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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 29 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 2: early recollections of California--(continued). 1849-1850. (search)
ttempt their recapture. In due season General Persifer Smith, Gibbs, and I, with some hired packerschannel. We sailed up to Benicia, and, at General Smith's request, we surveyed and marked the line two months leave of absence, during which General Smith, his staff, and a retinue of civil friendslbert, Shannon, and others, were members. General Smith took no part in this convention, but sent ter returning from Monterey, I was sent by General Smith up to Sacramento City to instruct Lieutena and was detailed to conduct this relief. General Smith ordered him to be supplied with one hundre with Rucker. While I was at Sacramento General Smith had gone on his contemplated trip to Oregoime at the Presidio, waiting patiently for General Smith's return. About Christmas a vessel arrive General Winfield Scott, in New York City. General Smith had sent them down, remaining in Oregon foia generally, and of his personal friends, Persifer Smith, Riley, Canby, and others. Although Gener[5 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Longstreet's division. (search)
visions, stores and baggage had to be burned at Manassas at the last moment, although two days more time had been allowed for their removal than the superintendent of the road had requested. The total value of these stores was, however, not great, and when all things are considered, the movement was as eminently successful as it was judicious. The Washington artillery battalion This celebrated battalion was originally founded in 1838. In the Mexican war it was Company A, of Colonel Persifer Smith's regiment, of which Colonel J. B. Walton, who commanded the battalion from 1861 to 1864, was Lieutenant-Colonel. It was composed of five batteries, of which the first four served in Virginia, and the fifth with the Army of Tennessee. Its battery commanders in March, 1862, were: Captains C. W. Squires, T. L. Rosser, (afterwards Major-General of calvary), M. B. Miller, and B. F. Eshleman. Its material was superb; the cannooneers being almost exclusively young men of the best famili
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
the skill, valor and undaunted energy of Robert E. Lee. Jefferson Davis, in a public address at the Lee memorial meeting November 3, 1870, said: He came from Mexico crowned with honors, covered with brevets, and recognized, young as he was, as one of the ablest of his country's soldiers. General Scott said with emphasis: Lee is the greatest military genius in America. Every general officer with whom he personally served in Mexico made special mention of him in official reports. General Persifer Smith wrote: I wish to record particularly my admiration of the conduct of Captain Lee, of the engineers—the soundness of his judgment and his personal daring being equally conspicuous. General Shields referred to him as one in whose skill and judgment I had the utmost confidence. General Twiggs declared his gallantry and good conduct deserve the highest praise, and Colonel Riley bore testimony to the intrepid coolness and gallantry exhibited by Captain Lee when conducting the advance of
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
Subsequently he commanded the brigade on the Peninsula under General Magruder, until in March he withdrew from active service and soon afterward resigned his commission, but continued to labor in other capacities for the success of the cause. His brigade gained fame under the leadership of General Archer. On November 4, 1864, he was recommissioned brigadier-general. Brigadier-General Frank C. Armstrong Brigadier-General Frank C. Armstrong, in 1854, accompanied his stepfather, Gen. Persifer Smith, upon an expedition of United States troops into New Mexico. He was then a handsome youth of twenty years, six feet tall, straight as an arrow, and the ideal of a daring young cavalryman. As the party were nearing Eagle Spring a detachment was made under John G. Walker to punish some Indian marauders, and Armstrong was so distinguished in the fight which resulted that he was reported to the war department, and got a lieutenancy of cavalry without the ordinary four years of preparati
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.47 (search)
rs, he was asked the name of the stranger. He replied: Cadet Jackson, of Virginia. General Maury always spoke of McClellan as man, student, and soldier, in the highest terms. Grant was good in mathematics, but did not try to excel in anything save in horsemanship. In the riding school he was very daring. In the Mexican war. General Maury graduated in June, 1846, and was attached as second lieutenant to the Mounted Rifles, now the 3d cavalry. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Persifer Smith. General Taylor was then winning his victories in Mexico. Excitement in the country was at a high point. This was especially true among the cadets, and Lieutenant Maury was delighted with the prospect of fighting. He sailed from Baltimore on the trig Soldana, with a squadron of the Mounted Rifles on board, under Captain Stevens Mason. Rough weather was encountered, the vessel was unseaworthy, and it was the thirty-second day after leaving Baltimore before Point Isabel was reached