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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 174 2 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 92 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 87 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 84 0 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 78 16 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 71 11 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. 51 9 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 46 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 34 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
ve heat. The sleep that night near Strasburg, in the tall grass, with no covering but the canopy of Heaven, was to the weary men as sound and refreshing as an infant's slumber. The first range of mountains was attained Sunday afternoon at New Market, and crossed Monday morning. Reaching the Shenandoah about mid day, two or three hours were consumed in throwing a pontoon bridge across at Columbia bridge, destroyed by Jackson in his brilliant Valley campaign, to prevent the crossing of Shields, who was compelled to go up the eastern side of the river and mountains, while Jackson went pari passu up the western, an efficient, signal officer keeping him advised of his adversary's movements. The division reached the second and last range of the Blue Ridge Monday night, and encamped at the foot, in Littlepage Valley. The greater part of the day (Tuesday) was occupied in crossing at Fisher's, better known as Milam's, Gap. The road over the mountain here is crossed by a Macadamized ro