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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	688	376	Browse	Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	183	7	Browse	Search
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies	138	16	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	99	3	Browse	Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865	93	1	Browse	Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore)	87	1	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 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller)	64	4	Browse	Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	62	4	Browse	Search
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Lee for the warm reception of the enemy. To compel the enemy to pass under the guns of Fort Pulaski in approaching the city, piles were driven in the channels which open into the river on the north and south, and other obstructions made which were for the time effective. Lieut. James H. Wilson, then topographical officer, later a famous cavalry leader, and in 1898 one of the two major-generals of cavalry appointed for the war with Spain (the other being the famous Confederate, Little Joe Wheeler), took an expedition by boat from Hilton Head about Christmas, 1861, to saw off and pull out these piles on the north of the river, and had nearly cleared a passage when detected. Tattnall then came down to the mouth of the Wright river and drove off the working party. The Federals also sought to use a channel leading up from the south, from Warsaw sound, through Wilmington river and St. Augustine creek to the Savannah just below Fort Jackson. An attack by this route had been foreseen

eakening their strength. In the following month Colonel Morrison was sent with his troops into Kentucky to occupy Mount Vernon, and at Big Hill he defeated an attack of Federal cavalry, August 23d. At Bridgeport, Ala., August 27th, the Jackson artillery, under Capt. G. A. Dure, did brilliant work, Lieutenant Holtzclaw, as well as the captain, winning the commendatory notice of General Maxey, the officer in command. The Third Georgia cavalry, Col. Martin J. Crawford, accompanied Gen. Joseph Wheeler in Bragg's Kentucky campaign, and fought gallantly and suffered severely at Munfordville; but at New Haven, Ky., September 29th, Colonel Crawford and about 250 of his command were surprised and captured by a detachment of Col. E. M. McCook's cavalry brigade. On August 10, 1862, Gen. E. Kirby Smith ordered Col. Archibald Gracie, of the Forty-third Alabama, to take a force of infantry and march against a band of east Tennessee Unionists, who had assembled under Col. William Clift nea

ickamauga and Knoxville campaigns; also in the Atlanta campaign in Wheeler's corps; fought in Sherman's front on the march to the sea, and fioten, (I) D. H. Collins, (K) A. R. Hughes. This regiment was with Wheeler in 1862, and went with him into Kentucky. It made a fine record, surprised and captured. A detachment of the regiment served with Wheeler at Murfreesboro, at the close of 1862, and after those captured inrvice, participated in the Chickamauga and Knoxville campaigns; in Wheeler's corps served through the marches and battles of the Atlanta campaign; after the fall of that city remained with Wheeler and shared in his efforts to save as much as possible from the ravages of Sherman's pring of 1864 it was sent to the army of Tennessee and assigned to Wheeler's cavalry corps. It served through the Atlanta campaign and the s3 was sent to Mississippi, and in the spring of 1864 was placed in Wheeler's cavalry corps of the army of Tennessee. It served through the A

d the corps lately under Hardee, but to which Lieut.-Gen. D. H. Hill had just been assigned by President Davis. About 10,000 cavalry were under command of Gens. Joseph Wheeler and N. B. Forrest. The divisions of Polk's corps were commanded by Maj.-Gens. Benjamin F. Cheatham and Thomas C. Hindman; the divisions of Hill's corps byWilliam Preston, also being ordered up, brought 4,500 men, including the Sixty-fifth Georgia, Col. R. H. Moore, in the brigade of Col. John H. Kelly. In Major-General Wheeler's cavalry corps was a brigade commanded by Col. C. C. Crews, Second Georgia, including his regiment under Lieut.-Col. F. M. Ison, the Third under Col. R. T officers left were Colonel Waddell, Twentieth; Major Shannon, Fifteenth, and Major Charlton, Second. The Georgia cavalry, with Crews and Davidson, Forrest and Wheeler, shared the important service of their commands. Among the badly wounded, says Brig.-Gen. John Pegram, was the gallant Lieutenant-Colonel Fain, of the Sixth Geor

he surrender of Rosecrans, but a division of the army at this later period did not appear to him as practicable. The advance against Knoxville being decided on, Longstreet was given for the expedition his two divisions, McLaws' and Hood's, with Wheeler's cavalry, to which Buckner's division was added. Ransom's Southwest Virginia division, mainly cavalry was ordered to co-operate. It was ten days later before Longstreet was able to cross the Tennessee at Loudon and begin active field operatio musketry, and compelled the enemy to recoil in the zenith of his audacious charge. So the fight raged for two hours and a half. At noon General Hardee sent word that the train was safe, and after consultation with Generals Breckinridge and Wheeler, who were present, Cleburne withdrew from the ridge, hauled back his cannon by hand, and undisturbed except by the Federal artillery, just arrived, took up a position a mile to the rear. Cleburne had 4,157 men in this fight, and lost 20 killed,

in three columns, the center directed against Wheeler's cavalry. As Thomas reported, the center med. The cavalry on the right, commanded by General Wheeler, lost from May 6th to 31st, 73 killed andt and left. Between the 1st and 4th of June, Wheeler's troops captured about 100 prisoners. After slowly moving toward Atlanta from the east. Wheeler's men fought dismounted behind successive lincements, but none could be spared him. Behind Wheeler, occupying trenches north and south of the Geisoners. This was a most brilliant feat, said Wheeler, and the Georgia brigade deserves great credibecame necessary to go to or beyond Decatur. Wheeler with his cavalry was ordered to move on Hardeetrieved. The fight had lasted two hours and Wheeler had gained the Federal position and 400 prisoon in the edge of a wood behind a ravine, but Wheeler flanked them out and then pressed them on theorses were suffering from scarcity of forage, Wheeler started August 10th with 4,000 troopers, and [39 more...]

ry. Jackson had 3,794 effective cavalry, and Wheeler was in north Alabama. The artillery with thepresent was reported at 60,000, but deducting Wheeler's 1,237, shows present with Hood on above datns of Sherman. In accordance with this plan, Wheeler was directed to enter north Georgia again, devalry covered his front. On the 12th, Major-General Wheeler arrived in person and his cavalry divi movements eastward, moved rapidly to Macon. Wheeler notified Generals Bragg and Hardee, General B marching through Georgia. The forces of Generals Wheeler, Smith and Cobb being concentrated at Mac On the 20th there was active skirmishing by Wheeler. Kilpatrick advanced as far as the redoubts as compelled to withdraw his few hundred men. Wheeler crossed the river to the south on the same daoyed the bridge and set fire to the town, but Wheeler arrived in time to extinguish the flames. Beo, Kilpatrick hastily barricaded a line which Wheeler assailed with great spirit, Humes and Anderso[11 more...]

g. This company lost 1 killed and 3 wounded at Bentonville. Brigadier-General Iverson in command of 1, 500 cavalry operated on the Georgia side of the Savannah during the advance of Sherman and kept on guard against raids into Georgia. Gen. Joseph Wheeler performed a great service when he defeated Kilpatrick at Aiken, February, 1865, and thus saved Augusta from the fate of Atlanta and Columbia. At Averasboro Wheeler defeated a movement of the enemy upon Hardee's right flank, and covered they faced the adverse circumstances that confronted them, and bravely went to work to repair the desolation wrought by war. How well they have succeeded is evinced by the proud position which Georgia occupies in the restored Union. In the late war with Spain, the sons of Confederates responded with enthusiasm to the country's call, and Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, the renowned Confederate cavalry leader, twined new laurels around the brows of Georgia and Alabama, his native and adopted States.

ly's division, one among the very best divisions of Wheeler's splendid cavalry corps, which followed the fortungiment in middle Tennessee, in Wharton's brigade of Wheeler's cavalry. Wheeler's troops were very active durinWheeler's troops were very active during the Murfreesboro campaign, capturing prisoners and wagon trains in the rear of the enemy. This activity contmanding a brigade in Wharton's division of Maj.-Gen. Joseph Wheeler's corps. During the Atlanta campaign he lthe time in Iverson's brigade of Martin's division, Wheeler's corps. In a report of the operations of the cavalry in the Georgia campaign of 1864, General Wheeler, after recounting the brilliant exploits and long series ol Crews, as brave and faithful. In a report of General Wheeler's, made on the 15th of April, 1865, concerning Georgia brigade of cavalry in Martin's division of Wheeler's corps. He shared the arduous duties and brilliantry, composed in part of two Alabama regiments (Colonel Wheeler's and Colonel Shorter's), one Texas regiment (C

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