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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Chapter 10: Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg. (search)
ss the river his better sheltered, fed, and clothed opponent had his troubles too. Burnside had lost the confidence of many of his principal officers, and after a harmless attempt to reach Lee by Banks's Ford, six miles above Fredericksburg, further winter operations were suspended. Then Burnside prepared a sweeping order, dismissing from the Army Generals Hooker, Brooks, Cochrane, and Newton, and relieving from their commands Generals Franklin, W. F. Smith, Sturgis, Ferrero, and Colonel Joseph Taylor, Sumner's adjutant general. To approve the order, or accept his resignation, was the alternative presented to the President. Mr. Lincoln accepted his resignation, and immediately placed the baton of the army commander in the hands of Joseph Hooker, the head and front of the caballed officers. Mr. Lincoln's letter of January 26, 1863, to Hooker, is characteristic. He tells him he has thwarted Burnside as much as he could, doing a great wrong to his country and to a most meritorio
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
ajor-generals, and one a lieutenant-general. In November, 1861, Maj. J. B. Likens was stationed at Sabine Pass, raising his cavalry battalion, which was afterward increased to a regiment formed from Likens' and Burns' cavalry battalions, with Jas. B. Likens, colonel; Jas. R. Burns, lieutenant-colonel; W. A. Wortham, major. Lieut.-Col. A. Buchel, in service on the lower Rio Grande in November, 1861, in Luckett's infantry regiment, was made colonel of a cavalry regiment, composed of Joseph Taylor's and W. O. Yager's cavalry battalions, Wm. O. Yager, lieutenant-colonel; Robert A. Myers, major; known as the First Texas cavalry, or Buchel's regiment. Col. Philip N. Luckett, Lieut.-Col. E. F. Gray and Maj. John H. Kampmann were the officers of an infantry regiment which went to the Rio Grande in December, 1861. In the fall of 1861, H. H. Sibley was appointed brigadier-general, and appeared in Texas to organize a brigade for a campaign into New Mexico and Arizona. Three cavalry
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
itate the trade across that river into Mexico, for the export of cotton, and the purchase of arms and munitions of war and commodities for the use of families in Texas. The forces in the Western sub-district were distributed as follows in 1862: Capt. L. C. Pyron, two cavalry companies at Columbus. Col. P. C. Wood's cavalry regiment, and Maj. D. D. Shea's artillery, at Lavaca. Maj. A. M. Hobby, infantry battalion, four companies, and Captain Wilke's battery, at Corpus Christi. Maj. Joseph Taylor, cavalry battalion, and Capt. Jas. Duff, two companies, at San Antonio. Col. P. N. Luckett's infantry regiment, ten companies; Capt. R. Benevides, one cavalry company; Maj. Wm. O. Yager, four cavalry companies; Capt. E. Cruegbaur's heavy artillery; Capt. R. B. Maclin's light artillery, and Capt. S. Benavides, one cavalry company, on the Rio Grande from Fort Brown to Laredo. Although these particular commands did not continue in that sub-district, there was generally an effort to kee
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 73 (search)
B. Gordon. Hays' brigade. these brigades united under command of Brigadier-General Zebulon York. Colonel William Monaghan. Fifth Louisiana, Major A. Hart. Sixth Louisiana, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Hanlon. Seventh Louisiana, Lieutenant-Colonel T. M. Terry. Eighth Louisiana, Captain L. Prados. Ninth Louisiana, Colonel William R. Peck. Stafford's brigade. these brigades united under command of Brigadier-General Zebulon York. Colonel Eugene Waggaman. First Louisiana, Captain Joseph Taylor. Second Louisiana, Lieutenant-Colonel M. A. Grogan. Tenth Louisiana, Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Monier. Fourteenth Louisiana, Lieutenant-Colonel David Zable. Fifteenth Louisiana, Captain H. J. Egan. Evans' brigade. Colonel E. N. Atkinson. Thirteenth Georgia, Colonel John H. Baker. Twenty-sixth Georgia, Lieutenant Colonel James S. Blain. Thirty-first Georgia, Colonel John H Lowe. Thirty-eighth Georgia, Major Thomas H. Bomar. Sixtieth Georgia, Captain Milton Russell. S
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.32 (search)
aul, W. D. Patterson, Wm. A. Patterson, John Patterson, S. D. Paxton, Jas. T. Paxton, Jas. P. Paxton, John Paxton, Wm. H. Paxton, James H. Paxton, Thomas Paxton, Sam. Patter, John Pearl, William Pugh, James H. Pugh, John W. Risk, James P. Risk, Dabney Ramsey, William H. Selvey, Franklin Shewey, William C. Shields, Franklin Shaver, Cooke Sloan, Alfred F. Sly, Adolphus Sly, William A. Smiley, John B. Smiley, Joseph Sorrels, Geo. Sorrels, James E. Steele, Arch. W. Strickler, J. Ed. Taylor, Joseph Taylor, George W. Taylor, William P. Templeton, Benjamin Templeton, Job Thorn, R. R. Tribbett, F. M. Tribbett, Matthew Vess, C. D. Vess, Albright Wallace, Ed. Wallace, J. W. Wallace, George White, Robert White, I. M. White, John White, J. W. Whitesel, E. M. Wiseman, James A. Wine, John A. Wilson, S. W. Wilson, Joseph M. Wilson, J. Womeldorf, George Wood and Cyrus Withers. List of Casualties. Killed—J. H. McCown, Alleghany Mountain, December 12, 1861; W. P. Templeton and J. Ludwick, Cross
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], A murdered man Returning to life. (search)
A murdered man Returning to life. --In a New Orleans court, on Tuesday, a man named John Dwyer, arrested on the 11th inst., was brought up for examination on a charge of having willfully murdered one Joseph Taylor, on board a steamboat. While the examination was progressing, Taylor, the "willfully murdered" man, walked into court, proved his identity, and thus procured the discharge of Dwyer. Dwyer had only thrashed him within an inch of his life — coming that near to "willfully murderired man Returning to life. --In a New Orleans court, on Tuesday, a man named John Dwyer, arrested on the 11th inst., was brought up for examination on a charge of having willfully murdered one Joseph Taylor, on board a steamboat. While the examination was progressing, Taylor, the "willfully murdered" man, walked into court, proved his identity, and thus procured the discharge of Dwyer. Dwyer had only thrashed him within an inch of his life — coming that near to "willfully murdering" hi
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
a plan for blockading Charleston, besides strongly reinforcing all Southern garrisons, and for making other military preparations; but his plan was not favorably received. [second Dispatch.] Washington Dec. 30. --The House Union Committee, yesterday, considered Nelson's proposition to divide the Territories on the line 36 30. The Republicans struck out the continuation of such division with regard to Territory hereafter acquired, and then voted down the proposition. Messrs. Taylor, Winslow and Houston finding the Committee unable to agree, thereupon left the Committee room. Adams, of Mass., proposition, to bring New Mexico into the Union as a State, was agreed to by two majority, one-third of the Committee being absent, including eight Southerners. Some of the Senators and Representatives from the frontier States have been consulted, and approve the proposition of Woodson, of Missouri--having for its foundation that separation being inevitable, a reconst