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Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 999 7 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 382 26 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 379 15 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. 288 22 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 283 1 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. 243 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 233 43 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 210 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 200 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 186 12 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Longstreet or search for Longstreet in all documents.

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The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
Prince Eugene at Belgrade. As far as we can understand the operations, from the very imperfect accounts which we have received, they were somewhat as follows: Our army in Maryland is divided into three corps, commanded by Generals Jackson, Longstreet and Hill. Of these corps Jackson's was engaged in the siege of Harper's Ferry, and the other two covered his operations. Conceiving it to be of great importance to raise the siege and to relieve the beleaguered forces, which amounted in numbe000 men) upon the corps of Gen. D. H. Hill, which was the rear guard of the army. The battle was long, furious, and bloody; but Gen. Hill, although attacked by vastly superior forces, stood his ground without yielding an inch. In the night Gen. Longstreet's corps arrived, and on Monday the two combined attacked McClellan and totally defeated him, driving his forces before them for five miles. But for the intervention of night, it is said that the rout would have been complete. At ten o'clock
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
onday very as to particulars, but concur in the statement that the enemy was repulsed after Gen. Hill was reinforced by Longstreet. The fight is said to have occurred at or near Middletown, in Frederick City, on the old National road and about fiftee attacked and surrounded Hill, who maintained his position with changing fortune until night when he was reinforced by Longstreet's division. The next day the fight was renewed, and the heavy columns of McClellan driven three three miles from the bnd Gen. D. H. Hill's division. The loss was great on each side. Hill, however, held his position until the advance of Longstreet arrived, when the enemy fell back. Gen. Garnett was killed. No other officer as yet reported killed of wounded. The dition to these statements, there were countess rumors in circulation about this engagement. One to the effect that Gen. Longstreet has been killed, and another that Gen. Jackson, with his once from Harper's Ferry, had gained the rear of the enemy,