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Crawford H. Toy (search for this): chapter 6
s or serving as troopers are classical scholars, the flower of the Southern universities. In an interval of the suspension of hostilities at the battle of Cold Harbor, a private soldier lies on the ground poring over an Arabic grammar—it is Crawford H. Toy, who is destined to become the famous professor of Oriental languages at Harvard University. In one of the battles in the Valley of Virginia a volunteer aid of General John B. Gordon is severely wounded—it is Basil L. Gildersleeve, who has rms in defense of their native soil. In an interval of the suspension of hostilities at the battle of Cold Harbor, writes Randolph H. McKim in the text of this volume, a private soldier lies on the ground poring over an Arabic grammar—it is Crawford H. Toy, who is destined to become the famous professor of Oriental languages at Harvard University. In one of the battles in the Valley of Virginia, a volunteer aid of General John B. Gordon is severely wounded—it is Basil L. Gildersleeve, who ha
Samuel (search for this): chapter 6
neral Assembly of Virginia, but on April 20, 1862, he was back as captain of the company. He was wounded twice at Second Manassas and died at last of prison fever. Company G took part in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. Of the men who went into the battle, only six came out unhurt. Eleven were killed or mortally wounded, and nineteen were wounded. The company fought to the bitter end; Captain Campbell (page 111) was killed at Sailor's Creek, only three days before Appomattox. Lieutenant Samuel hardy Captain P. F. Rowlett Captain Richard Irby Lieutenant A. D. Crenshaw Lieutenant J. E. Irvin Color-sergeant E. G. Sydnor General Hooker has testified that for steadiness and efficiency Lee's army was unsurpassed in ancient or modern times. We have not been able to rival it. And General Charles A. Whittier of Massachusetts has said, The Army of Northern Virginia will deservedly rank as the best army which has existed on this continent, suffering privations unknown to
Snowden Andrews (search for this): chapter 6
vice with the Confederate banner! Look at Captain Randolph Barton, of another Virginia regiment. He is living to-day (1911) with just about one dozen scars on his body. He would be wounded; get well; return to duty, and in the very next battle be shot again! Look at that gallant old soldier, General Ewell. Like his brave foeman, General Sickles, he has lost his leg, but that cannot keep him home; he continues to command one of Lee's corps to the very end at Appomattox. Look at Colonel Snowden Andrews of Maryland. At Cedar Mountain, in August, 1862, a shell literally nearly cut him in two; but by a miracle he did not die; and in June, 1863, there he is again commanding his artillery battalion! He is bowed crooked by that awful wound; he cannot stand upright any more, but still he can fight like a lion. As you walk through the camps, you will see many of the men busily polishing their muskets and their bayonets with wood ashes well moistened. Bright muskets and tattered unif
Leonidas Polk (search for this): chapter 6
the heroic captains who yields up his life in the trenches is the Reverend Dabney C. Harrison, who raised a company in his own Virginia parish, and entered the army at its head. In the Southwest a lieutenant-general falls in battle—it is General Leonidas Polk, who laid aside his bishop's robes to become a soldier, having been educated to arms at West Point. It is a striking fact that when Virginia threw in her lot with her Southern sisters in April, 1861, practically the whole body of stude the heroic captains who yields up his life in the trenches is the Reverend Dabney C. Harrison, who raised a company in his own Virginia parish and entered the army at its head. In the Southwest a lieutenant-general falls in battle—it is General Leonidas Polk, who laid aside his bishop's robes to become a soldier in the field. But this was not all. They had not even the reward which is naturally dear to a soldier's heart—I mean the due recognition of gallantry in action. By a strange over<
Robert E. Lee (search for this): chapter 6
army as the Secession army. Yet the most illustrious leaders of that army, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, to name no more, were in fact opposed to secession; lt has written, The world has never seen better soldiers than those who followed Lee. Company G of the eighteenth Virginia old ironsides Lieutenant Rnt E. G. Sydnor General Hooker has testified that for steadiness and efficiency Lee's army was unsurpassed in ancient or modern times. We have not been able to rivsented by Jeb Stuart's brigades of cavalry when they passed in review before General Lee at Brandy Station in June, 1863. The pomp and pageantry of gorgeous uniform has lost his leg, but that cannot keep him home; he continues to command one of Lee's corps to the very end at Appomattox. Look at Colonel Snowden Andrews of Maryltagonists, which was a great handicap to our success. When General Alexander, Lee's chief of artillery at Gettysburg, was asked why he ceased firing when Pickett'
C. Gardiner (search for this): chapter 6
s and so superbly armed and equipped? I do not enter upon the contested question of the numbers serving in the respective armies. Colonel Livermore's Numbers and losses in the Civil War is the authority relied upon usually by writers on the Northern side; but his conclusions have been strongly, and as many of us think, successfully challenged by Cazenove G. Lee, in a pamphlet entitled Acts of the Republican Party as Seen by History, and published (in Winchester, 1906) under the pseudo C. Gardiner. How could an agricultural people, unskilled in the mechanical arts, therefore unable to supply properly its armies with munitions and clothing, prevail against a great, rich, manufacturing section like the North, whose foreign and domestic trade had never been so prosperous as during the great war it was waging from 1861 to 1865? Remember, also, that by May, 1862, the armies of the Union were in permanent occupancy of western and middle Tennessee, of nearly the whole of Louisiana, of
Rodes (search for this): chapter 6
s some light on its achievements, does it not? I think the visitor to the Confederate camps would also be struck by the spirit of bonhommie which so largely prevailed. These Johnnie Rebs, in their gray uniforms (which, as the war went on, changed in hue to butternut brown) are a jolly lot. They have a dry, racy humor of their own which breaks out on the least provocation. I have often heard them cracking jokes on the very edge of battle. They were soldier boys to the bitter end! General Rodes, in his report, describing the dark and difficult night-passage of the Potomac on the retreat from Gettysburg, says, All the circumstances attending this crossing combined to make it an affair not only involving great hardship, but one of great danger to the men and company officers; but, be it said to the honor of these brave fellows, they encountered it not only promptly, but actually with cheers and laughter. On the other hand, some from the remote country districts were like child
Professer J. W. Mallet (search for this): chapter 6
r before the assault of Sheridan's cavalry, and dash back through the infantry. Are these men cowards? No, but they are armed with long cumbrous rifles utterly unfit for mounted men, or with double-barreled shotguns, or old squirrel-rifles. What chance has a regiment thus armed, and also miserably mounted, against those well-armed, well-equipped, wellmounted, and well-disciplined Federal cavalrymen? The arms and equipment of the Confederate army will be found fully discussed by Professer J. W. Mallet, late Superintendent of the Ordnance Laboratories of the Confederate States, and Captain O. E. Hunt, U. S. A., in a chapter on the Organization and Operation of the Ordnance Department of the Confederate Army in the volume on Forts and Artillery. Another feature of the conditions prevailing in the Confederate army may be here noted. Look at Lee's veterans as Amusements in a Confederate camp—1864 This Camp of Confederate pickets on Stono Inlet near Charleston, S. C., was ph
Gay (search for this): chapter 6
they could by a gay insouciance, and by singing in Camp and on the march. I have seen the men of the First Maryland Infantry trudging wearily through mud and rain, sadly bedraggled by a long march, strike up with great gusto their favorite song, Gay and Happy. So let the wide world wag as it will, We'll be gay and happy still. The contrast between the sentiment of the song and the environment of the column was sufficiently striking. In one respect, I think, our camps had the advantageg before Appomattox—when those who had struck the first blow in Baltimore also delivered the last in Virginia. To the very end they never failed to respond to the call of duty, and were — to quote their favorite song, sung around many a camp-fire—Gay and Happy Still. thrilled by the spectacle they presented. Here at least, there was no inferiority to the army in blue. The soldierly qualities that tell on the march, and on the field of battle, shone out here conspicuously. A more impressive<
Johnnie Reb (search for this): chapter 6
Gettysburg campaign. Among the amusements in camp, card-playing was of course included; seven--up and vingt-et-un, I believe, were popular. And the pipe was Johnnie Reb's frequent solace. His tobacco, at any rate, was the real thing—genuine, no makebelieve, like his coffee. Often there were large gatherings of the men, night hen time lay heavy on their hands. Among the amusements in camp, card-playing was of course included. Seven-up and Vingt-et-un were popular. And the pipe was Johnnie Reb's frequent solace. His tobacco, at any rate, was the real thing—genuine, no make-believe, like his coffee. Often one might see large gatherings of the men nigtaken early in the war is indicated by the presence of the Negroes. The one with an axe seems about to chop firewood for the use of the cooks. A little later, Johnnie Reb considered himself fortunate if he had anything to cook. they march into Pennsylvania, in June, 1863. See how many of them are barefooted-literally hundreds i
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