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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Introduction. (search)
d with Mahone's division, forming the rear of Longstreet. The enemy's cavalry penetrated the line of march through the interval thus left, and attacked the wagon-train moving toward Farmville. This caused serious delay in the march of the centre and rear of the column, and enabled the enemy to mass upon their flank. After successive attacks, Anderson's and Ewell's corps were captured or driven from their position. The latter General, with both of his division commanders, Kershaw and Custis Lee, and his brigadiers, were taken prisoners. Gordon who, all the morning, aided by General W. H. F. Lee's cavalry, had checked the advance of the enemy on the road from Amelia Springs, and protected the trains, became exposed to his combined assaults, which he bravely resisted and twice repulsed; but the cavalry having been withdrawn to another part of the line of march, and the enemy massing heavily on his front and both flanks, renewed the attack about 6 P. M., and drove him from the fiel
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
L. M., 369. Laughton, Lt. John E., 348. Laurence, Capt. N. P., 413. Law, Lt. C. H., 246. Law Lt. E. Starke, 95. Lawham, Capt. R. S., 123. Lawhon, Lt. A. F., 204, 212. Lawhorn, Capt. W. H. H., 275. Lawrence, Maj. R. N., 70. Lawson, Surg. John W.. 204. Lazelle, Col. H. M. (U. S. A.), 467. Lea, Lt., James, W., 204. Lea, Col. John W., 204. Lea, Lt. W. G., 348. Leach, Lt., Geo. L., 263. Leach, Surg. R. V., 263. Lee Battery, 28. 456. Lee, Chas. Carter, XXVIII. Lee, Gen., Custis, XXVI. Lee, Lt. C. D., 72. Lee, Midshipman D. M., 3. Lee, Capt. Geo., 238. Lee, Lt. J., 263. Lee, Gen. R. E., i, III, 472; Letters of to President Davis, v; correspondence with Gen. Grant, VII et seq., appearance of, XIV; farewell address of, XXIV; self-denial of, XXVII; escort of, 7. Lee, Capt. T. G., 253. Lee, Lt. W. A., 122. Lee, Gen. W. H. F., XXVI. Lee, Gen., Fitz., 3, 4, 472, VII, XXVI. Leete, Adj't John H., 160, 170. Leftwich, Surg. J. W., 73. Leggett, A
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Monument to General Robert E. Lee. (search)
n from Elder's portrait in the Corcoran Gallery. Through the kindness of General Custis Lee, photographs of the General's saddle and sword were sent to the artists. uff, that the models might be seen to the best advantage. Death mask of General Lee. It should be noted that a foreign artist in writing about his model for the statue, asked for the death mask of General Lee. Miss Randolph could find no trace of such a cast, and General Custis Lee was confident that no such mask had beGeneral Custis Lee was confident that no such mask had been made. This seemed to settle the question. In selecting a commission to sit in judgment on the models, and to award the prizes, some gentlemen in Washington beingrke Mills as a suitable judge, and remarked that he had his father's mask of General Lee. With this clue, Miss Randolph wrote to Dr. Barbaim, who purchased the maskill had the world before them where to choose, with this advantage added. Governor Lee's work. In the meantime General Fitzhugh Lee was inaugurated Governor of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Valuable war relic. (search)
ommand of the Twelfth Battalion of Light Artillery. The battalions of artillery on field duty with army corps were known by the name of their commanders—such as Cutshaw, Brander, Poague, Pegram and others, and heavy artillery was represented by numbers —Battalion Twelve was really infantry supporting heavy artillery. They did duty at times in the field, were on duty at Wilmington, North Carolina, and served at Fort Harrison, below Richmond. When the city was evacuated they went out with Custis Lee's troops, and after the surrender Major Boggs unbuckled his sword, donned the uniform of a soldier of the cross, rejoined the Methodist Conference, and is now in charge at Suffolk, Virginia. He was a brave officer, and is greatly beloved as a parson. Of the particular company, whose muster roll is described, but little can be gathered now of the living members. The command was composed of men from Richmond county, Richmond city, and eastern North Carolina. The roll of the company.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Casualties in the old First at Gettysburg: two out of every three men who were carried into the charge shot down. (search)
Casualties in the old First at Gettysburg: two out of every three men who were carried into the charge shot down. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Will you kindly publish the following in justice to the old First regiment of Virginia infantry? I presume the fact that the official report of Pickett's division at the battle of Gettysburg was suppressed at the request of General Lee is well known. In the absence of such report many statements, more or less unjust to the division, have been made, all which have come to my knowledge, I have deemed it unnecessary to notice until I read the following report in the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Serial No. 44, pages 330, published under the auspices of the Government: Record of Killed and Wounded at Gettysburg.—First Virginia regiment: Killed, 2; wounded, 62. Whether or not there was intentional misrepresentation in this report I deem it but just to give the true record, giving the names of the kill
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General R. E. Lee's war-horses, Traveller and Lucy long. (search)
e sent her to the rear, and once more mounted Traveller. She was stolen just before the close of the war, and after the surrender was found in the eastern part of the State, and Captain R. E. Lee brought her to Lexington to his father. Several years after General Lee's death, and possibly thirteen years ago, while running at large in the grounds in the rear of the University, by some unknown means Lucy Long got the leaders of her hind legs cut. She was henceforth of no service, and General Custis Lee got the late John Riplogle, the greatest horse lover in Rockbridge in his day, to take charge of her on his farm on Buffalo. On Mr. Riplogle's death, a few years ago, she was turned over to the care of Mr. John R. Mackay, who lives in the same neighborhood, and there she is at this time. When purchased by General Stuart she was said to be five years old. She is probably now in her thirty-four year. She is thin in flesh, though her eye has not lost its wonted brightness and her hea
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General R. E. Lee's war-horses. (search)
th of Traveller, Lucy Long, who was also turned out during the day for exercise, in some way injured one of her hind legs. After the leg healed, General G. W. Custis Lee put her in the keeping of the late Mr. John Riplogle, of Rockbridge a (lover of horses), paying for her board. Mr. Riplogle dying, Mr. John R. Mackay, subsequently took charge of her. She was hearty until the winter of 1890-‘91, when she began to fail. She died in the spring of 1891, at the age of thirty four years, and was buried on the farm of Mr. Mackay. Some three years after the close of the war, Ajax, who was turned out during the day, when not used, ran against the iron prong of the latch of a partly opened gate and killed himself. He was also buried in the grounds of the Washington and Lee University. General Custis Lee was not in Lexington, either when Ajax or Lucy Long received their injuries. Traveller up to the time of his injury was apparently as high-spirited and serviceable as he had ever been
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Joseph E. Johnston. (search)
the crown of gold—martyr more than victor. It is the true-fixed, the constant quality that hath no fellow in the firmament. Constancy is the pole on which the heavens turn. As one who wore this armor against fate and walked erect beneath it till forescore had been passed; as one who in all relations evinced the enduring fibre which sets the seal on every excellence—Joseph E. Johnston is our theme. We are to consider the example of a life which by birth was martial. To the son of one of Lee's Legion, nourished by the breath of heroes in the heroic prime, a soldier's life seemed the natural office of a soldier's son. A cadetship at West Point was the signal that the parade-ground of his life was chosen, the tuition of his destiny begun, the Olympian battle joined. Better, sings an ancient bard, better is the grave than the life of him who sighs when the horns summon him to the squares of battle. So, sighed not the young second lieutenant, who, graduating with honor in 1829, fir
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Monument to the Confederate dead at the University of Virginia. (search)
reat conflict I was standing on the roadside, not far from the city of Petersburg, a prisoner of war, and very near General Custis Lee, both of us having been captured in the battle of Sailor's Creek. We were watching the march of the never-ending cal officer, whose name and appearance I distinctly recall, left the column and riding up to us, dismounted and greeted General Lee with effusion. They had been classmates, I think, at West Point. When the first salutations and inquiries had been exchanged the Federal officer, calling Lee's attention to the command just then passing, said with evident pride: General, these are my men. Superb soldiers, you see. There's a great difference between your experience and ours in this respect. The courage of their endeavor, the multitude of Thy compassions, and the bounty of Thy grace. Second. The Characters of Lee and Jackson have contributed more, perhaps, than any and all other influences to a just appreciation of the Southern ca
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Last days of the army of Northern Virginia. (search)
nd fairness, states that the total effective of Lee's army on the 25th day of March, 1865, was infa,041 cavalry and 5,392 artillery, it would give Lee, six weeks before the final operations began, 4lonel Taylor's statement in Four Years with General Lee, that Lee had at that time only 39,879 avaiduty, and all the officers and men in arrest in Lee's army, Badeau subtracts only 8,433 for men not,433, the aggregate Badeau ascribes to Lee, and Lee would have only 64,705 effectives, including thmond. If we apply Badeau's rule for estimating Lee's effective strength, by deducting a little ovehe service; (6) the supply of fresh meat to General Lee's army was precarious, and if the army felldisplaying the most unflinching courage. General Lee, in a dispatch sent to the Secretary of Warhad, in Grant's works, which were stronger than Lee's, and thus hold or contain Lee within his own n of Grant's troops, which was sure to be made, Lee's only resource was to strip his already thread[56 more...]
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