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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.38 (search)
, issued from the headquarters of the army; and the disaster to the Federal regiment is mentioned in the official history of the Pennsylvania regiments, published by that State. Major H. B. McClellan, in The Life and Campaigns of General J, E. B. Stuart, briefly refers to the affair in a sentence, in in which the Boston printer gives the name of our major, erroneously, as Weller. Of the participants in this nocturnal raid, I can now recall but few among the living. Among these is Major R. Bird Lewis, the president of the Confederate Veteran Association of Washington, D. C., who was a sergeant at the time, and the only man on our side who was wounded. Dr. Gordon F. Bowie, of Richmond county, was one of the men who took an icy bath in shoving the batteau over the sand-bar. William R. Rust, of Colonial Beach, was active in forcing open the door of the house, where the chief danger was met. Lawrence Washington, of Oak Grove, rendered valuable service in surprising and capturing the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.39 (search)
The Black Horse Troop. [from the Richmond (Va.) times, Feb. 23, 1896.] the members of the House of Delegates, who served in the famous body. Pilcher, Lewis and Talliaferro. All fade enviable Records in the daring and gallant band of soldiers-a brief Sketch of the Black Horse and its commanders. One of the most gallant, serviceable, and picturesque contingents of the Army of Northern Virginia, was that famous company of cavalry known as the Black Horse Troop, which won such bright laurels for its daring exploits, and the valuable information and aid it rendeered the Confederate commanders in some of the greatest engagements of the Civil war. In many respects it was a remarable body of men, composed as it was, of handsome, strapping, debonair Virginians, admirably horsed and equipped, in whose natures the spirit of chivalry was an abiding trait that marked the flight of their banner from the outbreak to the close of the war. They wielded their sabres like the cuirassiers o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The laying of the corner-stone of the monument to President Jefferson Davis, (search)
Laughlin, Captain, Wm., 248. Libby, Captain H. S., 225. Lee's Campaign in 1862 compared with that of Grant in 1864, 138; forces in 1864, 177. Lee and Longstreet — a criticism, by Colonel Walter H. Taylor, 73. Lee to the rear, Accounts of the incident, 79. Lee, General Stephen D., 111; Oration by, at the laying of the corner-stone of the Jefferson Davis Monument, 366. Lee, Colonel, of the 37th North Carolina Regiment, killed, 329. Lewis, Richard, Sketch of, 223. Lewis, Major, R. Bird, 217. Louisianians, Patriotism of; 43. McAlpine, Major Charles R., 98. McAlpine, Newton, 98. McClellan, General, Geo. B., 295. McClellan, Major H. B., 216. McCreery, John Van Law, 110. Magruder, General John B., 43. Manassas, Battle of, 330 Marshall, Colonel, James, killed, 186. Maple Leaf, Capture of the Federal Steamer, 165. Mayer, R. B., 59. Mayo, Colonel Robert M., 184. Mechanicsville, Battle of, 329. Meredith, Jaquelin Marshall, 187. Mexican War, T