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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 123 3 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 117 1 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 101 3 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 58 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 50 16 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 41 3 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 39 5 Browse Search
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States 28 12 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 19 1 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 18 8 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Magruder or search for Magruder in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
network of torpedoes which closed Charleston Bay to the Unionists. A heavy norther again drives away the enemy's vessels, but as soon as it has abated, these, braving the fire of the fort, will certainly come to cut off the retreat of its defenders. The latter have understood this, and hasten to evacuate the works during the night of the 28th-29th. This fortunate coup-de-main ended Banks' operations on the coast of Texas. To continue them and attack Galveston, the defence of which General Magruder had prepared with care, would have required much greater forces, which the Federal Government could not give him. Moreover, Halleck, who had not forgiven him for having relinquished the land-route to invade Texas with the co-operation of the fleet, sought all means for quarrelling with him, reproaching him one day for not having waited for his approbation to embark, whilst he had recommended him to set foot on the Texan soil, no matter how, and as soon as possible; reproving him anothe
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
ed, thanks to his disposition, his energy on the battlefield, his mind fertile in expedients, to gain their confidence, and we shall see to what advantage he turned this confidence. Mouton's infantry brigade occupied Alexandria; this and Liddell's brigade of cavalry, united under Taylor's command, did not number more than six thousand men, which, with the officers, gave this corps an effective force of about six thousand five hundred, with batteries of artillery. The forces in Texas under Magruder's command were somewhat numerous, but they included a large portion of the troops raised in each district, which were admirable for local defence, but could not be called away, as they would have refused to leave the soil of their State. Kirby Smith could recall to Louisiana only Greer's division of cavalry, about three thousand strong, which had already operated in this region and had recently been detached from it. Holmes occupied the south of Arkansas with the two corps of Price and Ma