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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 718 4 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 564 12 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 458 4 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 458 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 376 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 306 2 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 280 0 Browse Search
John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War. 279 23 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 237 5 Browse Search
Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence 216 6 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Fitz Lee or search for Fitz Lee in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
ackson's Battery of Artillery. Patrick T. Moore, colonel First Virginia Infantry,——, 1861; brigadier-general, September 20, 1864. Commands—Assigned to organization of reserve forces in and around Richmond. Thomas T. Munford, brigadier-general, assigned to duty as such by Major-General Fitzhugh Lee; colonel, Second Regiment, Virginia Cavalry, April 25, 1862. Commands—Brigade composed of the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Regiments of Virginia Cavalry, A. N. V.; commanding Fitz Lee's Division. Richard L. Page. * * * brigadier-general, March I, 1864 (appointed commander Confederate Navy, June 14, 1861, and commanded naval stations, Charlottesville, N. C.; Savannah, Ga., and commanding Fort Morgan and outer defenses of Mobile Bay); died at Hagerstown, Md., August 9, 1901. Commands—Brigade composed of Twenty-first Alabama Regiment, Infantry; First Battalion Alabama Artillery; First Battalion, Tennessee Heavy Artillery; four companies, Seventh Regiment, Alabama C
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.39 (search)
antage of constrained absence from the fields of active service, chosen by General Fitz Lee to command his division, with the rank of major-general. His joy of conAt the head of a charge, whether of the Black Horse Troop or of his brigade in Fitz Lee's division, Payne was in the place carved out for him by nature. A trooper's lry brigade (consisting of the Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Virginia Regirents) in Fitz Lee's division, then operating with General Early, in the Valley of Virginia. It n captured. In Payne's last battle at Five Forks, in command of what had been Fitz Lee's division, he held in check and repelled a large force of Sheridan's cavalry.and always will be so. It has not been always so. On entering Pennsylvania, General Lee proclaimed: It will be remembered that we make war only on armed men. Generce—like the Roman mother with her resplendent boys, Washington at the beginning, Lee at the end, of Federal Union, attest the ideal of a Commonwealth. It was a si
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Constitution and the Constitution. (search)
hought. He was no demagogue, nor did he bow to that material wealth, which is the mimic counterfeit of greatness. He had not flattered its rank breath. Yet had he so willed, the highest honors in his Commonwealth were within his grasp. General Fitz Lee and Major John W. Daniel bore testimony to this. To a friend he wrote: My aversion to public life is genuine, and, I confess I exult in the freedom of speaking, thinking and acting without one enslaved thought. In this subordination of sely worshipped bigness or was so wholly innocent of greatness. O, my fellow Virginians, for long absent from you, I am one of you; spurn from you these ideals; leave to the idolators their idols. To wallow in their worship is to break the sword of Lee. Payne as a lawyer. When the stress of Reconstruction had subsided, Payne gave his mind to law with a fair share of the concentration which had pervaded him in war. In the forum, as in the field, he maintained his cause frankly, firmly, fear