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Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 3: from New York to Richmond (search)
he view that the principles which protected citizens of the Southern and seceded States were, to say the least, of doubtful application to us, and that it would probably go rather hard with us if we should be captured. Notwithstanding, I enlisted, and Beers would probably have done so with equal promptness had he not been an expert mechanic-men so qualified being then very scarce in Richmond and very much needed. He was asked to assist in changing some old flintlocks belonging to the State of Virginia into percussion muskets, and all of us insisting that he could thus render far more valuable service than by enlisting in the ranks, he reluctantly yielded and went to work. How long he was thus employed I do not know. My youngest brother went on to our relatives in Georgia, but soon after his arrival there insisted upon enlisting in one of the battalions for coast defense. My sailor brother and I enlisted in Richmond and joined the army at Manassas. I saw but little of Beers a
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 4: from civil to military life (search)
We felt that the Juniors were hanging fire too long. The city was crowded with troops from all over Virginia and the South, pressing to the front, and with swarms of gaily dressed staff officers and military attaches and hangers-on, and we longed to be away, out of this martial show, and off to the real front. We grew daily more restless, especially after the affair at Bethel-sometimes spoken of as Big Bethel, Great Bethel, or Bethel Church. The main armies were facing each other in central Virginia, and as day after day and week after week passed, we began to feel that it would be a personal reflection upon us if another fight should occur without our being in it. Suddenly the great battles of Manassas shocked the city and shook the continent, and we could stand it no longer. As I remember, it was but a day or two after the main fight of July 21 that my brother and I met two soldiers of the First Company, Richmond Howitzers, who were in the city on business for the company, a
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 14: from the Rappahannock to the Potomac (search)
ies. Morton was not in the army, and was probably above fighting age. His handsome estate, Morton Hall, was upon the outskirts of the great battle-fields of Central Virginia, and on one occasion Mr. Morton narrowly escaped capture there, and was obliged to mount a horse and fly. It so happened that Early commanded the vanguard o Jackson's life-time, after a hard day's march, General Early received, soon after coming to camp, substantially the following note: headquarters 2d corps, A. No.--Va. To Gen. Jubal A. Early, Commanding Division: General-Gen. Jackson's compliments to Gen. Early, and he would like to be informed why he saw so many stragglers in Respectfully, A. G. Pendleton, A. A. G. 2d Corps. To which Old Jube promptly dictated and sent the following reply: headquarters Early's division, A. no.--Va. To Col. A. G. Pendleton, A. A. G. 2d Corps: Colonel-General Early's compliments to General Jackson, and he takes pleasure in informing him that he saw so many st
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 17: between Gettysburg and the Wilderness (search)
on Hanover Junction, and while he got decidedly the worst of the fighting, yet he succeeded in getting away without the overwhelming defeat we hoped to have inflicted upon him; and, upon the whole, no preceding Federal commander of the Army of the Potomac had made anything like as good a showing in an equal number of moves against their great Confederate opponent. Apropos of the time and the region in which the operations just commented upon occurred,--being the great battlefield of central Virginia, threshed over for three years by the iron flail of war,--Billy sends me what he very justly terms the most pathetic and harrowing incident of my service in the Army of Northern Virginia. I give it substantially in his own words: One day while we were encamped in the Poison Fields of Spottsylvania County, Tom Armistead and I were summoned to Captain McCarthy's quarters. We found him talking to a woman very poorly but cleanly dressed, who seemed in bitter distress. The captain o
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Index. (search)
, Md., 66 Botts, John Minor, 31-32. Bowling Green, Va., 266 Brandon, Lane William, 115, 130, 292 Brandonestown, Va. (W. Va.), 82 Charlottesville Artillery (Va.), 185, 194-96, 210, 212 Chesterfield County, Va., 3. Garber's Battery (Va.). See--Staunton Artillery (Va.） Gay, Edward S., 42 Georgia Infantry: 7th Regimeilpatrick, Hugh Judson, 237 King William Artillery (Va.), 91 Kingsley, Charles, 92 Lane, James Henry, 13430, 145, 310 Letcher, John, 17 Letcher Artillery (Va.), 41 Lexington, Va., 105 Medals, 341-44. Met-51, 145-51. Morton, Jeremiah, 189-90. Morton Hall, Va., 189 Morton's Ford, Va., 120, 235, 241-42, 268 39, 44, 152, 174-75, 200, 355 New Kent Court House, Va., 87-88. New Orleans, La., 185, 248 New York, N. Y.wounded at Wilderness, 246-48. Louisa Court House, Va., 90 Louisiana Guard Artillery, 197 Louisiana Infa Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 354 Staunton Artillery (Va.), 196-97. Stevens, Thaddeus, 26, 29 Stiles, Benjam