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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 6: the battle of Williamsburg. (search)
d he ordered Magruder to march at two A. M. on the 5th of May with D. R. Jones's and McLaws's divisions, to be followed by the divisions of G. W. Smith and D. H. Hill; Longstreet's division to cover the movement of his trains and defend Stuart's cavalry in case of severe pressure. Late in the afternoon of the 4th I was ordered to send a brigade to the redoubts to relieve McLaws's division. The brigades being small, I sent two, R. H. Anderson's and Pryor's, with Macon's battery, under Lieutenant Clopton, two guns under Captain Garrett, and two under Captain McCarthy, to report to General Anderson, the senior brigadier. At the time it was thought that the army would be on the march by daylight in the morning, and that the rear-guard would closely follow; but after nightfall a down-pour of rain came, flooding thoroughfares and by-ways, woodlands and fields, so that parts of our trains were stalled on the ground, where they stood during the night. It was dark when Anderson joined McLaw
John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion, Chapter 2: Charleston Harbor. (search)
of new guarantees. In our judgment the Republicans are resolute in the purpose to grant nothing that will or ought to satisfy the South. We are satisfied the honor, safety, and independence of the Southern people require the organization of a Southern confederacy--a result to be obtained only by separate State secession — that the primary object of each slaveholding State ought to be its speedy and absolute separation from a Union with hostile States. (Signed by: Representatives Pugh, Clopton, Moore, Curry, and Stallworth, of Alabama; Senator Iverson and Representatives Underwood, Gartrell, Jackson, Jones, and Crawford, of Georgia; Representative Hawkins of Florida; Represent- ative Hindman, of Arkansas; Senators Jefferson Davis and A. G. Brown, and Representatives Barksdale, Singleton, and Reuben Davis, of Mississippi; Representatives Craige and Ruffin, of North Carolina; Senators Slidell and Benjamin, and Representative Landrum, of Louisiana; Senators Wigfall and Hemphill, and
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
, the retreating enemy. During the preceding days, Colonel Brown and Lieutenant-Colonel Coleman had sought opportunity of use beyond the Chickahominy. The latter accompanied two batteries of the regiment, the Richmond Fayette Artillery, Lieutenant Clopton commanding, and the Williamsburg Artillery, Captain Coke, ordered, on the morning of the twenty-seventh, to report to General Lee at Mechanicsville, as he had requested. These batteries were held as part of the reserve of that portion of ton, it returned to its old camp at Randolph's farm, where it now awaits orders. The batteries which, during this period, were separated from the command, are the following: Third howitzer, Captain B. H. Smith; Richmond Fayette artillery, Lieutenant Clopton commanding, and Williamsburg artillery, Captain Coke. The first of the Third howitzers, (Captain B. H. Smith,) having been advised to join Featherston's brigade, General Longstreet's division, reached Mechanicsville at ten P. M. on Thursda
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quincy, Josiah 1709-1784 (search)
ecollections, to disbelieve the evidence of my senses, to contradict what I have seen, and heard, and felt. I hear that all this discontent was merely party clamor—electioneering artifice; that the people of New England are able and willing to endure this embargo for an indefinite, unlimited period; some say for six months, some a year, some two years. The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Macon) told us that he preferred three years of embargo to a war. And the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clopton) said expressly, that he hoped we should never allow our vessels to go upon the ocean again, until the orders and decrees of the belligerents were rescinded. In plain English, until France and Great Britain should, in their great condescension, permit. Good Heavens! Mr. Chairman, are men mad? Is this House touched with that insanity which is the never-failing precursor of the intention of Heaven to destroy? The people of New England, after eleven months deprivation of the ocean, to
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
om Alabama; Johnson and Mitchell from Arkansas; Baker and Maxwell from Florida; Hill and Johnson from Georgia; Burnett and Sims from Kentucky; Symmes and Sparrow from Louisiana; Brown and Phelan from Mississippi; Clark from Missouri; Davis from North Carolina; Barnwell and Orr from South Carolina; Haynes and Henry from Tennessee; Oldham and Wigfall from Texas; Hunter and Caperton from Virginia. In the House the members were distinguished for conservatism and ability, among whom were Curry, Clopton, and Pugh, Garland, Trippe, Ewing, Breckinridge, Conrad, Davis, Barksdale, Vest, Ashe, Boyce, Gentry, Vaughn, Bocock, and Boteler. Mr. Bocock was speaker and Albert Lamar clerk. The gravity of the situation evidently impressed the Confederate Congress, and in appreciation of the peril of the government immediate attention was given to filling up the thinned ranks of the armies. In the Senate Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, offered resolutions declaring that every male citizen should be enrol
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.24 (search)
appointed by Secretary of War Nov.,‘61, rank from same day. Passed Board at Jackson, Miss., Aug. 31, ‘63, 1st Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters. Passed Board at Charleston as Surgeon March 31, ‘64, headquarters A. T., Dalton, April 5, ‘64, April 30, 64, 32d Mississippi. Crombie, A. C., Assistant Surgeon, Sept. 3, ‘63, 1st Texas Regiment. Cook, J. P., Assistant Surgeon, Sept. 30, ‘63, 47th Alabama Regiment. cotton, John F., Assistant Surgeon, Sept. 30, ‘63, 10th Georgia Regiment. Clopton, John, Surgeon, apppointed by Secretary of War, Nov. 3, ‘64, to rank from 17th Feb. ‘63. Sept. 30, ‘63, 13th Mississippi Regiment, headquarters A. T. Nov. 2, 63, assigned as Medical-Purveyor Longstreet's Corps. Compton, H. M., Surgeon, appointed by Secretary of War Sept. 11, ‘61, to rank from same date to 4th Tennessee Regiment. Ordered to report to General Zollicoffer. Passed Board at Vicksburg April ‘63, April 30, ‘63, chief Surgeon Stepenson's Division. Cooper,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Black Eagle Company. (search)
Williamsburg, Va., May 1st, 1862. Bragg, William, exempted from service, 1862. Bryant, Richard A., died in service, 1862. Carroll, John D., lost his life capturing a Federal gunboat, winter, 1864. Clift, M. B., died since the war. Clopton, Walter, wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863. Cosby, Charles, exempted from service, 1861. Cosby, George, corporal; wounded at Gaines' Mill, Va., 1862; dead. Cosby, Richard, killed at Gaines' Mill, Va., 1862. Daingerfield, John, exempte one time a pound and a half of flesh from his thigh and hip from a canon shot; is now living near Eaton, Weld county, Colorado, and an active business person. Recruits. Anderson, Nat., Carrington, Robert, wounded at Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Clopton, Mortimer, Covington, Creasy, Creasy, Crenshaw, Dodson, Dyson, Goodman, William; Gordon, Haley, Hewitt, Hurt, Moore, Padgett, William; Poole, Quarles, Ransom, Henry, transferred from Company H., 1863; Smith, Varner, Wakeham, John E., killed near
The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
[for the Dispatch.female Heroism. Two of the late Judge Clopton's daughters had a servant hired at Fortress Monroe, and could not get her by sending. They made one of their servants row them to the Fort in a boat; they were armed with revolvers, and demanded admittance; the sentinel refused; they insisted, and were told that they would be fired upon; they said fire, then, and drew their revolvers and entered the Fort. They told the officers that they had heard that the Hampton people should not throw up sand-banks, but that it should be done, if the ladies had to do it; that they would head a company of ladies to do it. The officers said if they were specimens of the ladies, they did not know what the men of Hampton would do. Why, they can be told that they will fight to the death.
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Crops in Tennessee. (search)
Rumored invasion --A well authenticated rumor reached the city yesterday that the Federal troops at Fortress Monroe had taken possession of a portion of Mrs. Clopton's premises, near Hampton, for the alleged purpose of supplying themselves with fresh water. The report that the Fredericksburg train had been interfered with at Acquia Creek was probably unfounded, as the train left Fredericksburg for Richmond at 4 o'clock.
The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s on Old Point, whence messengers from the British bark Volant, and the Swedish brig Tyrus, were permitted to communicate with their consignee in Norfolk. The Norfolk L. A. Blues have come up from Carney Island, where they have been hard at work erecting the battery at that most important point. One hundred and fifty men from Fort Monroe have taken possession of Mill Creek Bridge and the well of water on Captain Clark's place, which is now guarded by a force of seventy-five men. Mrs. Clopton's place is also threatened by Capt. Dimmick. Hampton was excited; but the Ape's soldiers held and hold possession. The small trees and undergrowth between the gunner's house and the water fronting the Navy-Yard have been burnt. This is on the public property known as St. Helena, where the battery to be raised is now progressing. The chief work at the Navy-Yard is the manufacture of gun-carriages and the removal to the interior (up the road and by water through the canal,) of the b
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