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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Let us be thankful
May 9, 1863, Division commander Gen. Lafayette McLaws wrote his wife at home in Georgia. “The battles are now over for the present, and I write you with freer breath. Let us be thankful my dear wife for the mercies … Continue reading →
Posted in Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade, Battles: Chancellorsville, Gen. Lafayette McLaws, The Spartan Band, William H. Hill Diary
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Tagged 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, A Soldier’s General The Civil War Letters of Major General Lafayette McLaws, The Spartan Band, William H. Hill diaries
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Back in Fredericksburg
May 5, 1863, a Tuesday, dawned clear and warm. That morning, Union troops the Rebels had driven from Marye’s Heights retreated across the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg and Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade reoccupied the town. “The enemy shelled us as we came … Continue reading →
The 13th at Old Capitol Prison and Fort Delaware
Of the sixteen soldiers of the 13th Mississippi who were captured on Marye’s Heights at Fredericksburg on May 3, 1863, fourteen were sent to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington City, according to Jess N. McLean. He lists them as … Continue reading →
General Barksdale’s report
FREDERICKSBURG, VA., May 15, 1863. MAJOR: When General McLaws moved up the river on the night of April 30, I was temporarily detached from my command, and ordered to report to General Early. My brigade was then at Marye’s Hill, … Continue reading →
Overrun
Sunday, May 3, it dawned clear and warm, and the Second Battle of Fredericksburg began. “The battle commenced at daylight,” Gen. Barksdale later reported. “A furious cannonading was opened from the enemy’s batteries in town, and along both banks of … Continue reading →
Marching and countermarching
“All has been unusually quiet in front of us today,” 17th Mississippi diarist Robert A. Moore recorded on May 1, 1863 on Marye’s Heights above Fredericksburg. That changed the next day, Saturday, Moore wrote, with “some skirmishing and cannonading in … Continue reading →
Skirmishing and cannonading
Gen. Barksdale, the brigade commander, later wrote that Gen McLaws moved some of the division north of Fredericksburg to meet the enemy. The Mississippians, however, were detailed to Gen. Early. The Thirteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Regiments were pulled back from … Continue reading →
The eve of great and stirring events
Gen. McLaws wrote his wife, Emily, a quick letter on the evening of April 29, 1863, about the previous night’s Union crossing of the river below and above Fredericksburg which he expected to become a renewed battle. Below the town … Continue reading →
The ringing of the alarm bell
17th Mississippi Private Robert A. Moore’s weary return to Fredericksburg from his furlough home to Mississippi turned exciting two days later, Wednesday, April 29, 1863, when “We were awoke this morning by the ringing of the alarm-bell…” “The enemy crossed … Continue reading →
Home and back again
None of the available diarists or letter writers of the 13th Mississippi recorded their experiences of what it was like traveling home on furlough and back to the army. But Private Robert A. Moore, a diarist of the Confederate Guards, … Continue reading →
