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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 587 133 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 139 3 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 111 3 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Yorktown (Virginia, United States) or search for Yorktown (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Longstreet's division — Yorktown and Williamsburg. (search)
l at Fortress Monroe the Confederate force at Yorktown under General Magruder scarcely numbered elev of the intrenched camps at Gloucester Point, Yorktown and Mulberry Island, and the remainder were darwick, a creek which headed within a mile of Yorktown, and flowing across the peninsula, here over a number of batteries at Gloucester Point and Yorktown, but as the majority of the guns in position ac, the only alternative left him was to take Yorktown by siege. On the 4th of April, General Mcision of General D. H. Hill was dispatched to Yorktown, moving by rail to Richmond and by steamer tort, his whole energies were devoted to taking Yorktown by siege, and the construction of parallels a were very generally made during the siege of Yorktown. Very great changes of officers, particulaed, except the armament and ammunition of the Yorktown batteries, which was necessarily reserved to e prisoners detailed to open the magazines at Yorktown, which it was suspected were arranged with in[11 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of the First Maryland regiment. (search)
trated by this sudden move to the Rappahannock. Banks fell back to Winchester, where he remained stationary for several weeks, and McClellan moved his army to the Peninsula. The retreat from Manassas paralyzed all the operations of the enemy in Northern Virginia for weeks, and rendered an entirely new campaign necessary on his part. The camp on the Rappahannock. While General Johnston from the Rapidan observed McClellan's movements until his attack was developed, whether by way of Yorktown or Fredericksburg, he left General Ewell, who had in February been assigned to General Kirby Smith's division, at Rappahannock station, where the Orange railroad crosses that river. With him were General Stuart and his cavalry. Elzey's brigade went into camp about a mile east of the railroad, and Trimble and Taylor were posted up the river to the west of it. Here from the 11th of March until the latter part of that month they were undisturbed by any turnout or approach of the enemy. Colo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Tribute to the Confederate dead. (search)
heir eyes not suffered to see Canaan nor their feet to press its sacred soil; for in that day God came down and talked with Moses in the mount, and gave to them that law that is the basis of the truth and right and justice that to-day prevail throughout Christendom. And so with us, in that seven years struggle that made us a nation. It was well worth twice ten years of peaceful life to have lived and labored with Washington, to have fought at Bunker's Hill and Saratoga, at Princeton and Yorktown, and to have suffered and endured at Valley Forge. But it may be said that these gained and ours lost. Well, be it so. Were the lives of ours, therefore, wasted, and did our dead die in vain? As well say so of the martys, whose blood was the seed of the church. And, drawing reverently the parallel, when Jesus died in agony and ignominy, Pilate and Herod lived. In that eclipse of the God-man, was his cause lost? Why, in three centuries he became the world's master, his name ruling th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Peninsula — McClellan's campaign of 1862, by Alexander S. Webb. (search)
James and York, and by means of his works at Yorktown and Gloucester Point, closed the latter riverer, and thus the bay and the York river up to Yorktown were open to the unmolested use of the Federar of Johnston's army from the Rappahannock to Yorktown. Meantime, to Magruder with 11,000 men was aer's line stretched across the Peninsula from Yorktown to Mulberry Point on the James. With 6,000 oorce the handful of Confederates out of their Yorktown lines by regular approaches and siege guns. or Johnston and the bulk of his army to reach Yorktown — long enough for the Confederate Government and of McClellan in reference to the siege of Yorktown. That the administration treated McClellan bhnston showed as great skill in retiring from Yorktown as he and Magruder had shown in defending it.wly and with great caution. The retreat from Yorktown involved the evacuation of Norfolk by the Con. 181) gives McClellan's numbers when he left Yorktown, as 109,335 present for duty. There is no fa
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), History of Lane's North Carolina brigade. (search)
ane, my first aid, was in all of the battles in which the brigade took part, from Sharpsburg to Spotsylvania Courthouse, where he was mortally wounded. He was a private in the Chesapeake guards, from Mathews county, Va., until the evacuation of Yorktown, but acted as adjutant of the regiment to which his company was attached. He next served as an amateur in the Fifth Virginia Cavalry, accompanied General Stuart in his circuit around McClellan's rear, and took part in several other cavalry raidlar. He was the life of our Headquarters, where he was beloved by everybody. My boy brother, J. Rooker Lane, entered the service as a private in the Chesapeake guards, a volunteer infantry company from Mathews county, Va., and was wounded at Yorktown. After the evacuation of that place he served as a private in Company E, Fifth Virginia Cavalry, until the winter of 1863, when, at my request, and on account of his youth, General Lee ordered him to report to me for duty. As my acting aid he
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Ex-Confederates in New Jersey. (search)
Ex-Confederates in New Jersey. During the Centennial celebration at Yorktown the Aaron Wilkes Post No. 23, G. A. R., of Trenton, N. J., extended their trip to Richmond and were entertained at an impromptu banquet by the veterans of the Richmond Howitzers, the old First Virginia regiment and the Otey battery. So pleased were the visitors at their hospitable reception that soon after their return home they sent a committee to Richmond, bearing gifts and a hearty invitation from Wilkes Post to visit them in Trenton. The kind invitation was accepted and arrangements for the visit entrusted to a committee. Captain David N. Walker was made officer in charge. About seventy-five men, representing the three organizations above named, composed the visiting party. We left Richmond April 12th, on the 5 A. M. train, all hands having been made Colonels by the officer in charge. It was a jolly party on pleasure bent. At Baltimore we received several recruits in the persons of old
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 8.83 (search)
y full ranks, and their esprit du corps was unimpaired. Indeed, they had gained that confidence in themselves and their officers that goes far to make a crack soldier and steady veterans; and veterans they were, with Blackburn's Ford, Bull Run, Yorktown, Williamsburg, and the seven days fight emblazoned on their banners. They knew what a soldier's life was by this time, and had got trained in every phase of it. In the cantonments at Manassas Junction, drilling six times a day; in the picket duty at Falls Church and Munson's Hill; in the bivouac at Fairfax Courthouse; in the winter quarters at Centreville; in the long marches from Manassas to Richmond, and thence to Johnson, on the York river; trench duty at Dam No. 1, at Yorktown; the rear guard at Williamsburg; the skirmish line on the road, holding the enemy in check; the builders of miles of fortifications; in the sudden dash and desperate battle of Seven Pines, and then to the glorious excitement of following up the retreating