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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 120 0 Browse Search
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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
enerals. Mr. Davis having been elected to the presidency of the Confederate States, Gen. Earl Van Dorn was promoted to the command of the Mississippi volunteers. On assuming command he promulgated General Orders No.1, dated March 2, 1861, in which the following appointments and elections were announced to the division: Richard Griffith, brigadier-general, vice Van Dorn appointed major-general; Beverly Mathews, adjutant and inspector-general, vice Griffith appointed brigadier-general; William Barksdale, quartermaster-general; Samuel G. French, chief of ordnance. The following assistant adjutant-generals were appointed: P. F. Liddell, first; H. H. Miller, second; J. N. Davis, third; John Mc-Quirk, fourth; Melancthon Smith, fifth. The first call was for four regiments, and the enlistment was very rapid. After several regiments had been furnished to the Confederate States, the organization of Mississippi volunteers was continued until eighty companies had been formed and ordered in
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
attached to the Third brigade, Gen. B. E. Bee, army of the Shenandoah. The Thirteenth, Col. William Barksdale, which reached Manassas Junction on the day before the battle, was attached to Early's b Leesburg from the former and shelling the Confederate forces within range on Goose Creek. Colonel Barksdale's Thirteenth regiment, at the latter point, was again under fire on the morning of the 21sve done, and given the battle an entirely different conclusion. On the following morning, Colonel Barksdale sent Captain Eckford, with his own and Mc-Elroy's companies, against the enemy at Edwards infantry and one or two squadrons of cavalry at Edwards Ferry, which were held in check by Colonel Barksdale. The battle was not a great one, but it was one of the most famous of the war on accounbrigades as follows: Second, Col. W. C. Falkner; Eleventh, Col. W. H. Moore; Thirteenth, Col. William Barksdale; Seventeenth, Col. W. S. Featherston; Eighteenth, Col. T. M. Griffin—to form the First b
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
s Mississippi brigade, the Thirteenth, Col. William Barksdale; Seventeenth, Col. W. D. Holder; Eightfrom which he died on the next morning. Colonel Barksdale now assumed the brigade command. In themained in Law's brigade of Hood's division. Barksdale's brigade, the Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Eigh and 30th, losing 15 killed and 153 wounded. Barksdale's brigade did not participate in the fightinttle behind Crampton's Gap. In this exploit Barksdale had 960 men engaged, and lost 2 killed and 1 very large part of their total strength. Barksdale's brigade went into the fight at Sharpsburg eral McLaws said that the ground over which Barksdale advanced was thickly strewn with the dead anchmond. At Fredericksburg, December 11th, Barksdale with his Mississippians occupied the town, atreet-fighting continued until 7 p. m., when Barksdale was ordered back to the famous stone wall becLaws in his report said: The brigade of General Barksdale did their whole duty, and in a manner h
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
ces of Donald, Brown, Wright and Greene, Captain Barksdale, adjutant-general, and Captain Hobart, irg was depleted by Jackson's flank movement, Barksdale's brigade was given a front of three miles tic cannonade and the repulse of two attacks, Barksdale's whole line was assailed by 20,000 Federalslming Griffin. A more heroic struggle, said Barksdale, was never made by a mere handful of men agarged on the left of Anderson's division, and Barksdale on the right of McLaws. Posey on the extremmn drove back the enemy beyond the road; and Barksdale, gallantly leading his men in the terrific f of Barksdale and his men on that day: Barksdale, who, as I have said, had been exceedingly iississippians. You remember how anxious General Barksdale was to attack the enemy, and his eagerneavoring to drag off a prisoner. The loss of Barksdale's brigade was 105 killed, 550 wounded and 92; third, Daniel's North Carolinians; fourth, Barksdale's Mississippians. The Honor Roll of that [4 more...]
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
th Bell's brigade and created a regular stampede, one brigade of the enemy abandoning five guns without firing a shot. Forrest then followed, the nature of the country compelling him to dismount his men, driving the Federals from hill to hill. Five miles from Okolona a fierce engagement occurred in which, reinforced by McCulloch's and Forrest's brigades, the Confederates finally were successful, but with considerable loss, Col. Jefferson E. Forrest, brother of the general, and Lieutenant-Colonel Barksdale, commanding the Fifth Mississippi, being among the killed. Ten miles from Pontotoc the Federal command again made a gallant stand, and Forrest, with only a part of his command up and that nearly out of ammunition, was successful mainly through pluck. The Fourth Missouri made against Forrest what he pronounced the grandest cavalry charge I ever witnessed. But his Tennesseeans stood firm, and repulsed the attack. With this the pursuit stopped, except by General Gholson. In this
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
his death the Confederacy lost a gallant and efficient soldier and Mississippi an illustrious citizen. Brigadier-General William Barksdale, famous in the annals of Mississippi both as a statesman and a soldier, was born in Rutherford county, Tennd entered the Confederate service as colonel of the Thirteenth regiment of Mississippi volunteers. At First Manassas Barksdale's regiment was with Early's command, which by its flank attack assisted in completing the discomfiture of the Federals. One company of this regiment was engaged in the battle of Leesburg (Ball's Bluff). With the rest of his command Colonel Barksdale, at Edwards' ferry, held in check a considerable Union force which otherwise would have gone to the help of their frinst Pope, and hence did not rejoin the main army until after Second Manassas. The Twenty-first Mississippi belonged to Barksdale's brigade of this division. This whole command was distinguished throughout the Maryland campaign, and in the followin