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W. S. Evans (search for this): chapter 1
the honor of South Carolina on the plains of Manassas. In Longstreet's corps the State was represented by Jenkins's and Evans' brigade, the Hampton Legion, then in Hood's brigade, and the Fifteenth regiment, and James's battalion in Drayton's brigth 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 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 , one of the most promising sons of the State, and Colonel Moore, of the Second Rifles, fell, doing their duty nobly. In Evans's brigade our loss in killed was still heavier. At the head of the Seventeenth regiment fell one who had been an honored
William B. Taliaferro (search for this): chapter 1
lank of the columns Pope had ordered to press forward in our pursuit. Jackson was fully aware of Pope's movements, and to meet King he had at noon sent forward Taliaferro and Ewell through the woods along the deep cuts and steep embankments of the unfinished railway towards the Centreville pike. Here he formed his line in a woodn one-third of their forces engaged dead or wounded on the field, while we suffered heavily, and lost both of the division commanders engaged—Generals Ewell and Taliaferro—who were wounded. We lay that night on the hard and rocky sides of the railroad cut, knowing that many of us who did sleep were sleeping their last sleep onade. So Hill's Light Division was posted and ready for the day's bloody work. Eweli's division, under General Lawton, formed the centre of Jackson's line, and Taliaferro's, under General Starke, was on the extreme right. We had been posted in our position but a few moments, I think, when the crack of the rifles in the woods i
R. S. Ewell (search for this): chapter 1
and to meet King he had at noon sent forward Taliaferro and Ewell through the woods along the deep cuts and steep embankmentsurried to the scene of action, and ordered to report to General Ewell, who was directing the battle; but we were not engaged vily, and lost both of the division commanders engaged—Generals Ewell and Taliaferro—who were wounded. We lay that night eral Gordon represents the assault as delivered in front of Ewell and Jackson's divisions, whereas General Jackson reports tt 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 Jackwith his North Carolinians, relieved by Early and Forno, of Ewell's division, came rushing up, comparatively fresh for the woII, pages 178-217. The total losses in our corps, including Ewell's fight at Bristol of the 26th, Trimble's capture of Manassgreater was the disparity in the regiments of Jackson's and Ewell's division which had been in the Valley campaign. Early's
Krzyzanowski (search for this): chapter 1
The second brigade was commanded by another foreigner, with an equally euphonious name, Colonel Krzyzanowski. This brigade was composed of the Fifty-fourth New York, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonelwe can arrange the positions of the attacking and defending bodies with some accuracy. Colonel Krzyzanowski, detailing the operations of his brigade, the advance of which commenced at about half pas. Think of the heavy masses of three regiments coming to the support of a fourth. Colonel Krzyzanowski, who was immediately in front of the First when we sent to ask for assistance, says: Ibi, but he insists that he held the embankment. Rebellion Records, volume XII, part 2, p. 298. Krzyzanowski's skirmishers had two mountain howitzers, from the effect of the fire of which, we are told, en mowing down our men with canister. Probably it was one of the same that Sigel had sent to Krzyzanowski and which Gordon tells us were happily placed in his skirmish line in the first attack in the
Philip Kearney (search for this): chapter 1
the two brigades. But, however that may be, Kearney was now in our front, ready for action, and Sgain decisive advantages before his arrival. Kearney seems to have found difficulty in getting inty. Schurz having seen the letter of Sigel to Kearney, ordered a general advance of his whole line, brigade never yielded a foot of ground until Kearney's attack late in the afternoon. Not even Groult was preparing for us. This time it was Phil. Kearney, a distinguished soldier in the Mexican waMexico and was killed by the Indians in 1851. Kearney, who was to die before our division but threevens, of Reno's command, was on the ground on Kearney's left. He saw that assistance was needed, aree thousand two hundred and sixty-six men to Kearney's four thousand five hundred—together, over sand Stevens's seven thousand fresh troops. Kearney indeed had a beginning of victory, a presage the morning. But Stevens, who was supporting Kearney, was on hand to make one more last effort of [10 more...]
Pickett (search for this): chapter 1
he misfortune to be wounded with a few others of the brigade, about a dozen, I believe, but the brigade took no part in the great battle of the 30th. But on this third day of that great struggle, on the extreme opposite part of the field, the right of Longstreet's corps, other South Carolinians were to be as prominent in the terrible work of that day, the 30th, as we had been on the 29th, and to suffer as terribly. Virginia can justly point with peculiar pride to the famous charge of Pickett's division of Virginians at Gettysburg—a charge now almost as famous as that at Balaklava. The State of North Carolina should write immortal on the banner of its Fifth regiment, was the tribute of its heroic adversary at Williamsburg—General Hancock. The lamented Cobb, and his brigade, have indelibly associated the name of Georgia with Marye's heights at Fredericksburg; and each State can name some battlefield on which its troops especially distinguished themselves, and I think in doing s
Scribner (search for this): chapter 1
ia (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 corps Pope estimated at nine thousand, The Army under Pope, Ropes (Scribner), Appendix E. page 195. and Schurz's division was so completely exhausted by its fight with us by noon that it took no further part in the action of the day. Gordon, page 259. We had fought Hooker's division of Heintzelman's corps, which, it appears, was five thousand five hundred The Army under Pope, page 194. strong, together with a brigade at least of Reno's, say one thousand five hundred more. And now came Kearney, with four thousand five hundred Ibid, 194. comparatively fresh tro
T. C. Watkins (search for this): chapter 1
one of the most promising sons of the State, and Colonel Moore, of the Second Rifles, fell, doing their duty nobly. In Evans's brigade our loss in killed was still heavier. At the head of the Seventeenth regiment fell one who had been an honored governor of the State, whose advanced years did not warrant his service in the field, but whose devotion to the State revived the energy of his youth, and with Governor Means fell also his son, Major Robt S. Means. Colonel J. M. Gadberry, of the Eighteenth Regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel T. C. Watkins, of the Twenty-third Regiment, also died upon the fatal, if glorious, field for our State. Just in front of the deepest part of the railroad cut, where the knoll is highest, a rough hewn stone monument tells where the brave Federal soldiers fell within a few feet of the coveted goal. The crumbling bank and the filling cut are fast effacing the last traces of the spot where her soldiers fought so desperately for the honor of South Carolina.
McGroarty (search for this): chapter 1
ree regiments each. The first brigade was commanded by Colonel Schimmelfenning, one of the best educated, General Gordon says, of all those foreigners who offered their swords to the Federal government-one whom it was your destiny to meet again upon that glorious but disastrous day to us, as we lost our great leader in the hour of victory at Chancellorsville. This brigade, which was upon the right of the division as it advanced, was composed of the Sixty-first Ohio, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel McGroarty; Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania, commanded by Major Blessing, and a regiment which the Federal government had the audacity to call the Eighth Virginia. Who the commander of this bogus regiment was I have not been able to ascertain. The second brigade was commanded by another foreigner, with an equally euphonious name, Colonel Krzyzanowski. This brigade was composed of the Fifty-fourth New York, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Ashby; the Fifty-eighth New York, commanded by Major He
Starke (search for this): chapter 1
ind where the grade of the railroad bed began to rise from a cut to an embankment, and next to them Fields' brigade of Virginians, the right of our divisison. Branch's and Pender's brigade of North Carolinians, and Archer's of Tennesseeans, were held in support of the first line, Branch in the rear of our brigade. So Hill's Light Division was posted and ready for the day's bloody work. Eweli's division, under General Lawton, formed the centre of Jackson's line, and Taliaferro's, under General Starke, was on the extreme right. We had been posted in our position but a few moments, I think, when the crack of the rifles in the woods in our front informed us that our skirmishers had come upon the enemy. We were eagerly listening to the dropping fire in our front, when General Gregg came up to me and telling me that it was desired to feel the enemy and ascertain what the force before us was, but that General Jackson did not wish a general engagement brought on, he ordered me to move t
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