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John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 24: (search)
eut. Prosper Landry, the other by Lieut. Camille Mollere. For a time, on the first day, Maurin had a gun which was ordered by Major Latrobe, of Longstreet's staff, to be placed outside the works, where it could not bear upon the enemy assaulting Marye's. Where they were, the gun's defenders, commanded by Landry, were in far greater peril than the foe. Most effectively did Landry perform this service; but in doing so lost several of his men and had his feet disabled. His conduct was admirable, brigade was, and was not, at Chancellorsville. Early, in whose division he was, had, under orders from General Lee, left him behind at Fredericksburg to guard the valorous town. It was no inglorious task which had fallen to Hays. Attending to Marye's safety were other gallant commands: Barksdale's brigade, Griffin's Eighteenth Mississippi occupying the foot of the hill, and Humphreys' Twenty-fifth Mississippi. The Washington artillery's First, Second and Fourth companies were also there t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gregg's brigade of South Carolinians in the Second. Battle of Manassas. (search)
that day, the 30th, as we had been on the 29th, and to suffer as terribly. Virginia can justly point with peculiar pride to the famous charge of Pickett's division of Virginians at Gettysburg—a charge now almost as famous as that at Balaklava. The State of North Carolina should write immortal on the banner of its Fifth regiment, was the tribute of its heroic adversary at Williamsburg—General Hancock. The lamented Cobb, and his brigade, have indelibly associated the name of Georgia with Marye's heights at Fredericksburg; and each State can name some battlefield on which its troops especially distinguished themselves, and I think in doing so South Carolina can find none in which her sons more gloriously maintained her fame than in the great battle of which I have been speaking. Lest it should be thought that I have exaggerated the deeds of her soldiers on that day, let me give a few figures as to the losses of this State, which will better illustrate their conduct than any panegy
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
erson Davis was of this descent, and the immigrant ancestor of Thomas Jefferson, it is known, was a native of Wales. Although it has been claimed that he was of Scotch Irish blood, yet not a single ancestor of his was of either strain. There were refugee Huguenots who found asylum desultorily in Virginia before 1700, but the chief influx was in that year, when more than 500 came and settled, chiefly at Manakintown. The virtue of this infusion is manifest in the names of Dupuy, Fontaine, Marye, Maury, Micou, Michaux, and others, quite concluding the alphabet with Venable and Youille, many of them being numerously represented among us. Of the Scotch, but few immigrants before the union of Scotland with England, in 1707, may be identified. William Drummond, who had been Governor of North Carolina, and who was hung by Berkeley in 1676 as a rebel, is said to have been a Scotchman. The founder of the distinguished Nelson family was called, it may be significantly, Scotch Tom, but
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Monument to the Confederate dead at the University of Virginia. (search)
uck's hand dropped from the trigger. He dashed it across his eyes to dispel the mist and make sure he hadn't passed over the river and wasn't seeing his own baby-girl in a vision. No, there is the baby, amid the hell of shot and shell, and here come the Yankees. A moment, and he has grounded his gun, dashed out into the storm, swept his great right arm around the baby, gained cover again, and, baby clasped to his breast and musket trailed in his left hand, is trotting after the boys up to Marye's heights. And there, behind that historic stone wall and in the lines hard by, all those hours and days of terror, was that baby kept; her fierce nurses taking turns patting her, while the storm of battle raged and shrieked—and, at night, wrestling with each other for the boon and benediction of her quiet breathing under their blankets. Never was baby so tended and cared for. They scoured the country side for milk, and conjured up their best skill to prepare dainty viands for her little
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Crenshaw Battery, Pegram's Battalion, Confederate States Artillery. (search)
Crenshaw Battery, Pegram's Battalion, Confederate States Artillery. Graphic account of the effective career of this gallant organization. Highly interesting details. Hanging of Webster the Spy. Battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Bristow Station, Centreville, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Marye's height, Gettysburg, Burgess' Mill, Hatcher's Run and Five Forks. By Private J. C Goolsby. [The writer of the following interesting reminiscences, entered the service a boy of fourteen years, and was constantly present with his command to the bitter finale at Appomattox C. H. His commanders, by whom he was held in highest regard, attest his gallantry and fidelity. He is now the efficient manager of the printing and publishing department of the Everett Waddey Company, of this city. —Editor.] At the suggestion of some of my old comrades I send for publication my recollection of the part played by this battery in our late war.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
inst which the Union army charged, and behind which the Confederates were protected, has been taken away and now forms the walls of the residence of the keeper of the National Cemetery, on the very heights which the Union forces sought to gain. Eighteen thousand soldiers now sleep in this cemetery, all of whom lost their lives either upon or within rifleshot of the place where they lie buried. Some of the wall, however, is still intact, the stone now green and gray with age, while the old Marye mansion, on the summit, is the residence of Captain Rowe. The columns of its spacious porch are still perforated with bullet-holes, its walls are chipped where shell and shrapnel struck, and the outbuildings are bored in numerous places with the small, round hole of the minie-ball. The slaughter below the Heights. As the party stood upon the hill top, the story of the awful slaughter at the foot of Marye's Heights was retold. In the road below was the monument which marked the spot w
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Addenda by the editor (search)
Carolina. 38th North Carolina, Lieut.-col. John Ashford. Artillery. Colonel R. L. Walker. Brunson's South Carolina Battery. Crenshaw's Virginia Battery. Davidson's Virginia Battery (Letcher Art.). McGraw's Virginia Battery. Marye's Virginia Battery. D. H. Hill's division. Brigadier-general R. E. Rodes. Brigadier-general S. D. Ramseur. Rodes' brigade. Brigadier-general R. E. Rodes. Colonels E. A. O'Neal and J. M. Hall. 3d Alabama, Capt. M. F. Bonham. 5th Battalion. Major W. J. Pegram. Captain E. B. Brunson. Brander's Virginia Battery (Letcher Artillery). Brunson's South Carolina Battery (PeeDee Artillery). Crenshaw's Virginia Battery. McGraw's Virginia Battery (Purcell Artillery. Marye's Virginia Battery (Fredericksburg Art.). Cavalry. Major-General J. E. B. Stuart. Hampton's brigade. Brig.-gen. Wade Hampton. Colonel L. S. Baker. 1st North Carolina. 1st South Carolina. 2d South Carolina. Cobb's Georgia Legion
The Daily Dispatch: February 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nt, brown, Bruce, Burdett, Burley, Byrne, Campbell, Carlile, Clemens, Coffman, C. B. Conrad, R. Y. Conrad, Couch, J. H. Cox, Critcher, Custis, Deskins, Dorman, Dulany, Early, Echols, Flournoy, Forbes, French, Fugate, Garland, Gillespie, Grant, Gravely, Gray, Goggin, Hale, Addison Hall, E. B. Hall, Hammond, Haymond, Hoge, Holladay, Hubbard, Hughes, Hull, Jackson, M. Johnson, P. C. Johnston, Lawson, Lewis, McComas, McGrew, McNeil, MacFARLANDarland, C. K. Mallory, J. B. Mallory, Marshall, Marr, Marye, Maslin, Masters, Moffett, Moore, Nelson, Orrick, Osburn, Patrick, Pendleton, Porter, Preston, Price, Pugh, Rives, Saunders, Robert E. Scott Sharp, Sheffey, Sitlington, Slaughter, Southall, Speed, Spurlock, Staples, Alex. H. H. Stuart, Chapman J. Stuart, Taylor, Tredway, Waller, white, Wickham, Willey, and Woods--95. nays.--Messrs. Ambler, Blakey, Boissean, Borst, Cecil, Chambliss, Chapman, Conn, R. H. Cox, Fisher, Graham, Gregory, John Goode, Jr. , Thos. F. Goode, Cyrus Hall, L. S. Hal
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ia, by leave, corrected some portion of his speech, as reported in the official newspaper. Voice of the people. Mr. Marye, of Spotsylvania, by leave, laid before the Convention a series of resolutions adopted by the citizens of Fredericksburonstruction of a Government with the slave States. [the reporter was unable to obtain a copy of the resolutions.] Mr. Marye addressed the Convention in opposition to coercion, and read resolutions expressive of his convictions. He wished the hen what had there been declared should be acted on, Virginia would also act. The following are the resolutions read by Mr. Marye. Whereas, Abraham Lincoln has announced, in his Inaugural Address, that he regards the Union is still unbroken, aneport the same without delay to this body. on being informed that the Committee had already made a report in part, Mr. Marye did not ask for the reference of his resolutions, and no action was therefore taken upon them. minority reports.
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The Convention. The Committee on Federal Relations made a partial report on Saturday, and three minority reports were submitted--one by Mr.Wise, one by Messrs. Harvie, Montague and Williams, and one by Mr. James Barhour.--They will be found in the regular proceedings. It is understood that the majority report is approved by sixteen of the twenty one members of the Committee. Mr. Ambler concluded his speech on the pending instruction resolutions, after which they were laid on the table. Mr. Marye submitted a series of resolutions adopted by the citizens of Fredericksburg, accompanying them with some effective remarks. Mr. Johnson, of Richmond, made a speech, refuting some reports alleged to have been circulated to his prejudice among his constituents. It is probable that the grand conflict on the Committee's reports will commence to-day.
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