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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 286 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 82 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 82 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 64 0 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 64 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 58 24 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 54 0 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 47 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 38 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 37 1 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for Fishers Hill (Virginia, United States) or search for Fishers Hill (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Signal Corps in the Confederate States army. (search)
iplomatic service. A key-word or phrase is agreed upon by the parties who intend to communicate in cipher. The message is written under the key. Suppose, for example, the key to be In God we trust; and the message, Longstreet is marching on Fisher's Hill. It will be written thus: I n G o d w e t r u s t i n G o d w e t r u s t i n G o d w e t r L o n g s t r e e t i s m a r c h i n g o n F i s h e r s H i l l The alphabet is written out in a square, thus: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXe messages of the other side. Early played a ruse on Sheridan in the Valley campaigns. Finding that Sheridan was reading his signals, he caused the following dispatch to be sent to himself by his signal flags: Lieutenant—General early, Fisher's Hill: Be ready to advance on Sheridan as soon as my forces get up, and we can crush him before he finds out I have joined you. (Signed) J. Longstreet. When this was communicated to Sheridan, as Early intended it to be, Sheridan telegraphed
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notes on the battle of Cedar Creek. (search)
e who had stood by me to the last (about forty men) to get away the best they could, and leaning upon the arm of a faithful soldier (private Bass) of my own regiment, I hobbled off the field thoroughly disheartened, crossed the bridge under the fire of the advancing infantry and passed in twenty yards of the Federal cavalry, who were hurrahing over our captured artillery, and made the best of my way through the rapidly and, to me, most welcomely approaching night by a circuitous route to Fisher's Hill, having picked up upon the road almost half of what was left of my brigade. I do not know the strength of my brigade when it entered the fight, but I don't think it could have much exceeded five hundred; my regiment I know went under fire that morning with ninety-two muskets. I am also fully satisfied that when the brigade was formed behind the stone fence referred to, after the first retreat, that it contained as many men as Ramseur's whole division (I think my brigade at this time
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The battle of Cedar Creek. (search)
killed on the field of battle. So, when General Early attacked Sheridan at Cedar Creek, the latter was at Winchester, and woke to find his army routed and in full retreat. This gave occasion to his famous ride made to meet and rally his fleeing soldiers. The evening before the battle, the ominous order to prepare rations was received. A short time before daylight the ordnance and medical officers were ordered to move out on the Valley pike and to take their wagons to the foot of Fisher's Hill; the one containing the implements of death and destruction, and the other bandages, medicines and surgical appliances to repair the mischief the first might do. The troops had left some time previously, but so well had the secret of the plan of attack been kept that we had no idea of the direction they had taken. It was a beautiful October night, clear and frosty. Around were the mountains, their grandeur but half revealed in the darkness. Above, the starry and resplendent heave