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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 103 5 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 98 0 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 89 13 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 81 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 43 9 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 43 1 Browse Search
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 42 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 39 9 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 37 3 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 36 2 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 37: (search)
ground that it was necessary to reform them. As Hill's men moved forward, General Jackson, with his staff and escort, returning from the extreme front, met the skirmishers advancing, and in the obscurity of the night were mistaken for the enemy and fired upon. Captain Boswell, chief engineer of the corps, and several others, were killed and a number wounded, among whom was General Jackson, who was borne from the field. The command devolved upon Major General Hill, whose division under General Heth was advanced to the line of entrenchments which had been reached by Rodes and Colston. A furious fire of artillery was opened upon them, under cover of which infantry advanced to the attack, but was handsomely repulsed. General Hill was soon afterward disabled, and the command was turned over to General Stuart. He immediately proceeded to reconnoiter the ground and make himself acquainted with the disposition of the troops. The darkness of the night and the difficulty of moving throug
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 41: (search)
progress by concentrating our army on the east side of the mountain. Accordingly, the different commands were ordered to proceed to Gettysburg. This march was conducted more slowly than it would have been had the movements of Hooker been known. Heth's, the leading division of Hill's corps, met the enemy in front of Gettysburg on the morning of July 1st, driving him back to within a short distance of the town; the advance there encountered a larger force, with which two of Hill's divisions bece slow and tedious march to the bridge, in the midst of a violent storm of rain, some of the men lay down by the way to rest. Officers sent back for them failed to find many in the obscurity of the night, and these, with some stragglers, a few of Heth's division most remote from the bridge, were captured. On the following day the army marched to Bunker Hill in the vicinity of which it encamped for several days. Owing to the swollen condition of the Shenandoah River, the campaign which was con
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 46: (search)
oned and were secured by our troops. A. P. Hill, on the 4th, with Heth's and Wilcox's divisions of his corps, moved eastwardly along the plat night near Verdiersville, and resumed their march on the 5th with Heth in advance. About 1 P. M. musketry firing was heard in front; the snetrable as to exclude the use of artillery save only at the roads. Heth's skirmishers were driven in about 3 P. M. by a massive column that ommenced in Hill's front continued for two or three hours unabated. Heth's ranks were greatly reduced when Wilcox was ordered to his support,n. This stubborn and heroic resistance was made by the divisions of Heth and Wilcox of Hill's corps, fifteen thousand strong, against the repthe column assaulting in front. After a severe contest, the left of Heth's division and the right of Wilcox's were overpowered before the advre of musketry and artillery, from a considerable number of guns on Heth's line, opened with tremendous effect upon the column, and it was dr
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 52: (search)
use of the disaster was the employment of white instead of black troops to make the charge. Attacks continued to be made on our lines during the months of August and September, but, as in former instances, they were promptly repulsed. On August 18th the enemy seized on a portion of the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, and on the 25th this success was followed up by an attempt, under General Hancock, to take possession of Reams's Station on the same road, farther south. He was defeated by Heth's division and a portion of Wilcox's, under the direction of General A. P. Hill, and, having lost heavily, was compelled to retreat. These events did not, however, materially affect the general result. The enemy's left gradually reached farther and farther westward, until it had passed the Vaughan, Squirrel Level, and other roads running southwestward from Petersburg, and in October was established on the left bank of Hatcher's Run. The movement was designed to reach the Southside Railroad
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
1. Harrison, General, 455, 466. Burton N., 597. Hartsville, Tenn., Battle of, 324-25. Harvie, Lewis E., 550, 571-72. Hassett, John, 200. Hathaway, Lieutenant, 596-97. Hatteras (gunboat), 212-13, 214, 216. Hatton, General, 131. Hayes, Colonel, 95, 96. Hays, General, 273, 284, 285, 435. Hawley, Seth C., 408. Heintzelman, General, 105, 106, 275. Helm, —, 37. Hendren, J. N., 585, 586. Henly, Major, 424. Hennessey, John, 201. Henry, G. A., 30. Herbert, General, 196. Heth, General, 303, 371, 375, 435, 436, 439, 547. Higgins, Colonel, 178, 182-83. Hill, General A. P., 100, 102, 109, 111-14, 115, 116, 120, 121, 124-25, 126, 130, 131, 132, 265, 268, 270, 272, 273, 279, 283, 285, 286, 296-97, 302, 303, 366, 367, 370, 371, 372, 373, 375, 378, 433, 434, 435, 436, 439, 542-44, 547, 553. Extract from report on battle of Sharpsburg, Pa., 286. Wounded, 303. Death, 556. Benjamin H., extracts from letter concerning defense of Atlanta, 472-74. General D. H., 76, 77, 79,