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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: May 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
During Saturday night Gen. Lee discovered that a movement was on foot, and supposing it might be Grant's purpose to turn his flank, he sent forward a portion of Longstreet's forces, who began to move about 3 A. M of Sunday morning. About 10 o'clock Gen. Lee advanced skirmishers along the enemy's entire lines at the Wilderness, andead Yankees in front of his line of battle at the Wilderness. This, be it remembered, was only in front of one corps, and does not include the loss in front of Longstreet and A. P. Hill. We captured an immense number of arms at the Wilderness battle-field, and the enemy left the trenches strewn with arms, clothing, and all mf this army since the move begun. Major Gen. Jubal A. Early is commanding A. P. Hill's corps, Hill being quite sick. Maj. Gen. H. H. Anderson is in command of Longstreet's corps, and Brig Gen. Wm. Manons is in command of Anderson's division. Brig Gen. Gordon, of Ga., has been promoted to Major Generalcy, and is in command of E
The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The battle of the Wilderness. (search)
from Orange Court House to Fredericksburg.--Longstreet, who was encamped in the vicinity of Gordonvm behaved with distinguished gallantly. Longstreet had not yet reached the ground.--Leaving Gorad made the circuit of the Confederacy under Longstreet, remonstrated against such an unnecessary exime appeals were made by several officers to Longstreet as the only person who could probably dissuaficult circumstances, with their old leader, Longstreet, to guide and direct them, it would have donng given to our right. About 11 o'clock Longstreet was ordered to move upon the enemy's left fl broken before. The plank road being clear, Longstreet advanced down it at the head of Jenkins's brch he died in a few hours afterwards, and Gen. Longstreet was shot in the neck. The bail struck hi now, as he lost his right arm then! Gen. Longstreet had just been congratulated by Gen. Lee, n, of Hills corps, who had been reporting to Longstreet after his arrival, and who formerly belonged[1 more...]