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Elliott (search for this): chapter 1.19
s, as was subsequently proven. During the night of the 29th (I think about 2 o'clock), we received orders to get our men under arms and ready for action at a moment's notice, which convinced us that General Lee had important information. We remained thus until between daybreak and sunrise of the 30th of July, when suddenly the quiet and suspense was broken by a terrific explosion on our left. The news soon reached our lines that the enemy had exploded a mine under a fort then known as Elliott's Salient, subsequently named the Crater, from its resemblance in shape to the crater of a volcano, and during the terrible struggle one in active operation, caused by the smoke and dust which ascended therefrom. Mahone's was the supporting division of the army while in front of Petersburg, and consequently whenever the enemy was making serious attacks this command, or a part of it, was sent to reinforce the point assailed. Hence it was in many hard-fought battles while the army was in
Perry (search for this): chapter 1.19
t, now of Lynchburg, Va. On the night of the 29th of July, 1864, Wilcox's old brigade of Alabamians, at that time commanded by Gen. J. C. C. Saunders, which was one of the five brigades composing Mahone's (formerly Anderson's), division, was occupying the breastworks to the right of Petersburg, at a point known as the Wilcox farm. The division consisted at the time of Wilcox's old brigade of Alabamians, Wright's Georgia brigade, Harris' Mississippi brigade, Mahone's Virginia brigade, and Perry's Florida brigade (by whom commanded at the time I fail to remember). All was quiet in our immediate front, but an incessant and rapid fire was going on to our left and immediately in front of Petersburg, where the main lines of the hostile armies were within eighty yards of each other. There was a rumor that the Federals were attempting to undermine our works, and were keeping up this continuous fire to shield their operations. The Confederate army had dug counter mines in front of our wo
T. B. Baugh (search for this): chapter 1.19
anies of this regiment, and would include a similar list of the officers of the other regiments but for the unfortunate fact that their names were not given. They are as follows: Company A, Captain Hayes commanding; Company C, Sergt. T. Simmons commanding; Company D. Capt. J. W. Cannon commanding; Company E, Lieut. M. H. Todd commanding; Company F, Capt. John C. Featherston commanding; Company H, Lieut. R. Fuller commanding; Company I, Lieut. B. T. Taylor commanding; Company K, Lieut. T. B. Baugh commanding. By the report of Capt. George Clark, assistant adjutant general, this brigade of five regiments carried into the battle of the Crater 628 men, and of this number it lost eighty-nine. The brigade early in the war had numbered about five thousand. It will be observed that such had been our losses in former battles that regiments were commanded by captains and companies by sergeants, some of the companies having been so depleted that they had been merged into other compa
Nathan B. Forrest (search for this): chapter 1.19
nks at the fort and at the enemy's main line, as did our artillery, and the enemy's infantry and artillery from all sides opened upon us. On we went, as it seemed to us, literally into the mouth of hell. When we got to the walls of the fort we dropped down on the ground to get the men in order and let them get their breath. While waiting we could hear the Yankee officers in the fort trying to encourage their men, telling them, among other things, to remember Fort Pillow. (In that fort Forrest's men had found negroes and whites together, and history tells what they did for them). Novel Methods of fighting. Then commenced a novel method of fighting. There were quite a number of abandoned muskets with bayonets on them lying on the ground around the fort. Our men began pitching them over the embankment, bayonet foremost, trying to harpoon the men inside, and both sides threw over cannon balls and fragments of shells and earth, which by the impact of the explosion had been pr
Joel A. Hayes (search for this): chapter 1.19
Fourteenth Alabama, Capt. Elias Folk commanding. Ninth Alabama in front. The Ninth Alabama, being on the right of the brigade, was in front as we ascended the ravine, or depression, to form line of battle. I copy from the Petersburg Express the names of the officers who commanded the companies of this regiment, and would include a similar list of the officers of the other regiments but for the unfortunate fact that their names were not given. They are as follows: Company A, Captain Hayes commanding; Company C, Sergt. T. Simmons commanding; Company D. Capt. J. W. Cannon commanding; Company E, Lieut. M. H. Todd commanding; Company F, Capt. John C. Featherston commanding; Company H, Lieut. R. Fuller commanding; Company I, Lieut. B. T. Taylor commanding; Company K, Lieut. T. B. Baugh commanding. By the report of Capt. George Clark, assistant adjutant general, this brigade of five regiments carried into the battle of the Crater 628 men, and of this number it lost eighty-
John C. Featherston (search for this): chapter 1.19
f War. From the Birmingham age-herald, February 4, 1906. Eye witness describes Bloody battle of the Crater— the losses were heavy. Gallant conduct of Alabamians in Wilcox Brigade related by man who took part at Petersburg. By Captain John C. Featherston, 9th Alabama Regiment, now of Lynchburg, Va. On the night of the 29th of July, 1864, Wilcox's old brigade of Alabamians, at that time commanded by Gen. J. C. C. Saunders, which was one of the five brigades composing Mahone's (formerct that their names were not given. They are as follows: Company A, Captain Hayes commanding; Company C, Sergt. T. Simmons commanding; Company D. Capt. J. W. Cannon commanding; Company E, Lieut. M. H. Todd commanding; Company F, Capt. John C. Featherston commanding; Company H, Lieut. R. Fuller commanding; Company I, Lieut. B. T. Taylor commanding; Company K, Lieut. T. B. Baugh commanding. By the report of Capt. George Clark, assistant adjutant general, this brigade of five regiments
J. W. Cannon (search for this): chapter 1.19
e Ninth Alabama, being on the right of the brigade, was in front as we ascended the ravine, or depression, to form line of battle. I copy from the Petersburg Express the names of the officers who commanded the companies of this regiment, and would include a similar list of the officers of the other regiments but for the unfortunate fact that their names were not given. They are as follows: Company A, Captain Hayes commanding; Company C, Sergt. T. Simmons commanding; Company D. Capt. J. W. Cannon commanding; Company E, Lieut. M. H. Todd commanding; Company F, Capt. John C. Featherston commanding; Company H, Lieut. R. Fuller commanding; Company I, Lieut. B. T. Taylor commanding; Company K, Lieut. T. B. Baugh commanding. By the report of Capt. George Clark, assistant adjutant general, this brigade of five regiments carried into the battle of the Crater 628 men, and of this number it lost eighty-nine. The brigade early in the war had numbered about five thousand. It will be
J. M. Crow (search for this): chapter 1.19
in such a manner as not to be seen by the enemy, who were entrenched in strong force immediately in our front, and dispatched as directed. This occurred about 8 or 9 o'clock. About II o'clock an order came, delivered by that gallant officer, R. R. Henry, of Mahone's staff, for the Alabama (Wilcox's old) brigade. We were quietly withdrawn from the works, leaving the space which the three brigades had covered unoccupied except by a few skirmishers—one man every twenty paces—commanded by Maj. J. M. Crow, a brave officer of the Ninth Alabama regiment. By a circuitous route we arrived at Blandford cemetery, and then entered a zigzag, or circuitous, covered way, through which we had to pass in single file in order to shield ourselves from the fire of the enemy. We soon came out of the covered way into a slight ravine which ran parallel with the enemy's line of fortifications and also our own, in which was the fort, now famous as the Crater, and then occupied by the enemy. Situatio
R. B. Potter (search for this): chapter 1.19
gh they had not sought in desperate effort to take each other's lives but an hour before. During the truce I met Gen. R. B. Potter, who commanded, as he informed me, a Michigan division in Burnside's corps. He was extremely polite and affable, alost five thousand men. While we were talking a remarkably handsome Yankee general in the crowd came near us. I asked General Potter who he was, and was informed that he was General Ferrerro, who commanded the negro troops. I said: I have some of his papers which I captured in the fort, and showed them to General Potter. He then said: Let me call him up and introduce him, and we will show him the papers and guy him. I replied, however, that we down south were not in the habit of recognizing a remembered that General Mahone was quite small, and did not weigh much, if any, over one hundred and twenty-five pounds. Potter laughingly said: Not much man, but a big general. When the dead were buried each side returned to its entrenchments, a
J. C. C. Saunders (search for this): chapter 1.19
Alabamians, at that time commanded by Gen. J. C. C. Saunders, which was one of the five brigades co gallant and intrepid brigadier general, J. C. C. Saunders, as above stated, with Capt. George Clarloth about a yard square on a new staff. General Saunders ordered the sharpshooters to cease firingwed by two elegantly uniformed officers. General Saunders asked those of us near him if we had a wh sides. In handing this communication to General Saunders, Captain Clark said: They are asking for when and wherever seen. True war is hell. Saunders' Alabama brigade continued to occupy the Cratt this time General Mahone, having ordered up Saunders' Alabama brigade, sent it forward to recaptury by the enemy yesterday and picked up by General Saunders's men this morning. General Saunders rGeneral Saunders reports that he has buried in the mine alone fifty-four negroes and seventy-eight Yankees, exclusive Mississippi brigade, and the gallant intrepid Saunders, who but forty-eight hours before had so succ[1 more...]
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