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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.9 (search)
wer of Confederate lead, most of which, fortunately, passed over our heads. When these men saw their mistake, and knew that their fire had taken effect on some of our men, they were greatly distressed. Boys, we are so sorry! We are so sorry! Many of them earnestly said, We did not know you were our friends. No such protestations were of course necessary, but the manly fellows who had made the mistake seemed to think it necessary thus to assure us. In my diary on the morning of the 7th of May I wrote an account of this action, from which I take the following extracts: About ten o'clock our brigade went into action on the enemy's left flank, and Lieutenant Patterson Captain John R. Patterson, of Petersburg. was told by Dr. Pryor Rev. Dr. Theodorick Pryor. this morning that General Longstreet told him that the brigade behaved very well, and the Twelfth regiment most gallantly. We drove the enemy beautifully for a half mile or more through the woods, killing and wound
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Medical history of the Confederate States Army and Navy (search)
essee. These views are applicable to the medical and surgical statistics of the several armies of the rate Confederacy east and west of the Mississippi. The Armies of Tennessee and Mississippi, under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston, sustained a loss of killed, one thousand two hundred and twenty-one, wounded, eight thousand two hundred and twenty-nine; total, nine thousand four hundred and fifty—in the series of engagements around and from Dalton, Georgia, to the Etowah river, May 7th to May 30th, 1864; series of engagements around New Hope Church, near Marietta, June 1, July 4, 1864. The Army of Tennessee (the Army of Mississippi being merged into it), under the command of General J. B. Hood, during the series of engagements around Atlanta and Jonesboro July 4 to September 1, 1864, loss, killed, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, wounded, ten thousand seven hundred and twenty-three; total, twelve thousand five hundred and forty-six. During a period of fo