Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1866 |
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A. P. Hill advance animals arrived artillery attack batteries BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE Brandy Station bullets camp cannonade charge Colonel command commenced comrades Confederate corps couriers Culpepper Court-house D. H. Hill darkness dead death dense direction distance division encamped enemy enemy's ESCAPE Federal army Federal cavalry fight fire Fitz Lee's brigade force forest forward Fredericksburg front gallant galloped ground guns Hazel river headquarters Hill horses hostile hour infantry J. E. B. STUART Jackson killed ladies large number line of battle M'Laws's ments Middleburg miles morning movement negro night o'clock officers once passed Pelham pickets Port Royal position prisoners Rappahannock reached rear received regiment retreat Richmond ride river road rode saddle sent sharpshooters shell shot side skirmishers soldiers soon South Carolina squadron Staff Stuart suddenly tent tion tirailleurs town troops Upperville village Virginia waggon whole woods wounded Yankees
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Page 312 - About noon Thursday, President Davis visited his bedside, and spent some fifteen minutes in the dying chamber of his favorite chieftain. The President, taking his hand, said, " General, how do you feel ? " He replied, " Easy, but willing to die, if God and my country think I have fulfilled my destiny and done my duty.
Page 261 - Providence, are now lost to us. But while we mourn his death we feel that his spirit still lives, and will inspire the whole army with his indomitable courage and unshaken confidence in God as our hope and strength.
Page 198 - ... 800 feet above it, having a gradual inclination to the water's edge. From this point to French Corral a slate ridge of hills extends between the northwest side of the mining ground and the river. On the south it is bounded by a low ridge of hills, which extend to the South...
Page 84 - The men of M'Law's division, acquiring new confidence from this support, rallied, and in turn drove, by a united charge, the victorious foe in headlong flight back to their own camps and woods. Thus ended the battle for the day, unhappily with serious results to some of the combatants, for one of Hood's men had his leg broken, one of M'Law's men lost an eye, and there were other chance wounds on both sides.
Page 315 - To military capacity of a high order, and all the nobler virtues of the soldier, he added the brighter graces of a pure life, guided and sustained by the Christian's faith and hope. The mysterious hand of an All-wise God has removed him from the scene of his usefulness and fame.
Page 49 - ... overcoming the firmness of the warrior, he threw his arms around my neck, and wept bitter tears upon my breast. My dear General never recovered from this cruel blow. Many a time afterwards, during our rides together, he would speak to me of his lost child.
Page 306 - Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the thanks of Congress are due, and...
Page 121 - According to the surgeon's statement, the ball, striking obliquely, had glanced, passing between cuticle and skull all around the head, emerging at last from the very place it had first entered ! The fury and tumult of the battle lasted all the forenoon and until two o'clock in the afternoon along Jackson's lines. A comparative quietude then succeeded, the infantry firing died away, and only a regular intermittent cannonade was kept up in our immediate front ; but from the left opposite Fredericksburg...
Page 36 - I had employed the expression, "It makes my heart burn," &c. Stuart now took occasion to repeat my remark, and represented me most absurdly as having declared that "it gave me the heartburn to hear Jackson talk," which of course provoked the roaring laughter of our little company. Jackson himself alone did not participate in the boisterous mirth. Looking me straight in the face with his large expressive eyes, and pressing my hand warmly across the table as just the faintest smile broke over his features,...
Page 211 - ... checking our onward movement. Fully conscious of our critical position, Stuart drew his sword, and, raising his clear ringing voice, gave the order to attack, taking the lead himself. For once our horsemen refused to follow their gallant commander ; they wavered under the thick storm of bullets ; soon all discipline ceased, and in a few minutes the greater part of this splendid regiment, which had distinguished itself in so many battle-fields, broke to the rear in utter confusion. In vain did...