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Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 14: from the Rappahannock to the Potomac (search)
hat reminded me somewhat of our old battery — I fought, whenever they were engaged, throughout the campaign, notably at Winchester and Gettysburg; sometimes in charge of one or more pieces, and again fighting as a private soldier at a gun, or in any e Valley of Virginia,--the Second Corps in advance,--crossed the Shenandoah near Front Royal about June 12th, and, near Winchester, routed and captured a large part of the force which, under Milroy, was holding the Lower Valley. Hill followed Ewell,the plan was committed largely to Old Jube, who certainly wrought it out and fought it out beautifully. The town of Winchester and the surrounding country were dominated by a strong closed earthwork, heavily armed and manned, which it would have nd sleeping in a puddle — I presume about as good treatment as could have been prescribed. Next day I was carried into Winchester, and after two or three days rest rode on after the army. The mark of the gun wheel remained on my back for a year or
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 16: Gettysburg (search)
e Charlottesville battery followed immediately in rear of Gordon, and I was in charge of one of their pieces. We drove the enemy pell-mell over rolling wheat fields, through a grove, across a creek, up a little slope and into the town itself. The pursuit was so close and hot that, though my gun came into battery several times, yet I could not get in a shot. Gordon was the most glorious and inspiring thing I ever looked upon. He was riding a beautiful coal-black stallion, captured at Winchester, that had belonged to one of the Federal generals in Milroy's army — a majestic animal, whose neck was clothed with thunder. From his grand joy in In Scribner's for June, 1903, General Gordon mentions this horse, describing him very much as I have done. He adds that he only rode him in one battle; that he behaved well at first under artillery fire, but later, encountering a fierce fire of musketry, he turned tail and bolted to the rear a hundred yards or more. I am glad I did not wit
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Index. (search)
0, 62-63; 24th Regiment, 79-80. Virginia State guard, 42 Virginians and Virginia lauded, 35 Walker, Reuben Lindsay, 41 War of the Rebellion: ... Official Records, 343 Warren, Gouverneur Kemble, 178, 248 Washington, D. C., before the war, 25-32, 39 Washington and Lee University, 102 Waterloo Campaign, 347 Westover, Va., 106 Whitworth guns, 52 Wigfall, Louis Trezevant, 76 Wilderness Campaign, 191, 238-48, 299, 303 Williamsburg, Va., 78-85. Williamson, William Garnett, 183-84. Willis, Edward, 120-24. Winchester, Va., 185, 192-97, 210 Winter camps, 120, 127, 242-43, 312-15. Wise, Henry Alexander, 32 Wofford, William Tatum, 275, 278, 281-83. Women and army morale, 324-26, 349-51. Women on battlefields, 130-33, 229, 273, 309 Wright, Ambrose Ransom, 112 Yale University, 25, 34, 48-49, 62, 68, 115-16, 130, 175, 200, 292, 351, 354-55, 363 Yankee Doodle, 202 York, Pa., 202-206. York River Railroad, 93, 95 Yorktown, Va., 73, 75