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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical sketch of the Rockbridge artillery, C. S. Army, by a member of the famous battery. (search)
one man wounded. [This battery, with General Jackson, pursued fugitives to Bull Run; General J. waving his handkerchief and calling on them to surrender. Alexander was wounded here.] Crossed the Potomac 5th September, near Leesburg. [Captain Poague and other battery commanders, put under arrest for allowing men to ride across on the carriages.] On 6th September, encamped near Frederick City, Md. [where Henry Font joined the company], and remained till about the 10th; then passing through Boonsboro, and Williamsport, crossed the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at North Mountain depot, about seven miles west of Martinsburg; thence through Hedgesville to Martinsburg. As they were moving from Martinsburg en route to Harper's Ferry, Sergeant Moore's detachment and gun, under Lieutenant McCorkle, and one hundred and fifty men of the Tenth Virginia infantry, were ordered back to North Mountain depot to drive out some of the enemy's troops who had closed in on our rear and captured a few of o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
Southern soldiers in Northern Prisons. [from the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer, December 22, 1895.] A very graphic description. Experience at Johnson's Island and Point Lookout—Pickett's charge at Gettysburg—The cavalry fight at Boonesboro, Maryland. The following graphic story of the life in Northern prisons during the war is from the pen of Mr. Albert Stacey Caison, a native of Fayetteville, but now of Jefferson City, Mo. It was written while he was a resident of Lenoir, from which place he went into the army: In the Century Magazine for March, 1891, there is a touching account of prison life at Johnson's Island, and the writer, in speaking of his short stay at Point Lookout, after his release, says: Thinking we had exhausted the capacity of prison life for harm, we were little prepared for the sight which met our eyes as we entered this place; but seeing these unfortunates, we felt that we stood in the presence of men who had touched depths of suffering that we h