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William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil. 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army of the Potomac. (search)
ago, as is well known, Gen. Smith was made a jor General, and immediately after the command of the brigade was taken from Col. Forney and given to Col. C. M. Wncox, of the 10th Alabama, who was commissioned a Brigadier. Gen. Cadmus M. Wilcox is a resigned U. S. officer, born in North Carolina, is a citizen of Tennessee, and was appointed to West Point from that State. He entered the army as brevet 2d Lieutenant in the 4th infantry, July 1st, 1846 He was brevetted 1st Lieutenant Sept. 13th, 1847, and received his commission in full August 24th, 1851. Having no personal acquaintance with General Wilcox I cannot speak of his qualifications as an officer, or of his characteristics He was the second Colonel in rank in the brigade, the third being Col. Sydenham Moore, of Alabama, a man well known in the South. I am told that Col. P. T. Moore, of the 1st Virginia regiment, has been placed in command, temporarily, of Gen. Longstreet's Brigade. This is a fitting recognition
The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
e was wounded. Superintendent of Military Academy from 1st September, 1852, to March, 1855. Lieutenant, Colonel 2d Cavalry, 3d March, 1855. Thomas J. Jackson, Va.--Cadet, 1842.--Brevet 2d Lieutenant, 1st Artillery, 1816, with Magruder's Battery in Mexico. 1st Lieutenant, August, 1847. Brevet Captain, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco, 28th August, 1847. Brevet Major, for gallant and meritorious conduct is the battle of Chapultepec, 13th September, 1847. Resigned 29 February, 1852. James Longstreet, S. C.--Cadet, 1838--Brevet 2d Lieutenant, 4th Infantry, 1st July, 1842. In 8th Infantry, March, 1815. Commanding light company, and distinguished at Monterey, First Lieutenant, February, 1847. Adjutant, 1847 to 1849. Brevet Captain, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battles of Contreras and Cherubusco, 20th August, 1847. Brevet Major, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Et. Molino del Rey, 8th September, 184
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Stop the Runaways--$1000 reward. (search)
eing then seventeen years of age, and graduated in 1843, and was commissioned 1st July, 1843, Brevet 2d Lieutenant 4th Infantry United States Army. Transferred to 7th Infantry; in 4th Infantry again, November, 1845; Brevet 1st Lieutenant "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey," 8th September, declined; Regimental Quartermaster, April, 1847; 1st Lieutenant, September, 1847; Brevet Captain "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chepultepec, 13th September, 1847;" Full Captain, August, 1858; resigned 31st July, 1854. Since his resignation from the army nothing is known by me of his occupation until the present war. I only know now that he is the most formidable man that is opposed to us, by odds. Grant is now in his 42d year, quite young to be at the head of all the armies in the United States; but I believe all, or most of Napoleon's Marshals were not older than Grant; though none of them had a tithe such a force as Grant has, and were
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