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August 29th (search for this): chapter 1
hich he was acting, but also respecting all the circumstances under which he acted. Especially was this true in respect to the character of the battle of the 29th of August. That battle consisted of a number of sharp and gallant combats between small portions of the opposing forces. These combats were of short duration, and wereof their vigils to commence again their murderous strife. The night passed on, and the day, the long day for those who should survive it, commenced—Friday, the 29th August—during which over six hundred of our little band of fifteen hundred were to fall. The first dawn was greeted by the shells of the enemy, who had been preparithern histories and by Southern firesides the brave deeds that Southern soldiers had on this day achieved, were to mark it as the bloody and glorious day of the 29th August. In a small affair the next morning I had the misfortune to be wounded with a few others of the brigade, about a dozen, I believe, but the brigade took no pa
August 9th, 194 AD (search for this): chapter 1
we may well say that he has been eminently so, barring an occasional outburst against individuals. But let us see as to the disparity of the force with which Kearney attacked us at this time. By General Hill's field return, on the 20th July we had in our division of six brigades, ten thousand six hundred and twenty-three men present for duty. Four Years with General Lee, Taylor, page 60; Southern Historical Papers, volume VIII, page 180. Our division lost at Cedar Run, 9th August, one hundred and ninety-four killed and wounded, Reports Army of Northern Virginia (Hill's report), volume II, page 13. leaving us ten thousand four hundred and twenty-nine, with which we commenced the march to Manassas. Our division had been fighting and marching for several days, and it is safe to say that at least five hundred of the six hundred and nineteen, we lost out of our brigade alone that day, had already fallen before Kearney's attack. We had fought Sigel's corps all the morning, and that
August 21st, 1884 AD (search for this): chapter 1
Gregg's brigade of South Carolinians in the Second. Battle of Manassas. By Edward McCRADY, Jr., Lieut.-Col. First S. C. Volunteers. [An address before the Survivors of the Twelfth Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, at Walhalla, South Carolina, 21st August, 1884.] When I look around upon you all, my old comrades, and see in this peaceful assembly the now quiet faces I have often seen lit with the fire of battle, and gaze upon your maimed forms and scarred countenances, and recall the time when I saw your blood shed, I hardly can tell which feeling is uppermost in my heart. It is surely gratifying to those of us who survive once more to meet; but as I recall each face before me, my memory is busier with those who are not here. Such meetings as these must be sad—infinitely sad. We meet the survivors of a lost cause and lost friends, of hopes and aspirations which all the chastenings of the last twenty years have not taught us were unfounded or unworthy. If our memories to-d
June 30th (search for this): chapter 1
rength of this brigade is not given in the reports; but in the lists of casualties published in the Mercury the numbers carried into action are given: First South Carolina volunteers (Hagood's), 324; Palmetto sharpshooters, 350; Fifth South Carolina volunteers, 220; Sixth South Carolina volunteers, 356. The numbers of the Second Rifles and Fourth battalion South Carolina volunteers are not given in their list of casualties in this battle; but in the lists of casualties at Frasier's farm, 30th of June, the numbers carried into action are given as, Second Rifles, 275, Fourth battalion, 70. Supposing their strength to have been the same at Manassas, this brigade would have had present 1,589. Evans, 2,200, Reports A. N. V., volume II, page 290. Hampton Legion (estimate) 300, General T. M. Logan. Drayton's brigade, Fifteenth regiment, 415, James's battalion, 160 equals 575. Major H. E. Young, Acting Assistant-General Drayton's brigade, from field returns, September 11, 1862. Of th
August 25th (search for this): chapter 1
hen other great and stirring events had intervened, and when all the officers commanding regiments on the occasion had been killed, or were absent, wounded, while he was recompiling it; and as his own regiment had been held in reserve until late in the day, he himself was uninformed as to some occurrences of the early morning, which I think worthy of note. The story of this battle can never be told without commencing with Jackson's great march from Jeffersonton, on Monday morning, the 25th of August, to Manassas, where we arrived on Tuesday evening—a march of fifty seven miles in two days. General Crawford, with his famous Light Division in Wellington's army in the Peninsula, was accorded the honors of the victory at Talavera, because, though he reached the field too late to take part in the action, he had made the extraordinary march of sixty-two miles in twenty-six hours, leaving only seventeen stragglers behind. But this was done, not with a corps, but with a small picked bod
1851 AD (search for this): chapter 1
ring for us. This time it was Phil. Kearney, a distinguished soldier in the Mexican war, one for whom South Carolinians had a very kindly feeling from his intimacy with a beloved son of the State who had fallen, killed by the Indians, in a small affair a year or two before the breaking out of the war, and in whose death the State had felt that she had lost a young soldier of brilliant promise. Lieutenant James Stuart, who had distinguished himself in Mexico and was killed by the Indians in 1851. Kearney, who was to die before our division but three days after, was now forming his line for another determined effort to turn our left and drive us from the position we had held all day. General Gordon says: Army of Virginia, Gordon, page 274. The Federal line was formed with Poe's brigade on the right, Birney on the left, and Robinson in reserve. Before it were the six brigades of A. P. Hill's division and one of Ewell's in two lines. Hill held the most important point of Jacks
September 11th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 1
r's farm, 30th of June, the numbers carried into action are given as, Second Rifles, 275, Fourth battalion, 70. Supposing their strength to have been the same at Manassas, this brigade would have had present 1,589. Evans, 2,200, Reports A. N. V., volume II, page 290. Hampton Legion (estimate) 300, General T. M. Logan. Drayton's brigade, Fifteenth regiment, 415, James's battalion, 160 equals 575. Major H. E. Young, Acting Assistant-General Drayton's brigade, from field returns, September 11, 1862. Of the 7,786 casualties in the army as above, 1,749 occurred in the South Carolina regiments as follows: Gregg's brigade lost 619, Jenkins, 404, Evans, 631, Hampton Legion, 74, and the Fifteenth regiment 21, equals 1,749. South Carolina thus lost more than one-fourth, or two out of every seven of all her troops present, while the loss in the rest of the army was little more than one in every seven. But the losses of South Carolina were not to be counted by numbers only. Her best b
July 20th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 1
lties in these brigades is from Wilcox, who commanded them on that day, and he gives only the total in the three brigades at 330. Reports Army of Northern Virginia, volume II, page 231. In the five other regiments from Alabama, which were reported, there were 276, killed and wounded; in the two from Mississippi, 156, and in the two from Florida, 20. It must be remembered, however, that the regiments were not all of equal numbers. For instance, in our division, by the field return of July 20, 1862, the regiments generally averaged three hundred and fifty-seven men Southern Historical Papers, volume VIII, page 180. while in our brigade at Manassas they averaged only three hundred. History Gregg's Brigade, page 37. Still greater was the disparity in the regiments of Jackson's and Ewell's division which had been in the Valley campaign. Early's regiments in the Manassas campaign averaged but two hundred and fifty; others had not more than one hundred and fifty; Southern Historica
July 20th (search for this): chapter 1
l's side. Now General Gordon has certainly endeavored to be fair in his story of this day, and appreciating how hard it is to see and to write impartially, when we are describing such scenes in which our sympathies and interest are all on one side, I think we may well say that he has been eminently so, barring an occasional outburst against individuals. But let us see as to the disparity of the force with which Kearney attacked us at this time. By General Hill's field return, on the 20th July we had in our division of six brigades, ten thousand six hundred and twenty-three men present for duty. Four Years with General Lee, Taylor, page 60; Southern Historical Papers, volume VIII, page 180. Our division lost at Cedar Run, 9th August, one hundred and ninety-four killed and wounded, Reports Army of Northern Virginia (Hill's report), volume II, page 13. leaving us ten thousand four hundred and twenty-nine, with which we commenced the march to Manassas. Our division had been figh
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