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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Thomas R. R. Cobb. (search)
he troops is good. For this we thank God. December 8.—We have had two nights of intense cold. The snow lies on the ground unmelted, and what is worse, the commissary department has failed to furnish any rations for two days, except some flour. The river is frozen over here, and in two days more the Yankees will not need pontoon bridges. December 10.—I do not now anticipate a battle at this place, at least for some time. Do not be uneasy about my being rash. The bubble reputation cannot drag me into folly. God helping me, I will do my duty when called upon, trusting the consequences to Him. I go on picket again to-morrow, and hence cannot write regularly. Three days later the attack was made. Standing behind the stone wall in the Telegraph road, General Cobb was struck by a shot fired from a gun in the yard of Federal Hill, placed, it was said, beneath the windows of the very room in which his mother was married. The femoral artery was severed, and death soon ensu
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
nction. General Stuart will return the battery as soon as the present emergency has passed. The enemy encamped last night at Ground Squirrel bridge. They had orders to start at 12 o'clock to-night (over). General Stuart is now moving down the Telegraph road, and desires you to send the battery by the same route. Very respectfully, your old sergeant, H. B. M'Clellan, Major and Adjutant. On receiving this request I rode at once to Taylorsville to see General Stuart. He was lying flat o to turn upon them before they get away. Be sure to barricade the roads with felled trees, in case they start in that direction, and also send information to our wagon trains, in rear of General Lee's army. Communicate with me by way of the Telegraph road. I left a small picket at Ashland, which, however, may run in at any moment. I have not yet learned whether the enemy has passed Yellow Tavern or passed near James river. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. E. B. Stuart,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.25 (search)
nction. General Stuart will return the battery as soon as the present emergency has passed. The enemy encamped last night at Ground Squirrel bridge. They had orders to start at 12 o'clock to-night (over). General Stuart is now moving down the Telegraph road, and desires you to send the battery by the same route. Very respectfully, your old sergeant, H. B. M'Clellan, Major and Adjutant. On receiving this request I rode at once to Taylorsville to see General Stuart. He was lying flat o to turn upon them before they get away. Be sure to barricade the roads with felled trees, in case they start in that direction, and also send information to our wagon trains, in rear of General Lee's army. Communicate with me by way of the Telegraph road. I left a small picket at Ashland, which, however, may run in at any moment. I have not yet learned whether the enemy has passed Yellow Tavern or passed near James river. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. E. B. Stuart,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fatal wounding of General J. E. B Stuart. (search)
the most accurate works of the Civil war, and should be in the hands of every cavalryman. Having stated the above facts for the benefit of historical writers, I will now give an account of that great calamity to the South, the mortal wounding of General Stuart, in the terse, soldier words of Colonel (then Captain of Company K, First Virginia Cavalry) Gus W. Dorsey, as taken from a letter written to me on April 21, 1902, and as printed in the Staunton Spectator. I was stationed on the Telegraph road with my company, K, numbering about seventy men, and the first I knew about our troops being whipped and driven back on the left was when General Stuart came down to my position, with a view of ordering me back; and just as he rode up to the company the Yankees charged. He halted a moment and encouraged the men with the words: Bully for old K! Give it to them, boys! and just as K had repulsed the Yankees he was shot through the stomach. He reeled on his horse and said: I am shot, a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Soldier's story of J. E. B. Stuart's death. (search)
alwart of my company doing that duty. Charles Wheatly, of Georgetown, and Bob Bruce, of the Relay House, near Baltimore (both now dead), were two of the men. Ours was a Maryland troop. The writer of this article was from Howard county. The troop was commanded by Captain, afterward Colonel, Gus Dorsey, of Montgomery county, Md. I remained in the line of skirmishers a short time and we were ordered to mount and return to our regiments. I remember that we joined the main command on the Telegraph road not far from Yellow Tavern. The battle was over; in fact, so far as I could see or hear, it was not much of a battle anyhow. Of course, as soon as the Federal command realized that we had caught up with him his raid was at an end. We went quietly into camp near Atlee Station, a few miles from the field of battle that night, grieving for our dead general. He had died a few hours after being carried from the field. How General Stuart got his death wound was never learned, I beli
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VI:—Virginia. (search)
ted by all his comrades. At two o'clock Reynolds was master of the railway line, but he did not feel strong enough to attempt to recapture the woods of which Meade had for a moment been in possession. While the belligerents were thus fiercely contending for that portion of the forest which adjoined Hamilton's Crossing, the attack of the Federal right wing had been even more unfortunate and far more bloody. It will be remembered that Burnside's plan was to throw upon the Plank Road and Telegraph Road a column of equal strength with that which was to make the attack on the left, and that by this manoeuvre he expected to seize all the positions of Marye's Hill, Cemetery Hill and Stansbury Hill. The two attacks were to be nearly simultaneous. Early in the morning Sumner had made his dispositions for battle without being molested by the enemy, owing to the thick fog which enveloped both the armies. To French's division of Couch's corps was assigned the perilous task of leading the
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), chapter 8 (search)
eral commanding directs that you keep your whole command in position for a rapid movement down the old Richmond road, and you will send out at once a division, at least, to pass below Smithfield, to seize, if possible, the heights near Captain Hamilton's on this side of the Massaponax, taking care to keep it well supported and its line of retreat open. He has ordered another column of a division or more to be moved from General Sumner's command up the Plank road to its intersection of the Telegraph road, where they will divide with a view to seizing the heights on both these roads. Holding these heights, with the heights near Captain Hamilton's, will, I hope, compel the enemy to evacuate the whole ridge between these points. He makes these moves by columns distant from each other with a view of avoiding the possibility of a collision of our own forces, which might occur in a general movement during the and will remain as supports. Copies of instructions to Generals Sumner and Hoo
The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
From Washington. Citizens Banished — Public Buildings Undermined — Murder — The Telegraph Line — More Resignations — The Blockade, &c. The Alexandria Gazette, of Monday, furnishes the following: Among those of the residents of Washington City who had been forced by the mob to leave the city, is Dr. Aaron Miller, of the Navy-Yard. The Doctor escaped through Maryland, and crossed on the ferry at Alexandria. It is said among the knowing ones that under the Capitol and all the public buildings, trains of gunpowder are laid, so that in case of a forced abandonment by the Federal troops, they can be blown to immediate destruction. On yesterday morning a most cold-blooded murder was committed in Washington. A young man, named Cornelius Boyd, prudent in walk and conversation, who has been long known to entertain Southern sentiments, was awakened about 2 o'clock in the morning, by a knock at his door, and upon opening he was fired upon, and died a few minutes afte
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
mpletion of the work in which this Company is so deeply interested. The Legislature of Virginia, at its last annual session, appropriated $350,000, being three-fifths of the sum of $583,333 ½ which was voted to build the Western extension; and active measures have been taken to procure the full amount of private subscription, and have been so far successful that the Directors may safely congratulate the Company on the speedy commencement of this valuable feeder to their road. The Telegraph line from Richmond to Danville is in full operation, having been completed at a cost of about $7,500. There is no doubt that it will be of great service to the road, and as little that it will pay a fair dividend on the investment. That part of James River adjoining the Company's wharf has been deepened so as to admit vessels of the class that come to Richmond. This enables the Company to receive and transmit free of all wharfage and forwarding charges, freight of every description t
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Lynchburg. (search)
From Lynchburg. the troubles in East Tennessee--repairing the damages to the Telegraph line — Uninterrupted passage over the Holston river — the fight near Bristol, &c. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Lynchburg, Nov. 12. For some time past affairs have been remarkably quiet with us, but during the past two or three days we have had quite exciting times in consequence of the troubles in East Tennessee, with which point we are in direct communication, though over 200 miles distant. On last Sunday evening J. M. Crawley, Esq., the efficient Superintendent of the Telegraph, left this city with hands for the purpose of repairing the damages on the line in East Tennessee. I learn, also, that a tressel work is being made over the Holston at the burnt bridge. Passengers were transferred on Sunday by fording, and were met by a locomotive from Jonesboro, with one boxcar attached. Nothing authentic has been heard from any point beyond Jonesboro — though there seem<
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