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of General Longstreet, General Heth and myself, sitting on the portico of Captain McQuaine's house, to the left and near the Cox road, a half or three-fourths of a mile from Petersburg, dictated the following order to his Adjutant-General, Col. W. H. Taylor: Headquarters A. N. Va. April 2d, 1865. Gens. Longstreet and Hill's corps will cross the pontoon bridge at Battesea factory and take the River road, north side of Appomattox, to Bevel's bridge, to-night. Gen. Gordon's corps will cross ops will be moved by the roads prescribed for the wagons, or such other as may be most convenient. Every officer is expected to give his unremitting attention to cause the movement to be made successfully. By order of General Lee: W. H. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant General. After all the infantry and artillery have crossed, Pocahontas and Campbell's bridges will be destroyed by the engineers. The pontoon bridge at Battesea factory and the railroad bridges will be reserved for th

0 effective men. (See Gen. Early's reply to Gen. Badeau, in the London Standard, 1870; and article on Gettysburg, Southern Review, April, 1868.) 2. Gen. Lee's papers were burned at the close of the war, and he requested, in 1865, from his officers, such information as they possessed, with the intention of preparing a narrative of his campaigns. I have a copy, received from him, of the statements furnished to him in regard to his strength at Gettysburg, by two members of his staff; Col. W. H. Taylor, his Assistant Adjutant-General, and Col. C. S. Venable, his Military Secretary. The former places the Confederate strength of all arms on that battle-field at 61,000; the latter at 55,000. 3. Out of the 68,352 men, which constituted the entire force for duty in the Department of Northern Virginia, at the end of May, according to the Confederate return, published by Swinton, Gen. Lee could hardly have taken over 60,000 with him. 4. Gen. Early's careful estimate. (See his repo

t, Hood, Anderson and Early, and Major-Generals McLaws, Heth, Wilcox and Trimble; General Pendleton, chief of artillery; Generals Kemper, Lane and Scales; and Colonels Taylor, Marshall and Venable, of General Lee's staff Were I writing history, I should like to have the opinions of these officers upon this subject, from which, withd Ewell and Hill made one prompt and determined effort in support of Pickett at the proper moment. Very truly yours, W. Allan. Memorandum by Colonel Walter H. Taylor, of General Lee's staff. ---- shares the opinion that the Confederate cause was not a lost cause from the beginning, and seeks with great care to findvalry, 8,000; Artillery, 4,000-62,000.62,000, and the Army of the Potomac at 105,000, effective, at Gettysburg, and believe these figures nearly correct. Walter H. Taylor, Late Adj't-Gen'l of the Army of Northern Va., C. S. A. We shall follow the above papers with letters from General E. P. Alexander, chief of artillery of

Second paper by Colonel Walter H. Taylor, of General Lee's staff. [The following paper by Colonel Taylor has just appeared in the Philadelphia Times and, although it repeats the points made in his Memorandum published in our August number, yet, as it enters more fully into details which came under the observation of this accomplished officer, whose close relations to General Lee make his statements of such great value, we deem it best to give it a place in our Gettysburg series.] From tColonel Taylor has just appeared in the Philadelphia Times and, although it repeats the points made in his Memorandum published in our August number, yet, as it enters more fully into details which came under the observation of this accomplished officer, whose close relations to General Lee make his statements of such great value, we deem it best to give it a place in our Gettysburg series.] From the very necessity of the case, the general theory upon which the war was conducted on the part of the South was one of defence. The great superiority of the North in men and material made it indispensable for the South to husband its resources as much as possible, inasmuch as the hope of ultimate success which the latter entertained, rested rather upon the dissatisfaction and pecuniary distress which a prolonged war would entail upon the former-making the people weary of the struggle-than upon

h they had made their successive charges strewn with their wounded and dead comrades, many of whom could not be removed and were left upon the field. The First Texas, under Lieutenant-Colonel Work, with a portion of Benning's brigade, held the field and the batteries taken by the First Texas. Three of the guns were brought off the field and secured; the other three, from the nature of the ground and their proximity to the enemy, were left. The Third Arkansas, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, ably assisted by Major Ready, after Colonel Manning was borne from the field, sustained well the high character she made in the earlier part of the action. When night closed the conflict, late in the evening, I was struck above the knee, which deprived me of the use of my leg, and prevented me from getting about the field. I retired some two hundred yards to the rear, leaving the immediate command with Lieutenant-Colonel Work, the senior officer present, under whose supervision

be prepared to cross. R. E. Lee. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Clay's House, 4:30 P. M., 17th June, ffin's Bluff. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Clay's House, 4:30 P. M., 17th June, ffin's Bluff. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Clay's House, 5 P. M., 17th June, 186 Dunn's Mill. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Clay's House, 5 P. M., 17th June, 18 Tenth corps. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Headquarters Drewry's Bluff, 10 P. M.o Petersburg. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Superintendent Richmond and Petersburbout bridges. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Headquarters Army N. Va., June 18th, ithout delay. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Headquarters Army N. Va., June 18th, r march by land. In absence of General Lee, W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Dunn's Mill, June 22, 1864. General H

turned to my old camp. The conduct of both officers and men of mycommand, through the tiresome marches and continued watching, as well as while en- Gen. Perry's Report of the Battle of Chancellorsville. 207 gaging the enemy, was such as to merit high praise. The firm and steadfast courage exhibited, especially by the Fifth and Second Florida regiments, in the charge at Chancellorsville, attracted my particular attention. I am indebted to Captain McCaslan, A. A. A. General, Lieutenant Taylor, aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Scott, volunteer aide-decamp, and Lieutenant Riley, Acting Inspector, for the great assistance they rendered me by their attention to their duties and gallant conduct. My command was kept supplied with rations by the persevering energy of Major Elder, Brigade Commissary. Major Hinkle, Brigade Quastermaster, for his untiring efforts to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded who were collected at the station awaiting transportation to Richmand, has merited

eral Lee's army at Gettysburg made by Colonel Walter H. Taylor and that made by myself; and in doingn the war now in the hands of a publisher, Colonel Taylor puts General Lee's strength at Gettysburg lowance for that brigade. As stated by Colonel Taylor, our infantry, as shown by the official reter to myself. The discrepancy between Colonel Taylor's estimate and the official returns of theexclusive of French's command, as shown by Colonel Taylor. There is no reason to presume that this ions that would have given us success. Colonel Taylor, in his memorandum, makes the same point aral Lee-for, as shown by the statements of Colonel Taylor and General Heth, he was on the field in fconception somewhere. The reference of Colonel Taylor to this conversation with Gen. Johnson is y General Johnson in the conversation with Colonel Taylor, or by the latter in his recollection of ias well as the loss sustained by them. Colonel Taylor gives General Rodes' explanation of his fa[13 more...]

e enemy had crossed the Potomac and was moving north. The statements of Colonel Taylor and Marshall, and of Gen- Long, as given by General Longstreet, that they kde with him on the question of veracity, just as I am disposed to side with Colonel Taylor on the direct issue of veracity raised by General Longstreet with him in reto make it with Longstreet's whole corps, and is therefore corroborative of Colonel Taylor's statement. It is to be observed here that General Longstreet has hereon of the testimony by General Longstreet or his compiler. In referring to Colonel Taylor's account of the delay in the attack from our right on the 2d, the article proceeds: He (Colonel Taylor) says: General Longstreet's dispositions were not completed as early as was expected; [it appears that he was delayed by apprehensistatement, and then follows an extract from Meade's testimony. The part of Colonel Taylor's statement, put in brackets above, was omitted in the article. Here is Ew