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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 244 2 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 223 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 214 4 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 179 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 154 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 148 20 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 114 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 109 27 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 94 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 80 8 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) or search for Williamsburg (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
nty-fourth Virginia, for their conduct in battle before Williamsburg, ought to have this word inscribed upon their banners: s could be adduced, and that too, from those who before Williamsburg believed that we could not resist these mighty warriorsry. General Johnston had no intention of tarrying at Williamsburg. He was bound for Richmond, and on that morning of theght of General Magruder had fortified a line just below Williamsburg, across the narrow peninsula, from the James to the Yorngstreet's flank and rear, with nothing between him and Williamsburg, or between him and Longstreet's road of retreat. Had more splendid gallantry exhibited than on that field at Williamsburg. And a captain of Her Majesty's Scotch Fusileers, who orge T. Harrison, surgeon of the Twenty-fourth, left at Williamsburg to attend the wounded, saying that he did so because heay's work he sat quietly down in the ancient borough of Williamsburg, while these same demoralized and flying Confederates s
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.26 (search)
a veteran of three wars, and he took part in the civil war in well-nigh fifty battles and skirmishes. He was engaged therein at Bull Run, Manassas, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Malvern Hill, Cedar Mountain, Groveton, Fauquier Springs, Bristoe, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, (or Chantilly), Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancal Beauregard, completed our success, and won the battle. This gave Early promotion to the rank of brigadier-general. Zzzwilliamsburg and Sharpsburg. At Williamsburg on the 5th of May, 1862, he led the Twenty-fourth Virginia and Fifth North Carolina Regiments of his brigade in an assault upon a six-gun battery and redoubt, y at Manassas, and are entitled to the highest distinction therefor, Johnston manoeuvred well at Yorktown, struck McClellan a parting blow with fine address at Williamsburg, and then, like Albert Sidney Johnston, at Shiloh, fell wounded, as he was pressing the enemy at Seven Pines, when opportunity vanished. For two years he was
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.27 (search)
kett-Buchanan Camp, Washington Taylor commanding; 100 men. John Bowie Strange Camp, Charlottesville, Captain Garnett commanding; 150 in line. Pierre-Gibson Camp, Culpeper, D. J. Kyle commanding; seventy-seven men. Magruder-Ewell Camp, Williamsburg, J. D. Moncure commanding; forty men. A. P. Hill Camp Drum-Corps, T. Tence drum-major. A. P. Hill Camp, Petersburg, W. Gordon McCabe commanding; 125 men. Page Puller Camp, Gloucester, R. N. Page commanding; forty men. Niemeyer-Shawhe war as captain of the Memphis Southern Guards; Rev. Jabez Hall, pastor of the Seventh-Street Christian church; Rev. J. C. Hiden, pastor of Grove-Avenue Baptist church; Colonel John B. Cary, Hon. J. Taylor Ellyson, Dr. William H. Shields, of Williamsburg, and others. Among the ladies were Mrs. Charles T. O'Ferrall, Mrs. Charles E. Wingo, Mrs. R. E. Boykin, Miss Nellie Parker, Mrs. C. O'B. Cowardin, Mrs. L. W. Burton, Miss Hancock; Mrs. A. F. Bagby, of King and Queen; Miss Lizzie Jones, Miss B
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
Veteran Camps at the Unveiling of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, 347 Virginia Cavalry, 14th, Co. H; Survivors of, 74. Virginia Infantry, 15th, Co. A; Annotated Roll of, 48. Virginia, Magnanimity of, 366. Waid, Capt. James D., 21. War for the Union. Losses in its battles, 40. War Talks of Confederate Veterans, 69. Washington, D. C. Menaces by Early, 298-301. Washington Monument, Mary, 56. Waynesboroa, Battle of, 311. Weed, Thurlow, 38. Wheeler, Hon., Joseph, 24. Wilderness, Battle of the, 289. Williamsburg, Va. Battle of, June 1, 1862. Erroneous statements as to corrected, 106, 287. Wilson, R. R., 157. Winchester, Va., Battle of, 304. Winchester, Va. Confederate Dead in its Stonewall Cemetery; ladies in charge of lots, 47; Memorial Services June 6, 1894, 41. Women of all time, 56. Women of the South, 82. A Monument to plead for by Col. W. R. Aylett, and pledged by the Richmond Howltzers, 54. Woolfolk, Col. Escape of, 136.