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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter XI (search)
is organization was maintained to the end. General Archer was distinguished at Seven Pines as colonete, and the Fourteenth, Col. W. A. Forbes, of Archer's brigade. General Archer reported that he foir at Warrenton Springs ford, August 24th, General Archer says: My brigade remained in bivouac in reut. When the engagement opened, about 5 p. m., Archer moved forward to support the batteries, and reboxes of the dead Yankees. At 5 o'clock p. m. Archer and Pender advanced into the open field where of Archer's brigade, A. P. Hill's division. Archer advanced toward the southern defenses of Boliv Gen. R. E. Lee, referring to the conduct of Archer's and four other brigades of Hill's division, ur foe. But few escaped to tell the tale. General Archer reported that many of the enemy's troops wter a brave and obstinate resistance gave way. Archer held his line with the First Tennessee and witto Chancellorsville. At 11 a. m. on the 2d, Archer's brigade was withdrawn from the plank road an[39 more...]
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
nsula under General Magruder, until in March he withdrew from active service and soon afterward resigned his commission, but continued to labor in other capacities for the success of the cause. His brigade gained fame under the leadership of General Archer. On November 4, 1864, he was recommissioned brigadier-general. Brigadier-General Frank C. Armstrong Brigadier-General Frank C. Armstrong, in 1854, accompanied his stepfather, Gen. Persifer Smith, upon an expedition of United States tront was next ordered to the army under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. On May 21, 1862, Colonel Hatton was commissioned brigadier-general. Ten days later, on the field of Seven Pines, in command of the First, Seventh and Fourteenth Tennessee, afterward Archer's brigade, he met a soldier's death while leading his brigade into the spirited fight by the forces under Gen. G. W. Smith, in which Gen. J. J. Pettigrew was wounded and captured, and Wade Hampton seriously wounded. General Smith said in his rep