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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 106 (search)
cheese, with a slice of ham, on the top of an overturned candle-box by the side of the main highway. When it comes to sleeping, I rejoice that I am a civilian, for I am much better cared for to-night than the commander of this, the largest force ever marshalled under one general on this continent. There are two hotels in this place, both evidently feeble at their best estate, and just now, after a prolonged visit of rapacious and boisterous rebels, in a state of suspended animation. Capt. Rawlings, of the New Hampshire Regiment, with that versatility which enables a New Englander to turn from commanding armies to keeping a hotel with marvellous facility, has succeeded in infusing into the mind of the invalid widow who keeps one of them that the national troops have not come to sweep her and hers from the face of the earth. She has accordingly provided me with a bed, which, if not luxurious, is, to my untutored mind, decidedly preferable to one on the ground, even under the brilli
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 239 (search)
ner, did you mean to sink me? Certainly, was the cool reply; I am ordered to fire one harmless shot at least; I gave you the benefit of two, and aimed a third at your engine, but the gun was ranged a little too high. I did not want to hit your boilers, and scald you all to death; but the next time I shall sink you at the second shot! For God's sake, don't trouble yourself, replied the captain; just send a small boy down to tap a drum whenever you want me, and I'll come to at once. Maj. Rawlings tells an anecdote in the same vein, of a prominent secession lawyer of St. Louis. Major, said he, lately, I am a choleric man, and I find it won't do. I am getting to have a profound respect for Minie bullets. Won't you do me the favor to get me one; and whenever I find my temper rising against the Dutch, I will put my hand in my pocket, and feel a bullet, and that will cool me off! The Major got the bullet for him, and the effect seems to be equal to the expectation. Certainly it
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
that, however, and wrote him an unofficial letter explaining my first letter, asking him if he did not regret sending me such a reply. See Appendix No. 74. By the regulations of the service all communications in regard to military matters are to be forwarded to the superior officer through the officer in the next highest grade, and if this is not done it may be inquired into by a court-martial. Yet Smith sent my letter and his reply, but not my unofficial letter explaining it, to General Rawlings, chief of staff of the lieutenant-general, with a note asking that he might be relieved from his command in the department of Virginia and North Carolina. See Appendix No. 75. Of this General Grant took no notice of which there is any official evidence, and Smith went to Washington without the leave of his commanding general, and there saw Senator Foote, of Vermont, and used influence and what statements I know not with the War Department to get an order from the President giving h
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
ia, 175. Presidential Campaign of 1864, 631, 635. Prize Act, 1010. Proctor or Mill Creek Engagement, 651. Q Quinn, Colonel, expedition of, 617. Quimby, General, 460. R Raleigh, great loss of life in prison-pen at, 609-610; Sherman at, 876 Randolph, Edmund, attack on President Washington, 184, 188. Randolph, Confederate secretary of war, 188; instructs burning of cotton at New Orleans, 386. Rantoul, Robert, a coalitionist leader, 98; elected to Senate, 116. Rawlings, Gen. John A., Butler-Smith correspondence sent to, 695; Butler's letter to, 853; Secretary of War, 853, 893. Reagan, John A., draws terms of surrender, 909, 912. Red River expedition, 877. Reed vs. Batchelder, Butler instrumental in removing decision in case of, 75, 77. record, Elijah, case of, 987, 989. Reconstruction, Butler's views of, 960. Reichard, Prussian Consul at New Orleans becomes Confederate general, 432, 434, 435. Relay House, plan to operate from, 222; oc
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Meeting at the White Sulphur Springs. (search)
of Tishmingo creek, or Bryce's crossroads, as the Federals call it, will not be forgotten, where the battle was fought and a pursuit of sixty miles made all in thirty hours. The first invasion of A. J. Smith into Mississippi. That you may appreciate the immense work Forrest was now doing, besides keeping about thirty thousand men constantly engaged to watch him, I call attention to the following telegrams from General Sherman. His telegram from Nashville, dated April 4, 1864, to General Rawlings, shows that General Corse was sent up Red river to bring A. J. Smith with all dispatch to Vicksburg and up the Yazoo river and rapidly occupy Grenada. His appearance there, with ten thousand men, will be a big bombshell in Forrest's camp, should he, as I fear he will, elude General Hurlbut. At Grenada, Smith will do all the mischief he can, and then strike boldly across the country by Aberdeen to Russellville and Decatur. This movement was defeated by the victory over Sooy Smith and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, Fort, capture of (search)
crossed the Harlem near King's Bridge, with guards, light infantry, and grenadiers; while Colonel Sterling, with Highlanders, crossed at a point a little above the present High Bridge. The outworks of the fort were defended on the north by Colonel Rawlings, with Maryland riflemen and militia from Mercer's Flying Camp, under Colonel Baxter. The lines towards New York were defended by Pennsylvanians, commanded by Col. Lambert Cadwalader. Magaw commanded in the fort. Rawlings and Baxter occupRawlings and Baxter occupied redoubts on heavily wooded hills. By a simultaneous attack at all points, the battle was very severe outside of the fort. The British and German assailants pressed hard upon the fort, and both Howe and Knyphausen made a peremptory demand for its surrender. Resistance to pike, ball, and bayonet,. wielded by 5,000 veterans, was in vain, and Magaw yielded. At half-past 1 o'clock (Nov. 17) the British flag waved in triumph over Fort Washington. The Americans lost in killed and wounded not
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
a battalion of field artillery of five companies, without field officers. Of the officers named, Mahone afterward became major-general, and Pryor, Weisiger, Colston and Chambliss, brigadier-generals. Col. Robert Johnston, commanding the cavalry at Cockletown, reported that a volunteer scout of four had returned to camp that morning, bringing in Captain Jenkins and Lieutenant Shurtleff of the United States naval brigade. This scout met a party of six, near New Market bridge, killed Major Rawlings, wounded the two officers brought in, and put the rest to flight. Soon afterward Colonel Johnston reported that he would occupy Bethel, endeavor to secure the negroes from the lower part of the peninsula, and then occupy Harrod's and Young's mills, whence he could best operate with safety against marauding parties. July 24th, on account of the panic following the battle of Bull Run, Butler was required to send a force of about 4,000 men to Washington. He wrote to Scott: This reducti
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Roll of the Rockbridge Battery of artillery, April 10, 1865. (search)
at Cumberland Church. Absent. Montgomery, B. Present. Moore, Ed. Present. Moore, John H. Present. Moore, L. Absent. Mooterspaw, W. Present. Morgan,——. At home sick. Absent. Myers, John. Present. Page, Powell. Present. Paine, James. At home sick. Absent. Paine, M. Absent. Paxton,——. Wounded. Absent. Phillips,——. Wounded. Absent. Pollard,——. Present. Pugh, George. Present. Pugh, John. Present. Private Rader,——. On Furlough. Absent. Rawlings, J. M. On furlough. Absent. Reintzel. Wounded. Absent. Robertson, John. Present. Root, Erastus. Present. Ruffin, J. R. Present. Sanford,——. Present. Schermerhorn,——. Absent. Shaner, Joseph. Present. Shaw, C. A. Present. Shoulder,——. Present. Silvey, James. Present. Schmidt, Adam. Wounded. Absent. Smith, J. M. Sick. Absent. Strickler, A. Absent. Strickler, J. J. Present. Stuart, William C. Present. Swann, William
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Historical sketch of the Rockbridge artillery, C. S. Army, by a member of the famous battery. (search)
John F. O'Rourke, Frank Otey, William M. Packard, Joseph Packard, Walter J. Page, Richard C. M. Page, R. Powell Paine, Henry M. Paine, Henry R. Paine, James A. Paxton, James L. Paxton, Samuel A. Paxton, Samuel W. Pendleton, Dudley S. Phillips, Charles S. Pleasants, Robert A. Poague, William T. *Pollard, James G., Jr. Porter, Mouina G. Preston, Frank *Pugh, George W. *Pugh, John A. Rader, Daniel P. Raines, Archibald G. Rawlings, James M. Reintzell, George W. Rhodes, Jacob N. *Robertson, John W. Robinson, Arthur *Root, Erastus C. *Ruffin, Jefferson R. Rutledge, Charles A. *Sandford, James Saville, John *Shaner, Joseph F. *Shaw, Campbell A. *Shoulder, Jacob M. *Silvey, James A. Singleton, William F. Schermerhorn, John G. Smith, Adam Smith, J. Howard Smith, James P. Smith, James Morrison Smith, Josiah Smith, Joseph S. *Smith, Samuel C. Smith, Summer
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
run Away from the subscriber, about a week since, a Negro Boy named Charles, 15 or 16 years old, ginger-bread color, with good open countenance. He had on when he left a soft felt hat and suit of grey negro clothing. A reward of $5 will be paid for his delivery to the subscriber, at his farm, near Richmond, or to E. G. Rawlings, Franklin street, near the State Court-House. Edw'd McCONNELL. ja 25--2t
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