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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: January 19, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 7 | 1 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 7 | 1 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: may 21, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1862., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 4 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Farley
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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Extemporizing production. (search)
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 5: Forts and Artillery. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Reminiscences of the Confederate engineer service (search)
Caldwell, James 1734-
Clergyman; born in Charlotte county, Va., in April, 1734.
Graduating at Princeton in 1759, he became pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Elizabethtown in 1762.
Zealously espousing the revolutionary cause, he was much disliked by the Tories.
Appointed chaplain of a New Jersey brigade, he was for a time in the Mohawk Valley.
In 1780 his church and residence were burned by a party of British and Tories; and the same year a British incursion from Staten Island pillaged the village of Connecticut Farms, where his family were temporarily residing.
A soldier shot his wife through a window while she was sitting on a bed with her babe.
At that time Mr. Caldwell was in Washington's camp at Morristown.
In the successful defence of Springfield, N. J., June 23, 1780, when the wadding for the soldiers' guns gave out, he brought the hymn-books from the neighboring church and shouted, Now put Watts into them, boys.
In an altercation at Elizabethtown Point with an A
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Carrington , Edward 1749 -1810 (search)
Carrington, Edward 1749-1810
Military officer; born in Charlotte county, Va., Feb. 11, 1749; became lieutenant-colonel of a Virginia artillery regiment in 1776; was sent to the South; and was made a prisoner at Charleston in 1780.
He was Gates's quartermaster-general in his brief Southern campaign.
Carrington prepared the way for Greene to cross the Dan, and was an active and efficient officer in that officer's famous retreat.
He commanded the artillery at Hobkirk's Hill, and also at Yoer's famous retreat.
He commanded the artillery at Hobkirk's Hill, and also at Yorktown.
Colonel Carrington was foreman of the jury in the trial of Aaron Burr (q. v). He died in Richmond, Va., Oct. 28, 1810.
His brother Paul, born Feb. 24, 1733, became an eminent lawyer; was a member of the House of Burgesses, and voted against Henry's Stamp Act resolutions; but was patriotic, and helped along the cause of independence in an efficient manner.
He died in Charlotte county, Va., June 22, 1818.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Penick , Charles Clifton 1843 - (search)
Penick, Charles Clifton 1843-
Clergyman; born in Charlotte county, Va., Dec. 9, 1843; graduated at Alexandria Seminary in 1869.
During the Civil War he served the Confederacy in the 38th Virginia Regiment; was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1870, and was consecrated bishop of Cape Palmas, West Africa, in 1877.
His publications include Hopes, perils, and struggles of the negroes in America; What can the Church do for the negro in the United States, etc.
Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war., chapter 4 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Wounded at Williamsburg, Va. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.37 (search)
Company I, 56th Virginia.
[from the Richmond Dispatch, Feb. 7, 1897.
roster of the Command—Some of its movements.
Baltimore, Md., February 4, 1897. To the Editor of the Dispatch :
You will please publish in your Confederate column the enclosed roster of Company I, Fifty-six Virginia Infantry, organized in Charlotte county, Virginia, in June, 1861, and mustered into service at Richmond, Virginia, July 18, 1861.
It was known as the Charlotte Grays.
The Regiment went West, and shed its first blood at Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
Returning to Virginia in May, 1862, it was put in Pickett's Brigade, with the Eighth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-eighth Virginia regiments, and with these regiments helped to win for General Pickett his major-general stars at Gaines's Mill.
It served until the end of the war in this brigade, taking a conspicuous part in the noted Pickett's charge at the battle of Gettysburg.
The company's roll has been carefully compiled by Lieutenant Fl
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.17 (search)