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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General J. E. B. Stuart. (search)
d the ball was never extracted. There was the same valor exhibited in this engagement that he evinced in all subsequent ones. He acted as volunteer aid to Lieutenant-Colonel Robert E. Lee in the suppression of the John Brown insurrection at Harper's Ferry and in a parley with old Ossawatomie, at the engine house where he and his followers had taken shelter, Stuart says: I approached the door in the presence of perhaps 2,000 spectators, and told Mr. Smith that I had a communication for him from., and on that day his resignation was accepted by the War Department. His first commission in the Lost Cause was that of lieutenantcolo-nel of infantry, dated May the 10th, 1861, with orders to report to Colonel Thomas J. Jackson, then at Harper's Ferry. He rose rapidly in his new field of operations, for he possessed all the qualities that usually insure success in life, intelligence, sobriety, integrity, energy, vigilance, firmness, and unerring judgment. Stuart's mental faculties were e
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Henry Chase Whiting, Major-General C. S. Army. (search)
inia, whither he repaired to report for service to General Joseph E. Johnston, in command at Harper's Ferry of the Confederate forces protecting the Shenandoah Valley. With his usual activity, he grasped the situation at Harper's Ferry, and we find General Joseph E. Johnston saying, in his Narrative of the War, page 17: A careful examination of the position and its environs, made on the e event, Whiting was entrusted with the charge of arrangements for the moving of the army at Harper's Ferry, to the aid of Beauregard at Manassas, and had the railroad authorities kept their repeated of the United States forces to Washington. General Whiting had in charge the blowing up of Harper's Ferry, which General Johnston pronounced a masterly piece of work. Whiting was with the troops A life, as long as Methuselah's would not let me see another such army as that we had from Harper's Ferry via Manassas and Yorktown, to the Chickahominy and Richmond. However, the tone and temper o
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The red Artillery. (search)
ance stores for the use of the Confederate army. Cannon were made at the Tredegar Iron Works, including siege and field guns, Napoleons, howitzers and banded cast-iron guns. Steel guns were not made. We had no facilities for making steel, and no time to experiment. The steel guns used by the Confederates were highly valued, and with the exception of a few purchased abroad, were all captured from the Federals. At the beginning of the war the machinery belonging to the armory at Harper's Ferry was removed to Richmond, and there established. This armory manufactured Enfield rifles, and the product was very small, not exceeding 500 per month. With the exception of a few thousand rifles, the soldiers, at the beginning of the war, were armed with the old smooth-bore muskets, and with old Austrian and Belgian rifles imported. These they exchanged for Enfield rifles, as they were favored by the fortunes of war. In the summer of 1862, after the Seven Days battles around Richm
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
of, 25. Gettysburg, Battle of, 12, 116; Causes of Defeat at, 127. Gilham, Col., Wm.. 242. Gladstone, Hon. W. E, 332. Glennan, M , 167. Gordon, Col. A. M.; killed, 7. Gorgas, Gen., Josiah, 366. Graves, Gen. B., 16. Greeley, Horace, 325, 329. Greg. Percy, 332. Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 351. Guthrie, Rev., Donald, 372. Hampden-Sidney College, 258, 289. Hamilton, Alex., 189. Hamilton, Capt., James, 105. Hammond, Lieu't., killed, Hanover C. H.; Engagement at, 249. Harper's Ferry, Va., 139 Hawes, Samuel P., 259. Hay, Mary Eliza, 33. Hayes, General; captured, 8. Henry, Win. Wirt, 350. Herbert, Hon. H. A.; address of, 215. Heyward, Caroline Thos., 33. Hill, Maj. James H., 158. Hoar, G. F.; on the Generosity of Va., 53. Hobart, Pasha, 161 Hobson, Lt. R. P., 219, 232. Hoge, Rev. Dr., M. D., 10, 243; A Memorial of, 255; Ancestry and Kindred, 257; Devotion to the South, 261; Went abroad for Bibles, 261; As a Slaveholder, 262; Some Addresses of, 264;