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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, November (search)
nfidence. With these we can accomplish all; and while I know that, in the great drama which may have our hearts' blood, Pennsylvania will not play the least, I trust that, on the other hand, she will play the highest and noblest part. I again thank you, and ask you to convey to the councils my most sincere thanks for the sword. Say to them that it will be my ambition to deserve it hereafter. I know I do not now. The Twenty-seventh Massachusetts regiment, under the command of Colonel H. C. Lee, left Springfield at two o'clock to-day for Hudson, where they took the steamer Connecticut for New York, at seven o'clock in the evening.--Springfield Republican, Nov. 4. The British steamer Bermuda, with a cargo of eighteen hundred bales of cotton, ran the blockade from Savannah, Ga. About eight o'clock she weighed anchor, proceeded down the stream, and finding all things favorable, made a clear and triumphant exit over the bar. She cleared for Havre.--Savannah Republican, Nov.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 31 (search)
grounds and barracks of the captured enemy, which was executed, and remained upon duty until relieved by the Ninth New-Jersey. The men and officers under my command, behaved with a coolness that was really surprising for men who were under fire for the first time. On Sunday morning, the ninth inst., I received an order to detail a company to plant the American flag on one of the captured forts on the sea-shore. Yours respectfully, Edw. Ferrero, Col. Fifty-first Regiment N. Y.V. Colonel Lee's report. headquarters Twenty-Seventh Regt. Mass, Vols., Roanoke Island, February 12, 1862. To His Excellency John A. Andrew: dear sir: I am very sorry to be obliged to report the death of Capt, Hubbard of company I, which occurred this morning. I would recommend to fill the vacancy, First Lieut. Edward K. Wilcox; for First Lieutenant, C. Wesley Goodale, now Second Lieutenant; and for Second Lieutenant, Joseph W. Lawson. The list of killed and wounded, in the engagement February
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
It was after this that the joke was made that cannon sent from Richmond to the Shenandoah valley were marked P. H. Sheridan, care of General Early. Early wrote to Lee, the fact is, that the enemy's cavalry is so much superior to ours, both in numbers and equipment ... that it is impossible for ours to compete with it. This was i fighting lasted less than an hour; but it has always been regarded as the greatest mistake of the war on the Union side. It was as useless and almost as costly as Lee's attack upon Meade's centre at Gettysburg. But we do not read that any of Grant's lieutenants protested against it, as Longstreet protested against the attack on ments been made and had the troops at hand been put in, with even the lowest degree of vigor, noon of that day must have seen Petersburg in our power and a third of Lee's army lopped off at a blow.... Had the division assigned to the assault been properly led, it could have gone straight to the crest which overlooked the enemy's wo
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
, Josiah, 2d Mass. H. A., 530 Leahey, Philip, 385 Leahy, Daniel, 465 Leary, Daniel, 385 Leary, Dennis, 530 Leary, James, 385 Leary, John, 28th Mass. Inf., 385 Leary, John, 30th Mass. Inf., 65 Leary, T. R., 466 Leary, Timothy, 385 Leaverns, J. H., 385 Leavis, George, 466 Leavitt, M. M., 385 Le Barnes, J. W., 135 Lecraw, W. P., 530 Leddy, Patrick, 530 Ledlie, J. H., 30, 125, 302 Lee, David, 55, 385 Lee, Dennis, 466 Lee, F. L., 152, 278 Lee, Fitzhugh, 130 Lee, G. T., 466 Lee, H. C., 46, 47, 48, 116, 246, 282 Lee, John, 530 Lee, Maurice, 65 Lee, R. E., 93, 103, 104, 112, 123, 125, 146, 160, 164, 170, 189, 216, 256, 258, 260, 262, 266, 272, 302, 304, 314. Lee, Saybrook, 530 Lee, W. R., 20th Mass. Inf., 34, 35, 50, 53, 78, 232 Lee, W. R., 54th Mass. Inf., 493 Lee, William, 530 Leeland, C. E., 386 Lefevre, Alfred, 386 Lefferts, Marshall, 22, 23 Leffian, S. F., 386 Legat, Gunhatz, 386 Leggett, W. F., 386 Leiblein, William, 466 Leighton, Frank, 386 Leland,
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
that as Clingman's regiments fell black, Gen. N. G. Evans arrived on the field with his South Carolina brigade, and assumed command. By his direction, the Fifty-first and Fifty-third, supported by Evans' Holcombe legion, made a charge against H. C. Lee's brigade, of which that officer said: A portion of the enemy instantly, with loud cheers, charged up the hill toward the battery, and bore up steadily in the face of a well-directed and most destructive fire. . . . The enemy, meanwhile, had bies, and at sight of my supporting regiments, broke and fled in disorder to the woods. His retreat was covered by a heavy fire from the battery on his right, which inflicted on my command a loss of 3 killed and 19 wounded. This battery, as Colonel Lee calls it, was one gun of Lieut. T. C. Fuller's section of Starr's; the other gun was overturned. Lieutenant Fuller acted with great coolness, and showed a soldier's aptitude for finding and striking his enemy. General Clingman said of the de
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
giments and one battalion of infantry, two regiments of cavalry and three batteries were with General Lee; under Gen. Kirby Smith, the Fifty-eighth, Colonel Palmer, the Sixty-fourth, Colonel Allen, ane in North Carolina to a like advance. From Manassas to Appomattox, p. 324. In a letter to General Lee, General Longstreet stated to him his plans: In arraying our forces to protect supply traoped, as already seen, to surprise the town, but the rains delayed and exposed the movement. General Lee advised against an assault on the town on account of the loss it might entail. Letter to Le spring was fairly opening there were loud calls for the troops operating in North Carolina. General Lee was trying to reinforce for his spring campaign. General Beauregard was asking for aid at Chlumn under General Spinola as it was marching to the relief of Washington. On the 22d of May, Lee's Federal brigade, one regiment of Pennsylvania troops, seven pieces of artillery, and three comp
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
fax. After the battle at Fredericksburg, General Lee's army went into winter quarters along the the same route. Four corps were thus massed on Lee's left flank, and a fifth was nearly in positionergy seemed to expend itself in the movement. Lee had not been, says Dodge, unaware of what tf this movement, and only on Thursday night had Lee ascertained the facts, and been able to mature nes that General Jackson, one of the pillars of Lee's success, was wounded by the relieving line. ed toward the Rappahannock by 10 a. m., and General Lee halted his men to rest and reform. It was e heights intrusted to Early, and was moving in Lee's rear to help the sorely beset Hooker. Generag his ground until night crossed the river, and Lee's flank was clear. Sedgwick's corps sustained arolina had fewer regiments than usual with General Lee at this time. Both Ransom's and Cooke's br were on other duty. There were present in General Lee's army in these battles, 124 regiments and [7 more...]
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)
arolinians in the three Days fighting on the retreat the Potomac recrossed by Lee's army-cavalry fighting in Virginia during the invasion of Pennsylvania. After General Hooker retreated from General Lee's front at Chancellorsville, the Confederate commander determined to transfer the scene of hostilities beyond the Potomacmac and was approaching South mountain. In the absence of the cavalry, says General Lee, it was impossible to learn his intentions; but to deter him from advancing urned to Cashtown. This was the first service of Pettigrew's brigade with General Lee's army, but, notwithstanding this fact, it was to render itself immortal by n killed and wounded (not prisoners), 208 more men than any other brigade in General Lee's entire army. See Dr. Guild's Casualty List, Rebellion Records. Swinton ere from North Carolina. In the second place, if one bears in mind that none of Lee's regiments was over two years old, comparatively green fits no one of those fiv
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Butter after the money. (search)
Butter after the money. --Mr. George F. Carney, of Lowell, Mass, Col. H. C. Lee, 27th Massachusetts Volunteers, and Mr. Porter Sherman, of Norfolk, Va., have been appointed as a commission to examine the condition of the savings and banking houses of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Voice from the army. (search)
A Voice from the army. --A Mobile soldier in General Lee's army, in a private letter hom writes "The Yankee papers report an expedition for Mobile wish to Heaven I could be there. I would like to fight the devils near our home.--Every one returning from reports our people at home backed and more than half whipped. There is one little band that is all right, and equal to fifty good battles yet. The army of Northern Virginia has not saying "die" is it not singular and that he people out side of the army and out of danger, should fact like giving fore the men who are exposed to everything it makes the to know that we are with even one of such a set of cowardly tools as those must he who so much as think of facing the consequences of our subjugation. Can it he that all the virtue and manhood of the country are in the army.?"
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