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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 226 72 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 134 2 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 26 0 Browse Search
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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 14 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 12 2 Browse Search
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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. 11 1 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
ina and the coast defenses of that State. On assuming command, General Ripley found the governor and people fully alive to the seriousness ofents, he estimated at about 9,500 effective. On October 1st, General Ripley reported his Confederate force, not including the battalion of at forces they can spare, as the difficulty with us is as to arms. Ripley replied, Will act at once. A fine, strong, southeast gale blowing,nnah river, and 15 from the city of Savannah. On this account, General Ripley, assisted by the planters, caused the upper branches of the Br, Ashepoo and Edisto rivers. The idea of this disposition, made by Ripley immediately upon the fall of Forts Walker and Beauregard, was to gud ruined, General Lee prepared for the inevitable. He wrote to General Ripley, in Charleston, to review the whole subject and suggest what chFirst district, Col. R. F. Graham, 1,254; Second district, Brigadier-General Ripley, 8,672; Third district, Brigadier-General Evans, 5,400; Fo
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
all arms, present for duty; more than half this force being stationed in the forts and on the immediate approaches to Charleston. The district, commanded by General Ripley, embraced the harbor defenses, Christ Church and St. Andrew's parishes, and the islands surrounding the harbor. Each island constituted a separate subdivisio west side of the Stono, was occupied only by a cavalry picket, and gunboats ran up and down the river with impunity. It was arranged by Generals Beauregard and Ripley to surprise and capture one or more of them. These arrangements were most successfully carried out on the 30th of January. Maj. J. J. Lucas, commanding at Fort P It was a miserable contrivance and proved of no use to the fleet and only an object of merriment and curiosity to the garrisons and their officers. Says General Ripley in his report: In this the first trial of the Abolition iron fleet against brick fortifications and their first attempt to enter the harbor of Charleston,
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
district and district of Georgia, General McLaws, 3,600. The bombardment of Charleston having continued for ten months, on June 13th General Jones addressed the following letter to the Federal commander: Maj.-Gen. J. G. Foster, Commanding United States Forces on Coast of South Carolina, C. S. General: Five generals and 45 field officers of the United States army, all of them prisoners of war, have been sent to this city for safekeeping. They have been turned over to Brigadier-General Ripley, commanding the First military district of this department, who will see that they are provided with commodious quarters in a part of the city occupied by non-combatants, the majority of whom are women and children. It is proper, however, that I should inform you that it is a part of the city which has been for many months exposed day and night to the fire of your guns. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Sam Jones, Major-General Commanding. General Foster, replying,
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
n. R. S. Ripley, and accompanying the latter to Virginia was assigned to duty as commissary of the brigade. He was in the battle of Seven Pines, shared the service of the brigade in the Shenandoah valley under Stonewall Jackson, and was with General Ripley when he was wounded at Sharpsburg. Under Ripley's successor, General Doles, of Georgia, he continued on duty as brigade commissary, until the Pennsylvania campaign, when he served with promotion to major on the staff of General Rodes, commanRipley's successor, General Doles, of Georgia, he continued on duty as brigade commissary, until the Pennsylvania campaign, when he served with promotion to major on the staff of General Rodes, commanding a division of the Second corps. At the battle of Gettysburg he was taken prisoner, and thence was sent to Fort Delaware and later to Johnson's island. In 1864 he was specially exchanged for Major Pruyn, of Albany, N. Y., returning south by way of Governor's island, N. Y., by the steamer Arago to Port Royal, and thence to Charleston, where the exchange was made. He was then called to Richmond by the secretary of war and assigned to duty at Chester, S. C., with orders to expedite the forwa