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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Events leading up to the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
e table: Colonel Marshall, did you know General Twiggs? I replied that I had never met GeneralGeneral Twiggs, but that I knew something of him from the history of the Mexican war. General Lee then said: General Twiggs had a way of instilling instruction that was very effective, and no one ever ughly. Sometimes they undertook to change General Twiggs' orders, and would fail to do what he toldthe general had ordered it to be done. If General Twiggs remarked upon such liberties being taken weady to show that they were right and that General Twiggs' order was wrong. The General bore withached the place where the thing ordered by General Twiggs was to be done, he had found that circumstances were so entirely different from what General Twiggs had supposed that he thought that the Genen the facts, and was proceeding to satisfy General Twiggs that what the young officer had done was the best under the circumstances. But General Twiggs interrupted him by saying: Captain, I know you [1 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Joseph Jones, M. D., Ll.D. (search)
, 336. Spotsylvania C. H Battle of, 50. State, Raleigh, N. C., cited, 165, 189. State, Columbia, S C , cited, 25. State, N. O., La., cited, 82. Stonewall Brigade, 56; Battles of the, 56. Strange, Colonel, John Bowie, 298. Stuart, General J. E. B., Tribute to, 202; at Gettysburg, 212, 216; defence of, 238, 348. Suffolk, Va., Occupation of, 66. Swift Creek, Va., Engagement at, 66. Times-Democrat, cited, 38. Times, Richmond, cited, 238, 294, 357, 359. Twiggs, General D. E., anecdote of, 206. Tyler, General R. C., 38. Virginia, her constant battle for right, her statesmen and soldiers, 12; her honorable bearing in 1861, 367; Reminiscences of the Convention of 1861, 296. Warwick, Clarence, killed, 80. Weitzel, General, Godfrey, 177. Weldon Railroad, action of, 52, 74. West Point, Ga., 38. Wise, General, Peyton, 337. West, Colonel, Douglass, 84. West, Colonel Theodore I., 86. Wilderness battle of the, 49 Winchester, battle of, 131.