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Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739. 18 0 Browse Search
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 8 6 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 6 4 Browse Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 5 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 4 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 4 0 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 1 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 3 1 Browse Search
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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
should say that Branch's force comprised about 8,000 Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia troops. But for General Webb, writing in 1881, and claiming to have sifted and collated for careful investigation the new material gathered by the war department, and now for the first time made a basis of the history of that time, Preface to Peninsula Campaign. to say—for him to say in the face of such a claim as that—that Branch's command must have been about 10,000 strong is, as the Federal General Palfrey sweetly says in commenting on some of McClellan's figures, one of those extraordinary, inconceivable, aggravating things that stirs up everything that is acrid in the nature of those who follow his career. Antietam to Fredericksburg, p. 39. What was the Confederate strength? Branch, in his congratulatory order to his brigade (July 24th), states that his total force was about 4,000. This would make his seven regiments average about 600 men to the regiment, a high average for
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
rate left flank. The attack fell first on Jackson, and Ripley, of D. H. Hill's left, went to his aid, and fierce and bloody was the encounter. The two lines, as Palfrey says, almost tore each other to pieces. The carnage was simply frightful, and yet it was only beginning. Between 6 and 7 o'clock Mansfield pressed forward to su division was driven off to the north with terrible losses, carrying along in the rout part of Williams' men, of the Twelfth corps. Battles and Leaders, II, 644. Palfrey says: Nearly 2,000 men were disabled in a moment. Then he adds, with a candor rare among some Federal participants: The jubilant assertions of Confederate ofas so conspicuously gallant that it received the special commendation of the commander-in-chief, a corps commander, and two division commanders. Thus, comments Palfrey upon Sedgwick's defeat at the end of the second stage of this great battle, by 10 o'clock the successes of the morning were lost. The disappearance of Sedgwick e
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)
nize that it was useless to continue such assaults, that General Humphreys says they tried by force to prevent his men from making the attempt. In, it seems, sheer desperation, the Federal commander ordered gallant men to die before the fire from that hill, and silently General Couch says there was no cheering on the part of the men. and sternly the men tried to carry out orders, and left their bodies to freeze on the winter night that followed their hopeless and crushed endeavors. General Palfrey, the Union general and historian, thus concludes his account of this battle: The short winter's day came to an end. Fifteen thousand men lay dead or wounded along the banks of the Rappahannock, and the army of the Potomac was no nearer Richmond than it was when the sun arose. The Confederates were elated, and the Federals were depressed. The Confederates had had a day of such savage pleasure as seldom falls to the lot of soldiers, a day on which they saw their opponents doing just wha