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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stuart's cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
my moving northward. （5) When Longstreet and Hill were encamping near Chambersburg June 27th, notd be in supporting distance, and Longstreet and Hill marched to the Potomac. The former crossed at val at Carlisle was received on July 1st, after Hill had met the enemy. First report: The leadof the 23rd); and he endeavors to show that General Hill was responsible for the miscarriage of Geneosite Shepherdstown, and Anderson's division of Hill's corps was to be at Shepherdstown the next dayquehanna. Of the movements of Longstreet and Hill while Hooker was still lying quiet south of therther says on page 179: If Longstreet and Hill had rested one day longer in the Shenandoah Val And again on Page 192: If Longstreet and Hill had stayed quiet a day longer Stuart would haveground upon which the advance of Longstreet and Hill could be regarded as premature is that it put ty of the main army. Furthermore he claims that Hill and Heth should bear the blame because they pre[9 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Major Andrew Reid Venable, Jr. [from Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch.] (search)
of ‘64, began the greatest of Lee's campaigns—a grim wrestle of eleven months, with the guns going night and day—in which the Confederate commander, from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor, put hors-de-combat more men than he had taken into the campaign, and again, from Cold Harbor to Five Forks, put hors-de-combat as great a number as had been left him for the defense of Petersburg and Richmond. Grant crossed the Rapidan on May 4th, and on May 5th. Stuart in person conducted Lee's advance (A. P. Hill's Corps) to strike the enemy on the Plank Road. It is no exaggeration, but only severest truth to say that from that moment, the Commander of the Cavalry Corps, night and day in the saddle, with only a few hours' sleep during the twenty-four, never lost aggressive contact with the enemy's infantry and cavalry, until the fatal May 11th, at Yellow Tavern, when he fell mortally wounded from a random pistol-shot fired by a retreating Federal trooper. The story of that desperate fight, so t<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Review of the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
ith the Rappahannock. The third corps under A. P. Hill, with extended front, was left to face the eis was not the only success. On the day before Hill moved, Ewell had Milroy surrounded at Winchestictate, it is a little surprising to find in A. P. Hill's official report, after stating that his coand intelligent account of the campaign, thinks Hill did not display his usual vim during the first 1862, he wrote to Jackson that he would find A. P. Hill a good officer, with whom you can consult. Previous to the battle of Cedar Run, Hill was ordered by Jackson to move his division on a certainly angered Jackson, who put Hill under arrest. Hill made counter charges, and demanded a court martiven way under the influence of the rumor. General Hill rested, he says, because being under the imppear that everybody was of the same mind as A. P. Hill, and was content with what had been gained. ctly at the enemy's main position, the Cemetery Hill. It appears then, that Longstreet had given [38 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Armistead's portrait presented. (search)
ery field the honor of Virginia, and added yet another leaf to the chaplet of glory which shall forever encircle her queenly head. He comes to take his place in this Hall of Fame with the heroes of our heroic age, who leaped to arms forty-eight years ago, at the call of Virginia, and followed even unto death that starry cross which was to them the very symbol of duty and of self-sacrifice. He comes to take his rightful place with Ashby and Pelham and Jackson, with Stuart and Pegram and A. P. Hill. They welcome him, this noble band, they hail him as a kindred spirit, as a comrade true. Our peerless Lee, we may well believe, looks with approval on this scene. Long may that portrait hang upon these walls. May ot show to all the world what men they were who followed once the banner of Lee. And if ever again the youth of Virginia are called to contend on the field of battle for her honor and her rights, may one glance at that noble face nerve their hearts with unflinching determin
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Story of battle of five Forks. (search)
ength, when assaulted by the concentrated strength of Grant's army, devolved upon Gordon's and A. P. Hill's Corps, the greater part of which had, therefore, to be entrusted to the artillery, unsupported. The Confederate lines broken. Fall of A. P. Hill. Before it was light on the morning of the 2d of April, Parke broke through the line near the Appomattox, but was soon driven back at that p a severe engagement, lasting throughout the day, in which every available man of Gordon's and A. P. Hill's command were used to re-establish the line, Parke, reinforced by the seserves from City Point of the works captured in the morning. In this engagement the brilliant corps commander, General A. P. Hill, was killed, who, during the campaign of ‘64, commanded the right wing of Lee's army and wust beyond the courthouse, and in doing so, cut off from the rest of the army the artillery of A. P. Hill's corps, under the command of Brigadier-General R. Lindsay Walker, and the artillery of R. H.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General J. E. B. Stuart in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
at Lee would have waited till the 30th to order Hill and Longstreet to march to Cashtown. There is sburg, Colonel Mosby points to the fact that A. P. Hill's corps was turned eastward on its arrival aconclusive against any such intention. But General Hill in his report says: (Rebellion Records, Vol against Harrisburg. Thus General Early, General Hill and General Ewell all testify that they hadbetween the enemy and the infantry of Early and Hill, and would thus probably have prevented the battle from being precipitated by Hill on the morning of July 1st. Since writing the above, I find thaavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. General A. P. Hill, General Ewell, General Longstreet—especprecipitated by the unauthorized advance of General Hill on July 1st. I think also that Col. Mosby bability have prevented the rash advance of General Hill. Marching from York to Cashtown on the 30tfrained from reproaching his three Lieutenants, Hill and Ewell and Longstreet, with their share in t[3 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle at Bethesda Church. (search)
which will live in the annals of the Army of Northern Virginia. Colonel J. B. Terrill was a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute; had long commanded the Thirteenth Virginia with great courage and skill, succeeding James A. Walker and A. P. Hill as colonel of a regiment which had no superior in the Confederate Army. His brother, General Terrill of the United States Army, was a West Pointer, and had been killed at Perryville, Ky. Colonel Christian's account of this combat gives us aral Early and others on a hundred battlefields; that had swept everything before it like a tornado; a brigade under whose flag you had fought and bled; a brigade that had furnished to the Confederacy four or five generals: Early, William Smith, A. P. Hill, J. A. Walker and J. B. Terrell (whose commission was on its way to him when he fell), thus to be slaughtered. The absent wounded returned; the ranks were recruited by conscription, but this historic old Fourth Virginia Brigade died then and t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Affidavit of Supervisors of Co. C, 149th regiment. Pa. Vols. (search)
tion from which they had opened fire and advanced. In other words the 150th recaptured and restored the colors while north of the pike and then returned to the fence south of the road, the position from which they had opened fire and advanced. （2) Philadelphia, March 9, 1906. Dear Captain Bassler: Thanks for your pamphlet on the First Day's Fight, which I read (for the second time), with interest. It was always in my mind that our three regiments being hidden from observation by Hill's men, but in sight of Rodes' men, the two regimental colors were placed to draw the fire of Carter's batteries, on Oak Hill. For this purpose the flag of the 500th was planted near the stone quarry and that of the 149th not far from where the Reynolds monument is, with the color guard close by, at the N. W. corner of the barn. As I was with Gen. Stone, along about 1:30, reconnoitering, I got his views as to the purpose of this arrangement, and saw with him the benefit of it. All of a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.34 (search)
h I recall as if it were yesterday, of the message sent in my presence by General Early to General A. P. Hill before he met General Ewell, telling him that in his opinion assault should not be delayed, and that if General Hill would put in his corps, he, Early, would take the responsibility of joining the assault without waiting. The witnesses on this subject are so numerous and so reliable and Gg, which was south of us, and near which we could hear the roar of the battle, in which Lieutenant-General Hill's corps had become engaged. On reaching a position, from which Gettysburg came in viewgan again, in which Gordon's, Hoke's and Hay's brigades participated, and, I think, a part of General Hill's corps, on our right. The wild Confederate yell was soon heard by us, indicating victory. ened and exhausted by a long and bloody struggle, to overwhelming numbers of fresh troops. General Hill says: My own two divisions being exhausted by six hours hard fighting, prudence led me to be
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heth intended to cover his error. (search)
he battle was precipitated against orders by A. P. Hill and himself from both his own and Hill's offHill's official reports to General Lee. The latter says they went on July 1st after shoes: both reports say tion went after shoes. The Records show that A. P. Hill took Pender's and Heth's divisions and two by, Now Heth's story is contradicted by A. P. Hill, the commander of the corps, whose report s heard the firing. He went to the rescue of A. P. Hill and Heth. General Lee had known for a weee place several days before, instead of halting Hill's corps at Cashtown. There was more reason f should have come from the commander-in-chief. Hill and Heth never informed him of the exploit theyoes not say how cavalry could have kept him and Hill away; he unconsciously pays a high tribute to ne if he had been there would have been to tell Hill and Heth that if they went to Gettysburg they wA body of cavalry could have done no more. But Hill and Heth were not blind — they knew the enemy h