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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 22 2 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 11 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 11 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 4 2 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Northern opinion of Grant's generalship. (search)
f the Tribune. Sir,—The attitude in which General Grant has so long been posed before the world is likely to receive a severe blow from the publication of General Humphreys's last volume of The Campaigns of the Civil War, of which the Tribune contained a review yesterday. Most people who read General Humphreys's book will be sGeneral Humphreys's book will be satisfied, from its frankness of tone, clearness, and accuracy of detail, that he has reached somewhere near the truth of his subject. His statements are indeed tacitly admitted by other writers on the last year of the war in Virginia, but have been either clouded over or not brought forward to the importance they properly deserve. whose Virginia campaign was a failure, and elsewhere of Grant's useless sacrifice of ten thousand men at Cold Harbor. This judgment is tacitly supported in General Humphreys's book by what would seem to be a column of indisputable facts. I understand from him that General Grant was at least seven times conspicuously and with eno
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraph. (search)
is an error; I was in command of the brigade, and Colonel Joseph M. Jayne was in command of his regiment, the Forty-eighth Mississippi. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas B. Manlove, of the Forty-eighth regiment, by my assignment, was in command of the Twelfth regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel James H. Duncan, of the Nineteenth regiment, by my assignment was in command of the Sixteenth regiment. If there are as many errors made as to other commands, the compilation is not a very valuable one. General Humphreys, in his Virginia Campaign of 1864 and 1865,Appendix C:, page 416, is more accurate, though his roster was evidently made upon returns dated about the first of the month of August, as the changes in my own command will show. Yours very truly, N. H. Harris. In Memoriam. Our readers will remember the name of Mrs. Waller in connection with our report of the Reunion of Morgan's men last July. The following announces her death: Chicago, December 15th, 1883. Editor of Southern
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 39 (search)
Holtzclaw, Lieutenant-Colonel R. F. Inge, and Major P. F. Hunley. Thirty-sixth Alabama, Colonel L. T. Woodruff. Thirty-eighth Alabama, Lieutenant-Colonel A. R. Lankford. Artillery. Major J. W. Eldridge. First Arkansas Battery, Captain J. T. Humphreys. T. H. Dawson's Battery, Lieutenant R. W. Anderson. Eufaula Artillery, Captain McD. Oliver. Ninth Georgia Artillery Battalion, Company E, Lieutenant W. S. Everett. Preston's division. Brigadier-General William Preston. Grve in time to take part in the battle. Brigadier-General W. T. Wofford. Sixteenth Georgia. Eighteenth Georgia. Twenty-fourth Georgia. Third Georgia Battalion (sharpshooters). Cobb's (Georgia) Legion. Phillips's (Georgia) Legion. Humphreys's brigade. Brigadier-General B. G. Humphreys. Thirteenth Mississippi. Seventeenth Mississippi. Eighteenth Mississippi. Twenty-first Mississippi. Bryan's brigade. did not arrive in time to take part in the battle. Jenkins's brigade