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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The bloody angle. (search)
he breastworks in front of the right regiment of my brigade and witnessed it all. As soon as the enemy began to cross our works the right regiment of my brigade, the Fourth Virginia, then commanded by the brave Colonel (afterwards General) William Terry, was formed at right angles to the works, so as to fire down the inside of our line. I was very soon wounded and left the battle-field, and what happened afterwards is only known to me as to others, as history relates it. The dreadful carhich had won renown on so many battlefields, ceased to exist as a separate organization, and the few remaining members, not above two hundred in all, with the other fragments of Johnson's division, were incorporated into a single brigade, called Terry's brigade. The official designation of Stonewall brigade was not given to that body of men until after the death of its General, Paxton, at Chancellorsville, in May, 1863. Prior to that it had been known either by its number, or the name of i
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
he fort on that fatal Sunday afternoon, yet General Bragg in his official report does gross injustice when he says: The army column preceded by a single regiment approached along the river and entered the work on that flank almost unopposed. General Terry says in his report that one hundred sharpshooters with Spencer repeating carbines were sent forward to within seventy-five yards of the work and dug pits for their shelter, and as soon as this movement commenced, the parapet of the fort was ich General Lee sent to our assistance would rescue us, and if Bragg had ordered Hoke to assault with his division late that afternoon we would have recovered the works. I have positive information that so determined was our resistance that General Terry sent word to General Ames, commanding the three brigades assaulting us, to make one more effort and if unsuccessful to retire. General Abbott, who commanded a brigade, and who lived in North Carolina after the war, told Captain Braddy that a