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The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1862., [Electronic resource] 19 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Incidents of the first Bull Run. (search)
enjamin, on the other. There was a disposition in the quartermaster's and commissary departments at Richmond to deny the extent of the destitution of our army immediately after the battle. To ascertain the exact facts of the case, General Johnston organized a board of officers to investigate and report the condition of the transportation and commissariat of the army at Manassas on the 21st of July, and their daily condition for two weeks thereafter. That Board was composed of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert B. Lee (a cousin of General R. E. Lee), representing the commissary department, Major (afterward Major-General) W. L. Cabell, representing the quartermasters department, and myself from the line. My associates on this Board were old United States army officers of acknowledged ability and large experience. We organized early in August, and made an exhaustive investigation and detailed report. I have a distinct recollection that we found that on the morning of the battle there was not
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
ntry were driven across Young's branch, Imboden's battery fought alone, finally retiring and taking a new position supported by Stonewall Jackson, where it was in action until the ammunition was exhausted. Subsequently Captain Imboden, Lieut.-Col. Robert B. Lee and Maj. W. L. Cabell constituted a board of investigation, which reported in explanation of the failure to pursue McDowell to Washington that the food and transportation were inadequate. During Jackson's Valley campaign, 1862, Imbodenon of his force there and in the mountain counties. His command was known as the First Virginia partisan rangers, under the orders of General Jackson, but early in 1863 it was mustered in as the Eighteenth Virginia cavalry. In January, 1863, General Lee wrote him: I hope you will meet with speedy success in filling up your command to a brigade, when I shall take great pleasure in recommending your promotion. He was soon afterward promoted to brigadier-general, and the Twenty-fifth, Thirty-fi
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
erate States--a Proclamation. --Whereas a communication was addressed on the 6th day of July last, (1862,) by General Robert B. Lee, acting under the instructions of the Secretary of War of the Confederate States of America, to General H. W. Hal whereas, (no answer having been received to said letter,) another letter was, on the2d August last, (1862) addressed by Gen. Lee, under my instructions to Gen. Halleck, renewing the inquiry in relation to the said execution of said Mumford, with thethe Government of the United States: And whereas, an answer dated on the 7th August last, (1862) was addressed to General Lee by Gen. H. W. Halleck, the said General-in-Chief of the armies of the United States, alleging sufficient cause for faiord, but measures will be immediately taken to ascertain the facts of the alleged execution," and promising that General! Lee should be duly informed thereof: And whereas on the20th November last, (1862) another letter was addressed under my i
The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Another haul upon the Yankees. (search)
Gen. Lee. We had always thought that our great commander was a quiet, unobtrusive personage, who meddled with no business but his own. From "recent developmentshe public teat but for the "vicious intromission" of some meddling "rebel," like Lee in a matter with which he had properly nothing to do? To whom, if cotta him, ised remains, as the "American eagle?" Nay to go farther back, to whom if not to Gen. Lee, does the illustrious Pope owe it that he is left in full contemplation of hisO Meara John Van Buren? We are afraid that it will be but too easy to convict Gen. Lee of all these offences, and we hope President Davis wid punish him as each cond of all the world. Now none so low as do him reverence. To whom, if not to General Lee, is this change of fortune to be ascribed Did he not beat him day after aroungton Golgoths established for the benefit of the Yankee soldiers whom this same Lee is constantly sending there in a dying condition, whom has the world to blame fo