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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stray leaves from a soldier's Journal. (search)
rt, and were within two miles of Farmville, where we halted to give men and horses a few hours rest, and from that place we moved in great hurry and confusion General Mahone, commanding our rear guard, had sent direct information to Colonel Hardaway that he, General Mahone, could no longer maintain his ground, and unless our battaGeneral Mahone, could no longer maintain his ground, and unless our battalion moved off in haste, it would certainly be captured. Hence the haste; Hardaway was informed that he would be entirely without support, and was ordered (by Mahone, I think,) that if the enemy appeared upon his flank, he (Hardaway) must immediately spike his guns and abandon them, saving his men and horses, if possible; that thMahone, I think,) that if the enemy appeared upon his flank, he (Hardaway) must immediately spike his guns and abandon them, saving his men and horses, if possible; that the enemy would probably appear on his left flank— no Confederate force being between us and them. Whilst we were marching through this dense swamp in Cumberland county, our battalion being badly scattered, and we not being able to see but a few yards either to the right or left, Colonel Talcott, a Colonel of Engineers on General
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Death of General A. P. Hill. (search)
arted back with his men, and we rode on. Though not invited, I was at the General's side, and my attention having now been aroused and looking carefully ahead and around I saw a lot of people in and about the old log hut winter quarters of General Mahone's division, situated to the right of Whitworth House and on top of the hill beyond the branch we were approaching. Now as I knew that those quarters had been vacant since about March 15th by the transfer of Mahone to north of the Appomattox,Mahone to north of the Appomattox, and feeling that it was the enemy's troops in possession, with nothing looking like a Confederate anywhere, I remarked, pointing to the old camp: General, what troops are those? He quickly replied: The enemy's. Proceeding still further and General Hill making no further remark, I became so impressed with the great risk he was running that I made bold to say: Please excuse me, General, but where are you going? He answered: Sergeant, I must go to the right as quickly as possible. Then, pointi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
arolina, Colonel T. M. Garrett. Twelfth North Carolina, Colonel H. E. Coleman. Twentieth North Carolina, Colonel T. F. Toon. Twenty-third North Carolina, Major C. C. Blacknall. Third army corps. Lieutenant-General A. P. Hill Commanding. Mahone's division. return reports but one General officer present for duty; name not indicated. Sanders's brigade. Eighth Alabama, Colonel Y. L. Royston. Ninth Alabama, Colonel J. H. King. Tenth Alabama, Colonel W. H. Forney. Eleventh Alabamction reports. Colonel Joseph M. Jayne. Twelfth Mississippi, Captain S. Botters. Sixteenth Mississippi, Captain John S. Lewis. Nineteenth Mississippi, Colonel R. W. Phipps. Forty-eighth Mississippi, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas B. Manlove. Mahone's brigade. Sixth Virginia, Colonel G. T. Rogers. Twelfth Virginia, Colonel D. A. Weisiger. Sixteenth Virginia, Colonel Joseph H. Ham. Forty-first Virginia, Colonel W. A. Parham. Sixty first Virginia, Colonel V. D. Groner. Wright's brig
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraph. (search)
f Northern Virginia, which we published in our January-February number, have come from several sources, and we solicit others, if errors are found. General N. H. Harris writes as follows: Vicksburg, Miss., February 4th, 1884. Rev. J. William Jones, D. D., Secretary Southern Historical Society, Richmond, Va: My Dear Sir,—In the January number Southern Historical so-Ciety papers, just received, page 8, appears: Organization of the Army of Northern Virginia, August 31st, 1864, page 13, Mahone's division, it is stated that Colonel Joseph M. Jayne was in command of Harris's brigade. This is an error; I was in command of the brigade, and Colonel Joseph M. Jayne was in command of his regiment, the Forty-eighth Mississippi. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas B. Manlove, of the Forty-eighth regiment, by my assignment, was in command of the Twelfth regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel James H. Duncan, of the Nineteenth regiment, by my assignment was in command of the Sixteenth regiment. If there
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Further details of the death of General A. P. Hill. (search)
entionally) some facts that might be interesting to the soldiers, I sent the account to Colonel C. S. Venable, formerly of General R. E. Lee's staff, and I beg herewith to hand you for publication Colonel Venaable's letter to me, which I am sure will be read with interest by all. Let me say, that as General Hill came across the branch referred to by Sergeant Tucker, I met him (I was going to General R. E. Lee), and turned back with him and Sergeant Tucker, and told him of the enemy in General Mahone's old winter-quarters. After being fired at by the enemy in the old quarters, we turned to the right and there met Colonel Venable, who desired General Hill not to expose himself, saying that it was General Lee's request. General Hill thanked him and told him to say to General Lee that he thanked him for his consideration, and that he (General Hill) was only trying to get in communication with the right. Colonel Venable turned off to return to General Lee, and as he did so, told me I
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reunion of the Virginia division army of Northern Virginia Association (search)
th his handful of cavalry to guard Crampton. He had the Second Virginia cavalry, 125 men, Twelfth Virginia cavalry, 75 and two fragments of infantry regiments of Mahone's brigade. About noon Franklin arrived, Munford dismounted his cavalry and deployed them behind a stone wall on each side of the road at the foot of the mountainisting of Chew's battery and a section of Navy Howitzers belonging to the Portsmouth battery, was posted on the slope of the mountain. Colonel Parham, commanding Mahone's brigade soon came up with two more regiments numbering 300 men and were similarly posted by Munford. Franklin promptly formed Slocum's division on the right Munford clung to his position with tenacity, and it was only after three hours struggle that the two divisions were enabled to drive the dismounted cavalry and Mahone's small brigade, and then only because they were out of ammunition. Munford's entire force did not exceed a thousand men. Stuart reports that General Semmes,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Evacuation of Richmond. (search)
back the enemy's skirmishers and held him in check until General Gordon came up in the rear of the wagons, which must have been from one to two hours after the skirmishing commenced. So soon as General Gordon closed up, my division, following General Anderson's rear, and followed by General Kershaw, moved on across Sailor's Creek towards the point where General Pickett was understood to be engaged with the enemy's cavalry, which had cut the line of march in the interval between him and General Mahone. General Gordon having filed off to the right after the wagon-trains, the enemy's cavalry followed closely upon General Kershaw's rear, driving it across Sailor's Creek, and soon afterwards the enemy's infantry (said to be the Sixth corps) massed rapidly in our rear. To meet this movement General Kershaw's division formed on the right and mine on the left of the road upon which we were moving, our line of battle being across the road, facing Sailor's Creek, which we had not long passed
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
her again over the old embankment and railroad cut. As these armies approached the capital, they dropped the title of armies, and took the names of the corps and divisions which they were afterwards to bear, with few modifications, to the end of the war. The Army of the Potomac became the First corps, Longstreet's, including the army of the Peninsula, which became Magruder's division, and afterwards McLaws's, and then Kershaw's. The Army of Norfolk becoming Huger's division, afterwards Mahone's and then Wright's. The Army of the Valley and the Army of the Rappahannock—the latter having become, on its march to Richmond, A. P. Hill's Light Division—becoming the Second corps, Jackson's. After General Jackson's death the two corps were reorganized into three—Longstreet's. Ewell's, and A. P. Hill's—with but few changes in the division organization. The Army of Northern Virginia was composed principally of troops from the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and G
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The campaign from the Wilderness to Petersburg—Address of Colonel C. S Venable (formerly of General R. E. Lee's staff), of the University of Virginia, before the Virginia division f the Army of Northern Virginia, at their annual meeting, held in the Virginia State Capitol, at Richmond, Thursday , October 30th, 1873. (search)
sanguine of success in this attack; but the main plan miscarried through some mishap, though one or two minor successes on this our left flank—notably one by General Mahone's division—were effected. But, alas! in the midst of these operations on the North Anna, General Lee was taken sick and confined to his tent. As he lay po impression whatever on our lines. The easy repulse of the Federal corps on this occasion, and the result of the attack made by Hill with a part of Wilcox's and Mahone's divisions on the Second and Sixth corps, near the Jerusalem plank road, on the 21st, when sixteen hundred prisoners and four pieces of artillery were captured by Mahone, made it plain that the opportunity had arrived for a decisive blow. So, on the night of the 22d General Lee sent for General Alexander, the accomplished Chief of Artillery of Longstreet's corps, and made arrangements for the disposition of the artillery for an attack on the morning of the 24th. The attack was to begin
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Campaign of 1864 and 1865. (search)
ivision, now immediately commanded by Brigadier-General Gregg, and a brigade or two each, I think, from Heth's, Wilcox's, Mahone's, and Pickett's divisions. I regret that I cannot recall just now precisely whose brigades they were, but one I know wad been fought and won. As a specimen of the knowledge and accuracy of the Richmond journals, one of them, after giving Mahone credit for the fight, gravely added that he ought not, after winning battles, be too modest to let the public know of his prowess; that he must not, whilst fighting, forget the art of writing, when, in truth, Mahone was at no time nearer than Petersburg, thirty miles off. So much for newspapers and the history they make. Some days after this I was with three brigades near Farmville, I skirmished with the enemy, sometimes very heavily. At the last named place the enemy attempted to turn Mahone's flank, he being on my left. Going quickly to his assistance with two brigades—Bratton's and Anderson's—we drove the en
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