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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Beauregard's report of the battle of Drury's Bluff. (search)
s to General Jackson as follows: headquarters cavalry division, 12 M., May 1st, 1863. General,—I am on a road running from Spotsylvania C. H. to Silvers, which is on Plank Road, three miles below Chancellorsville. General Fitz. Lee is still further to the left and extends scouts to Plank Road (Orange), and has the Turnpike watched beyond to see if any large movement takes place that way. I will close in on the flank and help all I can when the ball opens. I will communicate through Wickham and Owens to you. May God grant us victory. Yours truly, J. E. B. Stuart, Major-General. Upon the back of this dispatch General Jackson writes, evidently while on horseback, and with a badly pointed lead pencil: 12 1/2 P. M., May 1st, 1863. General. I trust that God will grant us a great victory. Keep closed on Chancellorsville. Yours very truly, T. J. Jackson, Lieutenant-General. Major-General J. E. B. Stuart. What a commentary upon the lives of these two grea
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes and Queries. (search)
s to General Jackson as follows: headquarters cavalry division, 12 M., May 1st, 1863. General,—I am on a road running from Spotsylvania C. H. to Silvers, which is on Plank Road, three miles below Chancellorsville. General Fitz. Lee is still further to the left and extends scouts to Plank Road (Orange), and has the Turnpike watched beyond to see if any large movement takes place that way. I will close in on the flank and help all I can when the ball opens. I will communicate through Wickham and Owens to you. May God grant us victory. Yours truly, J. E. B. Stuart, Major-General. Upon the back of this dispatch General Jackson writes, evidently while on horseback, and with a badly pointed lead pencil: 12 1/2 P. M., May 1st, 1863. General. I trust that God will grant us a great victory. Keep closed on Chancellorsville. Yours very truly, T. J. Jackson, Lieutenant-General. Major-General J. E. B. Stuart. What a commentary upon the lives of these two grea
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A narrative of Stuart's Raid in the rear of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
er, formerly Captain on General Stuart's Staff and Chief Signal Officer of the Cavalry Corps Army of Northern Virginia. Near dawn on Thursday, the twelfth day of June, 1862, General J. E. B. Stuart, with portions of the First Virginia Cavalry, Colonel Fitz Lee; Jeff Davis's Legion, Colonel W. T. Martin; Ninth Virginia Cavalry, Colonel W. H. F. Lee, also a detachment of the Fourth Virginia Cavalry, commanded at the time by Captain Utterback, of Little Fork Rangers, Culpeper county, Colonel W. C. Wickham, who commanded the Fourth, was absent, owing to the fact of his having received a very severe and painful sabre wound shortly before, at the battle of Williamsburg, which rendered him unfit for active duty when the raid was made, and two pieces of Stuart's horse artillery, commanded by Lieutenant James Breathed, started from camp, near Richmond, with the intention of making a reconnoissance in rear of the Federal army lying at that time on both sides of the Chickahominy River and men