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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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The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankee movement around Richmond. (search)
art of Pennsylvania, and into it Lee poured his whole army. The rapid progress of his advanced corps soon compelled the Yankee army to leave their position around Washington and come in pursuit of him, and this, beyond all doubt, Lee foresaw. Longstreet had advanced as far as Gettysburg, when last Wednesday he came in contact with the whole Yankee army. For two days he fought it, evidently, from their own showing, gaining greatly the advantage. In the meantime Lee has been concentrating his the result will be, or has been, past events do not permit us to doubt. Whenever we have met the Yankees we have beaten them, and they have rarely been less than three to one. Here their forces will have been not greatly superior to ours. If Longstreet was able not only to check, but actually to defeat their whole army with his single corps, what may we, not expect from the whole army of Lee? If the decisive battle has yet been fought, it must have been on the 4th, 5th, or 6th of July.
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
orning, which says: "The action commenced again at early daylight upon various parts of the line. The enemy, thus far, have made no impression upon my position. All accounts agree in placing their whole army here. Prisoners report that Longstreet's and A. P. Hill's forces were much injured yesterday, and had many general officers killed. Gen. Barksdale, of Miss., is dead. His body is within our lines. We have thus far about 1,600 prisoners, and a small number yet to be started. " ly met by our troops. This morning at daylight the contest was spiritedly renewed. Our army drove the enemy, who in turn drove ours, the fighting being desperately severe, and the fiercest, probably, of the war. Prisoners report that Longstreet was killed, and this seems to be confirmed by later intelligence. Colonel Cross, of New Hampshire, and General Zook, of New York, are among the killed. Gen. Sickles; it is said, was wounded, and had his leg amputated on the field. Ge