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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Notice of Chew's Battery, (search)
61, by Captain John Chew, with James W. Thompson as First Lieutenant, Tuck Carter Second Lieutenant, and John J. Williams Third Lieutenant, and was assigned to Ashby's (afterwards known as Rosser's) brigade, as a light battery. After the battle of New Hope, Virginia, Lieutenant Thompson was promoted major on Fitzhugh Lee's staff (he was afterwards killed at the battle of High Bridge and interred at Stonewall Cemetery, Winchester, Virginia), Carter Captain, Williams First Lieutenant, and Yancy Second Lieutenant. After our misfortune at Woodstock or Tom Brook, in October, 1864, losing part of our guns, we moved in the vicinity of Staunton, feeling the loss of our guns and being laughed at by our comrades in the cavalry. The men of the battery talked of making independent raids and trying to recapture their guns, or gain new laurels, but they had not long to wait. General Rosser started on that famous raid which resulted in the capture of General Kelly and his entire army of four