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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Review of the Pennsylvania campaign. (search)
rmit, to give to-day some account of the parts borne by the divisions of Major-Generals Heth and Pender, of Lieut.-Gen. A. P. Hill's corps, in that day's engagement. And here it may not be improper tmy, when it was found that most of the brigades were without ammunition. The division of Major-General Pender was at once ordered to relieve Maj.-Gen. Heth, which they did, and continued to press thePettigrew, who handled his men with great skill and ability. The light division of Major-Gen. W. D. Pender, consisting of Lane's and Scales's North Carolina brigades, McGowan's South Carolina brhe enemy.--About 4 o'clock the three brigades of Lane, Scales, and Perrin, were ordered by Major Gen. Pender to advance and to pass Major-Gen. Heth's division, if it should be found at a and charge urn the enemy's fire, now very severe, and whilst halted was thrown into some confusion. Major-Gen. Pender, with a part of his staff, and Brig.-Gen. Scales, though suffering very much from a severe
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The late Col. John T. Mercer. (search)
gia regiment, who fell in the recent attack on Plymouth: Col. Mercer was a military man by education, having graduated at West Point in the year 1854. --He was in the same class with Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, Gen. Hood Gen. Curtis Lee, and Gen. W. D. Pender, and graduated with them. At the time the war broke out he was stationed in California, and was 1st Lt. in the 1st U. S. Dragoons. Hearing that his native State had seceded from the old Union, he immediately resigned his commission in thel the cavalry in this department. In the expedition against Plymouth he was in command of his own regiment, and during the attack upon the town was in command of Hoke's brigade, and tell during the charge upon Fort Sanderson, which was taken a few minutes after his fail. The remains of Col. Mercer arrived here on Wednesday night last, and was interred in the Episcopal Cemetery by the side of the late and lamented Gen. W. D. Pender, his classmate, his companion in arms, and his relative.
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Lieut. Gen. S. D. Lee. (search)
Lieut. Gen. S. D. Lee. Gen. Stephen D. Lee has recently been appointed Lieutenant-General in the Confederate States army, and placed in command of the Mississippi Department. In connection with this announcement, a brief military biography of this officer will prove interesting. He is a native of South Carolina, and a graduate of West Point, where he took his diploma in 1854; was a classmate of Gens. J. E. B. Stuart, J. B. Villepigue, W. D. Pender, and Horace Randall. He commenced his military career as 2d Lieutenant of the 4th artillery, and was subsequently promoted to a 1st lieutenancy of the 1st regiment of regulars. Soon after his native State seceded from the old Union, he resigned his position and repaired to South Carolina, where he entered the army as captain, early in March, 1861. He served with Beauregard in the taking of Fort Sumter, and after the strife was fully inangarated, and a hostile army on the soil of the Old Dominion, he repaired to Virginia with a batt
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