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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), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
lliant affairs of the war, he was severely wounded, and won from General Scott, in his official report, appreciative mention as being as distinguished for execution as for science and daring. After Chapultepec he was recommended for the rank of colonel. The City of Mexico was next taken and the war ended. Among the officers with Lee in Mexico were Grant, Meade, McClellan, Hancock, Sedgwick, Hooker, Burnside, Thomas, McDowell, A. S. Johnston, Beauregard, T. J. Jackson, Longstreet, Loring, Hunt, Magruder, and Wilcox, all of whom seemed to have felt for him a strong attachment. Reverdy Johnson said he had heard General Scott more than once say that his success in Mexico was largely due to the skill, valor and undaunted energy of Robert E. Lee. Jefferson Davis, in a public address at the Lee memorial meeting November 3, 1870, said: He came from Mexico crowned with honors, covered with brevets, and recognized, young as he was, as one of the ablest of his country's soldiers. General
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: Maryland under Federal military power. (search)
guards for home service and never to leave the State. Colonel Maulsby, of the First regiment, and commanding the Potomac home brigade, was as high spirited and as chivalric a knight as ever set lance in rest for the rescue of the Holy Sepulcher, for he was a Marylander by descent, by tradition and in every fiber of his being. Therefore, when the army of the Potomac moved toward its enemy, Maulsby's Potomac home brigade moved with it, on its own ardent demand. Its muskets would have marched had there been no men to carry them, for the spirit of the commander permeates and electrifies all under him, and the fire of the head and heart heats all the members. The Maryland artillery battalion, under Maj. Edward R. Petherbridge, was before Richmond in the artillery reserve under Colonel Hunt. At the New Bridge over the Chickahominy, Battery B once had an artillery duel with the First Maryland artillery, Confederate, in which it fired over six hundred shots, doing considerable damage.
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
tone's brigade, and Meredith fronted Brockenbrough. Stone's men faced both north and west, and were in formidable position on a ridge and behind a stone fence. To his right was Cutler, and then Baxter and Paul. These last two brigades, says General Hunt, took post behind the stone walls of a field. Baxter faced to the west and Paul to the north. These, then, were the posts of the six infantry brigades of the First corps, and formed the left of the Federal line. Buford's cavalry was mainlyling hill. These two brigades, under the immediate command of General Hays, moved through the wide ravine between Culp's and Cemetery hills, up the rugged ascent, and made, as General Longstreet declares, as gallant a fight as was ever made. General Hunt, of the Federal army, says of their advance: A line of infantry on the slopes was broken, and Weidrich's Eleventh corps battery and Pickett's reserve batteries near the brow of the hill were overrun; but the excellent position of Stevens'
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)
i, 210 Adairsville to Cartersville, Ga. 38 i, 208 Cartersville to Dallas and Acworth, Ga. 38 i, 209 Chancellorsville, Va. 25 i, 629 Chattahoochee River to Atlanta, Ga. 38 i, 211 Gettysburg, Pa. 27 i, 698, 699 Resaca to Adairsville, Ga 38 i, 207 Ringgold to Resaca, Ga. 38 i, 206 Huger, Benjamin: Savannah, Ga., defenses 14, 855, 858, 859 South Mills, N. C. 9, 330 Humphreys, Andrew A.: Hatcher's and Gravelly Runs, Va. 46 III, 293 Hunt, Henry J.: Fredericksburg, Va. 21, 1127 Jackson, Henry R.: Greenbrier River, W. Va. 5, 229 Jackson, Thomas J.: McDowell, Va. 12 i, 474, 475 Jenney, William L. B.: Arkansas Post, Ark. 17 i, 760, 761 Johnson, Bushrod R.: Chickamauga, Ga. 30 II, 468, 469 Johnson, L.: Dalton, Ga. 39 i, 722 Jones, Fielder A.: Stone's River, Tenn. 20 i, 313 Jones, Samuel: Rocky Gap, W. Va. 29 i, 47 Kappner, Franz: Northern Virginia Campaign
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)
, Va., 1865 78, 4 Jetersville and Sailor's Creek, Va., 1865 77, 4 North Anna River, May 22-27, 1864 96, 2 Petersburg and five Forks, Va. 77, 2 Richmond, Va., and vicinity 77, 1 Totopotomoy River, Va., May 28-31, 1864 96, 6 White House to Harrison's Landing, Va 19, 1 Wilderness, Va., May 5-7, 1864 96, 1 Williamsburg to White House, Va. 119, 3 Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 14, 1862 14, 1; 15, 2, 4 Yorktown to Williamsburg, Va. 18, 2 Hunt, Henry J.: Operations, artillery, July 30, 1864 64, 3 Hyde, W. B.: California, Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho (General map) 134, 1 Jackson, Thomas T.: Bristoe Station, Va., Aug. 26, 1862 111, 1 Bull Run, Va., Aug. 30, 1862 111, 1 Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862 85, 3, 4 Chantilly, Va., Sept. 1, 1862 111, 1 Cross Keys, Va., June 8, 1862 111, 2 Franklin to Winchester, Va., May 15-25, 1862 85, 1 Gettysburg Campaign, 1863 116, 2 Groveton,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of General John Bankhead Magruder. (search)
at our school entitled to a passing notice, both on account of their military reputation and social character. The great value of the artillery schools at Old Point and Leavenworth cannot be better be illustrated than by referring to some of the names which subsequent events have rendered distinguished, such as Bailey, Benson, and Grebble, who, in the brilliant display of their skill, were removed from the theatre of fame when honor was fast gathering about them, while there still remained Hunt, Barry, and some others, in the enjoyment of distinguished reputations. The light artillery of the United States before the Mexican war was held in but small estimation, but the brilliant service of the batteries of Magruder, Bragg and Duncan during that war raised it to a high degree of popularity, and subsequently, through the influence of the military academy at West Point and the artillery schools at Old Point and Leavenworth, the Federal and Confederate artillery of America acquired a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The last chapter in the history of Reconstruction in South Carolina. (search)
scribed by Governor Perry as fruitful of the worst of crimes. The whites were not allowed their share of the public arms. It was a sense of the danger to which the whites were exposed at thus being kept without arms that gave rise to the rifle clubs, which were a grievance to Governor Chamberlain, which were denounced by General Grant, but which it is truth to say, became the only power which at one time saved the State by its moral power alone from the extreme horrors of anarchy. When General Hunt called on some of these clubs to assist in restoring peace to the city after one of the most terrible riots that had ever been known in it, he was instantly reported to the government at Washington, and was almost as instantly sent on duty elsewhere. But they were almost the only force which he could trust. The Government would have preferred to leave the city at the mercy of the infuriate wretches who had bathed its streets with the blood of its citizens. All circumstantial evidence
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Chickamauga. (search)
r, Assistant Adjutant General: Captain,—I have the honor to transmit, in obedience to orders, a report of the part taken by my command in the battle of Chickamauga. On the 18th of September our forces advanced in several columns to cross the Chickamauga and give battle to the Federal army under General Rosecrans. Major-General Buckner's corps, consisting of Stewart's division and mine, moved on the road to Tedford's Ford, and on the evening of that day (Friday) my command bivouacked at Hunt's or Dalton's Ford, on the south bank of the river and east of the road. The skirmishers of Colonel Kelly's brigade soon discovered the enemy posted along the opposite bank of the stream, extending above in the direction of Lee and Gordon's Mill. Soon after nightfall General Gracie's brigade was moved across the ford and established in line of battle, running almost east and west, near Hunt's house, and a few hundred yards north of the river, where it remained during the night. On the ne
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Chancellorsville. (search)
eak from its inception that the cavalry raid degenerated into an utter failure, and the first step in the campaign thus miscarried. The operations of the cavalry corps scarcely belong to the history of Chancellorsville. They in no wise affected the conduct or outcome of the campaign. In order to conceal his real move by the right, Hooker made show of moving down the river, and a strong demonstration with the First, Third and Sixth corps on the left, under command of Sedgwick. Covered by Hunt's guns, on April 29th and 30th, pontoons were thrown at Franklin's crossing and Pollock's mills, troops were put over, and bridgeheads were constructed and held by Brooks's and Wadsworth's divisions. Lee made no serious attempt to dispute this movement, but watched the dispositions, uncertain how to gauge their value. Meanwhile, the Eleventh and Twelfth corps, followed by the Fifth, with eight days rations, marched up to Kelley's ford. Here all three corps crossed the Rappahannock on the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Long's memoir of General R. E. Lee. (search)
amily, and the account of the early youth and opening manhood of Lee, are very interesting, and contain some new matter in the reminiscences of cotemporaries of the boy, the cadet, the skillful young engineer officer, and the account of his marriage to Mary Custis, and home life at Arlington. The sketch of the career of Captain Lee in the Mexican war, is the fullest and most valuable which has yet been published, and is rendered the more interesting by contributions of General Wilcox, General Hunt, and General J. E. Johnston, besides free quotations from the official reports, which show that even then he was the rising soldier of the army. The life of Lee from the Mexican war to the breaking out of the great war between the States—his service as engineer near Baltimore; his three years as Superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point, and his service on the frontier as Lieutenant-Colonel of the famous Second cavalry—is briefly sketched. His views and feelings on the br
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