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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 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Confederate of 1861 (search)
ppi—1861 Ignorance of military conventionalities was of course the rule among Confederate volunteers of 1861. In the matter of meals especially many amusing instances arose. There was the reply of a soldier of Dreux's Louisiana battalion of Magruder's division, when that force was holding the lines of Yorktown. Prince John, who was noted for putting on side, had bespoken dinner for himself and staff at a nearby farmhouse. Meanwhile the full private put in a petition to be fed. The good lare's plenty for all of us, I daresay. Perhaps, young man, you don't know whom you are talking to, said the general, with increased hauteur. I haven't the honor, but that doesn't matter, was the reply; sit right down and help yourself. I'm General Magruder, sir—your commanding officer. Don't worry about that, general, said the imperturbable youngster; I used to be particular who I ate with before this war, but now I don't care, so long as the victuals are clean. The Ninth Mississippi men in
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The balloons with the army of the Potomac: a personal reminiscence by Professor T. S. C. Lowe, who introduced and made balloon observations on the Peninsula for the Union army. (search)
on the road to Richmond. Firing the day before had started early in the morning and continued until dark, every gun in the fortification being turned on the balloon, and then the next morning they were still pointing upward in the hope of preventing us in some way from further annoying the Confederates by watching their Confederate battery at Yorktown which fired upon the Federal balloonist and upon which balloon Bryan looked down Captain John Randolph Bryan, aide-de-Camp to General J. B. Magruder, then commanding the Army of the Peninsula near Yorktown, Virginia, made three balloon trips in all above the wonderful panorama of the Chesapeake Bay, the York and the James Rivers, Old Point Comfort and Hampton, the fleets lying in both the York and the James, and the two opposing armies facing each other across the Peninsula. General Johnston complimented him upon the detailed information which he secured in this fashion, braving the shells and shrapnel of the Union batteries, and