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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Explosive or poisoned musket or rifle balls — were they authorized and used by the Confederate States army, or by the United States army during the Civil War?--a slander refuted. (search)
r poisoned. In the Patent Office Report for 1862-3 will be found the following, with the corresponding illustration in the second volume: No. 37,145--Elijah D. Williams, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania--Improvement in Elongated Bullets-Patent dated December 9, 1862. This invention consists in the combination with an elonganto liquid poison and coated, as ball cartridges are usually finished, with wax or tallow, would have effected the same purpose. To what extent the bullets of Williams and Shaler were used during the late war by the United States troops, the following official communication from the War Department at Washington, under date of S — In reply to your letter of the 9th instant to the Secretary of War, I have to inform you that during the late war a great many of the bullets patented by Elijah D. Williams and about 200,000 of those patented by Ira W. Shaler were used by the United States. Respectfully, your obedient servant, S. C. Lyford, Acting Chief of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Hardee and the Military operations around Atlanta. (search)
bearing down upon the rear of the same works. General Hood also says that Hardee was to march at dusk on the 21st (174-177). But the troops to take part in this movement — infantry, artillery and cavalry — were in different and distant positions on the outer lines, in some instances in direct contact with the enemy. They could not be withdrawn into Atlanta until after dark. Cleburne's situation, with respect to the enemy, was such that he could not draw out until ten o'clock P. M. Captain Williams, Govan's Adjutant-General, has furnished me the hour, entered in his diary at the time. From Atlanta the troops were to move on the same road, and in proper order of march, with sufficient intervals of time to allow the cavalry to get clear, and each successive division to draw out and get in motion before the next following took up the march. According to the order of march, Cleburne's division, which I take it brought up the rear, was to move at one o'clock A. M., although it in fac
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battle of Chancellorsville. (search)
e about half an hour later, was similarly repulsed. The Twenty-eighth captured a staff-officer, and the colors of the third Maine volunteers were taken by Captain Clark's company of the same regiment. The Eighteenth also captured an aid to General Williams. A number of field and company officers, and a large number of men were captured along our whole line. After the enemy were repulsed, General McGowan was ordered forward with his brigade, and took position on our right. On Sunday mornineen or nineteen years old) was ordered with his company to take this regiment to the rear, the right of the skirmish line fired, as I afterwards learned from Col. Avery, at a person who rode up from the direction of the enemy, and called for General Williams. This unknown person escaped, but the firing at him caused the whole skirmish line to open, and the enemy responded. Much heavier infantry firing was heard immediately afterwards in the direction of the plank-road, followed by a reopening
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Operations before Charleston in May and July, 1862. (search)
evening. June 10 During a reconnoisance in some force this afternoon, under General Smith, a part of the troops — the Forty seventh Georgia Volunteers, Colonel Williams commanding — were repulsed in the woods, at Grimball's, after a gallant onset upon the enemy, advantageously posted, supported by artillery and aided by his gunboats in the Stono. Our loss serious; Captain Williams killed. The wood through which the Forty-seventh advanced so dense that order, it was said, could not be preserved, nor could commands be properly extended. Great regret for the loss of the brave Georgians. Heavy firing nearly all night from gunboats in the Stono. Junts--Eighth Michigan, Seventh Connecticut, Twenty-eighth Massachusetts, Seventy-ninth Highlanders, Forty-sixth New York, and One Hundreth Pennsylvania. Brigadier-General Williams in command of brigade operating to flank the work on its right by an advance on Hill's place; Brigadier-General Benham in command of whole. Our work a