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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
by D. R. Jones), Longstreet, D. H. Hill and G. W. Smith. Magruder and Smith had passed beyond WillSmith had passed beyond Williamsburg on the march to Richmond, and Hill, encumbered with the trains and baggage, was also movinis trains and artillery were in danger. Gen. G. W. Smith's division, under Whiting, was halted at back until the army had passed this point, General Smith ordered Whiting's division to move out tower fire from 3 p. m. to 7:40 p. m. Gen. G. W. Smith, in his exhaustive and able book on the battlen, but the reports of Generals Johnston and G. W. Smith define his position in the affair on the left of the Confederate attack. General Smith says, that as the musketry fire of Whiting, Pettigrew ited number of their men at any one time. General Smith continues: Various attempts were made to cotal, 1,270. The Hampton legion infantry, General Smith reported, suffered a greater loss by far i of the Confederate army devolved upon Maj.-Gen. G. W. Smith, next in rank, who was succeeded by Ge[2 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
lroad bridge near Goldsboro, and followed with his attack upon the bridge and its destruction on the 17th. In this affair an attack was also made upon the county bridge crossing the Neuse, which was successfully defended by General Clingman and his gallant command of North Carolinians, strongly supported by Evans. On the 18th of December, General Foster began his movement back to his base at New Bern. Almost without cavalry, the Confederate forces, now under the chief command of Maj.-Gen. G. W. Smith, could not follow him effectively, and he reached New Bern after suffering a total loss of 591, killed, wounded and captured. There is no record of the losses of the South Carolina brigade at Kinston, or at the railroad bridge in front of Goldsboro. General Clingman reported a loss of 20 killed, 107 wounded, and 18 missing; total, 145. Evans lost over 400 taken prisoners at the bridge at Kinston, and must have met heavier losses than Clingman in his battles on the 13th and 14th.
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 18: (search)
Nelson was missing; Captain Axson, Twenty-seventh, was killed; and Lieutenants Huguenin and Trim, Twenty-seventh, Chappell, Ford and Vanderford, Twenty-first, and Smith, Eleventh, wounded; Captains Mulvaney and Buist (wounded) were captured; Captain Raysor and Lieutenants Reilly, White and Clemens, missing. On the 29th of July,ble effect upon the crowded masses of the Federals. General Elliott fell dangerously wounded, but his place was taken by Col. F. W. McMaster, Seventeenth, and Colonel Smith, Twenty-sixth, formed a line to the left and rear of the crater composed of his regiment, part of the Seventeenth, and the Twenty-fourth North Carolina. The Tore heroic or worthy of higher admiration than this conduct of the Twenty-second and Twenty-third South Carolina regiments. After Mahone's division came up, Colonel Smith's line joined in a charge which cleared the enemy from part of the second line of intrenchments, and the final charge which resulted in the complete rout of th
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 19: (search)
were on the railroad in the rear of Howard and in supporting distance, and Schofield, with another corps, having eluded Hood at East Point, was in supporting distance of Thomas, on the railroad at Rough and Ready. Thus Sherman had thrown his entire army (the Twentieth corps excepted) between General Hood and the two corps at Jonesboro, and was hard at work breaking up the Macon railroad. Hood was holding on to Atlanta with Stewart's corps, and the militia of Georgia, the latter under Gen. G. W. Smith. Hearing late at night of the 31st, of Howard's success in repelling Hardee, Sherman at once ordered everything against Jonesboro, while General Hood directed Hardee to return Lee's corps to Atlanta, saying: There are some indications that the enemy may make an attempt upon Atlanta to-morrow. The execution of this order exposed Lee to what seemed almost certain capture, and left Hardee to defend the supplies and ordnance trains of the army and the very existence of the army itself, ag
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 21: (search)
adequate to an effective resistance, but fortunately, Gen. G. W. Smith's division of Georgia State troops had just arrived aussure, adjutant-general of the district, remained with General Smith. Within five or ten minutes after these dispositions had been made, said General Smith, the battle began by an advance piece of our artillery firing upon the enemy. Their line of r the enemy had so extended and developed their attack that Smith was compelled to put in his last Georgia regiment, making hd 43 missing. Our loss in every arm of the service, General Smith reported, was 8 men killed and 42 wounded. The enemy la., at which Generals Beauregard, Hardee, D. H. Hill and G. W. Smith were present. It was estimated that the forces availablion, 1,500; total, 14,500. Militia and reserves under Generals Smith and Browne, 1,450. Wheeler's cavalry, 6,700. Army oft of the line and well advanced to the front, the houses at Smith's place were occupied by two companies of the First South C
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
pped on his way to join the army at Drewry's Bluff, becoming a member of the United artillery of Smith's battalion. A few months later he was transferred to Company D, Sixth Virginia regiment, Mahon S. C., came of a distinguished ancestry. He traces his genealogy back, by name and date (see Dr. Smith's History of Peterboro, N. H.) to the Moores of clan McDonald, a number of the family having brgia and resumed teaching, but in the spring of 1864 again entered the Confederate service in G. W. Smith's brigade and was again soon discharged owing to bad health. In neither case did he ask for s discharged because of ill health. Six months later, his health being restored, he enlisted in Smith's battalion of infantry, afterward a part of the Twenty-sixth South Carolina infantry. This comville, a gallant South Carolina soldier, was born in Newberry county, son of John H. and Martha (Smith) Williams. He was educated at Furman university, up to the beginning of the war of the Confeder