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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 999 7 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 382 26 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 379 15 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 288 22 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 283 1 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 II. 243 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 233 43 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 210 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 200 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 186 12 Browse Search
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n. Stuart at once sent up word in elevate the pieces, and advanced to watch the effect of the fire. Mean-while there was great commotion in the Federal camp — the men were called to arms, and from great confusion, drawn up in line of battle. The succeeding shots also fell short, and Captain Rosser threw his pieces to their highest elevation with the same effect. He then ordered the pieces lowered by sinking the rear of the carriages; but before the work was completed orders came from Gen. Longstreet to retreat as rapidly as possible. The order was instantly obeyed; the guns limbered and hastened to the rear without having effected anything beyond giving the enemy a big care. What the object of this little demonstration was, I cannot say; but pristine it was merely to test the strength and purpose of the Federals. Among the little incidents of camp life there was one a night or two ago which caused us some amusement. The band of the 1st Virginia regiment had been serenading