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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
panies under their command, have been ordered to report to him at Culpeper; Records War of Rebellion, Vol. II, p. 821. and on the 10th, he writes to Colonel Cocke that the regiments under Colonels Garland and Preston were designed for Manassas Junction. Ibid, p. 824. On the 14th, Colonel Cocke reports. Ibid, p. 841. The force that I have been able to assemble thus far at Manassas Junction, consists of a detachment of artillery under Captain D. Kemper, with two six-pounders; Captain W. H. Payne's company, numbering 76 men; Captain J. S. Green's company, numbering 57 men; Captain Hamilton's company, numbering about 60, and two Irish companies, numbering respectively, 54 and 58, and Colonel Garland's force arrived Sunday, consisting of 490 men. Altogether about 830 men. Also Captain Morris's company, 88, Warrenton Riflemen. Total 918. The Powhatan troop under Captain Lay has been ordered back here and will arrive to-day. These Virginia troops with the South Carolina brig
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fortification and siege of Port Hudson—Compiled by the Association of defenders of Port Hudson; M. J. Smith, President; James Freret, Secretary. (search)
and 27th May was fully 2,500. Page 84, Vol. IV, says: The investment was not made complete until the 26th of May, when General Weitzel arrived, when the line, as formed, was, first, Weitzel on the north, resting on the river and crossing Sandy creek; then Grover; then Augur; while General Thomas W. Sherman's command constituted the extreme Federal left reaching the river. The troops or commands engaged on May 27 were Weitzel's brigade (division?), Grover's division, Emory's under Colonel Payne, and the divisions under Major-General Augur and BrigadierGen-eral Sherman. The battle on the left wing on the morning of the 27th was an assault or series of assaults for the first two hours; at the end of that time the enemy had been signally repulsed at every point, and he had withdrawn a short distance and concealed his men under cover of the trees, logs, ravines, &c., and from this hour, about 11 o'clock, until five o'clock, the firing relaxed and could only be called sharpshooti