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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 142 0 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 41 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 25 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 25 1 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 21 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 20 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1862., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 2 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Battle of Bull Run. (search)
s shortly after 5 o'clock, I received orders from Col. Miles, through one of his staff, to retreat upon Centreim that I had been ordered back to Centreville by Col. Miles; that the rest of my brigade had gone on, and thaxander gave me this last direction I learned that Col. Miles had altered the position of some regiments which f their position being altered. He told me that Colonel Miles had directed this movement. I asked him why? Cplied, I do not know, but he had no confidence in Col. Miles. I inquired the reason why? Col. Stevens answered, Because Col. Miles is drunk. That closed the conversation. I sent Col. Stevens back with his regiment, tplace another battalion in line, and I was met by Col. Miles, who ordered me to form that regiment in another o more orders that he might see fit to give me. Colonel Miles then said, Colonel Richardson I shall put you inand that he never could put me in that position. Col. Miles answered that he did not understand this. I said
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 100 (search)
Doc. 91.-report of Col. Davies. Headquarters, 2D brigade, 5TH Division, Alexandria, July 14, 1861. To Col. Miles, Commanding 5th Division Troops, Department of Northeastern Virginia. Sir::--In pursuance of your verbal order of yesterday, I made a reconnoissance on the Fairfax road, seven miles out, and on the Richmond road about ten miles, and on the Mount Vernon road as far as Mount Vernon. The pickets on the Fairfax road captured a newly-painted ambulance, containing a set of harness and two bags of buckwheat. On the curtain, on the inside, was distinctly written in pencil, John Hughes, Fairfax. The picket on the Richmond road saw three horsemen, who, by a dexterous turn, evaded a shot from the picket. The picket on the Mount Vernon road, in its diligence, discovered, on the premises of one John A. Washington, formerly a resident and still an occupant of a large estate near Mount Vernon, what was supposed to amount to eight thousand pounds of bacon, and seventy-five ba