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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 42 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 19 1 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 16 0 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 10 2 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 10 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 10 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 8 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 8 (search)
lumbia Furnace. The rearguard of this column, says Torbert, referring to Custer, was fighting all day. Powellcan see everything in the Valley for miles.) Thence Torbert hurried him back to the aid of Custer, whose rearguthe boldness of an enemy so lately routed, directed Torbert to start at daylight and whip the Rebel cavalry, or get a whipping. Torbert was in the saddle at dawn on the 9th, and continuing the dispositions of the day befo almost everything on wheels. Of this engagement Torbert enthusiastically reports, that the cavalry totally idan promptly sent the tidings to Grant: I directed Torbert to attack at daylight this morning, and finish this's Brook was a fine offset to the check received by Torbert at Milford, for the same two Union divisions had noosser, inflicting a loss of four hundred men, while Torbert had but nine killed and forty-eight wounded. [I doe had lost a month before. On the 22d of November, Torbert, with two divisions of the enemy's cavalry, hurried
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The cavalry affair at Waynesboro. (search)
ith the conduct of his command; I take pleasure in making a note of it. Seeing how small a number we had, he urged his Colonel to charge the Fourth Virginia Cavalry as it entered the main street of Waynesboro. The natural inference is, that the charge was ordered by the Colonel of the First Rhode Island Cavalry, and that a squadron of that regiment failed to do their duty. As a matter of fact, neither is true. The First Rhode Island Cavalry was, at that time, Headquarter Guard for General Torbert, Sheridan's Chief of Cavalry, and my own squadron was the Provost Guard; my appearance at this time was, therefore, in my capacity as Captain commanding the Provost Guard. By publishing the following extract from my Personal Narrative, as printed in third series, No. 6 of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Historical Society of Rhode Island, you will gratify many soldiers of my old regiment who were always ready to follow wherever I might dare to lead them: Looking again towards the enemy,