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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Harper's Ferry and first Manassas. (search)
ce, and giving them to me as I went to and fro between the piece and the limber. Our little 6-pounder, which we thought more of than we would now of a 30-pounder Parrott, did good work that day. Our captain occasionally passed us, going from one piece to another to see that we were doing our duty, and shrugging his shoulders as a crept between the two folds of the caisson cover and slept a while longer. On awaking I saw passing several pieces of artillery, and among them a thirty-pounder Parrott piece, all of which had been captured on the retreat. headquarters Rodes's Division, Camp near Orange C. H. [Va.], March 10th, 1864. Notwithstanding my det every five or six days. While here we exchanged some pieces of our battery and obtained two additional pieces, so that it was now constituted two (2) ten-pounder Parrott rifled guns, three (3) six-pounder smooth-bore guns, and one (1) twelve-pounder Howitzer; the six-pounder we retained was the one at which I served at the first b
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard. (search)
During the evening and night of the 16th Butler retreated upon Bermuda Hundred. On the 17th Ransom's Division was recalled to Richmond, and Beauregard, with the remainder of his troops, moved in pursuit, Whiting's force joining him upon the march. About 3 P. M. our advance encountered Butler's pickets, in front of his entrenched position. The column was at once deployed, skirmishers thrown forward and engaged. The position at Howlett's house was seized after dark; the two twenty-pound Parrott's captured at Drewry's Bluff were put in position, and manned by infantry from Hagood's brigade. The James, running southerly from Richmond, encounters at Dutch Gap a considerable ridge, which it passes by a detour of perhaps a mile and a half to the west, and returning, after making almost a complete loop, resumes its general course. Howlett's house was on the western bank of the river, at the bend of the loop, and situated upon a high bluff. Some three hundred yards below it the river