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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)
e persistent assaults of the Federals, determined to turn the flank of Ewell's corps. In command of Early's division he took part in the campaign against Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley in the fall of 1864, and after the return of these forces to the Petersburg lines he was promoted major-general and continued in command of the division, a part of Gordon's corps, throughout the winter. On February 6, 1865, he moved from camp to reconnoiter and was attacked by the enemy in heavy force on Hatcher's run. His men were pressed back in spite of a brave resistance until reinforced by the division of C. A. Evans, when the enemy was in turn forced to retire. After meeting a second check the Confederates reformed and charged again, driving the Federals, and in this moment of success General Pegram fell mortally wounded. His death occurred on the same day. Brigadier-General William Nelson Pendleton Brigadier-General William Nelson Pendleton, of Virginia, like Bishop Polk, of the West
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
ade; the Fourth and Sixteenth battalion, Gen. W. P. Roberts' brigade. The commanders of these regiments as given in the records are generally those in charge at the surrender. It is regretted that not all are given. The following batteries are reported: Capt. H. G. Flanner's, Capt. John Ramsey's, Capt. A. B. Williams' and Capt. Guion's. To break up the wagon trains that were thought to aid in supplying the Confederate army, General Grant ordered the Second and Fifth corps to move on Hatcher's run. Portions of the Sixth and Ninth corps were afterward sent to reinforce the Second and Fifth. February 6th, General Lee, being apprised of this threat to his right, arranged for parts of Gordon's and Hill's corps to meet it. The Federal corps, on establishing line, promptly intrenched. That afternoon Pegram led an attack on the new line and broke General Warren's front. That was afterward restored, and the success, in which Cooke's and MacRae's brigades shared, was without fruit, an
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 20: (search)
a force of 200 men from the legion and Eighteenth regiment, under Captain Brown, who retook the line, with 14 prisoners. On the night of November 5th, 200 men of the legion, under Captain Woodruff, attacked the Federal line in front of the Crater, and 600 men attempted to intrench the position gained, but they were all compelled to retire, with a loss to the brigade of 95 men. In the latter part of September, General Heth and Hampton's cavalry administered a severe check to the enemy at Hatcher's run, and on the Vaughan and Squirrel Level roads. In the latter fight, General Dunovant was killed at the head of the South Carolina cavalry. The continued activity of the enemy on the Hatcher's Run line resulted in the battle of Burgess' Mill, October 27th, fought by Mahone and Hampton. In a gallant charge by Butler's division, Lieut. Thomas Preston Hampton, aide-de-camp, fell mortally wounded, and Lieut. Wade Hampton, of the general's staff, was severely wounded. Lieutenant-Colonel J
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
Charleston and was educated at Yorkville military academy. On the breaking out of the war he at first entered the Confederate States navy but remained there only a short time. He was on Morris island when the Star of the West was fired upon, and was a witness to all the stirring scenes in the vicinity of Charleston at the beginning of the war, including the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Although only fifteen years old when the war began, before it had progressed a year he was enrolled with Hatcher's battalion. He afterward volunteered for the defense of Charleston, under Col. J. P. Thomas, in Thomas' battalion, and subsequently served under Col. Thomas G. Bacon in the Fifth regiment of Confederate reserves as orderly and acting sergeant-major. He wound up his Confederate career as a member of Company E, Second South Carolina cavalry, in Johnston's army, participating in all of the battles in which his command was engaged during the last eight months of the war, including those of
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 18: (search)
ajor-general, in command of the division including his old Georgia brigade, the remnant of the Stonewall division, and York's Louisiana brigade. His own brigade was commanded by Col. John H. Lowe. The gallant George Doles, killed in the Wilderness battle, was succeeded in brigade command by Gen. Philip Cook; Wofford's brigade was led by Gen. Dudley M. DuBose, Bryan's by Gen. James. P. Simms, Wright's first by Gen. G. M. Sorrel, and afterward by Col. George E. Taylor. In the fighting on Hatcher's run early in February, Evans' brigade was distinguished. The two brigades of Georgians in Gordon's corps were also participants in the desperate attack on Grant's lines March 25, 1865, of which Gordon had charge. The corps moved forward before daylight with the division of Evans in front, captured a half mile of breastworks with Fort Stedman, and turned the guns upon the other Federal works. Several batteries to the right and left were also cleared of their defenders and occupied by t
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
months on the defensive lines below Savannah, his entire military service was rendered in the Virginia campaigns with the division commanded by Stonewall Jackson, Early and Gordon. He was commissioned brigadier-general May 19, 1863, and when Maj.-Gen. J. B. Gordon was assigned to command of the Second army corps as acting lieutenant-general, in November, 1864, he was at the same time promoted to the command of the division. In this position he served at first on the right of Lee's army at Hatcher's run, and subsequently in the trenches immediately opposite Petersburg. In the retreat of Lee, his division was in some kind of fighting almost daily, and in the final attack at Appomattox he led it into action, being engaged at the moment of the actual surrender. General Evans was in nearly all the battles in Virginia, and was five times wounded, twice severely. His military training for the war was obtained in the volunteer companies to which he belonged in his youth. Previous to the
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 26: (search)
a battle such as Gettysburg, or a passage of the forts such as Farragut's. Little by little the Confederate lines are reduced in size, never wholly withdrawn. Abruptly coming to our ears without are the firing of the cannon on our extreme left and right; the smothered hum of new men arriving; the sudden blare of trumpets, and the deeper beat of drum. On February 5th the Louisiana brigade, under Colonel Peck, marched out to where the Federals were pushing their fortified line westward at Hatcher's run. Part of Gordon's division, under Gen. C. A. Evans, they moved to the support of Pegram, and on the same day were engaged in skirmishing, Lieut. R. B. Smith, Second Louisiana, commanding the sharpshooters in front. Peck's effective force was only about 20 officers and 400 men, a heroic remnant of two brigades. Colonel Peck and his handful of men made three desperate charges against the enemy in his front, fighting for a sawdust pile in the field which was the momentary strategic poi
Col. J. J. Dickison, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.2, Florida (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
zen roads and through snow and sleet over 100 miles. Early in February, 1865, Mahone's division reinforced General Gordon, whose corps attacked the enemy near Hatcher's run, opposing the Federal attempt to extend their line of battle. In this engagement, S. W. Crowson of the Ninth was wounded; Colonel Scott of the Tenth receiv ordered to winter quarters, but before reaching them received orders to-return, as the enemy was making demonstrations for an attack upon General Gordon south of Hatcher's run. Moving rapidly to his assistance they found that he had engaged the enemy. As brigade after brigade came up they formed a line of battle, with only 3,500 ad, August 2d, charged within 100 yards of the Federal breastworks, but were compelled to fall back with a heavy loss in killed and wounded. At Belfield, and at Hatcher's run, February 4, 1865, they did gallant service. The Eleventh Florida regiment originated in a battalion organized by Theodore W. Brevard, of Tallahassee, af
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, Authorities. (search)
uain, Victor: Fort Blakely, Ala. 49 i, 213 Wainright, Charles S.: Fredericksburg, Va. 21, 1127 Walker, J. G.: Milliken's Bend, La. 24 II, 463 Walker, W. H.T.: Chickamauga, Ga. 30 II, 242a Wallace, Lew.: Shiloh, Tenn. 10 i, 177 Warren, Gouverneur K.: Boydton Plank Road, Va. 42 i, 435, 436 Bristoe Campaign 29 i, 1018 Five Forks, Va. 46 i, 830, 880 Harris Farm, Va. 36 i, 549 Hatcher's and Gravelly Runs, Va. 46 i, 810 Hatcher's Ran, Va. 46 i, 262 Hickford, Va. 42 i, 448, 449 Lewis Farm, Va. 46 i, 802 Mine Run Campaign 29 II, 496, 933 Morton's Ford, Va. 33, 117 North Anna River, Va. 36 i, 548; 36 III, 89, 126, 192, 224 Richmond Campaign 40 II, 7 Spotsylvania Court-House, Va. 36 i, 547; 36 II, 717 Weldon Railroad, Va. 42 i, 433; 42 II, 372 White Oak Road or Ridge, Va. 46 i, 814, 819 Wilderness, Va. 36 i, 546; 36 II, 419, 497 Wellman Chauncey R.: Wa
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 27: (search)
wth as impenetrable as in the Wilderness, but Hatcher's run, a tortuous and difficult stream, must en, moving on the left of Parke, was to cross Hatcher's run, below the bend, and then support the Nk was to move on the left of Warren, crossing Hatcher's run below the bend, and proceed to the Boydenemy's line only extended to the crossing of Hatcher's run by the Boydton plank road, and that it line being unfinished and altogether north of Hatcher's run, it was found to extend east of the strand he was directed to send a division across Hatcher's run below the bend, place its right on the m the crossing of the Boydton plank road with Hatcher's creek. Our line now extends from its formermstrong's mill, thence by the south bank of Hatcher's creek to the point above named. No attack ntrenchments extended only to the crossing of Hatcher's run by the Boydton road. But when, instead this intention to some of his staff, as they rode back to camp after the battle of Hatcher's run. [2 more...]
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