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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reminiscences of the war. (search)
ived that day (the 31st), and had not seen Colonel Ewell, nor been seen by him, he being out on a shem, and after a gratifying interview with Colonel Ewell (whom I knew well, but had not seen for mahe cavalry companies were badly armed, and Colonel Ewell, in his official account of the affairs wh they found several hundred men stationed--Captain Ewell, late of the United States Dragoons, said d been fired at him; on the contrary, Lieutenant-Colonel Ewell speaking of the alarm, says: This washis return. It was during this march that Colonel Ewell told me how he came to be in his then condwell's porch below Gunnell's, and accounts for Ewell's tardiness in reaching The Rifles. He then sr occupied a very short time, during which Colonel Ewell was engaged in getting his courier, and prthat our cavalry, for the reason stated by Colonel Ewell, I suppose, took no part in the affair --tof Captains Harrison and Wickham, for whom Colonel Ewell had sent, and they did not arrive until so[14 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General J. A. Early's report of the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
es's, Johnson's and my divisions, under Lieut.-General Ewell, had remained in the vicinity of Culpep. After receiving final instructions from Gen. Ewell I replaced the skirmishers of Hays's and Sminext morning, and I also sent a courier to General Ewell to inform him of what had been accomplished through Captain Elliott Johnson, Aide to General Ewell, a copy of a note from General Lee, and althat Johnson's division was coming up; and General Ewell then determined with this division to takeng before (the 1st), and had a conference with Ewell, Rodes and myself, for the purpose of ascertai continued for some time, I was ordered by General Ewell to advance upon Cemetery Hill with my two rminated. After night I was directed by General Ewell to order Smith's brigade (three regiments)e one; and it is very certain that neither General Ewell nor General Hill claimed the benefit of an; but, in consequence of instructions from General Ewell, I turned off to the main Valley road from[19 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 9.91 (search)
Artillery.) Crenshaw's Virginia Battery. Davidson's Virginia Battery, (Letcher Artillery.) Latham's North Carolina, (Branch Artillery.) McIntosh's South Carolina Battery, (Pee Dee Artillery.) Pegram's Virginia Battery, (Purcell Artillery.) Ewell's division. Major-General R. S. Ewell. Brigadier-General A. R. Lawton. Lawton's Brigade. Brig.-Gen. A. R. Lawton. Colonel M. Douglass. 13th Georgia. 26th Georgia. 31st Georgia. 38th Georgia. 60th Georgia. 61st Georgia. Early's BrigadeMajor-General R. S. Ewell. Brigadier-General A. R. Lawton. Lawton's Brigade. Brig.-Gen. A. R. Lawton. Colonel M. Douglass. 13th Georgia. 26th Georgia. 31st Georgia. 38th Georgia. 60th Georgia. 61st Georgia. Early's Brigade. Brig.-Gen. J. A. Early. 13th Virginia. 25th Virginia. 31st Virginia. 44th Virginia. 49th Virginia. 52d Virginia. 58th Virginia. Hays's Brigade. Brig.-Gen. Harry T. Hays. Colonel Henry Forno. Colonel H. B. Strong. 5th Louisiana. 6th Louisiana. 7th Louisiana. 8th Louisiana. Trimble's Brigade. Brig.-Gen. I. R. Trimble. Captain W. F. Brown. 15th Alabama. 12th Georgia. 21st Georgia. 21st North Carolina. Artillery. Balthis's Va. Battery, (Staunton Artillery.) Brown's Md. B
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Two foreign opinions of the Confederate cause and people. (search)
on. Lincoln's uncleanness of language and thought would hardly have been tolerated in a Southern bar. Or, again, take the favorites of the North--the best known names in the camp and Cabinet — Sheridan and Hunter, whose ravages recall the devastation of the Palatinate, political rowdies like Banks and Butler, braggarts like Pope and Hooker, or even professional soldiers like Meade, Sigel, Sherman. These are the household words of the North, and any one Southern chief of the second rank — Ewell, Early, Fitzhugh Lee, Hardee, Polk, Hampton, Gilmer, Gordon — alone outweighs them all. Needless to remind you that among the twenty millions--mostly fools--was no man whom even party spirit dared liken to the stern, simple Virginia professor, the Cavalier-Puritan, whose brigade of recruits stood like a stone wall under the convergent fire of artillery and rifles that was closing round them at Mannassas; no A. P. Hill, second only to Jackson among the lieutenants of Lee; no strategist compar<
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