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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 98 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 52 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 6 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 4 0 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 I. 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1861., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.1 (search)
t of twenty governors were University men-Miller, Branch, Burton, Owen, Swain, Spaight, Morehead, Graham, Manly, Winslow, Bragg, Ellis, Clark, and Vance. They filled the chair thirty-eight years out of the fifty-two. The influence of the Universitllis, and his opponent on the Whig ticket in 1860, John Pool, were both alumni. The two Senators in Congress in 1861, Thomas Bragg and Thomas L. Clingman; four of the Representatives in Congress, L. O'B. Branch, Thomas Ruffin, Z. B. Vance, and Warre. They were all University men. Seven others received votes without a formal nomination; five of these, W. A. Graham, Thomas Bragg, William Eaton, Jr., John M. Morehead, and George Howard, Jr., were University men. Davis and Avery were chosen. For assassination of Lincoln. Two sons of the University served as the head of the Confederate Department of Justice. Thomas Bragg was the second and George Davis the fourth Attorney General. Other alumni served their individual States in various
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Autobiography of Gen. Patton Anderson, C. S. A. (search)
ght started with the regiment to report to General Bragg at Pensacola. We reached Pensacola on thetes, and in March was ordered to report to General Bragg, then at Jackson in West Tennessee. Soon r gave rise to much bitter feeling between General Bragg and Major-General Breckenridge, Bragg in h and they in it in 1869.—E. A. A.] I think General Bragg founded his report upon exaggerated statem I deserved. I allude to it here because both Bragg's and Breckenridge's statements may become matas performed to the entire satistaction of General Bragg. In August Withers was transferred to dutwas withdrawn from Bridgeport by order of General Bragg and rejoined the division in the neighborhnary Ridge Hindman was placed in arrest by General Bragg and the command of the division devolved u of July, 1864, I received a telegram from General Bragg at Columbus, Ga., directing me to report tChattanooga, and exercised same throughout General Bragg's Kentucky campaign. The division consist[3 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), An important Dispatch. (search)
it contained the instructions which determined the fate of the Confederacy. The dispatch is a brief one, dictated by General Forrest under most exciting conditions, signed by him, and addressed to General Polk, who was asked to forward it to General Bragg. At the time the message was written, General Forrest, it is said, was making observations high up in a tree on Missionary Ridge. He had been sweeping the great battle-field of Chickamauga with his glasses; he believed he saw evidences of aording to Holland, the New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, the subsequent history of the dispatch was as follows: As soon as the dispatch was written, it was sent to General Polk, who, as requested, sent the information to General Bragg, who was the commanding officer. After this was done, General Polk put the dispatch in his dispatch box, and years after it was found by his son, Dr. Mechlenburg Polk, who is now a practicing physician in New York city. Knowing that Dr. Joh
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Shiloh. (search)
rectly from the commanding general, Albert Sidney Johnston, and Generals Bragg, Hardee, and Withers. William Preston Johnston, in his life's Battle Fields of ‘61, page 257, says: After a short delay, Bragg availed himself of the opportunity to attack the Hornet's Nest by tnded and captured by an overwhelming force of Confederates. Generals Bragg and Withers came up and directed me to take the prisoners to Corinth, but, upon my suggestion that the battle was not over, General Bragg allowed me to detail for that purpose one regiment of the brigade ntil dark, and then withdrew about three miles, and at midnight General Bragg gave me verbal instructions to hold that position. On the nedence, a gallant commander and an accomplished soldier. And General Bragg (page 468) speaks of the noble service of the excellent regimenning, and after distributing ammunition we received orders from General Bragg to drive the enemy into the river. Major-General Leonidas P