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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.5 (search)
h, after paroling the prisoners, we took up our march back into Virginia, with full stomachs. After a long and tedious march, we bivouacked late at night near Shepherdstown. On the 17th the bugle called us before day, and a forced march was begun for the Potomac, which we reached about sunrise-hungry and tired, and having a cold stream to wade. The enemy's guns at Sharpsburg could be distinctly heard at that early hour, D. H. Hill, with bulldog tenacity, holding McClellan in check while Longstreet and Jackson were coming to his aid. It took us only a few hours to reach our position under Jackson, on the extreme left of the line, and just at a time when that part of the line had commenced to give way before greatly superior numbers. In our immediate front the enemy were driven back over half a mile, after a fight of nearly two hours, and the expenditure by us of nearly every cartridge; but it was a dearly bought victory, for our little command sustained a greater loss that day th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.6 (search)
hour on the morning of July 2, 1863, did General Longstreet's troops present themselves, in readinesevening of July 1, 1863, that he had ordered Longstreet to attack at sunrise the next morning. Dr. on July 2, 1863. To sustain his assertion, Longstreet published extracts from letters written by m to say that this letter itself, as cited by Longstreet, bore no date. The extract ran thus: I aws was in command of the advance division of Longstreet's men as they approached Gettysburg. By Lontained the entire letter from Hood, of which Longstreet had printed only an extract, and it now appeted and I reported to the General. * * * General Longstreet was walking up and down a little way offrther, that the quasi-debate between Lee and Longstreet, as described in Hood's letter, took place bvacillate. He did not yield his judgment to Longstreet. The latter's fault was not argumentative oresence. Both were perpetrated when Lee and Longstreet were far apart. Longstreet countermanded th[43 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.26 (search)
y ground, where we were allowed to rest, where we were protected from the artillery fire also. Crenshaw's battery was planted on the hill in our rear and replied to the guns of the enemy with good effect. The fire was kept up for some time with vigor. Our command remained in the ravine about one hour, I think. All the time we remained there the artillery fire was heavy on both sides. There was heavy firing also to our right near the Chickahominy and back towards Gaines's Mill. General Longstreet's command was hotly engaged on that part of the line. About three or four o'clock we were ordered to advance. It was generally understood that we were to charge and take a Yankee battery in our front. No calculations were made that we would fail. The advance was made by the brigade, Orr's Rifles on the right wing. The regiment passed through some small pines skirting an open field near two hundred yards wide. When the open field was reached, the enemy opened a destructive fir
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gettysburg. (search)
ry, Wright, Posey and Mahone. We remained in this position until Longstreet's cops arrived on the following morning. Pender and Heth had theides, our loss being confined chiefly to Archer's brigade. When Longstreet arrived, we were advanced to the front and posted on the right ofed orders to hold our position, without pressing the enemy, until Longstreet could come into position on our right. He came into position and rear of Fredericksburg after the Chancellorsville fight—that is, Longstreet on the right, and Ewell on the left, almost confronting each otheth Hill in the centre; we received orders to conform our lines to Longstreet's movements and advance with him. About 4:30 P. M., Longstreet haLongstreet having advanced to Wilcox, he swung his right forward and advanced. As soon as his left reached my right, I conformed to the movement, and advaly, in no humor for following up his advantage. On the 3d, General Longstreet bringing sixty pieces of artillery up, and General Hill havin
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Colonel John Bowie Magruder. (search)
y minutes—one-half of the company present. On July 3rd, Armistead's brigade reported to General Longstreet, near Temperance Hall, about three miles from Shirley, nearly opposite the mouth of the Aprsh Road. Thereupon the colonel commanding issued congratulatory orders to his troops. General Longstreet ordered his troops to withdraw from the siege of Suffolk on the night of the 4th of May, ary, under General Roger A. Pryor, as a shadow of support for the guns. Just about sunrise General Longstreet rode up and ordered me to take two guns to shell a point of woods on the other side of theguns and left the chicken, and when my duty with the guns was over I returned to find both General Longstreet and my chicken gone. He left orders, however, that we were to remain on the bluff as longe Army of Northern Virginia the grandest army the world ever saw, when Jackson's Foot Cavalry, Longstreet's Heavies, and Hill's Light Infantry, would march twenty or thirty miles from dawn of one day
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.35 (search)
southward. General Lee's plans. Lee at once comprehended this plan, and immediately sent Longstreet with the First corps to check the front of McClellan's advance. Jackson, with the Second corps Fredericksburg, the ever-watchful Stuart promptly reported his movements to Lee, who ordered Longstreet from Culpeper and placed him at Fredericksburg, across Burnside's track in a strong position os to his whereabouts, with his usual promptness obeyed an order given him by Lee, and followed Longstreet to Fredericksburg. Making demonstrations at Chester and Thornton gaps, he misled those who wer the railroad leading from Richmond, where they could move either to the aid of D. H. Hill or Longstreet, as the exigences of the occasion might demand. Jackson established himself near Guiney's Sta Potomac landing. Jackson established his headquarters at Moss Neck, near Fredericksburg, and Longstreet's corps occupied the vicinity of Banks's Ford, and the Second corps went into winter quarters
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sick and wounded Confederate soldiers at Hagerstown and Williamsport. (search)
Sick and wounded Confederate soldiers at Hagerstown and Williamsport. Old record sent to Governor Tyler. Dr. J. M. Gaines, the surgeon in charge, wishes it preserved to Posterity—List contains nearly three hundred names. Governor Tyler has received from Dr. J. M. Gaines, of Hagerstown, Md., late surgeon 18th Virginia infantry, Garnett's brigade, Pickett's division, Longstreet's corps, Army of Northern Virginia, a complete list of the sick and wounded Confederate soldiers left at Williamsport, Pa., and Hagerstown, Md., after the battle of Gettysburg, from July 13 to August 12, 1863. Dr. Gaines made the report of the number of inmates of these hospitals. By order of General Lee, he was left at Williamsport to care for the wounded of the Army of Northern Virginia. After the hospital was established in Hagerstown, Dr. Gaines was sent thither by the Federal authorities to care for his wounded comrades. He remained with the wounded and sick until most of them were sent Nor
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.40 (search)
strategy of the occasion as developed by his great commander, recalled the troops from the very arms of victory, and an assured success of the Confederacy. At Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, General Lee planned a battle that stands, as to wisdom and feasibility, second to none which the master mind of Napoleon ever conceived. Not Marengo nor Wagram, nor any other field of the twenty years of Napoleon's career, surpasses in the splendor of the military art Lee's Gettysburg, as his orders read. Longstreet, afflicted as Early told us he was, often with an intellectual and physical inertia, point blank refused to execute those orders, and the only thing to show on our side is the incomparable achievement of Pickett's division. Stuart rode around McClellan on the Chickahominy and beat back Hooker's cavalry sent to assist that chieftain's on to Richmond. Wheeler rode around Rosecrans' army at Chattanooga, destroyed his wagon train of 1,000 laden wagons, and shot the 4,000 mules that drew it
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
ugh, 126. Lee, General R. E., 42, 73, 269, 290, 317. Lee. Mrs. Susan P., 40. Legal worthies of Virginia, 353. Lincoln, President, Platform of, 79; his emancipation proclamation, 80; character and religious opinions, 165, 369: his assumption and duplicity, 365; hated by his Cabinet; suppressed bill for reconstruction, 369; his demand for unconditional surrender of the South, 368, 375; efforts to defeat the second election of, 365; did not offer to pay for our slaves, 374. Longstreet, General, James, his delinquency at Gettysburg, 195. Lowell, General Charles R., 273. Loyall, Commander B. P., 136. McCabe, W. Gordon, 286. McCaslan, Captain W. E., killed, 196. McCausland, General, John, 179. McClure, Colonel A. K., 366. McGuire, Dr., Hunter, his able report on school histories, 98. McGuire, Prof. J. P. Address by, 352, 359 McDowell, Battle of, 43. McLaws, General L., 55. McCaw, Dr J. B., 335. McMasters, Lieutenant, killed, 316 Magruder: Colonel John Bo