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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: (search)
eford D. Russell of the same regiment, who at the time was acting major. Captain Russell had been in service from the beginning of the war, having been a lieutenant of the Walker light infantry of Augusta, Company I, of Ramsey's First Georgia. Early in May, Gen. A. H. Colquitt had been ordered to Richmond, and on May 15th the Fifty-sixth regiment was ordered up from Macon, and the Twelfth battalion and Forty-seventh and Fifty-fifth regiments from Savannah. Colquitt's Georgia brigade and Ransom's North Carolina brigade formed a division under General Colquitt, in Beauregard's forces for the defense of Petersburg. The brigade bore a creditable part in the battle near Drewry's Bluff, May 16th, which resulted in the bottling up of General Butler. Its loss was 11 killed and 146 wounded. In .the June battles before Petersburg, Colquitt's brigade fought in Hoke's division. Throughout the long siege which followed, the Georgians did their whole duty on the Petersburg lines and before R
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 24: (search)
it could not bear upon the enemy assaulting Marye's. Where they were, the gun's defenders, commanded by Landry, were in far greater peril than the foe. Most effectively did Landry perform this service; but in doing so lost several of his men and had his feet disabled. His conduct was admirable, for during the time he was exposed to a direct fire of six and an enfilading fire of four guns. （Owen's In Camp and Battle.) In a minute every man was killed or wounded at the guns. (Report of General Ransom.) On the second day, Moody's two 25-pounder howitzers assumed the place of Maurin's battery in the rifle-pits. From that post a few well-directed shots broke up the enemy's reserves, lying flat on their faces in the valley. This General Burnside called, by a bold but misleading figure of speech, holding the first ridge. A few shots by Captain Moody turned this into the wildest of routs: a vanishing of charging lines-an army's broken remnant huddling into the town's streets for safety.
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, Authorities. (search)
red: Gettysburg, Pa. 27 i, 915 Poe, Orlando M.: Rich Mountain, W. Va. 51 i, 15, 16 Polk, Leonidas: Chickamauga, Ga. 30 II, 48 Porter, Fitz John: Bull Run, Va. 12 III, 959 Porter Court-Martial: Northern Virginia Campaign 12 II (Sup.), 1052 Prime, Frederick E.: Vicksburg, Miss. 24 i, 118 Prince, Henry: Bristoe Campaign 29 i, 323 Mine Run Campaign 29 II, 932 Rains, Gabriel J.: Torpedoes, Richmond Campaign 42 III, 1221 Ransom, R., jr.: Gillett's Farm, N. C. 9, 303 Rice, James C.: Gettysburg, Pa. 27 i, 619 Richmond, W. B.: Chickamauga Campaign 30 II, 75 Ripley, Roswell S.: Charleston Harbor, S. C. 14, 262 Rives, Alfred L.: Plan for bomb-proof 9, 63; 51 II, 500 Robinson, George T.: Lawrence, Kans. 41 II, 254 Rockhill, William P., jr.: Chickamauga Campaign 30 III, 148 Roebling, Washington A.: Bristoe Campaign 29 i, 1018 Mine Run Campaign 29 I
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, Authorities. (search)
ly 21, 1861 3, 1 Quartermaster-General's office, U. S.A.: Views 125, 9-11; 126, 1-4 Radford, R. M.: Dalton, Ga., and vicinity 115, 8 Gallatin, Tenn., and vicinity 115, 5 Johnsonville, Tenn., and vicinity 115, 1 Ransom, O. P.: Cincinnati, Ohio, Covington and Newport, Ky. 103, 2 Ransom, Thomas E. G.: Atlanta, Ga., July 23-Aug. 25, 1864 61, 15 Raynolds, William F.: Gauley Bridge, W. Va., 1861 9, 3 Reese, Chauncey B.: Atlanta to SavanRansom, Thomas E. G.: Atlanta, Ga., July 23-Aug. 25, 1864 61, 15 Raynolds, William F.: Gauley Bridge, W. Va., 1861 9, 3 Reese, Chauncey B.: Atlanta to Savannah, Ga., Nov. 15-Dec. 21, 1864 69, 5 Browning's Court-House, Ga., vicinity of, July, 1864 45, 4 Chattanooga, Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga. 57, 3 Ezra Church, Ga., July 28, 1864 56, 7 Morris Island, S. C., July 10-Sept. 7, 1863 38, 2 Savannah, Ga., to Goldsborough, N. C. 79, 3 Remington, J. L.: Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864 72, 1 Riemann, H.: Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct. 20-Dec. 31, 1863 97, 1 Ripley, Roswell S.: Morris Island, S. C., July 10-Sept. 7
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 7: (search)
must not be allowed to get to our rear. If you can communicate with Blair and Ransom, do so, and direct them to come up to your support by the most expeditious route. Ransom's brigade, of McArthur's division, in McPherson's corps, was marching up on the road from Grand Gulf, and supposed to be now within supporting distance of the left of the army. Grant, therefore, directed Ransom to move his command so as to join the forces north of him, by the first road leading northward. Enemy are tack, and, by ten o'clock, were so close as to have their skirmishers engaged. Ransom's brigade of McArthur's division had also arrived, and moved to their support; time, and of course forbade the movement. Immediately after the retreat began, Ransom arrived on the field, where the main battle had been fought; and Blair also was by boards, and covered with a roadway of plank obtained from adjacent houses. Ransom built a bridge by simply felling large trees on either bank, and bending them s
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 8: (search)
Sherman assaults with Blair and Steele's divisions troops reach the parapet, but are repelled Ransom's assault difficult nature of the ground failure of McPherson's attempt McClernand's assault nature of the ground, but the roughness of the country prevented any decided advance, except by Ransom's brigade, which made a brief and unsuccessful attempt to carry the works in its front. McClernencountered, but that Giles Smith had got a position more to the left, where, in connection with Ransom, of McPherson's corps, he was ready to assault. Sherman thereupon ordered a constant fire of arery and infantry to be maintained, in order to occupy the attention of the enemy in front, while Ransom and Giles Smith charged up against the parapet. The ground over which they passed is the mosten o'clock. McPherson's line extended from Sherman's left to within half a mile of the railroad, Ransom on the right and in the ravines, Logan on the main Jackson road, and Quimby in the valleys towar
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
roach loss of the Cincinnati Tuttle's approach Blair's approach Ransom's approach Logan's approach A. J. Smith's approach Carr's approa's sharpshooters were able to give the rebels serious annoyance. Ransom's brigade, in McArthur's division, was on the left of Blair. Beingthe construction of batteries on the right and left of the ravine. Ransom's works were well built, the entrance to the main advance being by ting towards the enemy, separated the camp of Blair's division from Ransom's, and the water from different branches of the stream, here, floweyard and Jackson roads, and the two covered approaches of Blair and Ransom, through the ravines. By these approaches and covered ways, and thively good ground with the heads of columns. Batteries on Logan's, Ransom's, Blair's, Tuttle's, and Steele's fronts were able to bring a convached the enemy's lines, on the Graveyard and Jackson roads, and in Ransom's front, as well as on the Baldwin and Hall's ferry roads. Mining
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Appendix to chapter VII. (search)
telegram.) Vicksburg, July 18, 1863. Johnston evacuated Jackson the night of the 16th inst. He is now in full retreat east. Sherman says most of his army must perish from the heat, lack of water, and general discouragement. The army parolled here has to a great extent deserted, and are scattered over the country in every direction. Learning that Yazoo City was being fortified, I sent General Herron there. Five guns were captured, many stores and about three hundred prisoners. General Ransom was sent to Natchez, to stop the crossing of cattle for the eastern army. On arrival he found that a large number had been driven out of the city, to be pastured. Also, that munitions of war had recently been crossed over to the west for Kirby Smith. He mounted about two thousand of his men and sent them in both directions. They captured a number of prisoners and five thousand head of Texas cattle, two thousand head of which were sent to Banks. The balance have been and will be brou
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
as actually formed with the substitution of the Thirteenth for the Twelfth, and at the beginning of 1862 was stationed under D. H. Hill at Leesburg; but the other brigade was for some reason not formed, and the regiments remained separated—the Twelfth in Rodes' brigade, the Nineteenth in Wilcox's, the Sixteenth in Trimble's, the Eleventh in Whiting's. The Second was transferred from the latter brigade to General Rains' division, at Yorktown. Gresham's Mississippi battery meanwhile was attached to Ransom's brigade in North Carolina. The Jeff Davis Legion, composed of three Mississippi cavalry companies, two Alabama and one Georgia, was assigned to Stuart's cavalry brigade. The Twentieth Mississippi, Col. D. R. Russell, had been attached to the command of General Floyd, in western Virginia, and shared the frightful sufferings of the forces under Gen. R. E. Lee at Sewell Mountain during the autumn, but on account of the retreat of Rosecrans from their front did not engage in battle
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
he requisition. On July 13th a Federal expedition under General Herron arrived at Yazoo City in transports, accompanied by a gunboat flotilla. Commander Isaac N. Brown was there, with the few boats that he had improvised, and a small garrison in the fortifications. He repulsed the gunboats at first, and blew up the Federal ironclad De Kalb, with thirteen guns, by a torpedo explosion, but was forced to burn his own flotilla and evacuate the position. At Natchez on the same day, Brigadier-General Ransom landed and occupied the town, whence he made expeditions to destroy military property at Liberty, and a cotton factory and railroad transportation at Woodville. But this field of destruction was soon restricted by the approach of J. L. Logan's cavalry in Mississippi and Harrison's cavalry on the west bank of the river. During the siege of Vicksburg there had been various raids and reconnoissances in northern Mississippi from the Federal posts in Tennessee and at Corinth. Genera
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