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May 12th, 1864 AD (search for this): chapter 1.38
The battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 12, 1864. [from the times-dispatch, Dec. 11, 1904, Jan. 8-29, 1905.] The bloody angle. what the 49th Virginia and Gen. Pegram's Brigade did. Episode of General Lee to the rear. [see also, Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XXI, pp. 228, et seq.] Graphic accounts by Colonel J. Catlett Gibson and Dr. William W. Smith. Account by Colonel J. Catlett Gibson. On the evening of the 11th of May, we marched to assist in the repulse of a vigorous assault on the breastworks of our left wing, reaching the point of attack just before sunset; as we fronted to go into position, the dead body of a man was pointed out to us as that of a North Carolina surgeon, who had been killed while dressing a wound of one of his men. This was the first Confederate surgeon known by me to have been killed in line of battle, although I saw Dr. Alfred Slaughter, surgeon of the 13th Virginia Regiment, wounded in an attack we made on Sedgwick's co
12th (search for this): chapter 1.38
surgeon of the 13th Virginia Regiment, wounded in an attack we made on Sedgwick's corps, between Marye's Heights and Falmouth. We were marched from our left late in the night of the 11th and 12th, and slept on our arms that night the sleep of the just made peaceful, in a woods in a location then unknown to us, but subsequent information showed it to have been not far from the headquarters that were Lee's that morn, and near to the angle that was bloody ere night. A little after dawn of the 12th, I was aroused from a deep sleep by Frank George, one of General Gordon's orderlies, and was told by him that the Yankees had broken through our works and captured Johnson's division; and when I started to say something, he told me not to talk loud, the enemy were very close to us. I immediately aroused up two or three men near me and told them to arouse the regiment, and tell the men to fall in as quickly and quietly as possible, without any rattling of canteens, as we were near the enem
January 29th, 1905 AD (search for this): chapter 1.38
The battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 12, 1864. [from the times-dispatch, Dec. 11, 1904, Jan. 8-29, 1905.] The bloody angle. what the 49th Virginia and Gen. Pegram's Brigade did. Episode of General Lee to the rear. [see also, Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XXI, pp. 228, et seq.] Graphic accounts by Colonel J. Catlett Gibson and Dr. William W. Smith. Account by Colonel J. Catlett Gibson. On the evening of the 11th of May, we marched to assist in the repuls give a freer passage to the riders, and they passed through in single file, and the field of coming carnage resounded with wild shouts of Lee, Lee, Lee! [This man is identified by R. D. Funkhouser in communication of the Times-Dispatch of Jan. 29, 1905, as Sergeant Wm. A. Compton, of Company D, 49th Virginia Regiment, who is still living and an active business man in Front Royal, Va., to-day.] When the Warren Riflemen ran forward, thinks I, that is Sergeant Compton, of Captain Updyke's c
December 11th, 1904 AD (search for this): chapter 1.38
The battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 12, 1864. [from the times-dispatch, Dec. 11, 1904, Jan. 8-29, 1905.] The bloody angle. what the 49th Virginia and Gen. Pegram's Brigade did. Episode of General Lee to the rear. [see also, Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. XXI, pp. 228, et seq.] Graphic accounts by Colonel J. Catlett Gibson and Dr. William W. Smith. Account by Colonel J. Catlett Gibson. On the evening of the 11th of May, we marched to assist in the repulse of a vigorous assault on the breastworks of our left wing, reaching the point of attack just before sunset; as we fronted to go into position, the dead body of a man was pointed out to us as that of a North Carolina surgeon, who had been killed while dressing a wound of one of his men. This was the first Confederate surgeon known by me to have been killed in line of battle, although I saw Dr. Alfred Slaughter, surgeon of the 13th Virginia Regiment, wounded in an attack we made on Sedgwick's c
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topped, worn and weary, in a plowed field, and in a few minutes this particular part of the regiment was fast asleep in a furrow, let come what might. About a half hour before day we were awakened, marched quietly to the front, and placed behind the front line of battle in the trenches. (I think Hayes's Louisiana brigade.) On the way we passed a place where the enemy had broken through our lines and had been driven out by a counter charge. It is said to have been done in the fight on the tenth. The front of our line was was well sprinkled with the enemy's dead, and about a score were piled at one point in our trenches. Waiting for the charge. We were told to expect a charge from the dense pine woods just in front of us, possibly some hundred yards away. It was so thick that nothing in it could be seen, and we simply waited with guns cocked until it should deliver up its contents. Cartridges were torn and caps laid out (we had muzzle-loading Enfield rifles) that no time sh
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r brigade out of the quadrilateral, and rode out behind him, and he marched us to the left of our centre, and we went to sleep that night on an empty stomach, with the proud satisfaction that we had done a good day's work. Very truly yours; J. C. Gibson, Colonel 49th Virginia. Account of Dr. William W. Smith. The story as related by Dr. William W. Smith, of Ashland, Va., then a private of the 49th Virginia Infantry, now president of the Randolph-Macon College system: On the eighth and ninth our regiment, the 49th Virginia, was not in action, but was moved from point to point, and on the tenth we were in the third line, and though not called on to support the front, were under heavy shelling. On the afternoon of the eleventh we were marched vigorously to a new position on the rear of the left side of the salient, which was to be rechristened the next day as the bloody angle. We stopped, worn and weary, in a plowed field, and in a few minutes this particular part of t
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