Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence, Volume 2W. Blackwood, 1866 |
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A. P. Hill advance animals arrived artillery Ashby's Gap attack batteries BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE bivouac Brandy Station bullets camp cannon cannonade Captain charge Colonel column command commenced comrades corps couriers crossed Culpepper Court-house D. H. Hill dark death dense distance division Dr Eliason 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 heights Hill horses hostile hour infantry J. E. B. STUART Jackson ladies large number line of battle M'Laws's ments Middleburg miles morning negro night o'clock officers once passed Pelham pickets pieces Port Royal position Rappahannock reached rear received regiment retreat Richmond ride road rode saddle sent sharpshooters shell shot side skirmishers soldiers soon South Carolina squadron Staff Stuart tent tion tirailleurs town troops Upperville village Virginia waggon whole woods Yankees
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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 48 - Flora, our chief's lovely and dearly-loved daughter, five years of age, the favourite of her father and of his military family. This sweet child had been dangerously ill for some time, and more than once had Mrs Stuart summoned her husband to Flora's bedside ; but she received only the response of the true soldier, " My duty to the country must be performed before I can give way to the feelings of the father.
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 236 - ... their third line of intrenchments, of a still stronger character than those before it. This partial success was only gained with a sad sacrifice of life, while countless numbers were seen limping and crawling to the rear. The woods had caught fire in several places from the explosion of shells — the flames spreading principally, however, over a space of several acres in extent where the ground was thickly covered with dry leaves ; and here the conflagration progressed with the rapidity of a...
Page 147 - In the town of Fredericksburg a great many Yankees had been found straggling and lurking in the houses, either •with a view to desertion, or too overpowered by the liquor they had stolen to leave with their army; and a body of those captives marching along the turnpike road escorted by a detachment of our soldiers, attracted the curiosity of Mr Vizetelly, who immediately rode down to meet them. Having reached the column, he had just entered into conversation with a corporal from a South Carolina...
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 135 - ... the long lines of the Federal army, which once more stood in full line of battle about half-way between our own position and the river. I could not withhold my admiration as I looked down upon the well-disciplined lines of our antagonist, astonished that these troops now offering so bold a front to our victorious army should be the same whom not many hours since I had seen in complete flight and disorder. The skirmishers of the two armies were not much more than a hundred yards apart, concealed...
Page 125 - I dismounted and climbed cautiously up to the top, creeping along through the bushes and concealing ourselves behind some pine-trees that grew on the way. The view which here presented itself to our eyes far exceeded our expectations. The Yankees, not more than a thousand yards distant from us, were evidently enough preparing for a new advance ; reinforcements were moving up at a double-quick and forming into line of battle as they arrived ; troops that had been engaged in the battle and been repulsed...
Page 98 - ... northern bank by a range of commanding hills, on which the hostile artillery, consisting of more than 300 pieces, some of them of heavier calibre than had ever before been employed in the field, were advantageously posted. The greater part of them, especially those on the Stafford Heights, bore immediately on the town, but nearly all were in a position to sweep the plains on our side of the river. The entire strength of the Federal army in the battle amounted to not less than 150,000 men.