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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.9 (search)
memory agreed with Mr. McDermott's with reference to the killing of General Lytle, but, knowing memory to be sometimes unreliable, he decided to write to Judge S. S. Calhoon, of Jackson, Miss., in whom Mr. Murphy has the greatest confidence. Yesterday he received a reply, and, although it is a private letter, Mr. Murphy is willing to have it published: Jackson, Miss., November 29, 1895. Mr. Dan. O'C. Murphy, 1353 Magazine Street, New Orleans, La. my dear Dan: I have yours of the 27th instant, and cannot express to you the pleasure I felt on hearing directly from an old friend and army comrade. We are thinning out almost daily, and I feel of kin to the survivors of our old brigade. When I saw the statement of Barney McDermott, I could not at first recall him, but I now remember him very well as a tall, soldierly-looking Irish sergeant, brave in action and attentive to all his duties in camp and on the march. I have the greatest horror of entering into controversies in r
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical sketch of the Rockbridge artillery, C. S. Army, by a member of the famous battery. (search)
th June, at Winchester, Va., John M. Goul; on the 15th, Michael J. Emmet; on 17th, Nicholas H. Lewis, and 19th, Dudley S. Pendleton joined the company. On the 21st June, on the march between Winchester and Martinsburg, C. D. Fishburne, and on the 27th, David R. Barton and Lyt. S. Macon, after it arrived at Camp Stevens, where, also, on the 28th June, E. Holmes Boyd joined it. The history of the company, recorded on the muster-roll, which was made out as of June 30, 1861, has the following wh artillery, two of its parrot guns were sent to Richmond to be bushed. On the 16th, the battery was ordered by General Jackson to Staunton, to refit and recruit. On the 19th it set out for Richmond, and reached the vicinity of Cold Harbor on the 27th, but was not engaged in the battle at that place; on the 28th and 29th it bivouacked on the battle-field. Here it received one of the ten-pounder parrots which had been sent off on the 12th for repairs, and it exchanged its twelve-pounder Howitze
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Events leading up to the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
try, except by the use of artillery and wagon-horses, of which, of course, but a small number could be spared for that purpose, and it was, as we shall see, entirely without knowledge of the enemy's movements. Let us now return to the movements of the main body of the army. On the 22d of June General Ewell marched into Pennsylvania with Rodes' and Johnson's Divisions, preceded by Jenkins's Cavalry, taking the road from Hagerstown through Chambersburg to Carlisle, where he arrived on the 27th. Early's Division moved by a parallel road to Greenwood, and, in pursuance of instructions previously given to General Ewell, marched towards York. On the 24th Longstreet and Hill were put in motion to follow Ewell and on the 27th encamped near Chambersburg. General Imboden's command, which had been directed to cross the Potomac and take position on General Ewell's left, as he moved northward, reached Hancock, while Longstreet and Hill were at Chambersburg, and was directed to proceed to