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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 91 5 Browse Search
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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 40 2 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 24 4 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 24 2 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
opening of the campaign. He had inflicted on Lee a loss of twenty thousand—the ratio being three to one. The Confederates, elated at the skillful manner in which they had constantly been thrust between Richmond and the Union army, and conscious of the terrible price in blood they had exacted from the latter, were in high spirit, and the morale of Lee's army was never better than after the battle of Cold Harbor. See Army of the Potomac, Swinton, pages 491, 492. Four Years with General Lee, Taylor, page 135. Southern Historical Papers, General C. M. Wilcox. page 75. But General Humphreys, in his Virginia Campaign of ‘64 and ‘65, putting our forces at 61,953 at the commencement of the campaign (page 17), gives the Federal losses as follows; Wilderness (page 53), 15,387; Spotsylvania (page 116), 17,723; North Anna (page 133), 2,100; Cold Harbor (page 191), 12,970; total, 48,180. True, Lee had received reinforcements at Hanover, which General Humphreys estimates at 8,700 muskets an<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fortification and siege of Port Hudson—Compiled by the Association of defenders of Port Hudson; M. J. Smith, President; James Freret, Secretary. (search)
n our batteries, which, in the absorbing duties and interest of the fight with the ships in front of us, were totally unheeded; not one of them entered a battery nor injured a man. We had one lieutenant slightly wounded in the arm and a private wounded in the foot, both of them by pieces of exploding shells from the fleet. These were our entire casualties. Not a gun was struck or injured in any way. After this, General Banks returned to Baton Rouge and commenced his campaign against General Taylor. The necessity of obtaining a store of provisions now became more apparent; forage, particularly, becoming scarce. But little could be had from the opposite side of the river on account of Banks's invasion, and, to increase the difficulty in that quarter, some of General Dudley's cavalry came up the Pointe Coupee shore and burned a small steamboat we had on False river. The Grierson raid. We were collecting a large lot of corn in Mississippi, but transportation was scarcely to
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg—Address of Colonel C. S Venable (formerly of General R. E. Lee's staff), of the University of Virginia, before the Virginia division f the Army of Northern Virginia, at their annual meeting, held in the Virginia State Capitol, at Richmond, Thursday , October 30th, 1873. (search)
division came back in disorder, but sullenly and without panic, entirely across the plank road, where General Lee and the gallant Hill in person helped to rally them. The assertion, made by several writers, that Hill's troops were driven back a mile and a half, is a most serious mistake. The right of his line was thrown back several hundred yards, but a portion of the troops still maintained their position. The danger, however, was great, and General Lee sent his trusted Adjutant, Colonel W. H. Taylor, back to Parker's store, to get the trains ready for a movement to the rear. He sent an aid also to hasten the march of Longstreet's divisions. These came the last mile and a half at a double-quick, in parallel columns, along the plank-road. General Longstreet rode forward with that imperturbable coolness which always characterized him in times of perilous action, and began to put them in position on the right and left of the road. His men came to the front of disordered battle wi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Long's memoir of General R. E. Lee. (search)
r again, and, on the other hand, to deeply regret that the sad affliction of his blindness prevented his thorough study of the official records on both sides, so that he might have added to his exceedingly valuable work the full statement of relative numbers and able criticism of military movements of which General Long is so capable. But, then, had he been spared this sore affliction—this thorn in the flesh—in the loss of his vision, he might have been (like Venable, and Marshall, and W. H. Taylor, of Lee's staff, and others of our ablest soldiers) so absorbed in active business that we should have lost these invaluable Recollections of Lee, as a gallant and accomplished soldier saw him. The genealogy of the Lee family, and the account of the early youth and opening manhood of Lee, are very interesting, and contain some new matter in the reminiscences of cotemporaries of the boy, the cadet, the skillful young engineer officer, and the account of his marriage to Mary Custis, and
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Field telegrams from around Petersburg. (search)
Dunn's Mill. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Clay's House, 5 P. M., 17th JuTenth corps. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. headquarters Drewry's Bluff, 1etersburg. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Superintendent Richmond and Peterout bridges. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. headquarters Army of Northern thout delay. R. E. Lee, General. Official: W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. headquarters Army of Northernrch by land. In absence of General Lee, W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. Dunn's Mill, F. June 22, 1864l. F. June 23, H. D., 11 K. 30 A. M. Colonel W. H. Taylor: All quiet in my front up to this hojor-General. D. H. June 27, Hd. Via. Colonel W. H. Taylor: All quiet in my front. 1 think if t he has heard of no action in the matter. W. H. Taylor. Petersburg, Va., 10th August, 1864. Ged. Has the key word been changed lately. W. H. Taylor, A. A. G. headquarters, 12th August, 18
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Book notices. (search)
ntrenchments—that Lee's losses were nearly, if not fully as heavy as Grant's, and that Grant's campaign was a splendid success which raised to the highest pitch the morale of the Army of the Potomac, while it depressed and demoralized the Army of Northern Virginia to such an extent that it steadily melted away until the end came. Now any one who will read Grant's narrative of this campaign in connection with the official reports—or will compare it with the accounts of Early, Venable, Walter H. Taylor, Swinton, or Humphreys, will see at once that it is all stuff—the veriest romance that was ever attempted to be palmed off as history. The real truth about that campaign is given by Colonel Venable in his address before the Army of Northern Virginia Association, which we publish in this volume, and is in brief simply this: As soon as Grant with his immense host, crossed the Rapidan, Lee moved out and attacked him—Lee made no move in the campaign which was not to meet the enemy—there