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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 22 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 8 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 8 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 24: (search)
Jackson and Ewell. . . . These numbers added together make 53,000. Colonel Marshall then proceeds, from official reports, to show that all these numbers were exaggerated, and that one brigade, spoken of as seven thousand strong— that of General Drayton—was not known to be in the Army of Virginia until after the seven days, and that another brigade, of which General Johnston admitted he did not know the strength, Colonel Marshall thought it safer to refer to as the unknown brigade, which, hcal Society Papers, in a letter addressed to General J. E. Johnston, February 4, 1875, makes an exhaustive examination from official reports, and applies various methods of computation to the question at issue. Among other facts, he states: Drayton's brigade did not come to Virginia until after the battles around Richmond. It was composed of the Fifteenth South Carolina and the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Georgia Regiments and Third South Carolina Battalion. A part, if not all, of it was en
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
406, 413. Correspondence with Governor Seymour concerning New York conscription, 411-12. Dixon, Captain, 20, 24. Donaldsonville, La., Battle of, 351. Donovan, Daniel, 201. Dougherty, Thomas, 200. Dowling, Lt. R. W., 199-200, 201. Drayton, General, 133, 134. Judge William Henry, 629. Drewry's Bluff, 84, 86. Repulse of Federals, 85. Battle, 429-32. Duke, General Basil, 580. Duncan, General J. K., 178, 182, 183, 184, 186, 188. Extract from report on Mississippi River invasion, 1n. Jubal E. 309, 310, 434, 439, 441, 445. Extract from narrative on evacuation of Norfolk, 76. Extract from report of operations before Williamsburg, 76-78. Description of Colonel Ward, 79-82. Extract from letter to J. E. Johnston concerning Drayton's brigade, 134. Campaign in Shenandoah Valley, 445-55. Account of burning of Chambersburg, 447-49. Description of Gen. Hunter's retreat down the Shenandoah, 601. Eastport (gunboat), 20. Echols, General, 447. Edith (ship), 222. Egan,