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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 1 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fortification and siege of Port Hudson—Compiled by the Association of defenders of Port Hudson; M. J. Smith, President; James Freret, Secretary. (search)
t, he flanked a portion of his troops to the right and came up fronting our lines, which ran through the field known as Bull Pen. Fearing a movement of this kind, I had called upon the Major General for a regiment to reinforce that point. Colonel O. P. Lyle, of the Twenty-third Arkansas, with his command was sent, and reached his position in time to arrest the enemy's further progress in this direction. Colonel Johnson's position on my extreme right (known since as Fort Desperate) was vigording; First Arkansas battalion, Jones, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding; Sixteenth Arkansas regiment, Provence, Colonel commanding; First Mississippi regiment, Hamilton, Lieutenant Colonel commanding—Johnson, Major; Twenty-third Arkansas regiment, O. P. Lyle, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding—Black, Major; one company of Forty-ninth Alabama regiment, Street, Major commanding. Artillery—Abbay's battery, First Mississippi regiment, light artillery; two sections of Watson's battery; two 24-pounders, Ca<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Campaign of 1864 and 1865. (search)
d me to suggest to General Longstreet that my division should remain at the Williamsburg road, whilst Gary's cavalry should move to and hold the Nine-Mile road. I had hardly formed line when Weitzel emerged from the wood in front and charged us. He got in about three hundred yards of my line, when his troops, unable to stand the fire, threw themselves on their faces in a little depression of ground. A portion of Bratton's South Carolina brigade, led by his Adjutant-General (the gallant Captain Lyle), went out in front of my division and captured four hundred or five hundred of them, the rest slipped back to the rear in squads leaving their dead upon the field. I may add that Gary was quite as successful in repulsing the enemy's cavalry on the Nine-Mile road. It was now dark. During the night the enemy fell back behind his fortifications and I returned to my own lines. Thus ended the battle on the Williamsburg road with scarcely any loss to us, but with very heavy loss to the e