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1865 AD (search for this): chapter 6.54
ed their dauntless deeds. At odd times, when the Army of Northern Virginia was inactive, the brigade of which this regiment formed part — and which, from its earliest engagements, seemed to have attracted the attention of its commanders and gained their special confidence — went to Suffolk, North Carolina and Drury's Bluff in successful quests of glory and renown. After it was reorganized in 1862, Kemper commanded it, and Pickett was its Major-General until the sad disaster at Five Forks (1865). At Yorktown Early held the lines just outside the village. Outnumbered as the Confederates were, the incessant duty necessarily imposed upon them in picketing, skirmishing and constant watching by night and day without relief, was wearing and arduous in the extreme. The weather was wet, the troops without shelter, the trenches full of mud and water and the supplies but scant. This exposure and hardship, greater than they had ever borne and so different from their snug quarters at Mana
June, 1879 AD (search for this): chapter 6.54
, and only one or two of the nearest even with pickets. See Colonel Bratton's statement, Southern Historical Papers, June, 1879, page 299. General Anderson says in his report: My not occupying these redoubt was perhaps a mistake, but I did not undof Fort Magruder, knew of them; for he reported them unoccupied [see his narrative--Southern Historical Society Papers, June, 1879]. It would be interesting to know to whom he made this report. He also saw the Yankees later in the day take possessioiscover it, nor was any proper reconnoissance made. Colonel Bratton's narrative, Southern Historical Society Papers, June, 1879, pages 299-300. Colonel McRae's narrative, Southern Historical Society Papers, August, 1879, page 364. The latter mighte war, seen more splendid gallantry exhibited than on that field at Williamsburg. [Southern Historical Society Papers, June, 1879, pages 301-2.] And a captain of Her Majesty's Scotch Fusileers, who was in Hancock's redoubt, and saw the charge, made
May 3rd (search for this): chapter 6.54
eather was wet, the troops without shelter, the trenches full of mud and water and the supplies but scant. This exposure and hardship, greater than they had ever borne and so different from their snug quarters at Manassas, was quickly followed by sickness and disease, so that during the three weeks in the Yorktown trenches the seven hundred muskets of the Twenty-fourth Virginia were reduced to something like five hundred effectives. On the retreat to Williamsburg, commencing the night of May 3d, Early's brigade was the rear guard--and the Twenty-fourth, being the left regiment, brought up the rear of all — the most fatiguing place, as every soldier knows, of the whole line of march. All this was truly an ill preparation for the desperate charge to be set before them so soon; but let it not be forgotten in reckoning the glory of their deeds. The horrible roads are well remembered even now by all who passed them on that dark and rainy night. There had been constant rains for w
May 9th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 6.54
raise So far from pressing the Confederates, as he had boasted he would do, after this day's work he sat quietly down in the ancient borough of Williamsburg, while these same demoralized and flying Confederates sauntered up to the Chickahominy at their leasure, pausing on the route to reorganize their regiments whose period of service had expired, and to elect their officers! Nor did General McClellan ever again try the experiment of attacking General Johnston's men. A few days after (May 9, 1862) the following animated account of the charge appeared in the columns of the New York Herald: * * * From the sharp. fire of our skirmishers in the woods on our left, came the first information of a movement in that direction, and thus put all on the alert. * * * The fire grew hotter in the woods, and in a few moments, at a point fully half a mile away from the battery, the enemy's men began to file out of the cover and form in the open field. It was a bold and proved an expensive
June, 1679 AD (search for this): chapter 6.54
ments, these fearless mountaineers break at once into the double-quick and charge with a wild cheer that thrills through every heart. At once they are heavily engaged. In opening their files, several of the largest companies on the right became detached, and mistaking the redoubt held by Bratton for the objective point, rushed towards it. This separation furnishes the explanation of part of Colonel Bratton's somewhat involved account of this affair in the Historical Society Papers for June, 1679. He speaks of the Twenty-fourth regiment and of Early's regiment as if they were two regiments, mistaking these companies thus separated for a distinct regiment. The officer he speaks of as Lieutenant-Colonel Early was doubtless the gallant Captain Sam. Henry Early, of General Early's staff.--R. L. M. But the remainder go straight on, and the brunt of the affair falls upon the left wing, led by the writer, they being closest to and moving directly upon the foe, and receiving the fire bot
August, 1879 AD (search for this): chapter 6.54
irmishers were thrown forward to discover it, nor was any proper reconnoissance made. Colonel Bratton's narrative, Southern Historical Society Papers, June, 1879, pages 299-300. Colonel McRae's narrative, Southern Historical Society Papers, August, 1879, page 364. The latter might easily have been done, for from the point where Bratton was with the Sixth South Carolina, he had a view of the whole field, and his pickets extended from his redoubt into the woods whence Early's brigade was soon tawful destruction. The retreat was the signal for slaughter, and, as Colonel McRae says, the regiment was scarcely harmed at all till the retreat began --the loss was desperate in a few moments afterwards. [Southern Historical Society Papers, August, 1879, page 362.] Before they recrossed that fearful field, the best blood of all the Old North State fed the fresh young wheat at their feet, and a hundred Carolina homes were cast into direful mourning and distress. And all for what? Had the r
June, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 6.54
ian, unless a careful critic as well, finding no description of the charge of the Virginians, would naturally conclude that they bore but a subordinate part. The Twenty-fourth Virginia infantry was one of the very first organized of the Virginia regiments. It was composed of companies raised in the mountain counties of Southwest Virginia, and as General Early was its first colonel, it was, particularly in the first days of the war, often spoken of as Early's regiment. It was formed in June, 1861, at Lynchburg, and proceeded forthwith to Manassas, where its Colonel was soon given a brigade, to which this regiment was attached. The appearance of this brigade upon the enemy's left flank at Manassas is stated by General Beauregard to have been the signal for the giving way of his line and the commencement of his flight. The regiment remained encamped near Union mills during the following winter, picketing the railroad near Burk's and Fairfax stations, and in the spring moved with
June 2nd, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 6.54
The battle of Williamsburg and the charge of the Twenty-fourth Virginia of Early's brigade. By Colonel R. L. Maury. The Immortal Twenty-fourth.--The Yankee General Hancock said that the Fifth North Carolina and the Twenty-fourth Virginia, for their conduct in battle before Williamsburg, ought to have this word inscribed upon their banners. The Twenty-fourth in the fight of yesterday vindicated its title to this honor. * * * *.--Richmond Enquirer, June 2, 1862. The narratives of Colonel Bratton, of the Sixth South Carolina, and of Colonel McRae, of the Fifth North Carolina, published in the Papers of the Southern Historical Society for June and August last, describing the charge made by a small part of Early's brigade [the Twenty-fourth Virginia, supported by the Fifth North Carolina] at Williamsburg, upon a redoubt on our extreme left, defended by General Hancock with five regiments and ten guns, affords a proper occasion to record an account of the achievements there of the
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