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  Jefferson Barracks--Lieutenant Grant''s Courtship--Annexation of Texas--Army of Observation--Army of Occupation


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id: 4259
title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 3
author: McElroy, John
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  things as to the Rebels generally, and Wirz, Winder and Davis in or four days watching each other--just like boys at school, who shake guard, and started for the next line of Rebel works about a half a mile working in day time can set from thirty-five to fifty "thousand" a week, a thousand men could be seen standing in line, waiting their turns to States Military Prison Hospitals, Andersonville, Ga.: military prisons, the permitting seven thousand men to die of the scurvy The Rebel officer in command of the guard was sitting on his horse inside FRANK REVERSTOCK''S ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE--PASSING OFF AS REBEL BOY HE REACHES The Rebel papers said as little as possible about the capture, and the This was why we knew the new prisoners to be Sherman''s boys as soon as came in from--Andersonville, so that in a little while we had between six


id: 4257
title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 1
author: McElroy, John
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  see the woods filled with Rebels, flying in disorder and our men yelling he reached the summit of the hill he found the Rebel line nearly formed The Rebels gave way in disorder, and our men fell back to At another time a considerable force of rebels gained the cover of a Rebels was a little cover, and behind this our men lay down as if by one days I estimated all men simply by their devotion to the great cause of the regular prisoners of war, so as to exchange them for their own men. After the prisoners were driven back, the Rebel officers came in and refused to exchange prisoners with the Rebels, on the ground that this informed that rebel officers and men would be held as hostages for the 6. The rebels now began demanding that the prisoners on both sides be on the guards changed, new men coming on duty.


id: 4260
title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 4
author: McElroy, John
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  in an incredibly short space of time, while many men and boys looked on, of the hands of our original captors at Jonesville, Va. It now became very evident that the Rebels were moving the prisoners from "Now," said I, "Captain, as long as I am a prisoner of war, I wish to knew that every day''s stay in Rebel hands greatly lessened their chances City, and twice a day, for perhaps an hour each time, the Rebel batteries the enemy had to use great discretion in letting the Rebel officer, know he returned to the house, and shortly after the old man came with a good Officer of the Guard, who came, passed us inside, and shook hands One morning orders came for one thousand men to get ready to move. Once five new prisoners, the first we had seen in a long time, were


id: 4258
title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 2
author: McElroy, John
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  A NEW LOT OF PRISONERS--THE BATTLE OF OOLUSTEE--MEN SACRIFICED TO A prison, but these middle men contrived to have a little of it stick to prison in Rebel clothes, having been compelled to trade garments with As long as we old prisoners formed the bulk of those inside the Stockade, prisoners were made up of small squads of men from each regiment in the One day I saw "Dick Allen''s Raiders," eleven in number, attack a man in time came to number twelve hundred men. We also knew that great numbers of wounded had been brought to the prison PRISON AND THE CONDITION OF THE MEN THEREIN, BY A LEADING SCIENTIFIC MAN at any time be forced by the prisoners, the second forms another line of hundred per day, and large numbers of the prisoners who were walking death of many prisoners in the tents in the Stockade, without any medical


id: 10692
title: A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
author: Cooke, John Esten
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  General Lee assumed command of the army on the 3d of June. Lee''s general order directing the movement of the troops is here General Lee did not, in his movement against the Federal right wing views of General Lee''s great adversary, but expresses with admirable General Lee, in personal command of Longstreet''s corps, reached the General Lee''s orders of march for the army, in which his whole plan General Lee says in his report: "This great battle was fought by less General Lee and his army passed the brilliant days of autumn in the General Lee was ready to receive the Federal attack, and, at an early succession, General Lee had directed the movements of the main great following: As soon as the Federal forces gave way, General Lee rode the force was not General Lee''s army. March, General Lee discovered that a large portion of the Federal army


id: 38418
title: From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America
author: Longstreet, James
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  brigade by one of Huger''s divisions, I sent orders to General Wilcox to General Jackson was ordered to follow on the enemy''s rear with his column, When I reported my troops in order for battle, General Lee was inclined to General Fitzhugh Lee''s cavalry was ordered to cover our march, but General Lee, that he with the cavalry was ordered to march around and turn threatening, General Lee ordered his army to continue the march to proper THE RIGHT GRAND DIVISION, GENERAL SUMNER COMMANDING.--Second Army day, General Lee ordered a forced reconnoissance by his cavalry to same time the two divisions of my command, then marching to join General General Lee ordered Johnson''s division of his left, occupying part of the General Meade, after the battle of his left, ordered the divisions of his command reported to General Lee. My line was formed on the right and left


id: 52121
title: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer
author: Sorrel, G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley)
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  Army Corps_; _Brigadier-General commanding the three brigades under Major-General Longstreet (Second Virginia and 1862, and then General Lee taking command of the army, Smith withdrew, This officer, a major-general, commanding some 10,000 to 12,000 men, Lee was the next day placed in command of the Army of Northern Virginia. campaign--General Lee''s staff--Longstreet second in command--His General Lee kept the army well exercised in drill and the new men had One day Longstreet received a note from General Lee, after a ride marches--Thoroughfare Gap--Longstreet''s attack--Enemy routed--General General Lee''s route was near Longstreet''s and night and by a staff officer to General Lee''s camp near by. On a hot day''s march across the river, General Lee, Longstreet, and General Longstreet says that when Major Goggin, an old Army man on command of his division by Lieutenant-General Longstreet and ordered Lieutenant-General Longstreet, the other great corps commander of the


id: 57212
author: Quintard, C. T. (Charles Todd)
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  A few days after this General Lee determined on a movement on the enemy A flag was sent to the Federal camp the next day by General Lee, and One Sunday in March I preached a sermon at St. Paul''s Church, (old St. Paul''s, built in 1739,) exhorting the people to the work before them, that Major-General Jackson of the Federal Army was killed. And the following day General Polk, (who had won the hearts of the front and visit, with the Bishop, the Brigade of General Manigault, A memorable incident of Bishop Elliott''s visit to our army was General I was requested one day by General Polk to visit two men who were offer of his appreciation of the Bishop-General''s past services and of On reaching Atlanta the body of the dead Bishop and General was escorted it; of the Bishop-General over whom I had said the burial service there;

title:
  Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee Being His Story of the War (1861-1865)


