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id: 4257
author: McElroy, John
title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 1
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  Men and officers of lower grades may be exchanged for officers of a higher grade, and men and officers of different services may be exchanged according to the following scale of equivalents: A General-commanding-in-chief, or an Admiral, shall be exchanged for officers of equal rank, or for sixty privates or common seamen. I recommend this to other young men starting on their career.


id: 4259
author: McElroy, John
title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 3
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  We recalled our promise to keep in the Creek, the experience of other boys who had tried to escape and been caught by the hounds. Other boys occupied the rest in a similar manner.


id: 57212
author: Quintard, C. T. (Charles Todd)
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  Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee Being His Story of the War (1861-1865)

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  As a result of the controversy that ensued, General Jackson was required by the Secretary of War to direct General Loring to return with his command to Winchester. So I returned to the Army of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and was enthusiastically received by the officers and members of my regiment; and especially by General Polk and his staff, upon which I found my dear friends Colonel Harry Yeatman, Colonel William B. Richmond and Colonel William D. Gale.


id: 4258
author: McElroy, John
title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 2
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  After he has found the number of square feet that each man had for sleeping apartment, dining room, kitchen, exercise grounds and outhouses, and decided that nobody could live for any length of time in such contracted space, I will tell him that a few weeks later double that many men were crowded upon that space that over thirty-five thousand were packed upon those twelve and a-half or thirteen acres. First, that there were many more men in that Army than in any other; and second, that the entanglement in the dense thickets and shrubbery of the Wilderness enabled both sides to capture great numbers of the other's men.


id: 4260
author: McElroy, John
title: Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 4
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  There have been many great conquerors and warriors who have Waded through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, but they were great men, with great objects, with grand plans to carry out, whose benefits they thought would be more than an equivalent for the suffering they caused. It was placed on the floor, around which we soon gathered, and, with grateful hearts, we got away with it all, in an incredibly short space of time, while many men and boys looked on, enjoying our ludicrous attitudes and manners.


id: 52121
author: Sorrel, G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley)
title: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer
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  An introduction from Col. Thomas Jordan, the adjutant-general of Beauregard, to General Longstreet fixed his career with that officer, and he was by his side transacting his business and carrying his orders from the start to well-nigh the finish. Say to General Longstreet, with my compliments, that he shall have my best-looking regiment, and that immediately.


id: 10692
author: Cooke, John Esten
title: A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee
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  One such incident took place on the 7th, when General Gregg attacked with about six thousand horse, but was met, defeated, and captured by General Fitz Lee, to the great satisfaction of General Lee, who said to his son, General W.H.F. Lee: Keep your command together and in good spirits, general--don't let them think of surrender--I will get you out of this. I.--The Funeral of General Lee II.--Tributes to General Lee A LIFE OF GENERAL ROBERT EDWARD LEE.


id: 38418
author: Longstreet, James
title: From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America
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  Information of Federal Force and Positions brought by the Scout Harrison--General Lee declines to credit it--General Longstreet suggests a Change of Direction in Conformance with the Revelation--General Meade had succeeded Hooker in Command Five Days before Battle--Positions on the Eve of the First Day-- Confederate Cavalry not in sight--The Eyes of the Army sadly needed--A Description of the Famous Battle-field-- Generals Ewell and A. P. Hill engage the Federals--Death of General John F. Reynolds--The Fight on Seminary Ridge--General Hancock in Federal Command on the Field--Concerning the Absent Cavalry and Information given by the Scout--Conditions at the Close of the First Day's Fight 346 CHAPTER XXVII. The Author reverts to the Perils and Opportunities in the West--Proposes to the Secretary of War to reinforce against Rosecrans from the Army of Northern Virginia--Makes Plan known to General Lee--The Move finally effected--Difficulties of Transportation--A Roundabout Route--General Longstreet narrowly escapes capture when seeking Bragg's Head-quarters--General Bragg assigns Longstreet to Command of the Left--Instructions for the Battle of Chickamauga--The Armies in Position--Federals in Command of Generals Rosecrans, Crittenden, McCook, and George H. Thomas 433 CHAPTER XXXI. BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA.


