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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
his promotion it was commanded by Basil C. Manly, and then by B. B. Guion. The next was Reilly's hard-fighting Rowan light battery This battery was equipped with guns captured at Manassas. After Reilly's promotion to major, Capt. John A. Ramsey commanded it to the end of the war. Capt. T. H. Brem, of Charlotte, organized another of the light batteries, and with rare patriotism advanced out of his private means the money to buy uniforms, equipment and horses. Capts. Joseph Graham and A. B. Williams succeeded to the command. When this battery lost its guns at New Bern, the town of Charlotte had its church bells moulded into new guns for it. The other two light batteries were commanded by Capts. A. D. Moore and T. J. Southerland. The five heavy batteries, commanded respectively by Capts. H. T. Guion, W. S. G. Andrews, J. L. Manney, S. D. Pool and T. K. Sparrow, were all assigned to coast defense, and while they did not have as much field service as the light batteries, they were ca
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
North Carolina, Major Gilmer; the Thirty-seventh, Colonel Lee; the Seventh, Colonel Campbell; the Thirty-fifth, Colonel Sinclair, and a battalion of militia under Colonel Clark. Across the railroad, for a mile and a half, the only forces were the Twenty-sixth North Carolina, Colonel Vance; two dismounted companies of the Second cavalry, and one unattached company of infantry, and to the right of these two pieces of Brem's Not Harding's, as Battles and Leaders has it. battery under Lieutenant Williams. Between the railroad and Vance's left there was, at a brickyard, a break in the Confederate lines. This break, the finding and occupation of which won the Victory for the Federals, was being protected by a redoubt when the opening of the battle stopped the work on the redoubt and left this vital point guarded only by some artillery acting as infantry. Back of the line, on the railroad, Col. C. M. Avery's regiment, the Thirty-third, was held in reserve. Latham's battery was poste
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
eft, upon the left flank of Sedgwick's lines, which were soon thrown into confusion; and McLaws, passing by Walker's left, also threw his division diagonally upon the already broker. and retreating lines of Sumner. Taken at such disadvantage, these had never a chance, and in spite of the heroic bravery of Sumner and Sedgwick, with most of their officers (Sedgwick being severely wounded), the division was driven off to the north with terrible losses, carrying along in the rout part of Williams' men, of the Twelfth corps. Battles and Leaders, II, 644. Palfrey says: Nearly 2,000 men were disabled in a moment. Then he adds, with a candor rare among some Federal participants: The jubilant assertions of Confederate officers in regard to the repulse of Sedgwick's divisions are not more than the facts warrant. They did drive the enemy before them in magnificent style; they did sweep the woods with perfect ease; they did inflict great loss on the enemy; they did drive them not on
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
arolina boys made the charge, and the enemy fled before them, as you and the general well know. The artillery and the infantry joining in a general attack, 314 prisoners surrendered and many were killed and wounded. The North Carolina loss was 6 killed and 15 wounded. Shortly afterward the Sixty-ninth regiment encountered a large cavalry force under Foster. This cavalry had been sent to intercept the Confederate retreat toward Virginia. Colonel Love gallantly charged this force, and General Williams coming to his aid, drove it from his front. North Carolina cavalry were active in many of the engagements during the fall campaign in Virginia. At Jack's shop, near Liberty mills, Orange county, Va., on September 22, 1863, Hampton's division of cavalry joined battle with Davies' and Custer's brigades of Kilpatrick's cavalry division. Custer's brigade was commanded by Colonel Stagg. Hampton's division was composed of three brigades: Butler's, commanded by Col. J. B. Gordon of the F
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
tangled lines that night. The jaded men sank to sleep just where they had been fighting. The two armies were so close to each other that many men from both sides were, while searching for water, captured by their opponents. The failure to form fresh line of battle or to fortify during the night came near working disaster, for the Federals assaulted at dawn, and as a result much disorder was created. Cooke's men, contrary to orders, had slightly intrenched, and they, bravely assisted by Williams' North Carolina battery, held their front intact. Just as the men on each side of them began to be pressed beyond their flanks, Longstreet's corps arrived and restored the broken lines by an energetic onset. In this early morning fight, the North Carolinians were heavy sufferers. Lane says: We opposed this force for a short time (the Thirty-third fighting like heroes), but could not long stand the terrible fire in our front and flank. Col. C. M. Avery, of this regiment that Lane praises
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: (search)
ral Cox's brigade. Then operating on the flanks was Gordon's gallant brigade of cavalry, the First, Second and Fifth, commanded after Gordon's death by General Barringer. Of the batteries present, the records show only Flanner's, Ramsey's, and Williams', but Manly's also was there. The reports from the artillery all through the war are very unsatisfactory in detail, and those faithful men are rarely mentioned except for some unusually brilliant service such as that of Williams' battery in theWilliams' battery in the Wilderness. Forty-three regiments of infantry, three of cavalry and four batteries of artillery were then North Carolina's representatives in this disastrous repulse of Grant's army. On the 1st of June, the Sixth corps and most of the Eighteenth corps were directed by General Grant to move directly against the Confederate right, held by General Hoke's and General Kershaw's divisions. General Hoke's division contained Martin's and Clingman's North Carolina brigades. The Federals made the
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16: (search)
new line, using bayonets, knives and even tin cans as dirt removers. On the 18th, Longstreet's advanced division got in place, and all assaults were repulsed with loss. These repeated assaults cost Grant's army 8,150 men. Grant learned, as McCabe aptly quotes, that Petersburg could not be taken by the collar. With the coming of the rest of Lee's army, other North Carolina troops went into the trenches, as follows: Cooke's brigade, MacRae's brigade, Lane's brigade, Scales' brigade, and Williams' and Cummings' batteries. The four brigades in the valley were not recalled until the beginning of winter. Then followed the dreary, suffering, starving months in the trenches around Petersburg. Soldiers have never been called upon to endure more than the Confederate soldiers were there forced to stand, and to stand with a full knowledge that their distant homes were being ruthlessly desolated, and that the pangs of hunger were pressing cruelly upon their unprotected families. What Ca
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
Maj. C. Q. Petty; the Fifty-sixth, Col. P. F. Faison; all of Gen. M. W. Ransom's brigade. The First, Second, Third and Fifth North Carolina cavalry, composed Gen. Rufus Barringer's brigade; the Fourth and Sixteenth battalion, Gen. W. P. Roberts' brigade. The commanders of these regiments as given in the records are generally those in charge at the surrender. It is regretted that not all are given. The following batteries are reported: Capt. H. G. Flanner's, Capt. John Ramsey's, Capt. A. B. Williams' and Capt. Guion's. To break up the wagon trains that were thought to aid in supplying the Confederate army, General Grant ordered the Second and Fifth corps to move on Hatcher's run. Portions of the Sixth and Ninth corps were afterward sent to reinforce the Second and Fifth. February 6th, General Lee, being apprised of this threat to his right, arranged for parts of Gordon's and Hill's corps to meet it. The Federal corps, on establishing line, promptly intrenched. That afternoon
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
, 347. Wiatt, Chaplain W. E., 431. Wiclotte, Lt. R. D., 276. Wiggins, t. T. M., 359. Wigginton, J. W., 146. Wilcox, Gen. C. M.; Division of, 387, 455. Wilcox, Capt. E. A., 94. Wilkerson, Surg. T. B., 185. Wilkes, Lt. W. D., 124. Wilkins, Lt. H. J., 327. Wilkins, Ass't Surg. J. T., 347. Wilkins, Lt. W. T., 383. Wilkins, Lt. C. H., 71. Wilkinson, Bugler J. J., 14. Willard, Lt. A. E., 305. Willard, Lt. P. C., 122. Willcox, Lt. J. N., 189. Willcoxon, Capt. S. A., 239. Williams's Artillery, 45, 68. Williams, Capt. A. B., 15. Williams, Capt. A. L. P., 71. Williams, Capt. A. W., 70. Williams, Ass't Surg. B., 383. Williams, Lt. B., 305. Williams, Lt. C. K., 402. Williams, Lt. D. G, 123. Williams, Lt. E., 160. Williams, Capt. G. A, 274. Williams, Ass't Surg. H. W., 204. Williams, J., Troop Artillery, 106. Williams, Col. J. A., 3. Williams Capt. J. M., 3. Williams, Lt. J. M., 196. Williams, Lt. J. W., 358 Williams, Capt. J. T., 296. Will
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sick and wounded Confederate soldiers at Hagerstown and Williamsport. (search)
August 1st. Private W. H. Brannon, Stuart's artillery; wounded August, 1862. Private W. H. Everett, 56th North Carolina regiment. Private W. Swaincot, Stuart's artillery. Private W. Hawley, 59th Georgia regiment; wounded July 10th. Private T. J. Bloodsworth, 21st Mississippi regiment. Private P. P. Crowder, 38th North Carolina regiment. Private J. T. Swint, 59th Georgia regiment; wounded July 10th. Private J. W. Reynolds, 59th Georgia regiment; wounded July 10th. Private A. B. Williams, 59th Georgia regiment; wounded July 10th. Private Joseph Cain, 59th Georgia regiment. Private Simeon Willis, 59th Georgia regiment; wounded July 10th; died August 1st. Private D. M. Patterson, 45th North Carolina regiment; wounded June 19th. Private J. E. Bradderberry, Cam. artillery. Private M. Lettice, 10th Georgia regiment; wounded July 2d. Private J. Vandevender, 62d Virginia; wounded July 5th; died August 2d. Private L. R. Johnson, 26th North Carolina regiment;
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