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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
mber of Governor's Council. Commanding State Guard of Virginia (regulars), 1861-‘62. Died in 1863. 1822. Walter Gwynn. 293. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 8. Brigadier-General, April 21, 1861. Commanding Virginia forces at Norfolk, Va., April-May, 1861; afterwards colonel (temporary rank) of engineers in charge of defences of Eastern North Carolina, 1862. Isaac R. Trimble. 302. Born Pennsylvania. Appointed Kentucky. 17. Major-General, April 23, 1863. Commanding dding division in Army of Mississippi, 1863. Benjamin Huger. 399. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 8. Major-General, October 7, 1861; (1st) commanding Department of Southern Virginia and North Carolina; headquarters at Norfolk, Va., in 1861; (2d) commanding division in Army of Northern Virginia in 1862; (3d) appointed, August 26, 1862, inspector of ordnance and artillery for Confederate States army; served as chief of Bureau of Ordnance, Trans-Mississippi, in 1864. Na
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Elliott Grays of Manchester, Va. [from the Richmond, Va., times, November 28, 1902.] (search)
who is now master mechanic of the Norfolk and Carolina Railroad at Norfolk, upon request of Judge Clopton. With the exception of about one os mustered into service May 9, 1861, and was ordered to proceed to Norfolk at once, without arms. It was assigned to the Naval Hospital, anda battery of sixteen 32-pounders. The company remained here until Norfolk was evacuated, when the company left Manchester. Armed with banchester each man was armed with a bowie knife. After being at Norfolk a few weeks the men were armed with boarding pikes—that is, a woodled Company. During the time that this company was stationed at Norfolk it became the best-drilled company in the regiment, and on severalny was a very handsome silk flag, which was given by the ladies of Norfolk for the best-drilled company at that place. This company did all red into service Louis F. Bossieux was captain, but after being at Norfolk a short while he resigned, in 1862, and Third Lieutenant John S. W
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The campaign and battle of Lynchburg. (search)
as given some latitude as to how he should execute this order, and as to the best mode of reaching Lynchburg. It seems he determined to move up the Valley, and to that end called on General William W. Averell to suggest a plan of operations, the purpose of which was the capture of Lynchburg and the destruction of the railroads running from that place in five days. （Id., 146.) During the first three years of the war, raids were made upon the line of the Virginia & Tennessee Railway (now Norfolk & Western) west of Lynchburg, for the purpose of destroying Lee's communications with the South and Southwest over that important conduit of supplies. By these raids some damage was done by burning depots and overturning bridges, but none which caused any permanent injury or produced any serious delay in transportation over it. Except for local panics and the destruction of a small amount of property, these raids were, from a strategic point of view, a useless expenditure of military st