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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
te, he studied under the Rev. John Ogilvie, and subsequently he taught school for three years, at the same time pursuing the study of law under the guidance of the late Judge John Webb Taylor. Admitted to the bar in 1843, he began practice at Brentsville, the county seat of Prince William county. In this period his military inclinations, doubtless inherited from his father, were manifested. by his acceptance of the colonelcy of the Prince William regiment, and four years later of the rank of through Washington a few hours before the assassination of President Lincoln, and remained in prison at Fort Warren, where he was kindly treated and won the admiration of his guards, until the latter part of July. During the war his home, at Brentsville, had been destroyed, and his wife and son had taken refuge at Lynchburg, where Federal General Turner took command after the surrender. He had faced General Hunton on the Howlett house lines, and immediately ordered that his former enemy's f
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
an 200 prisoners and 25 wagons, with a loss on his part of 6 men wounded and Captain Bullock, a most gallant officer, killed. . . . . IX. . . . A detachment of 17 men of Hampton's brigade, under the brave Sergeant Michael, attacked and routed a body of Federals near Wolf Run shoals, killing and wounding several and bringing off 15 prisoners, with the loss on our part of Sergeant Sparks, of the Second South Carolina regiment, who, a few days before, with 2 of his comrades, attacked, in Brentsville, 6 of the enemy sent to take him, killed 3 and captured the rest. In announcing these achievements, the commanding general takes special pleasure in adverting to the promptness of the officers in striking a successful blow whenever the opportunity offered, and the endurance and gallantry with which the men have always supported their commanders. These deeds give assurance of vigilance, activity and fortitude, and of the performance of still more brilliant actions in the coming campaig
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
71 Brandon, Miss. 51, 1; 71, 15; 117, 1; 135-A; 155, C10; 171 Brandon's Bridge, Va. 65, 1; 77, 3 Brandy Station, Va. 23, 4, 23, 5; 43, 7; 44, 3; 45, 1; 74, 1; 87, 2, 87, 3; 100, 1 Camp, Army of the Potomac, Nov., 1863 87, 3 Brashear City, La. 135-A; 156, E6; 171 Brawley's Fork, Tenn. 34, 1 Brazos Island, Tex. 43, 8; 54, 1 Brazos Santiago, Tex. 43, 8; 54, 1; 65, 10 Breaux Bridge, La. 156, C4 Fort Breckinridge, Ariz. Ter. 171 Brentsville, Va. 22, 5, 22, 7; 45, 6; 86, 14; 100, 1; 117, 1; 135-A; 137, B7 Brentwood, Tenn. 24, 3; 30, 2; 73, 1; 117, 1; 135-A; 150, H5 Brice's Cross-Roads, Miss.: Roads and adjacent country 63, 3 Bridgeport, Ala. 24, 3; 35, 5; 48, 1; 61, 9; 76, 1; 80, 12; 112, 1; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 148, F5; 149, D9 Defenses 112, 1 Bridgeport, Miss. 36, 1; 51, 1; 71, 15; 155, C8, 155, E10 Bridgeport, Ohio 140, B10 Bridgeport, W. Va. 140, E11 Bridges: Appomattox
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Events leading up to the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
so much detention on account of the presence of the enemy that I determined to cross Bull Run further down and pass through Fairfax for the Potomac the next day. The sequel shows this to have been the only practical course. We marched through Brentsville to the vicinity of Wolf Run Shoals, and had to halt again to graze our horses, which hard-marching, without grain, was fast breaking down. We met no enemy to-day (the 26th). On the following morning (27th), having ascertained that on the nigh of the Blue Ridge and move on until he felt the right of Ewell's column. But, instead of pursuing this course, General Stuart, as I have already pointed out, moved to Buckland, east of Bull Run mountain, and proceeded from that place through Brentsville, down to Wolf-Run shoals, and thence across the country by way of Fairfax station to the Potomac river. This latter movement was not sanctioned either by the suggestion of General Longstreet or by the positive orders of General Lee, and from
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
tween two untimbered declivities. A road parallel to the right crest leads from Greenwich to Brentsville, and cuts the railroad at the station. About fourteen hundred yards before reaching that po after his flankers encounter Cook's extreme right on the south of the road from Greenwich to Brentsville. The enemy is approaching the railroad; there is not a moment to lose to prevent his barringlines, the slopes of the plateau between the small wood which marks its crest and the road to Brentsville, which on his left descends to Bristoe Station: he thus hopes to separate the Unionists from left bank of Bull Run, except the trains guarded by Buford, which have not been able to reach Brentsville, and are thus greatly exposed. This time Meade has resolved to await his adversary in the pot Yates' Ford, A brisk attack by Gordon's brigade of cavalry, coming from the direction of Brentsville, was made south of Yates' Ford upon the rear-guard, composed of the Third Pennsylvania cavalr
The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Army of the Potomac. (search)
another village of the same name at the other end of the railroad, and it was found that there was often difficulty having mail matter delivered correctly. Consequently, the citizens petitioned to have the name changed to Tudor Hall, the name of the farm upon which the present village is built. This was done some five or six years ago, but still the place retains the name of Manassas or Manassas Junction. It may be unnecessary to say that it is in Prince William county, five mile from Brentsville, the county site, and twenty-seven miles from Alexandria. It is five miles from Bull Run, and about seven from the "Plains of Manassas," where the battle of the 21st was fought. It may be that I am "carrying coals to Newcastle" in speaking so minutely of what nearly everybody knows; but perchance there are some to whom the description, as meagre as it is, will be interesting. At present there are but few troops close by the Junction, as most of them are scattered in order to ge
The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Louisville Journal (search)
that the birds had flown. Determined, however, to strike a blow in the face of the enemy before returning, they charged a distance of two miles over a boggy and broken road, upon their pickets, capturing several, together with three ambulances and a number of arms and knapsacks, and returning unscathed to camp. Among the prisoners was an old college chum of the Beaufort Troop's Commissary, who recognized his Southern friend that was immediately, and a traitor Virginia, resident near Brentsville. From them we learn that Lincoln has, or will have, sixteen thou- sand pieces of artillery and fifty thousand cavalry wherewith to wipe out the rebels from the memory of ment. But supposing the horses to be shortly forthcoming, many are altogether unable to imagine where the riders will be found. For myself, I have not the shadow of a doubt but that every man of the "Grand Army" would have mounted a steed after four o'clock on the 21st of July. But be that as it may, if they will only
The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Distinguished Arrivals in New York. (search)
Fatal result. --Corporal F. G. Butler, of the Marion Light Infantry, Fourth Alabama Regiment, died at Brentsville, Va., on Tuesday, of a wound received in the battle of Manassa. The remains reached this city yesterday, on the way to Alabama.
The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway--$100 reward. (search)
ov. 22, 1861. Lying in a small valley which stretches to the Potomac and nearly surounded by a range of hills, is what remains of the old colonial town of Dumfries, the point from which your correspondent is now writing. Entering on the Brentsville road, one passes over a sandy and rolling tract of country, and comes to a terrace, if one may so call the ridge that rises abruptly from the valley, which completely overlooks the town, and gives a good panoramic view of the stream upon which room, is the telegraph office, where the click, click, click of the busy instruments can be heard from morning until night. At the opposite end of the town is the court-house, or what was the court-house before the county site was removed to Brentsville. It is a structure of peculiar architecture, built of imported brick, with granite corner-stones and cornices. The floor is formed of quadrangular flag stones nicely fitted together, most of them worn away by the shuffling of many feet, and
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
they came into the service with, while we know that there is scarcely one that has been unchanged. The reason for this is because the Virginia papers have been received with more regularity than those from the extreme South. To say there is a spy retained as a clerk in the War Department is a severs reflection upon Mr. Benjamin, and I wish to give the case a fair consideration before making such a charge. Who is there in Richmond that believes General Beauregard has his headquarters at Brentsville? or that General G. W. Smith is at Leesburg? or that Gen. Johnston is at Manassas? Who is there in Richmond, either in or out of the Department, that cannot point out one hundred errors in every column of the Herald's report? Sometime ago, when the Armada was preparing to sail from Hampton Roads, I sent you the number of ships composing it, the number of regiments on board them, the number of guns in the light artillery, and also furnished other facts which have since been found corre
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