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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 8.83 (search)
A high private's account of the battle of Sharpsburg. [from four years in the ranks, (now in press,) by Alexandeb Hunter.]
Paper no. 1.
General Lee was often asked after the war which battle he was proudest of, and where he fought the greatest odds?
He always answered at Sharpsburg.
His army depleted by battles, hardshi orious ease through the rich country.
All these causes combined, dwindled the Army of Northern Virginia away to a mere frazzle, as General Gordon expressed it, and Lee fought the battle at Sharpsburg with skeleton regiments, brigades and divisions.
I copy from my note book. * * * * * *
On the march.
On the 20th day of Aug lay many wounded and dead, among others General Phil. Kearny, the most brilliant, chivalrous, dashing officer in the Yankee army.
His body was sent by order of General Lee to the Yankee lines under a flag of truce.
He was killed in a charge, and rode in the advance with his hat in the air and the bridle held in his teeth, for he
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lee to the rear. (search)
Lee to the rear. by John R. Thompson. Dawn of a pleasant morning in May Broke through the Wilderness, cool and gray, While perched in the tallest tree-tops, the birds Were carrolling Mendelsshon's “Songs without words,” Far from the haunts of m , Tipped with the light of the earliest beam, And the faces are sullen and grim to see, In the hostile armies of Grant and Lee. All of a sudden, ere rose the sun, Pealed on the silence the opening gun-- A little white puff of smoke there came, And a he saddle, there sat A grey-bearded man, with a black slouch hat, Not much moved by the fire was he, Calm and resolute, Robert Lee. Quick and watchful, he kept his eye On two bold Rebel brigades close by-- Reserves, that were standing (and dying) at Go to the rear, and we'll send them to h--! Then the sound of the battle was lost in their yell. Turning his bridle, Robert Lee Rode to the rear.
Like the waves of the sea, Bursting the dykes in their overflow, Madly his veterans dashed on the fo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes and Queries. did General George H. Thomas have any purpose of fighting on the side of Virginia , his native State, at the commencement of the late war? (search)