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George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 1: from Massachusetts to Virginia. (search)
laughed on post, and left their posts, as the humor suited them. To what went on around or within their lines they were cheerfully oblivious and wonderfully indifferent. From acres of such encampments arose, during the night, song and laughter and boisterous shouts. Lights flashed out, men came and went, and all moved merrily on; while within my lines not a sound arose nor a whisper was heard nor a light burned, nor was there a sentinel who was not walking his round. On the fourteenth of July, 1861, three days from my arrival at Martinsburg, an order was given to march south to Bunker Hill en route to Winchester, to engage Joe Johnston, the rebel commander of forces there. While the tents were being packed, while wagons filled the parade-ground, and luggage encumbered the earth; while there was motion everywhere, as far as the eye could see,--galloping horses bearing orderlies with dispatches, artillery rumbling, and long lines of infantry moving out to the inspiring milit
Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
for service in East and West Tennessee and adjacent counties in East Kentucky. Blank muster rolls and the usual instructions to mustering officers will be sent to you from this office, and in carrying out this order you are authorized to employ such service and use such means as you may deem expedient and proper for its faithful execution. You will likewise report frequently to this office as you progress with your work. I am sir, etc., L. Thomas, Adjutant-General. On the 14th of July, 1861, Nelson in a letter from Cincinnati reported what had been done toward carrying out the foregoing instructions. He said that he had appointed Speed S. Fry, of Danville, to be colonel of the First regiment of infantry in the proposed expedition to Tennessee; Theophilus T. Garrard, of Clay county, colonel of the Second; Thomas E. Bramlette, of Adair county, colonel of the Third; and Frank Wolford, of Casey county to be lieutenant-colonel of the cavalry regiment authorized, reserving the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General R. E. Lee's war-horses. (search)
by General Robert E. Lee during the late war. Since that publication, additional interesting information of these and other horses used by General Lee has been furnished by a member of his family, as follows: Soon after General Lee went to Richmond, in the Spring of 1861, some gentlemen of that city presented him with a handsome bay stallion, who was given the name of Richmond by General Lee. After the death of General Robert S. Garnett, who fell at Carrick's Ford, West Virginia, July 14, 1861, General Lee was sent to take command in that locality. He carried Richmond with him. Whilst in West Virginia he purchased a horse which was afterward known as The Roan. When General Lee returned to Richmond, in the Autumn of 1861, he brought Richmond and The Roan with him. When he went that winter, to the coast of Carolina and Georgia, he left Richmond behind as he was not in good condition, and took only The Roan with him to the South. In February, 1862, General Lee bought from Ca
The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], A brave woman. (search)
News from the Upper Potomac--Gen. Johnston's Division. Camp Near Winchester, Va., July 14, 1861. Your readers have already been fully informed of our little skirmish near Falling Waters, in Berkeley county, with the enemy under the command of Gen. Patterson, who had about 13,000 men, while we only had, all told, 2,500, and yet their accounts of it give us 10,000. Our loss was only three killed and eight wounded, and we know almost certainly that they buried 130 on the field, and carried off a great many mortally wounded.--Like the battle at Bethel, we will never know how many they lose, as they are so given to lying and misrepresentation, until the history of this war shall be written. Finding ourselves in a disadvantageous locality, and nearly surrounded by superior numbers, we retreated several miles this side of Martinsburg, and, having been reinforced by General Johnston, offered the enemy a fair fight on an open field; but General Patterson had no idea of meeting G
The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sketch of the Martyr Jackson and his family. (search)
Charleston, July 14, 1861 Upon returning here post-haste to-day, I find the following state of facts: The enemy are coming up the Kanawha in boats, and marching up on both sides, in force estimated at from 2,500 to 3,000 men. When last seen, they were twenty-two miles below here, and our army has marched down to meet them.--Capt. Jenkins met them at Cabell Court-House, but was compelled to retire, losing two men. He is said to have killed twenty-five or thirty. A battle is expected hourly, and, unless accident prevents, you shall have the account of an eye- witness. L.
The Daily Dispatch: July 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], The fallen brave. (search)
$10 reward --Will be paid for my boy Pleasant, who ranaway on the 30th inst. if delivered to me at my house to Mr. Hector Davis, in the city of Richmond. Pleasant is about is years old — dark color, net black; very large eyes — speaks pleasantly when spoken to, and is supposed to be waiting on soldiers about come of the camps the city. W. S. Austin. Hanover, July 14. 1861. jy 24--3ta
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
$10 reward --Will be paid for my boy Pleasant, who ranaway on the 20th inst, if delivered to me at my house or to Mr. Hector Davis in the city of Richmond Pleasant is about 18 years old — dark color, not black; very large eyes speaks pleasantly when spoken to, and is supposed to be waiting on soldiers about some of the camps near the city. W. S. Curtin. Hanover, July 14, 1861. jy 24--3tawtf
The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Southern soldier. (search)
$10 reward. --Will be paid for my boy Pleasant, who ranaway on the 20th inst., if delivered to me at my house or to Mr. Hector Davis in the city of Richmond. Pleasant is about 18 years old — dark color, not black; very large eyes — speaks pleasantly when spoken to, and is supposed to be waiting on soldiers about some of the camps near the city. W. S. Austin. Hanover, July 14 1861. jy 24--3taw
The Daily Dispatch: August 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], General Toombs' Brigade--Second Georgia Regiment. (search)
$10 Reward --Will be paid for my boy Pleasant, who ranaway on the 20th inst., if delivered to me at my house of to Mr. Hector Davis., in the city of Richmond. Pleasant is about 18 years old — dark color, not black; very large eyes — speaks pleasantly when spoken to, and is supposed to be waiting on soldier about some of the camps near the city. W. S. Austin, Hanover, July 14, 1861, jy 24 3tawt
The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Correspondence between Mr. Mason and Earl Russell. (search)
pelessly carried on against them, and which is attended by a want on waste of human life." Harl Russell replied that the meaning of his declarations was, that in the opinion of her Majesty's Government any proposal to the United States to recognizes the Southern Confederacy would irritate the United States, and any proposal to the Confederate States to return to the Union would irrigate the Confederates. The next letter from Mr. Mason is on the subject of gallien, and is dated July 14 1861. In this letter our minister sets forth that the new Confederacy has evinced both the capacity and the determination to maintain its independence, and therefore, with other powers the question of recognition is simply a question or time. He submits that his Government, having sustained itself unimpaired through trial greater than most nations have been called upon to endure, and far greater than any it has yet to meet, has furnished to the world sufficient proof of stability, streng
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