, when General Hardee assigned the 3d regiment to duty on General's Sherman's right flank, which placed Colonel Colcock's command between Charleston and the enemy during the movement of the troops from that city to North Carolina. The 3d cavalry was in a number of small engagements, notably near Florence, and were uniformly successful, and finally reached Goldsboro, N. C., the day that President Davis met General Joseph E. Johnston in conference. Colonel Colcock heard there of General Lee's surrender. As is well known, this was soon followed by the capitulation of General Johnston's army and the end of the war. At Union Court House, where the regiment had been ordered, President Davis passing through, sent for Colonel Colcock, informed him that the war was virtually over, that it was useless to attempt to cross the Mississippi and join General Kirby Smith, and advised him to furlough his command for ninety days, unless sooner assembled. This was done—the parting was a sa
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Battle and campaign of Gettysburg. (search)
done. June 27th. In the afternoon I met General Lee again at his tent pitched near the road, fell it could easily be taken, and I thought General Lee expected it. I volunteered to capture the pg, we should march to that place and notify General Lee accordingly; nothing was decided that nightsburg, and that a courier should be sent to General Lee for positive orders. We reached Middletown all the morning. July 3rd., Afternoon. General Lee having decided to carry Cemetery Ridge by asburg fight was a drawn battle, though with General Lee in the enemy's country, failure of victory alry. That officer disobeyed two orders of General Lee, to keep his cavalry between our army and t, before he had concentrated, as desired by General Lee. 5th. Want of concert in attacks on 2ndting two corps against the enemy's left, as General Lee intended, and moving forward to the attack uggle. But there is no question that, as General Lee hoped and believed, a successful battle in [17 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Henry Chase Whiting, Major-General C. S. Army. (search)
has won, Above its place of rest. It lived with Lee, and decked his brow From Fate's empyreal Palm;y Southern valor. Scott and Taylor, as well as Lee and Davis, in the Mexican war, were men of the the Secretary of War, of General Smith, of General Lee, of General Bragg when stationed at Richmonas been declared to be the glory of the army of Lee, that it placed hors du combat as many men of Gy for the fate of the fort, and with it that of Lee's army and the cause, he telegraphed the Secret was within two and a half miles, with 6,000 of Lee's best troops, three batteries of artillery andnia, I was sent by my commanding officer to General Lee, bearing a note of complaint (and with good reason), that he had been, by General Lee's order, improperly subordinated to others; and I remember Lee's endorsement upon the note, in substance: What do you care about rank? I would serve undeary. General Whiting did the thing which General Lee said he would do. Without a murmur, giving [7 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph Wheeler. (search)
he First Congressional District of Virginia. He was met at Milford Station by a Committee from Lee and Pickett Veteran Camps, and from that of the Sons of Veterans, and arrived on the evening of tng down-pour of rain throughout the afternoon, there was a large crowd assembled to greet him. Lee Camp Hall was filled to its full capacity and upon the entrance of General Wheeler (accompanied bcourage in directing a detachment which checked the opposing army at Fredericksburg, impelled General Lee to exclaim: Is it not glorious to see such courage in one so young! Mr. Cox added: In geneore than any rank in any army—more valuable than any title of nobility or badge of any order, General Lee bestowed on him the name by which he was afterwards known, the gallant Pelham. Buried byn, Stonewall Jackson, Stuart and the long roll of the chivalric Lees, above all, the one colossal Lee, whose fame challenges the ages from the topmost heights of glorious renown; the gallant, superb,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate cavalry. (search)
emory recalls the scene. On this day, when the cavalry was so successfully resisting Pleasanton's reconnoisance in force to ascertain the position of our army, then moving through the village of Culpeper Courthouse on the Gettysburg campaign, General Lee was near Culpeper, and wrote these touching lines to Mrs. Lee: I reviewed the cavalry in this section yesterday. It was a splendid sight. The men and horses looked well. They had recuperated since last fall. Stuart was in all his glory. TMrs. Lee: I reviewed the cavalry in this section yesterday. It was a splendid sight. The men and horses looked well. They had recuperated since last fall. Stuart was in all his glory. The country here looks very green and pretty, notwithstanding the ravages of war. What a beautiful world God, in his loving kindness to his creatures, has given us. What a shame that men, endowed with reason and a knowledge of right, should mar his gifts. The forces engaged in the battle of Fleetwood consisted, on the Federal side, of three divisions of cavalry—twenty-four regiments—and two brigades of infantry, consisting of ten regiments, numbering in all nearly 11,000 men. All of these, sav