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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
al, April 1, 1962; killed at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, in charge of Pickett's Division. Commands—Brigade composed of Ninth, Fourteenth, Thirty-eighth, Fifty-third and Fifty-seventh Virginia Regiments, Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia. Turner Ashby, lieutenant-colonel Seventh Virginia Cavalry, July 17, 1861; brigadier-general May 23, 1862; killed near Harrisonburg, Va., June 6. 1862. Commands—Original command of twenty-six companies of cavalry subsequently organized into the Sixth, Seette Rosser, born in Campbell county, Va., October 15, 1836; captain Washington Artillery (Louisiana), July 21, 1861; lieutenant-colonel of artillery, June 16, 1862; colonel Fifth Virginia Cavalry, June 20, 1862; brigadier-general and assigned to Ashby's Laurel Brigade, composed of Seventh, Eleventh and Twelfth Regiments and White's Thirty-fifth Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, and Chew's Horse Artillery; majorgen-eral, November, 1864; division, The Laurel and Pavne's Brigade. Daniel Ruggles, li
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.39 (search)
us feel the force and feel that lack. He, their captain, quickly proved he was by training and tradition all that we picture as the beau sabreur. As the captain rose to the brigadier, the meaning of his life flamed out for all to see. As he rode with Stuart, Hampton, and the Lees, as he rode deeper and deeper into the war, that meaning fell like a shaft of light across a darker and darker sky. War was the steel which struck the spark. He had been in boyhood the neighbor and the friend of Ashby and was of a kindred spirit with that knight and paladin of Virginia and the valley of Virginia. They read the same books, they dreamed the same dreams. Nor was either content to be a dreamer. Each sought to make the dream reality For them chivalry was not a mere poetic parable, but the glowing reality of life. For them the book of chivalry was not chained to the altar; but where the book was there rose an altar and the book was the struggle of man. To each this was an infallible book of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
erals, 193 Virginia Battle Field Park, 215 Virginia Bill of Rights 50 Virginia Cavalry, the 14th, 13 Virginia Convention of 1788, Personnel of Members, their Imposing Stature and Longevity, 34 Virginia Constitution, Chief Advocates for and Opponents thereto, 35 V. M. I. cadets at Battle of New Market, their Dauntlessness, 288 Virginia Offered to Emancipate her Slaves, 289 Virginia Generals in the C. S. Army, 105 Anderson, Joseph R., 105 Armistead Lewis A., 105 Ashby, Turner, 105 Barton, Seth M., 106 Beale. R. L. T., 106 Cabell, W L., 106 Chambliss, John R., 106 Chiltun, R. H., 106 Cocke, Philip St. Geo., 106 Colston Raleigh E., 107 Cooke, John R., 107 Cooper, Samuel 107 Corse, M. D., 107 Dearing, James 107 Early. Jubal A.. 108 Echols. John, 108 Ewell, Robert S., 108 Foyd, John B., 108 Garland, Jr., Samuel, 109 Garnett, R. K., 109 Garnett, Robert S., 109 Killing of, 146 Heth. Henry. 109 Hill, Ambrose P., 109 Hunton, Epp