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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Telegrams concerning operations around Richmond and Petersburg in 1864. (search)
sterday and last night. Scouts report Second corps marched with five days rations; expedition must then be only a division to prevent Early being reinforced. G. T. Beauregard. near Petersburg, Virginia, August 17th, 1864--10 A. M. General R. E. Lee, Chaffin's Bluff: All quiet here yesterday and last night. No material change reported in enemy's movements or position. Thirty-six wagons and ten ambulances passed this morning on Military road, rear Battery Five, going in direction of City Point. G. T. Beauregard. near Petersburg, August 17th, 1864--5 P. M. General R. E. Lee, Chaffin's Bluff: Have ordered over batteries to open daily for thirty minutes at 2 and 3 A. M., to prevent enemy's concentration of troops for an attack. G. T. Beauregard. near Petersburg, August 18th, 1864--10.15 A. M. General R. E. Lee, Chaffin's Bluff: Following dispatch just received from General Dearing: Enemy has driven in my pickets and reserve in front of Yellow House. I am just going up
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Meeting at the White Sulphur Springs. (search)
ut he never rose to that greatness and dignity of soul which enabled Robert E. Lee at Gettysburg to assume the responsibility of a failure. The second invasion of A. J. Smith. On the 19th of July, 1864, General Grant telegraphed from City Point, Virginia, to General Sherman: I see by Richmond papers of yesterday that Smith has left Tupelo. Although they call it a retreat, I judge from S. D. Lee's dispatch that Forrest has been badly whipped. Smith, however, ought to be instructed to keepman he ever met, or, as he expressed it, I lost my charm when I met Dick Taylor. The consternation of the enemy at his movements can be best appreciated from their telegrams to each other at the time. Grant telegraphs to Sherman from City Point, Virginia, September 12th, 1864: It will be better to drive Forrest from Middle Tennessee as a first step. Same day General Sherman telegraphs General Webster at Nashville: Call forward from Kentucky any troops that can be spared there, and hold al
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prison experience. (search)
he bulletin board bidding the Gettysburg prisoners to hold themselves in readiness. With fear and trepidation we proceeded to obey the order, for we did not know what disposition was to be made of us. We were taken into a pen adjacent to the one we had occupied for the past eighteen months, and there we received the joyful intelligence that we were to be paroled. Several days were consumed in the process, and the night of the 11th, at 2 o'clock A. M., we were marched on board the steamer City point. At daybreak on the 12th we were well underway, and the place of our long and cruel captivity was fast receding from view. At noon, at that day, we passed Rip Raps, a barren rock where some of our gallant boys had been sent for some imaginary offence. A severe gale delayed our progress very materially, and the ice in James river was another obstacle. We had passed the grim walls of Fortress Monroe, and began to realize familiar scenes and places. About noon, on the 15th, we arrived at