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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Longstreet or search for Longstreet in all documents.
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.15 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The old Texas brigade, [from the Richmond times, September 22 , 1891 .] (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Thomas J. Jackson . (search)
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Jefferson Davis . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.65 (search)
General Joseph R. Anderson.
[from the Richmond times, January 24, 1892.]
Hero of an incident of the battle of Gaines' Mill.
The 27th of June, 1862, dawned bright and beautiful over Richmond, with the armies of Lee and McClellan confronting each other on the Chickahominy.
A. P. Hill's division on the previous evening had crossed that stream at Meadow Bridge, and moving down to Mechanicsville had enabled Longstreet to cross on that turnpike.
Lee and McClellan had had their first deadly grapple with each other at Mechanicsville and Ellyson's Mill, and McClellan had withdrawn his troops to the heights of Gaines' Mill, where Fitz John Porter with his Pennsylvania Bucktails, supported by artillery, held a position naturally strong, but which had been rendered almost impregnable by earthworks and an abattis of felled trees.
Hill, feeling his way, reached the front of Porter about noon, or a little later, and formed line of battle.
His first line was composed of a brigade of Geo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)