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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 999 7 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 382 26 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 379 15 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 288 22 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 283 1 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 243 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 233 43 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 210 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 200 12 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Stuart's cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
or that he left two brigades of calvary with Longstreet and General Lee. As regards Col. Mosby'sived the enemy moving northward. （5) When Longstreet and Hill were encamping near Chambersburg Ju advancing to the Potomac at Shepherdstown. Longstreet had been withdrawn from the Ashby's and Snict division will reach the Potomac today, and Longstreet will follow tomorrow. Be watchful and cirext day. In it General Lee tells Stuart that Longstreet and Hill are moving to the Potomac; and Stuam on the Susquehanna. Of the movements of Longstreet and Hill while Hooker was still lying quiet page 103): This premature movement of Longstreet's and Hill's troops * * * * made the Gettysb Seneca. And again on Page 192: If Longstreet and Hill had stayed quiet a day longer Stuar. General Lee did regard the movement of Longstreet and Hill as a pressing necessity, for he sayca. Ewell was by that time at Carlisle, and Longstreet's and Hill's corps were also in Pennsylvania[7 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Review of the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
the Western armies was being discussed, General Longstreet says he unfolded a plan of his own, whice, the movement began. McLaws' divisions of Longstreet's corps, which had remained with the army, wlle, and would be moved on immediately: that Longstreet had withdrawn from the Blue Ridge, and that r was sent by General Lee to Stuart, through Longstreet, as acknowledged by the latter in his lettermn had reached South Mountain, &c. In General Longstreet's official report he makes a similar stae it remained until the morning of the 1st. Longstreet's corps, except Pickett's division, which wately was determined towards Gettysburg. General Longstreet, in his official report made at the time principal attack upon the enemy's left, and Longstreet was directed to place McLaws and Hood's divid generally parallel to the Cemetery Ridge. Longstreet faced Round Top, and part of Cemetery Ridge;clock P. M. No matter what may have been General Longstreet's suggestions to General Lee, as to the [73 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Armistead's portrait presented. (search)
t, ever more destructive. The cannon on Round-Top volleyed and thundered. From Cemetery Ridge grapeshot and canister tore through our ranks. We marched, says Longstreet, through a fearful fire from the batteries in front and from Round-Top. The slaughter, he says, was terrible, the enfilade fire from batteries on Round-Top very destructive. But worse remained behind. From the stone wall which sheltered their ranks the hostile infantry poured down, as Longstreet says, a terrific fire. The hiss of bullets was incessant. Men fell at every step; they fell, I thought, like grass before the scythe. Such were the scenes which some of us witnessed that ame of his heroic deeds has spread through all the world. In every history they stand recorded. A generous foe unites with us to honor his memory. The stolid Longstreet kindles with enthusiasm to tell how the noble Armistead fell on Cemetery Ridge by the wheels of the enemy's cannon. And so, comrades, we present you now the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Story of battle of five Forks. (search)
with the Army of the James, between him and Humphreys, and by Humphreys, upon the intrenchments about Burgess' Mill, whilst Sheridan, with the cavalry and the Fifth Corps, was to sweep around and clear out everything to the Appomattox River. Longstreet, not having found out that the Army of the James had been withdrawn from his front, though it had been withdrawn on the evening of March 27th, the seventh day before, remained on the Richmond and Bermuda lines, under the impression that he was being withdrawn, after Ord had gone in between them and Petersburg, and swept around to Sutherland Depot, on the Southside Railroad. Ord during the evening succeeded in capturing several redoubts to the northwest of the city, when, at last, Longstreet arrived with his two divisions and held a line protecting the city in that direction until night closed the engagement. Retreat. During the night General Lee evacuated his lines around the city, crossed over to the north side of the river
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Colonel James Gregory Hodges. (search)
e have had a very hard time since we left Richmond. I have not slept In a tent since leaving there and have only been in three houses. We eat whatever we can get and sometimes the quality is anything but good and the supply scanty. This army has accomplished wonders and undergone the greatest amount of fatigue. On the 15th of October, 1862, Armistead's brigade was encamped near Winchester, Va. On that day Col. Hodges writes: On Monday last we had a grand review of our division, by Gen. Longstreet, who commands our corps d'armie. There were two members of the British Parliament present. We had about ten thousand men in line, and the whole passed off very well. It was quite an imposing sight. I suppose the Englishmen did not know what to make of such a dirty, ragged set of fellows. The orders forbade the barefooted men from going out. I think they ought to have let our army be seen just as it is. I have now some eighty men without shoes, notwithstanding that I have within the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General J. E. B. Stuart in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
r refutes every word of the statements of Gen. Longstreet, Col. Marshall, Gen. Long, Col. Waiter Ta points at issue, and with the reports of Gen. Longstreet, Gen. Ewell and Gen. Early. Now this f finally there is the improbability that General Longstreet and Colonel Taylor and Colonel Marshall 's instructions. Though General Lee and General Longstreet both suggested that Stuart should cross by him, first, that the reason given by General Longstreet for the suggestion that he should pass i. But there is a previous question. When Longstreet and Hill had crossed the Potomac, and Hookerach orchard uncovered— in the air , and that Longstreet took advantage of it and struck him a stunnimself sent orders to that effect to Hill and Longstreet on the night of the 28th. He insists also tt his plan was changed by the arrival of General Longstreet's scout about midnight of the 28th, with before him, states that General Lee and General Longstreet were responsible for Stuart's absence, a[13 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Appendix. (search)
as both parties have departed, it seems due to history that they should be given to the world. The letter written by Mr. Greeley concerning Mr. Breckinridge's return is addressed to Judge George Shea, of New York. This, and the letter inclosing it, written by Judge Shea to Mr. Breckinridge, are as follows: Office of the New York Tribune, New York, April 8, 1867. My friend,—Since nearly all the military chiefs of the South in our late struggle-Generals Lee, Johnston, Beauregard, Longstreet, &c.—have stoutly advised their people to accept their situation unreservedly, and organize their respective States, in accordance with the dictates of Congress, it seems to me a pity that the presence and counsel of General Breckinridge are wanting. We need them not in the South proper, but in his own Kentucky, where a most unfortunate attempt to perpetuate class distinctions, which have no longer any national justification or solid basis, threaten to perpetuate a fued and a struggle, wh
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Eighth Virginia's part in second Manassas. (search)
e enemy from hillock to hill, until finally they broke from Fairfax Courthouse for Washington. We wanted to see our friends in Maryland, so turned north by the Fryingpan Road, and at night stopped near the home of some of my men. Colonel, a man would say to me, my wife and children are just over that hill. I have not heard of them for months. Please get permission for me to go for a little while; I will surely be back before you move. Hardly knowing what to do, the next morning, I went to General Corse (we were happy to be under this gallant man even for a short time), and explained the situation to him. You are right, said he, but you must have General Longstreet's permission. He has just passed up the road. I put out after him, and found him, dismounted and alone. I asked permission to send out one or two men to warn some absentees, as we were about to move. Not a man, said he; better hold on to all you have got. These men joined us before night. We needed them.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.34 (search)
s in line of battle, ready to meet the enemy. This was done with wonderful quickness and skill, but the enemy did not advance upon us. There were no other incidents that I remember worthy of mention during the day. Gordon, Early, Ewell (?), Longstreet and Lee. I do not think General Gordon ever intended in his book, to say anything that might reflect upon the memory or reputation of his two distinguished comrades, Generals Ewell and Early, for it would be directly in opposition to the spirit indicated in his article, where he speaks of General Longstreet, and says: It is a source of profound regret that he and his friends should have been into such unprofitable and ill tempered controversy with the friends of our immortal chieftain. He does, however, speak as follows: On the first day neither General Early nor General Ewell could possibly have been fully cognizant of the situation at the time I was ordered to halt. Then General Gordon goes on and describes the scene,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heth intended to cover his error. (search)
and his staff-officers have attributed to him. If he had done so, it would have been affectation. He knew that his and Longstreet's orders would carry Stuart for a while into a state of eclipse; around the enemy, out of sight, and out of communicaties to have read in General Lee's letter-book his instructions to Stuart to keep in close contact and communication with Longstreet. Now the contents of the letter-book have since been published and I have read the original copies. Heth's account of what he read in the book is pure fiction. Instead of ordering Stuart to keep on Longstreet's flank, he ordered him to leave Longstreet in Virginia, cross the Potomac, and join Ewell on the Susquehanna—a hundred miles away. It was all the same toLongstreet in Virginia, cross the Potomac, and join Ewell on the Susquehanna—a hundred miles away. It was all the same to Lee at what ford Stuart crossed the Potomac. Heth's letter was written to give information to the Count of Paris. It is the origin of his criticism of Stuart in his History of the War. As for cavalry there were as many with Ewell as there wer
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