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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
e of Sharpsburg or Antietam First North Carolina cavalry with J. E. B. Stuart in Pennsylvania. Immediately after the Rappahannock campaigtwo regiments were in D. H. Hill's division. The cavalry was under Stuart, and the batteries were scattered. It had been supposed that as the Federals mask the march of their army on the two gaps, that General Stuart's cavalrymen, ever untiring and daring, had not found out up toial report, I felt no particular concern about it . . . . . and General Stuart, who was with me on the heights and had just come in from aboveered brigades against odds was persistent and heroic. On the 13th, Stuart reported that his cavalry was followed by two brigades of infantry,ht at Middletown. Colonel Baker's regiment held the rear, and, General Stuart says, acted with conspicuous gallantry. General Hampton says og regiments) S. McD. Tate and E. A. Osborne. In October, Gen. J. E. B. Stuart made a daring cavalry expedition into Pennsylvania. In this
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
hand to observe the crossing of the Rappahannock and the Rapidan. Stuart had not until Thursday fully gauged the importance of this movemenary and Hancock, who were still in front of Anderson and McLaws. Stuart formed his lines with A. P. Hill's division in front. Pender and Ticipated in the last two of these charges. It was then that Gen. J. E. B. Stuart ordered the whole line forward. The enemy's earthworks were numbering about 10,000 men, under General Pleasanton, attacked General Stuart, commanding the Confederate cavalry, which numbered nearly the same as the Union horsemen. Stuart was caught between the columns of Buford and Gregg, and drove back each in turn in a magnificent battle, irely engaged and lost its brave colonel, Sol. Williams, of whom General Stuart said: He was as fearless as he was efficient. Maj. Rufus Barri 27th, at Fairfax Court House, the First North Carolina had, as General Stuart reported, a spirited encounter with and chase after a detachmen
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
ithdraw. Colonel Murchison lost 2 men killed and 15 wounded. At Hagerstown, on the same day, Stuart's cavalry and portions of Iverson's North Carolina brigade were engaged in a hot conflict with Kvalry division. In this engagement, the four North Carolina cavalry regiments that had followed Stuart in his long raid into Pennsylvania, participating in the battles at Sykesville, Littleton, Hanovon, made, in co-operation with General Robertson's two regiments, the Fourth and Fifth, what General Stuart called a gallantly executed charge. General Stuart specially praised a repulse of the FedeGeneral Stuart specially praised a repulse of the Federals by Colonel Gordon, commanding a fragment of the Fifth North Carolina cavalry. On the 8th, the First regiment of cavalry and the other regiments of Hampton's brigade, commanded, after General Hward Brandy Station. The progress of the enemy, says General Lee, was gallantly resisted by General Stuart with Hampton's brigade, commanded by Col. L. S. Baker, who fell back gradually to our lines
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
e-established and their artillery opened. General Stuart then ordered a general charge, and the Fedatlett's Station on the night of the 13th, General Stuart suddenly found himself and command envelopAt dawn a dense, fog prevented a disclosure of Stuart's presence. An army corps, reports that office Federal batteries on the hill were turned on Stuart, and he ordered Gordon's brigade to cover his on duty. Sheer hard fighting alone extricated Stuart. General Lee crossed the Rapidan early in Othe Buckland Races, occurred on the 18th. General Stuart, who was in front of Kilpatrick's divisioning to join his commander, and suggesting that Stuart with Hampton's division should retire in the dfrom Auburn and attack in flank and rear while Stuart attacked in front. General Stuart's report teGeneral Stuart's report tells the sequel: This plan proved highly successful. Kilpatrick followed me cautiously until I reachs going at full speed the whole distance. General Stuart quotes from a Northern writer, who speaks [3 more...]
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: (search)
force estimated at from 10,000 to 12,000 men, started on his Richmond raid, General Stuart had only three available brigades for detachment to meet this formidable cavalcade. Taking Wickham's and Lomax's brigades under his personal command, General Stuart sought, by forced marches, to interpose between Sheridan and Richmond. He egiment, W. H. Cheek, who was wounded. At Yellow tavern, on the 11th of May, Stuart in front of Sheridan attacked with his two brigades, while Gordon assailed the Federals in the rear. Stuart made a masterly fight, as the severe Federal losses show, but, in the action, both he and General Gordon fell mortally wounded. No lossincomparable Jackson's death was so hurtful to General Lee's strategic power as Stuart's fall. General Gordon, trained under Stuart, and sharing his dash and recklStuart, and sharing his dash and reckless courage, was a model cavalry officer. Undaunted by difficulties and perils, equal to great physical hardships, undismayed by reverses, his men had implicit confi
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ommand he joined the cavalry brigade of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, in 1861, and on March 1, 1862, he was ina, follow me! The regiment participated in Stuart's Pennsylvania raid, and reaching the field ofof cavalry under command of Colonel Baker, General Stuart also being at the front. In his report oft while the son and his sister's husband, J. E. B. Stuart, fought for Virginia in the war of the Cot Ransom was assigned to the brigade of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. On November 26, 1861, he gallantly leavalry, which was also the first engagement of Stuart's brigade with the same arm of the enemy, and uently commended for bravery in the reports of Stuart. In the spring of 1862 he was promoted lieutevidual prowess deserving special commendation, Stuart reported. In September, 1863, he was promotedff Sheridan's raid upon Richmond. On the 11th Stuart fell at Yellow Tavern, and Gordon, having defee class of Custis Lee, Stephen D. Lee and J. E. B. Stuart. His first commissions were in the artil