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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 244 2 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 223 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 214 4 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 179 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 154 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 148 20 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 114 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 109 27 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 94 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 80 8 Browse Search
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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
, or Lee's Mill retreat up the peninsula Williamsburg Hanover Court House Seven Pines Jacksond Fort Magruder, just below the old town of Williamsburg. On that day the Federal cavalry and infanal Johnston had no intention of tarrying at Williamsburg, nor was the place defensible, for the enemal Magruder had been ordered not to stop in Williamsburg at all. Gens. G. W. Smith and D. H. Hill westores. Colonel Maury, in his article on Williamsburg in Southern Historical Society Papers, seemte rear guard turned upon their pursuers at Williamsburg and gave them a bloody check will always exrengthened by an unfinished redoubt, on the Williamsburg road, west of Seven Pines. Behind Casey, division in a front attack on Casey on the Williamsburg road, and support that attack by his own died by Lieut.-Col. R. D. Johnston across the Williamsburg road, and, co-operating with the Fourth Nor Kearny's division of stout fighters on the Williamsburg road, in the neighborhood of King's schoolh[1 more...]
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
nited States service and was commissioned colonel of infantry in the regular army. In September he was commissioned brigadier-general and assigned by General Magruder to command of one of the brigades on the Yorktown, Va., lines. Soon afterward he was given charge of the first division of Magruder's army, the second being under General McLaws. He took a prominent part in the defense of Yorktown, and in command of a brigade of Alabama and Georgia regiments participated in the battles of Williamsburg and Seven Pines. In the latter conflict he made an opportune flank movement under great difficulties through a swamp and attacked the enemy. He was subsequently put in charge of the bureau of conscription at Richmond, and during his service in this capacity he began the organization of a plan of torpedo protection for the Southern harbors, which he subsequently put in successful operation at Charleston, Mobile, Savannah and other ports, also invented an explosive sub-terra shell, which