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fought.
Here division grappled with division, and the fight raged furiously from about 10 A. M. till dusk.
When it ended we had the flags, and the cannon, and the field.
In saying that Longstreet's division not only repelled the Federal advance, but drove them back a mile from their original position, I know whereof I affirm, having been in this action from the beginning to the end thereof as a soldier in Ambrose P. Hill's brigade (First, Seventh, Eleventh, and Seventeenth Virginia infantry), which took seven out of eight flags captured, and was mentioned by the general commanding as long and hotly engaged in the thickest of the fight.
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Confederate surgeons.
The race problem in the
South
—Was the
Fifteenth
Amendment a mistake?
A word with the critics.
A list of Confederate officers, prisoners, who were held by Federal authority on
Morris Island, S. C.
, under Confederate fire from
September
7th
to
October
21st
,
1864
.
Memoir of
Gen.
C.
R.
Wheat
, commander of the
Louisiana
Tiger Battalion
The last words of
Major
Wheat
.
The siege and evacuation of
Savannah, Georgia
, in
December
,
1864
.
Annual Reunion of the
Association
of the
Army of Northern Virginia
.
Life, services and character of
Jefferson
Davis
.
The
Twelfth Georgia Infantry
.
The Monument to
General
Robert
E.
Lee
.
Incidents of the parade.
chapter 1.14
Testimonials from visiting soldiers.
Robert
Edward
Lee
.
Letters of
R.
E.
Lee
.
At Lee
's tomb.
Lee
's Birthday: eminent men of the
United States
send sentiments for the day—ministers, soldiers, statesmen and scholars each bring an offering.
Lee
as an educator.
chapter 1.21
Robert
E.
Lee
.
Itinerary of the
Fourth Virginia cavalry
.
March
27th
-
April
9th
,
1865
.
Prisoners of the civil war.
Andersonville prison
.
chapter 1.26
The unveiling. [
Richmond Dispatch
,
June
10
,
1890
.]
Valuable war relic.
Casualties in the old
First
at
Gettysburg
:
two
out of every
three
men who were carried into the charge shot down.
Williamsburg
.
Lee
's Lieutenants.
Development of the free soil idea in the
United States
.
Index.
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