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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 76 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 39 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 37 5 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 28 0 Browse Search
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War 25 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 24 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 21 3 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 20 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 14 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 14 4 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Lee's right wing at Gettysburg. (search)
ery of seven guns to advance with Pickett, but General Pendleton, from whom they were borrowed, recalled them jatement thus: For the reasons set forth by General Pendleton, whose statement in regard to a fact coming unfrom the necessity of entering into it. As General Pendleton's lecture was the capital upon which it was prn up and followed the false scent announced by General Pendleton. Outside that State, I believe Mr. Davis and rdered. But from the official accounts of Generals Pendleton and Wilcox Official Records, Vol. XXVII.as the Fairfield road on the 1st of July, that General Pendleton did not pass beyond this road, and only noted ery battalions just then coming up. Soon after General Pendleton passed from about the Fairfield road to ourleft till 8 A. M. on the 2d, it will be seen that General Pendleton's reconnoissance on the 1st was made, if made articles formerly published on this charge of General Pendleton, masses of evidence were adduced showing that
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., A reply to General Longstreet. (search)
attack early next day from his right with Longstreet's two divisions that were within reach, this attack to be supported by Hill and Ewell. (See Ewell's and Early's reports: Early's paper in Southern Historical Society papers, Vol. IV., p. 214; and Long's Memoirs of Lee. ) Fourth. General Longstreet would have us infer that he was not ordered by General Lee to attack early on the second day; but that his memory is at fault on this point has been abundantly shown by Generals Fitz Lee, Pendleton, Early, Wilcox, and many others. No testimony on this point is more direct and conclusive than that of General A. L. Long, then military secretary to General Lee. He says in his recently published Memoirs of R. E. Lee (page 277), that on the evening of the 1st, when General Lee had decided not to renew the attack on Cemetery Hill that day, he said (in Long's presence) to Longstreet and Hill: Gentlemen, we will attack the enemy in the morning as early as practicable. Long continues: In t
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The great charge and artillery fighting at Gettysburg. (search)
rived, and his men were resting and eating. Along Seminary Ridge, a short distance to our left, were sixty-three guns of A. P. Hill's corps, under Colonel R. L. Walker. As their distance was a little too great for effective howitzer fire, General Pendleton offered me the use of nine howitzers belonging to that corps. I accepted them, intending to take them into the charge with Pickett; so I put them in a hollow behind a bit of wood, with no orders but to wait there until I sent for them. Ab so I sent a courier to bring them up in front of the infantry, but under cover of the wood. The courier could not find them. He was sent again, and only returned after our fire was opened, saying they were gone. I afterward learned that General Pendleton had sent for a part of them, and the others had moved to a neighboring hollow to get out of the line of the enemy's fire at one of Hill's batteries during the artillery duel they had had an hour before. At exactly 1 o'clock by my watch t