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October 4th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 20
colonel, corps of engineers, C. S. A., in September, 1861, and was assigned to duty as chief engineer of Department No. 2, on the staff of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. He was present at Fort Henry at its surrender, and rode to the front with General Johnston at the opening of the battle of Shiloh. Here he was severely wounded late on the second day. Subsequently he was promoted to brigadier-general, and on August 4, 1862, was made chief engineer of the department of Northern Virginia. October 4, 1862, he became chief of the engineer bureau of the Confederate States war department. In 1863 he was promoted major-general and assigned to duty as second in command, in the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, in which capacity he rendered valuable services in the defense of Charleston, and fortified Atlanta. Subsequently he resumed his duties as chief engineer, and so continued until the evacuation of Richmond. After the war he engaged in railroad and other enterprises in
June 3rd, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 20
county, N. C. When his State had decided to enter the Confederacy, Lieutenant Daniel offered his experience and soldierly ability, and upon the organization of the Fourteenth infantry regiment at Garysburg was elected colonel, and commissioned June 3, 1861. His regiment was an ideal one in its composition, representing the best families of the State, and he gave it a splendid training for the stern warfare which was to follow. He was also elected colonel of the Forty-third regiment, but decligislature, and was re-elected twice, serving until 1861. In the latter year he was sent by North Carolina as a peace commissioner to the provisional congress at Montgomery. At the organization of the First regiment of infantry, at Warrenton, June 3, 1861 , he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel. Subsequently he was appointed colonel of the Thirty-fifth regiment, of Robert Ransom's brigade. With this command he participated in the Seven Days battles before Richmond, and was particularly disti
October 4th, 1878 AD (search for this): chapter 20
predecessor, replied: General Martin is one to whom North Carolina owes a debt she can never repay. The gallant brigade was almost continuously under fire, was never driven from a position, and never failed in an attack. After the close of hostilities General Martin found himself bereft of the considerable property he had previously held, and manfully took up the study of law, a profession in which he met with success, practicing at Asheville during the remainder of his life. He died October 4, 1878. Major-General William Dorsey Pender Major-General William Dorsey Pender was born in Edgecomb county, N. C., February 6, 1834, at the country home of his father, James Pender, a descendant of Edwin Pender, who settled near Norfolk in the reign of Charles II. The mother of General Pender was Sarah Routh, daughter of William Routh, of Tidewater, Va. He was graduated at the United States military academy in 1854, the class of Custis Lee, Stephen D. Lee and J. E. B. Stuart. His firs
September 7th (search for this): chapter 20
re from a Federal regiment posted behind a stone wall, in which Colonel Kirkland was wounded, and a large number of officers and privates were killed or disabled. His wound kept him from service with his regiment until the Gettysburg campaign, when he resumed command, the brigade then being under command of Gen. R. F. Hoke, and temporarily under Col. I. E. Avery, and participated in the desperate fighting of July 1st and 2d. In August, 1863, he was promoted to brigadier-general, and on September 7th was assigned to command of General Pettigrew's old brigade of Heth's division, A. P. Hill's corps, consisting of the Eleventh, Twenty-sixth, Forty-fourth, Forty-seventh and Fifty-second North Carolina regiments. With this command he took a gallant part in the battle of Bristoe, October 14th, where the North Carolinians suffered heavily in a hasty attack upon largely superior forces of the enemy, and he fell severely wounded. His gallantry was commended in the reports of Heth and Hill.
August 30th, 1861 AD (search for this): chapter 20
ied in 1856 to Minnie Huntt, of Washington, who died in 1881 , leaving eight children. In 1884 he married Katherine DeWitt Lumpkin, of Columbus, Ga. Brigadier-General William Paul Roberts Brigadier-General William Paul Roberts was born in Gates county, N. C., July 1, 1841. Before he was twenty years old he entered the Confederate service as a noncommissioned officer in the Nineteenth North Carolina regiment, or Second cavalry, Col. S. B. Spuill. He was promoted third lieutenant August 30, 1861; first lieutenant September 13, 1862; captain November 19, 1863, and though the junior captain, soon attained the rank of major. He served with distinction during the operations of the regiment in North Carolina, until transferred to Virginia in the fall of 1862. He then served on the Rappahannock line, at Fredericksburg, in the Suffolk campaign, and in the famous battle of Brandy Station, where the gallant Col. Sol Williams was killed. After participating in the fighting of the spri
September 17th (search for this): chapter 20
s, in which the brigade fought at Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Frayser's Farm, and Malvern Hill, winning imperishable fame, at a cost of five colonels and 1,250 men killed and wounded, out of a total strength of 3,000. General Branch bore himself throughout this bloody campaign with undaunted courage and the coolness of a veteran commander. Soon followed the battles of Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Fairfax Court House and Harper's Ferry. Hurrying from the latter victory on the morning of September 17th, he reached the field of Sharpsburg with his brigade about 2:30 in the afternoon, just in time to meet an advance of the enemy which had broken the line of Jones' division and captured a battery. With a yell of defiance, A. P. Hill reported, Archer charged them, retook McIntosh's guns, and drove them back pellmell. Branch and Gregg, with their old veterans, sternly held their ground, and pouring in destructive volleys, the tide of the enemy surged back, and breaking in confusion, pass
20th (search for this): chapter 20
while wading a swamp, his column was suddenly met by a fire from the enemy, when he displayed his presence of mind by ordering his officers to make all the men cheer. By his coolness, what might have been a disaster to his own division was converted into a defeat of the enemy. Moving on Bragg's right flank he vigorously assailed the enemy on the 10th, and on the 19th, in the battle of Bentonville, his division sustained gallantly and hurled back the heaviest attack of the Federals. On the 20th, Sherman's whole army being up, the attacks were renewed, mainly on Hoke's division, but were repulsed on every occasion. His services and those of his men at this famous battle are among the most illustrious examples of Confederate generalship and valor in the whole course of the war. As General Hampton has said: Bragg, by reason of his rank, was in command of this division, but it was really Hoke's division, and Hoke directed the fighting. On May 1st General Hoke issued a farewell addres
19th (search for this): chapter 20
rt Fisher had he not been ordered back by General Bragg. He subsequently opposed the advance of Cox from New Bern. On March 8th, while wading a swamp, his column was suddenly met by a fire from the enemy, when he displayed his presence of mind by ordering his officers to make all the men cheer. By his coolness, what might have been a disaster to his own division was converted into a defeat of the enemy. Moving on Bragg's right flank he vigorously assailed the enemy on the 10th, and on the 19th, in the battle of Bentonville, his division sustained gallantly and hurled back the heaviest attack of the Federals. On the 20th, Sherman's whole army being up, the attacks were renewed, mainly on Hoke's division, but were repulsed on every occasion. His services and those of his men at this famous battle are among the most illustrious examples of Confederate generalship and valor in the whole course of the war. As General Hampton has said: Bragg, by reason of his rank, was in command of t
August 4th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 20
he resigned to join the Confederate States army. He was commissioned lieutenant-colonel, corps of engineers, C. S. A., in September, 1861, and was assigned to duty as chief engineer of Department No. 2, on the staff of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. He was present at Fort Henry at its surrender, and rode to the front with General Johnston at the opening of the battle of Shiloh. Here he was severely wounded late on the second day. Subsequently he was promoted to brigadier-general, and on August 4, 1862, was made chief engineer of the department of Northern Virginia. October 4, 1862, he became chief of the engineer bureau of the Confederate States war department. In 1863 he was promoted major-general and assigned to duty as second in command, in the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, in which capacity he rendered valuable services in the defense of Charleston, and fortified Atlanta. Subsequently he resumed his duties as chief engineer, and so continued until the evacua
December (search for this): chapter 20
ampton's brigade. He commanded the detachment which took part in Hampton's raid on Dumfries in December, and in the spring of 1863 was commissioned colonel. In the fight at Hagerstown during the retgain before Petersburg fought in the battles of June. From the Petersburg trenches he moved in December with his division to Wilmington to confront Butler, who was frightened away from Fort Fisher byLee for the fine appearance of its camp and defenses. Being transferred to Wilmington late in December, he advanced to the relief of Fort Fisher, and with two regiments held in check the advance of his regiment to such a remarkable state of discipline and training, that in the latter part of December he was given command of a brigade, including the Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth, Thirty-seventh anensive operations prevented any Federal success in that quarter. General Pryor relieved him in December, but kept Leventhorpe in command in the field. Early in January, 1863, returning into North Ca
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