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Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 8: battles around Richmond. (search)
The party states he left Jackson, Whiting, and Ewell, fifteen brigades (a) at Gordonsville, on the - ginia was threatened, and General Kelly that Ewell was advancing to New Creek, where Fremont has which time he had only six brigades, three in Ewell's division, and three in his own. This moto the temporary command of Elzey's brigade of Ewell's division, as General Elzey had been severely of the famous Stonewall Jackson. I found General Ewell's division in the rear of Jackson's column, besides a number of batteries of artillery. Ewell's division was composed of Trimble's brigade, ed along the valley of the creek awfully. General Ewell soon returned in a great hurry and directedouble quick. Before I could say anything General Ewell turned to me and said, We will have to go and was posted in my rear. Generals Hill and Ewell remained with us until after the firing had cebrigades, Jackson's division of four brigades, Ewell's division of three brigades, and Whiting's di[13 more...]
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 9: battle of Cedar Run. (search)
e under General Jackson, and, taking the lead, Ewell's division arrived about the 15th of July. Ony swimming that river, as the water was high. Ewell's division went into camp near Liberty Mills o be made on the 7th of August, and on that day Ewell's division crossed into Madison at Liberty Miln the morning of the 9th, I was ordered by General Ewell to move forward in advance to the point oc towards Culpeper CourtHouse, stating that General Ewell would advance on the right, over ,the nortorthern end of Slaughter's Mountain, where General Ewell was, I posted the 12th Georgia Regiment, ud we were looking anxiously for the opening of Ewell's guns from the mountain, and the arrival of Wthe battle. I went on the field under General Ewell's orders, to superintend the burial of a pade was transferred from Jackson's division to Ewell's, and Starke's Louisiana Brigade, newly creatfourteen brigades, to-wit: four in his own and Ewell's divisions each; and six in Hill's division, [6 more...]
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 10: operations on the Rappahannock. (search)
of our cavalry and the enemy on the northern bank. Ewell's division bivouacked in the rear of Taliaferro nearmoved to the right, under the superintendence of General Ewell, and crossed over about a mile below the Springs was left on the south bank until next morning. General Ewell ordered me to occupy a pine woods or thicket in , and it was still raining slightly. As soon as General Ewell left me, I moved my brigade into the woods indic was directed to swim the river, with a note for General Ewell or Jackson, whichever might be first met with, srmed me that he had seen written instructions to General Ewell, directing to cross over himself at daylight in mation, I immediately dispatched a messenger to General Ewell, to inform him that there could be no doubt thatring for that very object. In response to this, General Ewell came over himself a little before three o'clock ete the withdrawal a very little after dawn. General Ewell had not been entirely satisfied that the enemy w
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 11: capture of Manassas Junction. (search)
acks, for a cavalry raid with infantry. Moving with Ewell's division in front, we crossed the river at Hinson's march. On the morning of the 26th, we moved, with Ewell's division still in front, past White Plains, througof stores of all kinds. As soon as the remainder of Ewell's division arrived at Bristow, it was placed in posickson's command were ordered to the same place. General Ewell had been ordered by General Jackson to remain atd not desire a general engagement at this time. General Ewell accordingly disposed his command across the raidge to our right, which he appeared to be doing, General Ewell determined to retire in accordance with General Bristow Station. In a short time afterwards, General Ewell with Lawton's brigade passed through my line, whation. Shortly after dark, under orders from General Ewell, I retired to the Junction, where my men filled its commanding officer being killed. As soon as Ewell's division had rested and broiled a little meat, it
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 12: the affair at Groveton. (search)
ty of the battlefield of the 21st of July, 1861, and A. P. Hill's to Centreville, with orders to Ewell to move up, by the northern bank of Bull Run, to the same locality with Taliaferro early on the hich had been graded for a railroad, until it passed the small village of Groveton on our left. Ewell's division followed Jackson's until the whole had crossed the railroad track, and the two divisions were then halted and formed in line facing the pike. General Ewell ordered me to take command of my own brigade and Hays' and form a double line in the edge of a piece of woods, with my left rese enemy commenced moving past our position, and Jackson's division and the two brigades with General Ewell moved forward to attack him, when a fierce and sanguinary engagement took place. While it w in this position the two brigades lay on their arms all night. A short distance from me General Ewell was found very severely wounded by a ball through the knee, which he had received while lead
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 13: second battle of Manassas. (search)
ction of Manassas and Centreville, to which point it had gone in search of us. It now became necessary to change our front to meet the approaching columns, and Ewell's division, under the command of Brigadier General Lawton as senior brigadier, was formed in line facing Groveton, near where it had lain on its arms the night bef enemy. At an early hour the enemy's batteries opened on us and were replied to by ours. After this artillery firing had continued for some time, the position of Ewell's division was changed, and General Jackson in person ordered me to move with Hays' brigade and my own, and Johnson's battery of artillery, to a ridge north of the the 25th Virginia, drove back a heavy force which was advancing apparently for an attack on our position. Subsequently our troops were arranged so as to place Ewell's division in the centre, leaving Hill's division on the left and Jackson's on the right, but when Lawton's brigade was moved up, there was left space for only thr
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 14: affair at Ox Hill or Chantilly. (search)
Sudley's Ford, it moved to the left over a country road, Jackson's division in front followed by Ewell's and Hill's bringing up the rear, until the Little River Turnpike was reached, when we turned ton the east of the Little River Pike, with his own division on the left, Hill's on the right and Ewell's in the centre; Hays' and Trimble's brigades only of Ewell's division being on the front line, Ewell's division being on the front line, Lawton's and mine being formed in the woods in their rear. As we moved into position the enemy opened a heavy artillery fire on us, and soon the action commenced with some of Hill's brigades on the After the close of the action, Jackson's division was withdrawn from the left to the rear, and Ewell's division covered the point previously covered by General Starke, and Hays' and Trimble's brigauding artillery and cavalry, and it was probably considerably under that number. The loss in Ewell's division, beginning with the artillery fighting on the Rappahannock and ending, with the affai
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 15: movement into Maryland. (search)
on took position near the city, and Hill's and Ewell's near the Junction, which is about three milefrom the city in the direction of Washington. Ewell's division covered the railroad and the approa in its capture. On the night of the 10th, Ewell's division bivouacked between Middletown and Slace directly for Martinsburg on the pike, and Ewell's and Jackson's divisions for North Mountain he town in the direction of Harper's Ferry and Ewell's division bivouacked on the banks of the Opeqsion moving on the right along the Shenandoah, Ewell's division along the turnpike, and one brigade, the rest of the division moving in support. Ewell's division moved along and on each side of the the Shenandoah to which the guns belonging to Ewell's division had been moved during the night, frsition, from each side of the pike in front of Ewell's division, and from the left on the Potomac, e enemy. In front of the position occupied by Ewell's division was a deep valley between School Ho
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 16: battle of Sharpsburg or Antietam. (search)
Major J. P. Wilson, a volunteer aide who had been serving with Generals Ewell and Lawton, to look after the brigades which had gone to the ree had been resisted by Jackson's division and the three brigades of Ewell's, and subsequently by Hood's two brigades, aided by those of D. H.operly connected with the battle of Sharpsburg. In that battle, Ewell's division had lost in killed 119, in wounded 1,115, and in missingrning of the 17th of September he had but three thousand infantry. Ewell's division, with Lawton's brigade, which was attached to it after not cross the Potomac from Harper's Ferry, and the nine brigades of Ewell's and D. H. Hill's divisions, numbering in the aggregate less than red less than 2,000; D. H. Hill's five brigades numbered 3,000; and Ewell's four brigades numbered less than 3,400; which gives 15,323 in theed Jackson's division and Lawton's, Trimble's and Hays' brigades of Ewell's division, numbering in all 4,000 men. When they were compelled to
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Chapter 17: preparations about Fredericksburg. (search)
D. R. Jones' and Hood's divisions, under the command of Generals Pickett and Hood respectively, they having been promoted. The first corps consisted of the divisions of McLaws, Anderson, Pickett and Hood, and the second corps of the divisions of Ewell, D. H. Hill, A. P. Hill, and Jackson (EWell's division being under my command and Jackson's under J. R. Jones). For some time the second corps remained camped near Bunker Hill, and the first corps was camped in the vicinity of Winchester. y's movements. A. P. Hill's division had been put in position near Berryville, covering the Shenandoah, at Snicker's or Castleman's Ferry, where it had an engagement with a body of the enemy that had crossed the ridge as McClellan was moving on. Ewell's division (under my command) was at first posted on A. P. Hill's left, near a church, while Jackson's division was on the Berryville and Charlestown pike in my rear, but as the enemy's covered our front I moved above, first to Millwood, and then
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