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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.3 (search)
the future and realizing the magnificent destiny placed before us and our children as one people, with one country and one flag, we accept the verdict of Fate and say: It is well R. E. Colston. The accomplished gentleman and soldier, the author of this address, is to-day stretched upon a bed of pain, where he faces the inroads of disease, and the approach of the last enemy, with a gentle chivalry and heroic firmness, which might put to the blush many a famous victory. In the service of Longstreet and Jackson, of Joseph E. Johnston and Robert E. Lee, he shared all that the New World can teach of battle and danger. In the service of the Khedive and in the deserts of Africa, he shared the suffering of the Old World, and now bears it as his cross. The injuries of earth have only taught forgiveness to his lips. From a crucified body comes only the message of good will to man; and the sermon of peace on earth is the legacy of his life of war. On no day more appropriately than Christmas d
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Last days of the army of Northern Virginia. (search)
e, or detachment of cavalry; a division from Longstreet was also to report to him. From the best infs not over 8,000 troops. Those ordered from Longstreet did not arrive, the cavalry remained in its Battery Gregg to the Appomattox river, while Longstreet occupied the trenches north of the Appomattoefence of the inner line. For some reason Longstreet did not perceive the weakening of the force urg lines. Movements to April Fifth. Longstreet crossed the Appomattox at Pocahontas bridge reat by the south bank of the Appomattox. Longstreet reached Amelia Courthouse on the afternoon oof High Bridge, near Farmville, that night. Longstreet, whose command had halted all that day at Rionly outlet left the Confederate commander. Longstreet's command was in the rear, closely pressed by Meade's army. Between Longstreet and Gordon was an innumerable caravan of wagons, artillery, disang could be had. While this was going on, Longstreet had been closely pressed by the troops in re[2 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The first Virginia infantry in the Peninsula campaign. (search)
nemy, on finding out that his front was clear, followed close behind, catching up with our rear guard. It resulted in a heavy skirmish, in which the enemy was driven back with loss. The morning of the 5th opened wet and dreary. Our division (Longstreet's) was to hold the enemy in check while the rest of our army was on its way toward Richmond. Early in the morning, skirmishing commenced east of Williamsburg. About 10 o'clock orders came for us to fall in, and the brigade commanded by Genet right into a six-gun battery, which we captured, together with a large United States battle flag, also a small brigade guide flag. It was of blue silk with a golden 3 embroidered thereon. This we carried with us to Richmond. An aide of General Longstreet now came up and requested Colonel Williams to make a detail of 100 men to carry off the guns. This Colonel Williams was unable to do, as he could not spare that force. Subsequently a detail was made from the Nineteenth Virginia regiment,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memorial address (search)
and vigorously attack the enemy's right, and Longstreet and Hill moving on the same road should attaort: The principal attack was made by Major-General Longstreet with his own and Major-General D. H. the extreme right of the enemy. A. P. Hill, Longstreet, Whiting and Jackson had successively moved e lines of entrenchments had been taken, and Longstreet, Hood, Laws and other brave leaders, were mo Mountain. Crossing over the Potomac with Longstreet to Fredericktown, Md., when our forces movedn of Lee's different divisions will show. Longstreet with his whole force, estimated at 4,000, waof cavalry to accompany the commands of Generals Longstreet, Jackson and McLaws, and with the main t of General R. H. Anderson, will follow General Longstreet. On reaching Middletown he will take thof cavalry to accompany the commands of Generals Longstreet, Jackson and McLaws, and with the main e, which was formed behind a fence. Lee and Longstreet, giving General Hill a sufficiently wide be[27 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Frazier's Farm, [from the New Orleans, La., Picayune, February 19, 1893.] (search)
o General Roger A. Pryor's brigade, composed of the Fourteenth Alabama, Second Florida, Fourteenth Louisiana, St. Paul's Battalion and Louisiana Zouaves, consolidated, Third Virginia and the Donaldsonville Artillery. We belonged to Major-General James Longstreet's division, which was composed of the following brigades: Kemper's, Anderson's, Pickett's, Wilcox's, Pryor's and Featherston's. On the morning of the 28th of June, just after the battle of Gaines' Mill, I was standing on one of then, one 24-pounder Parrot caisson, one 10-pounder Parrot caisson, one 12-pounder Parrot caisson, and thousands of small arms. This is a pretty good showing, and it looks as if there had been some desperate fighting on that battlefield. General Longstreet in his report says: The odds against us on this field were probably greater than on any other. Comrades, a few words more and I will close. I am proud of the old Fourteenth, and justly so; it was as good a regiment as ever struck a blow
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.19 (search)
n attack reached me, having at times over one thousand men, white and colored, hard at work. In the construction of the mound on the extreme right of the seaface, which occupied six months, two inclined railways, worked by steam, supplemented the labor of men. Although Fort Fisher was far from completed when attacked by the Federal fleet, it was the largest seacoast fortification in the Confederate States. The plans were my own, and as the work progressed were approved by French, Raines, Longstreet, Beauregard and Whiting. It was styled by Federal engineers after the capture, the Malakoff the South. It was built solely with the view of resisting the fire of a fleet, and it stood uninjured, except as to armament, two of the fiercest bombardments the world has ever witnessed. The morning after I took command of the fort, I noticed a blockader lying a little over a mile from the bar, not two miles from the works. I asked if she was not unusually close in, and was answered no. I t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Appomattox Courthouse. (search)
, at which it was determined to try to force our way the next morning with the troops of Gordon, supported by the cavalry under General Fitz Lee, the command of Longstreet bringing up the rear. With my comrades of the staff and staff officers of General Longstreet and General Gordon, I sought a little much needed repose. We lay General Longstreet and General Gordon, I sought a little much needed repose. We lay upon the ground, near the road, with our saddles for pillows, our horses picketed near by, and eating the bark from the trees for want of better provender, and with our faces covered with the capes of our overcoats to keep out the night air. Early morning March. Soon after one o'clock I was aroused by the sound of a column oed the message of General Gordon that his advance was impossible without reinforcements. We rode through the rear guard of the army, composed of the remnant of Longstreet's corps. They had thrown up substantial breastworks of logs across the roads leading to the rear, and cheered General Lee as he passed in the way they had chee
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.37 (search)
was spent here very quietly—this being our second winter in the army. In the meantime, General Grant had been made commander of the United States Army, and was to take personal command of the Army of the Potomac, General Meade taking a back seat, or rather a subordinate position. Thus everything pointed to an early spring campaign, and everything possible that was honorable was resorted to to strengthen our army, and we had a complete overhauling of our guns, repairing of harness, &c. Longstreet having been recalled from the West, where he was sent by General Lee to assist that army, our troops were soon ready to again take the field. The winter was over; the grass again covered the ground, and the air was redolent with the perfume of wild flowers with which this section of our State abounds, the buds were bursting from their long pent-up homes—everything conspired to cause one to exclaim with the prophet of old: The earth is the Lord's—he makes it to blossom and bring forth the <
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Strategic points. (search)
wrested this stronghold by one of the most daring assaults history records. In the second battle of Cold Harbor conditions were reversed— Lee was behind the defenses, his army about 49,000. Grant was to attack with 140,000 men. He hurled his immense weight upon Lee, but with no effect, except to destroy his men. This leads up to the inquiry, Was either the better soldier? The spring of 1863 found Lee's army at Fredericksburg watching his powerful antagonist across the Rappahannock. Longstreet had been detached for service near Suffolk, and the Army of Northern Virginia thus weakened. Hooker had succeeded Burnside in command of the Army of the Potomac. New hopes inspired the Federal army. Hooker was jubilant; he announced to the world the finest army on the planet was about to exterminate its enemies. So sure was he of this, he dispatched to General Hallock at Washington: The rebel army is now the legitimate property of the Army of the Potomac. Rejecting Burnside's p
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
89, 258 Lane, Gen. James H., 116. Landmark, Norfolk, Va., cited, 322. Last Battle of the War, 226. Last Blood of the War, The, 343. Lebby, Capt., 268. Leech, Capt., John, W. T., 160. Lee and Jackson, Characters of, 23. Lee, Gen. R. E., grandeur of the character of, 96; at Appomattox, 353; his army, how last fed, 359, 360. Lee, Lieut.-Gen. S. D., Address of, 189. Letcher Battery, 373. Lewis, Owen, 343. Lorena, The Song, 267. Loehr, Sergt. C. T., 104. Longstreet, Gen., James, 146. Lossing, Benson J., cited, 292. Louisiana Troops, their part in the Battle of Frazier's Farm, 160; at Shiloh, 215; the 14th Regiment Infantry, 165. Lowry, Gen. M. P., 147. McGuire, Dr. W. P., 367. Magnaminity of the true soldier, 337. Magruder, Gen. John B., 118. McKinnon, James, 110. McLean, Hon., 357. Malvern Hill, Battle of 128. McMasters, John, 343. McNulty, Dr. F. J., 165. Manassas, 377. Marshall, Col. Chas , 353. Marye's Heights, touching inci