hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 845 results in 69 document sections:

... 2 3 4 5 6 7
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: Marylanders in 1862 under Generals Joseph E. Johnston and Stonewall Jackson. (search)
ge kept him fully advised of the movements of Shields, who was hurrying by forced marches to Front asburg. Through this gap between Fremont and Shields, Jackson was to make his escape. He had fiveburg Fremont was three miles to his right and Shields twelve miles to his left at Front Royal. In fact, Shields' cavalry was on the road parallel to the pike and only three miles distant. Jackson hnty-mile race, Fremont closing in behind, and Shields pushing up the Luray, or Page valley on the ep between Fremont with forty thousand men and Shields with eight thousand. Fremont was a dashing and imprudent soldier and Shields a headlong Irishman. Fremont's cavalry was commanded by Sir Percto Cross Keys, on the Shenandoah, where, with Shields and the river in his rear, he offered battle Fremont's guns were thundering at Cross Keys, Shields was plunging up the other side of the river tre the sun was up they were over the river in Shields' front, and made right at his throat. The Ma[1 more...]
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: Marylanders in 1862 under Gen. Robert E. Lee. (search)
Chapter 7: Marylanders in 1862 under Gen. Robert E. Lee. After Cross Keys and Port Republic, when Fremont and Shields were sent whirling down the valley, Jackson made a feint of pursuit, and pushed his cavalry some marches after them. He ordered the First Maryland to Staunton to recruit, where, during the next ten days, Company I was mustered out on June 17th, its time having expired. These men .left the regiment with the respect of the whole command and the love of their colonel. Their captain, Michael Stone Robertson, belonged to an historic family in Charles county and was a descendant of Col. John H. Stone, colonel of the First regiment of the Maryland Line of the Revolution. His words as he fell were, Go on, boys, don't mind me, and he died at his next breath. Lieut. Nicholas Snowden, of Company D, who died at the same time, had been captain of a cavalry company in Prince George's in 1860-61, and had joined Captain Herbert, his cousin, at Harper's Ferry, early in May,
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), chapter 11 (search)
Company F—Captain, J. Louis Smith. FirstLieuten-ant, Wm. D. Hough. Second-Lieutenant, Wm. J. Broadfoot, Joseph H. Stewart. First-Sergeant, Geo. W. Foos. Sergeants, John Marny, John Morris, Samuel A. Kennedy. Corporals, John Ryan, Michael McCourt, Edward Sheehan, Owen Callen. Musician, Francis Farr. Company G—Captain, Wilson C. Nicholas. FirstLieu-tenant, Alexander Cross. Second-Lieutenant, Edward Deppish. First-Sergeant, John J. Platt. Sergeants, James Farrell, Louis Neidhammer, James Shields. Corporals, George Ross, Eli Fishpan, Samuel Kirk, Charles Fercoit. Musician, Andrew Myers. Company H—Captain, Wm. H. Murray. FirstLieu-tenant, George Thomas. Second-Lieutenant, Francis X. Ward, Richard T. Gilmor, W. P. Dollinger. FirstSer-geant, John H. Sullivan. Sergeants, McHenry Howard, James Lyon, Chapman B. Briscoe. Corporals, Edward Johnson, Richard C. Mackall, Clapham Murray, Wm. S. Lemmon. Company I—Captain, Michael S. Robertson. FirstLieu-tenant, Hugh Mitchell. Secon
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
ile, Lander had died; he was succeeded by General Shields, an old regular officer, James ShieldsJames Shields was a brigadier-general of volunteers during the Mexican war. He was brevetted a major-general, ann Cumberland and Hancock being entirely open, Shields proceeded to Winchester with his division, tce the troops about to embark at Alexandria. Shields, left alone in the valley of Virginia, was obester, which Banks had directed him to hold. Shields knew the ardent temperament of his adversary;nal-fires kindled on the mountain-tops. When Shields saw thick columns of smoke rising above the wck, without, however, revealing his strength, Shields sent the brigade of Kimball to take position . In placing these two regiments in position, Shields had an arm shattered by a splinter from a she On the same morning the three brigades of Shields's division took position five kilometres in ain the valley of Virginia. In the absence of Shields, who was kept in Winchester by his wound, Col[1 more...]
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The reason why. (search)
gth of his company. Information has been received from a majority of the Captains. The following statistics are given, not only to show that Henrico and Richmond, together, have furnished their quota of volunteers, but they may be of interest to your readers generally. The number required from Henrico and Richmond is 3,798. The following companies are credited to Henrico and Richmond: Captains R L. Walker, 53, Peyton, 61; P. B. Stanard, 77; Marye, 69; H. C. Cabell, 117; Kir Shields, 85; Brown, 164; Stanard, 72; J. G. Cabell, 61; Miller, 82; Lee, 89; Lybrock, 74; Roggy, 65; Dooley, P9; Charters, P3; Griswold El, 164; Taylor, 76; J. S. Walker, 72; Bayly, 57; Tompkins, 75; Lloyd, 78; McConnell 54; Cunningham, 102; Dickinson, 60; Wallace, 65; Wise, 104; Caskie, 78; Sands, 90; Harrison, 54; Courtney, 54; Magruder, 59; Gordon, 103; Dance, 56; Childrey, 76; Atkinson, 97; Tredegar Battalion, 250; Field and staff officers and band, 24--making in all 3,280. Information ha
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Subscriptions to the Dispatch. (search)
iment, on the Union side, about 100 strong, and as many, apparently, of the disunionist, at Edwards' Ferry.--On each occasion the latter retired in an hour or so, in the direction of Leesburg. Nobody hurt. Captain Julius De Laguel, of the disunion army, (late of the 3d artillery, U. S. A.) reported to be missing since the battle of Rich Mountain, or killed in that engagement, is a prisoner to General Rosencranz's forces in Western Virginia, and is recovering of his wounds. General James Shields, now of California, late a distinguished General of the Mexican war, and ex Senator from Illinois, has been again called to the field. The President has appointed him a Brigadier General of volunteers. The Washington correspondent of the Northern Associated Press sends the following: The Confederates have nearly all fallen back to Fairfax Court-House, thus widening the distance separating the hostile forces. The pickets of both armies, however, occupy nearly the same ad
The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
Burnside expedition--its destination.Difficulty between Gen. Shields and Senator McDougail.interesting news items.&c., &c., enemy's forces were in full retreat from Hancock. Gen. Shields and Senator M'Dougall--a Duel on the Tapis. A card was recently published in the Northern journals from General Shields, pronouncing "utterly false" an allegation of Senator McDougall, of California, that he (Shields) was a Secessionist. The Senator is out in the following rejoinder: Astor Hot Jacksonville. What I then intended to say was that Mr. James Shields, in the fall of 1860, stated to me at San Francisco, r of the United States, in acting upon the nomination of Mr. Shields as a Brigadier General, I can be influenced by menace, Ion on the part of Senator McDougal, of California, that Gen. Shields was a Secessionist at heart, it is rumored in first cirtor McDougal is sojourning at the Astor House here, and Gen. Shields is in Washington. Considerable anxiety is manifested o
The Daily Dispatch: April 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], By Goddin & Apperson, Auctioneers. (search)
ficer South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. General Shields's account of the battle of Kernstown. The Federal Gen. Shields has furnished an accountGen. Shields has furnished an account of the battle of Kernstown, which the Northern papers call "informed," and they might have added, grossly exaggerated. After giving a brief description of the skirmish with Ashby's cavalry, on the 2a shell, which broke his arm above the elbow, injured his shoulder and otherwise damaged him, Gen. Shields proceeds: "About eight o'clock in the morning (Sunday) I sent forward two experienced of able in a few days to ride in a buggy and place myself at the head of my command.* * * James Shields. [The same paper from which we copy the foregoing unwittingly convicts Gen. Shields of Gen. Shields of falsehood, by giving the number of Yankees killed and wounded at a much higher figure; and when the boasting Federal officer states that the Confederate loss in killed and wounded was 1,000, he knows
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], Fatal Explosion. (search)
Fatal Explosion. --The granulating mill of the Government Powder Works at Augusta, Georgia, exploded last week, eighteen thousand pounds of powder being burnt. The following persons were killed by the accident: Thomas Ford, James Heath, James Shields, Thomas Reese, Benjamin Scarber, Brantley Kitchens, George Hayes, Andrew Key, James Atkins. The latter was a detailed guard, and lived about ten minutes after the accident.
... 2 3 4 5 6 7