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The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource] 3 1 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 1 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 4: the Confederates hovering around Washington. (search)
s could be found in the vicinity of Dranesville. All of the available wagons of the army were sent to gather and bring it in, and Colonel Stuart, with one hundred and fifty of his cavalry, the Sumter Flying Artillery (Captain A. S. Cutts), and four regiments of infantry detailed from different brigades, was charged with the command of the foraging party. The infantry regiments were the Eleventh Virginia, Colonel Samuel Garland; Tenth Alabama, Colonel Forney; Sixth South Carolina, Lieutenant-Colonel Secrest; and First Kentucky, Colonel Thomas Taylor; the cavalry, Ransom's and Bradford's. General McCall, commanding the nearest Union division, happened just then to want those supplies, or, as seems more probable, had information through a spy of Stuart's expedition. He took measures to gather the supplies, or surprise and perhaps capture or destroy Stuart's party. However that may be, when Stuart reached the vicinity of Dranesville he found himself in the presence of General Or
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
successful affairs by General Johnston. Skirmishes followed, of like character, near Dranesville on the 26th, near Fairfax on the 27th, and at Annandale, December 2d. Gen. S. G. French, stationed at Evansport, reported on December 15th that his position had been under fire from Federal batteries on the Maryland shore during the past three weeks. On December 20th Gen. J. E. B. Stuart, with a force comprising the Eleventh Virginia, Col. Samuel Garland; Sixth South Carolina, Lieutenant-Colonel Secrest; Tenth Alabama, Col. J. H. Forney, and First Kentucky, Col. T. H. Taylor, in all 1,600 infantry; Capt. A. S. Cutts' Georgia artillery (four pieces), Maj. J. B. Gordon's North Carolina cavalry, and Capt. A. L. Pitzer's Virginia cavalry, moved toward Dranesville for the purpose of protecting an expedition of army wagons after hay. At the same time a Federal expedition approached Dranesville, on a similar mission. Upon discovering the presence of the enemy, Stuart sent Pitzer to keep
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
eport, that on the 20th inst. I was placed in command of four regiments of infantry, for cavalry, and a battery of four pieces of artillery, viz: Eleventh Virginia Volunteers, Col. S. Ganlance Jr.; Six in South Carolina Volunteers, Lt. Col. Secrest; Tenth Alabama Volunteers, Colonel J. H. Forney; First Kentucky Volunteers, Col. Thos. H. Taylor; aggregate force of 1,090 infantry, Sumter Flying artillery, 4 pieces, Capt. A. S. Cults; 1,001 North Carolina cavalry, May was ordered in position at B, and fired very effectively during the whole of the engagement to the front. the infantry were placed in position as follows. Garland's regiment on the right of the road, a little in advance of the artillery, Secrest, S. C., on the left of the road; Fortley's regiment arriving later, replaced Garland's, which moved by the flank to the rights and the First Kentucky, Col. Taylor, at First intended as a reserve, was ordered to take position on the left of the S