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Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
c official during the ante-war period was prominent and distinguished. He was twice elected to the Virginia house of delegates, served twice as second auditor of the State, and superintendent of the State library fund; held the office of lieutenant-governor one term, and in 1860 was elected judge of the Nineteenth judicial circuit of the State. He left the bench early in 1861 to enlist in the Virginia forces as a private, and was rapidly promoted. In May, 1861, Major Boykin, writing from Grafton, recommended that General Lee appoint Judge Jackson to military command at Parkersburg, as a gentleman of great personal popularity, not only with his own party, but with those opposed to him politically, and devoted to the interests of Virginia, to the last extremity. With the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Virginia volunteers, he reported for duty to Colonel Porterfield, in Randolph county, in June. Out of the companies collected at Huttonsville, two regiments were organized, and one, the
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
forces of the State to resist invasion, and on the 3d issued a call for volunteers. On the 4th Col. George A. Porterfield was assigned to the command of the Virginia troops in northwestern Virginia and directed to establish his headquarters at Grafton, where the two branches of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad diverge, the one to Wheeling and the other to Parkersburg. On the 10th Maj.-Gen. R. E. Lee was assigned to the command of all the Confederate forces serving in Virginia. On the 23d of and the other to Parkersburg. On the 10th Maj.-Gen. R. E. Lee was assigned to the command of all the Confederate forces serving in Virginia. On the 23d of May the Virginia ordinance of secession was ratified, by a popular vote, by a majority of about 130,000. On the 24th the Federal army at Washington advanced into Virginia and occupied Arlington heights and Alexandria, and on the 26th the Federal forces tender General McClellan advanced into northwestern Virginia and occupied Grafton.
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
t Harper's Ferry in the Shenandoah valley, at Grafton on the Baltimore & Ohio, and below Charlestonrge D. Porterfield and Maj. T. M. Boykin from Grafton indicated prevalent apathy and disloyalty, thf men that Porterfield was able to collect at Grafton, Lee ordered 1,000 muskets and rifles to Beveed of a contemplated Federal movement against Grafton, ordered the burning of two important bridgesf the Baltimore & Ohio, northwest and west of Grafton. Considering this an overt act of rebellion,ned but few native Virginians, to move toward Grafton, to be followed by an Ohio regiment, while otd to occupy Parkersburg and thence advance on Grafton. Porterfield, asking for reinforcements, brcements he went in camp, hoping to return to Grafton and expel the enemy. Kelley reached GraftoGrafton. on the 30th and was soon followed by General Morris, with an Indiana brigade. The combined forome 30 miles farther, where the turnpike from Grafton joins the great stage road and highway from P[1 more...]
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
and such stores as he had transportation for and destroying the remainder. The Federals did not follow. After the withdrawal of the larger part of the army of the Northwest to the Kanawha line, the opposing forces on the Staunton-Beverly line remained quiet, mainly because of the condition of the almost impassable roads and of the constant rains; the Federal forces in their Cheat mountain and Elkwater fortifications, and at Huttonsville and Beverly on their line of communication toward Grafton; and the Monterey division of the Confederate forces at Camp Bartow, on the Staunton and Parkersburg turnpike, in the valley of the Greenbrier, 12 miles east from the Federal fortress on Cheat mountain, and on the Huntersville and Beverly line at Valley mountain, with detachments on the road to its base of supplies at Millboro depot. The portion of the army of the Northwest left on the line leading to Beverly was in command of Brig.-Gen. Henry R. Jackson, with headquarters at Camp Bartow
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)
, 137, G2 Goose Creek Salt Works, Ky. 118, 1 Gordon, Ga. 69, 5; 76, 1, 76, 2; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 143, H4; 144, D4 Gordonsville, Va. 16, 1; 22, 5; 43, 7; 74, 1; 81, 6; 84, 8 9; 85, 1, 85, 3; 100, 1; 116, 4; 117, 1; 135-A; 137, D6; 171 Expedition, Dec. 19-28, 1864 74, 1 Skirmish, Dec. 24 [23?], 1864 84, 8 Goresville, Va. 7, 1; 100, 1; 116, 2 Goshen, Ala. 118, 1; 149, G10 Goshen Swamp, N. C. 138, G7 Goula Bayou, La. 156, D6 Grafton, W. Va. 116, 3; 135-A; 135-C, 1; 140, E12; 171 Grahamville, S. C. 76, 2; 86, 1; 101, 21; 117, 1; 118, 1; 120, 2; 135-A; 144, E11 Granby, Mo. 66, 1; 160, C11 Grand Bayou, La. 156, G9, 156, H12; 158, D13 Grand Coteau, La. 135-A; 156, C4 Grand Ecore, La. 50, 6; 52, 1; 53, 1; 54, 1; 135-A; 155, E1; 158, E14 Grand Glaze, Ark. 135-A Grand Gulf, Miss. 32, 4; 35, 4; 36, 1; 51, 1; 117, 1; 135-A; 155, D7; 171 Confederate fortifications, May, 1863
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Narrative of the service of Colonel Geo. A. Porterfield in Northwestern Virginia in 1861-1861, (search)
dezvoused at Fetterman, about a mile north of Grafton, on the night of May 22d it was attacked by a Union party from Grafton, and in an affair of the pickets Bailey Brown of the Union party was killher. To Hon. G. W. Summers. I had been in Grafton and vicinity but a few days before I ascertaiition of the country around me. I had then at Grafton about seven hundred and fifty men. I knew thaiver, which could be thrown on my position at Grafton in a few hours at any time. Grafton was unteficer directed to destroy the bridges between Grafton and Wheeling (three), Colonel Willey, had gonAt the last moment, when I was about to leave Grafton, it was too late to effect much in the way ofction of its tunnels in the mountains east of Grafton, and this would have required force, time, mahe destruction of this road, however, west of Grafton, between that town and the Ohio river, whethetenant-Colonel, and when he reported to me at Grafton asked to be sent to Richmond, in which I grat[4 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.54 (search)
it was written twenty-six years after the event, it is possible he may have forgotten some of the details of his conversation with Buckner. McClellan's correspondence at this period makes it probable that he was called to book by General Scott or President Lincoln about this matter, though no letter or telegram on the subject from the Washington end of the line is found. But on June 26th, after he had entered upon his West Virginia campaign, McClellan sent a long telegram to Scott from Grafton, in which he shows great anxiety to explain satisfactorily to his superior his relations with Buckner. This transaction, said McClellan, has surprised me beyond expression. My chief fear has been that you, whom I regard as my strongest friend in Washington, might have supposed me to be guilty of the extreme of folly. This telegram was supplemented by a letter on the same day, embodying the substance of both, and covering the whole case. This contemporaneous letter is entitled to great
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Very complete roll [from the Richmond, A., Dispatch, September 16th, 1900.] (search)
Fort Steadman, March 25, 1865, and discharged from Point Lookout prison June 24, 1865. Resides at Mt. Jackson, Va. Campbell, William H. H.—Same remarks as last above, except that he resides at Owen's Mills, Md. Clower, Samuel V. R.—One time Sergeant-Major of the Regiment. Died at Woodstock, Va., June 17, 1898. Caton, Edward—Died in hospital during the war. Combs, Pius—Discharged at Gordonsville, Va., August 1, 1862. Resides at New Market, Va. Clowes, George—Resides at Grafton, W. Va. Clinedinst, Augustine—Surrendered at Fisher's Hill and at Warrenton Junction. In prison at Fort McHenry one month and at Point Lookout seventeen months. Transferred to 7th Virginia Cavalry. Resides at Moorefield Junction, W. Va. Dinges, John W.—Wounded at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863, and died May 6, 1863. Dewer, Joshua—Transferred for Company A, 10th Virginia Infantry, and went to Company E, 11th Virginia Cavalry. Resides at Milwood, Clarke county, Va. Downey,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.32 (search)
ith his company of volunteers, was ordered to Grafton by Governor Letcher Mr. Price desired to accogations voted him a leave of absence to go to Grafton. At this time he was the only preacher to for all volunteer companies to rendezvous at Grafton, and hence the cry arose among the young soldiers, On to Grafton. The town of Grafton, then, as now, was in Taylor county, Va., (now West Virgie Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The town of Grafton in 1861 was a new railroad town, and owed itskersburg branch, a distance of 101 miles from Grafton to Parkersburg, had been completed about two had ordered the State troops to rendezvous at Grafton it greatly excited him. At that time the petcher to take command of all State troops at Grafton. On Friday, the 31st day of May, Dr. Price m in Governor Letcher's order to rendezvous at Grafton were known as the Provisional Army, and this red of Colonel Porterfield's forces did reach Grafton from the 25th to the 28th days of May, when a[5 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
l and Confederate Soldiers, respective qualities of, 61. Federal Vandalism, 215, 217. Fisher's Hill, Fight at, 215. Fiveash, Joseph G., 316. Fontaine, Colonel, Wm. Winston, 300. Gaines, Lieutenant Samuel M., 76. Gettysburg, Battle of, 28; Pickett's charge at, 327; bloody charge of, 336. Gibbon, General, John, 330. Gibson, Moses, 217. Gill, John, 177. Gladstone, W. E., Dying words of, 52. Godwin, General Archie C., 194; killed, 196. Grabill, Captain John H., 363. Grafton, Camp at, in 1861, 188. Graves, Master C. W., Commanding U. S. Steamer Lockwood in 1862, 151. Greene, U. S. Navy, Lieutenant, 324. Grimes, Captain Carey F., killed, 152. Hampton Roads, Conference in February, 1865, The, 311 Harper's Ferry, Demonstration in May, 1862, The, 200, Harper Colonel Kenton, 363. Hartford Convention in 1814, The, 60. Haskell, Colonel A. C., 244 Hatton, Captain Clarence R., 194. Hayes Colonel R. G., His report of Captured Stuff, 297. He
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