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John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
where they had been stationed. Reaching, in falling back, the Winn plantation, two miles above Labadieville, he found the Eighteenth and Crescent regiments, with Ralston's battery, just come in from the bay. With them came the Terrebonne militia. On October 25th the enemy were marching both sides of the bayou. To oppose the double advance, Mouton made a careful distribution of his small force. On the right bank he placed the Eighteenth regiment, 240 men; Crescent regiment, 135; Ralston's battery, 64; detachment of cavalry, 100; total, 539 men; and on the left bank, Thirty-third regiment (Clack's and Fournet's battalions), 594 men; Terrebonne regiment,ack. Owing to the loss of its commander this was done in some confusion. Confusion in a small force cuts with a wider swath than in an army. The trouble with Ralston's battery led to a retrograde movement on our part, to a position about a mile and a half below at Labadieville, about 4 p. m., and here the Confederates made a n
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16: (search)
e command; on October 2d, the regiment was reorganized, and on November 3d consolidated with the Confederate Guards Response (Clack's) and Eleventh Louisiana (Beard's) battalions; the new organization to be officially known as the Consolidated Crescent regiment. It has been seen how the Twenty-fourth Louisiana (Crescent regiment) had made history at Shiloh As the consolidated Crescent regiment, it afterward made more history on brilliant fields nearer home. These, together with Semmes' and Ralston's batteries, afterward reported to Gen. Richard Taylor, in the Trans-Mississippi department. Halleck, able tactician in the closet, was uncertain in the field. His deliberate movements had no effect upon General Bragg, who had already sent his troops on the railroad via Mobile to Chattanooga. Bragg, by reason of this surprise, was enabled to control events until Grant, cutting free from Vicksburg, could drive him off. Here Bragg remained concentrating an army, gathering troops around h
The Daily Dispatch: July 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], The situation in the Southwest (search)
peak of things only as they present themselves to an unmilitary eye. General may yet have in view some great recent which we are unable to penetrate, which may effect the object more thoroughly than any that suggests itself to our tion. It may be that he designs to his own force with that of the garrison, first established the communication with before falling on Grant. He has high for the attempt. In the campaign of on the Danube, when the Archduke was advancing upon Devout, who Ralston, in the bend of the river, with men, Napoleon, who was on the flank Archduke, precisely as Johnston is now the flank of Grant, instead of waiting un he had become involved in the siege of tisbon and then attacking him in the rear, ordered Devout to evacuate the place and in him, by a dangerous flank march. So eat was the belief of the great soldier in the virtues of concentration. Perhaps Johnston may have in view a plan similar to that of Napoleon. Perhaps he may order Pemberton eva
The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
o are now doing all in their power to tarnish her reputation. This class of men are auctioneers, brokers, and commission merchants. The first two are an incubus upon any country, even in peace and prosperity, because the one takes every advantage of the derangement of the currency, and the other establishes artificial prices by by bidding and cheating. The last is a useful class if they confine themselves to legitimate business; but they are not following in the footsteps of such men as Ralston & Pleasants, Moncure, Robinson & Pleasants, James Brown, Jr., and William Finney, and men of this class. They are no longer commission merchants; they are nothing but hucksters and forestallers, who violate the laws of your city government in the sale of chickens, eggs, vegetables, &c, thus enhancing the price of those articles, which should be sold in the market-house, the places provided by law for the sale of such articles? Do you think for one moment that the class of merchants to whi
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of an old citizen. (search)
Death of an old citizen. The venerable Archibald Pleasants, for many years a member of the old and highly respectable firm of Ralston & Pleasants, and one of the oldest inhabitants of the city, died suddenly yesterday morning. He was in the eighty-fifth year of his age, and had previously given no indications of ill health. He was just opposite the Exchange Bank of Virginia, on his way to the Merchants' Insurance office, at the corner of Main and Twelfth streets, when he fell down and station for punctuality and integrity which we have never known to be surpassed. Probably no two men were ever associated in business whose characters in both respects stood higher. The firm was dissolved many years ago. About five years ago, Mr. Ralston died, at a very advanced, and now he is followed by his partner, likewise in extreme old age. Mr. Pleasants was a man of uncommonly strong understanding, which he preserved unimpaired to the last day of his life. His life had been remark
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