Your search returned 683 results in 307 document sections:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 16: Gettysburg (search)
contact with them,--we could not wait for that,--but my recollection is that they proved to be the advance of Stuart's cavalry, which had just come up, and were really doing just what we had come to do, that is, guarding our left flank and rear. After making this discovery, the point was to get word to Johnson at the earliest possible moment, that he could press on, feeling no uneasiness about his flanks. Not a member of Gordon's staff was with him-all were off on various errands. Captain Mitchell came up at the moment, but both he and his horse were exhausted, utterly unfit for such a ride as this. The General called for volunteers, mounted officers, to take the message-two, I think; one to go around a longer and safer way, but one to cut right across, or rather, as his course would be after the first quarter of a mile, directly in the teeth of the artillery fire, which was sweeping the approaches to the Federal position from our left. I offered to take this latter ride and
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Index. (search)
m Henry Fitzhugh, 18 Lee's Miserables, 252 Leesburg, Va., 60-63, 65, 67, 71, 73, 130, 145, 310 Letcher, John, 17 Letcher Artillery (Va.), 41 Lexington, Va., 105 Medals, 341-44. Methodists, 139, 230 Milroy, Robert Huston, 192, 198, 210 Mine Run, Va., 228, 231, 233-35. Minor, John Barbee, 356 Mississippi Infantry: 13th Regiment, 60, 64, 95; 17th Regiment, 60, 64, 98,116, 129, 143, 176; 18th Regiment, 60, 64; 21st Regiment, 64,98, 115-17, 130-31, 179, 292-93. Mitchell, Capt., 216 Moncure, Travis Daniel, 294 Moore, ........., (Pvt., Va. Militia), 70-71. Moore, Allen W., 297-98. Moore, W. E., 297-99. Morris, Edward Joy, 27 Mortars, 293 Morton, Allen, 50-51, 145-51. Morton, Jeremiah, 189-90. Morton Hall, Va., 189 Morton's Ford, Va., 120, 235, 241-42, 268 Mules, 224-27. Museum of the Confederacy, 357 Music, 18, 49, 75, 202-203, 268-69, 296-97. Mynheer von Dunck, 75 Napoleon, Prince Joseph Charles Paul, 59 Napoleon I, 18,
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 25: the storming of Monterey-report of Mr. Davis. (search)
follow him they will be sure to succeed, and they think so, too, with some reason, for during the conflict we attacked, and several times took, places and fortifications from which regular troops, greatly outnumbering us, had been three times repulsed by the Mexicans with considerable loss of life. I never wish to be commanded by a truer soldier than Colonel Davis. A short extract is subjoined from the report of General Taylor on the battle of Monterey: I desire also to notice Generals Hamer and Quitman, commanding brigades in General Butler's division; Lieutenant-Colonel Garland and Wilson, commanding brigades in General Twigg's division; Colonels Mitchell, Campbell, Davis, and Wood, commanding the Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Second Texas Regiments respectively; and Senior Majors Allen and Abercrombie, commanding Third, Fourth, and First Regiments of infantry, all of whom served under my eye and conducted their commands with coolness and gallantry against the enemy.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Leading Confederates on the battle of Gettysburg. (search)
t corps: General Longstreet directs that you have your artillery in readiness to resist an attack by daylight, remembering you have no ammunition to spare except for the enemy's infantry, etc., and the following order before day on the 4th July: headquarters First army corps, July 4th, 1863. Colonel: The Lieutenant-General directs that such of your wagons as can be spared from your command be sent to Cashtown during the day as quietly as possible, reporting to Colonel Corley and Major Mitchell about dark. Let there be as little confusion as possible. Have the wagons which are to accompany the troops parked on the Fairfield road, so that they can file in with the column as it passes. Will you please send Colonel Alexander to see the General at this point at light. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Osman Latrobe, Assistant Adjutant-General. To Colonel Walton, Commanding Artillery, &c. Enough has been written to show that Colonel Alexander has made a mistake
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A review of the First two days operations at Gettysburg and a reply to General Longstreet by General Fitz. Lee. (search)
y was virtually over. There was firing of artillery and skirmishing all along the front, but that was the end of that day's battle. By verbal instructions, and in the order which I had received from General Meade, I was directed to report, after having arrived on the ground, whether it would be necessary or wise to continue to fight, the battle at Gettysburg, or whether it was possible for the fight to be blad on the ground Gen. Meade had selected. About 4 o'clock P. M. I sent word by Maj. Mitchell, aide-de-camp, to General Meade, that I would hold the ground until dark, meaning to allow him time to decide the matter for himself. As soon as I had gotten matters arranged to my satisfaction, and saw that the troops were being formed again, and I felt secure, I wrote a note to General Meade, and informed him of my views of the ground at Gettysburg. I told him that the only disadvantage which [ thought it had was that it could be readily turned by way of Emmettsburg, and that the
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia., Chapter 7: sea-coast defences..—Brief description of our maritime fortifications, with an Examination of the several Contests that have taken place between ships and forts, including the attack on San Juan d'ulloa, and on St. Jean d'acre (search)
ion. In 1808 a French land-battery of only three guns, near Fort Trinidad, drove off an English seventy-four-gun ship, and a bomb-vessel. In 1813 Leghorn, whose defences were of a very mediocre character, and whose garrison at that time was exceedingly weak, was attacked by an English squadron of six ships, carrying over three hundred guns, and a land force of one thousand troops. The whole attempt was a perfect failure. In 1814, when the English advanced against Antwerp, says Colonel Mitchell, an English historian, Fort Frederick, a small work of only two guns, was established in a bend of the Polder Dyke, at some distance below Lillo. The armament was a long eighteen-pounder and a five and a half inch howitzer. From this post the French determined to dislodge the English, and an eighty-gun ship dropped down with the tide and anchored near the Flanders shore, about six hundred yards from the British battery. By her position she was secured from the fire of the eighteen-po
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), Confederate correspondence, Etc. (search)
nfantry [Burbridge]590923 2d Regiment Missouri Infantry [Pritchard]450754 3d Regiment Missouri Infantry [McCown]476653 Gates' regiment Missouri Dismounted Cavalry536777 Wade's battery (Missouri) artillery107116  2,5873,912 -----Brigade.   Mitchell's regiment Arkansas Infantry431807 Rector's regiment Arkansas Infantry446477 Hebert's regiment, 3d Louisiana Infantry636759 Greer's regiment Texas Dismounted Cavalry707989 Whitfield's Legion Texas Dismounted Cavalry1,0071,239 MacDonald's baavalry. Stone's regiment Texas Dismounted Cavalry. Gaines' battery. Second Division. Maj. Gen. Sterling Price commanding. First Brigade.Second Brigade. Brig. Gen. H. Little commanding.Col. Louis Hebert commanding. 1st Missouri [Burbridge].Mitchell's regiment (Arkansas). 2d Missouri [Pritchard].Rector's regiment (Arkansas). 3d Missouri [McCown].Hebert's regiment (Third Louisiana). 16th Arkansas.Greer's regiment Texas Dismounted Cavalry. Gates' Missouri Dismounted Cavalry. Wade's batte
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, V. (search)
w and Memphis. Before the first of May, Farragut and Porter had taken New Orleans. Vicksburg should have followed as naturally as the last brick in a tumbling row. But the learned Halleck was there to save it with his finical and disastrous meddling. He had a hundred thousand men reporting for duty : Beauregard had half that number. He had also the moral impetus of victory, while the South was shaken and disconcerted by Shiloh and Sidney Johnston's death. The very brilliant exploits of Mitchell had opened the way to Chattanooga for him. Mobile and Vicksburg were but feebly protected. Other men had gathered these opportunities, which now slid away like sand through his inanely opened fingers. He sat cautiously down; sent Buell to repair a railroad, which was promptly torn up; sent away troops to hold unprofitable points; refused troops to Farragut, who wished to strike Port Hudson and Vicksburg; forbade Pope to risk a battle on any consideration; and crowned his whole crass perfo
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Chapter 2 (search)
nassas Junction, which crosses Bull Run at Mitchell's Ford, he had posted his main force below (to the east of) that ford: Ewell's brigade on the right, at Union Mills, D. R. Jones's at McLean's Ford, Longstreet's at Blackburn's, and Bonham's at Mitchell's. Holmes's and Early's were in the second line, the former on the right. The remaining brigade, Colonel Cocke's, was at Ball's Ford, four miles above Mitchell's. Fourteen companies and a battery belonging to that brigade, under Colonel Evans, Mitchell's. Fourteen companies and a battery belonging to that brigade, under Colonel Evans, guarded the Stone Bridge (by which the Warrenton turnpike crosses Bull Run) a half-mile above, and a farmford a thousand yards still farther up the stream. Jackson's and Bee's brigades, as they arrived, had been placed near Bonham's and Longstreet's by General Beauregard's orders. Some slight field-works constructed for the defense of the depot at Manassas Junction were armed with fourteen or fifteen old twenty-four-pounders on naval carriages, and occupied by two thousand men. The heavy ar
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
.-General Buell. 21st Michigan Volunteers. 13th Michigan Volunteers. 69th Ohio Volunteers. Third Brigade. Colonel Hambright. 21st Ohio Volunteers. 74th Ohio Volunteers. 78th Pennsylvania Volun 79th Pennsylvania Volun Second division. Brigadier-General J. D. Morgan. First Brigade. Brigadier-General Vandever. 10th Michigan Volunteers. 14th Michigan Volunteers. 16th Illinois Volunteers. 60th Illinois Volunteers. 17th New York Volunteers. Second Brigade. Brigadier-General Mitchell. 121st Ohio Volunteers. 113th Ohio Volunteers. 108th Ohio Volunteers. 98th Ohio Volunteers. 78th Illinois Volunteers. 34th Illinois Volunteers. Third Brigade. Lieutenant-Colonel Langley. 85th Illinois Volunteers. 86th Illinois Volunteers. 110th Illinois Volunteers. 125th Illinois Volunteers. 52d Ohio Volunteers. 22d Indiana Volunteers. 37th Indiana (Det.) Volun Third division. Brevet Major-General A. Baird. First Brigade. Colonel M. C. Hunter. 17th Ohio
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ...