[134] “Four Years with General Lee,” W. H. Taylor, page 103.
[135] Eclectic Magazine, May, 1872.
[136] At Sharpsburg, General Jackson left the field at seven o’clock in the morning and did not return until four o’clock in the afternoon, when he was ordered with his command and the cavalry to turn and strike down against the Union right. He started to execute the order, then gave it up without even asking permission. He made a brave and gallant fight in the morning, losing 1601 officers and men. But D. H. Hill was there from the first to the last gun, losing from his division 1872 officers and men. Jackson had the greater part of two divisions. But Hill was not a Virginian, and it would not do to leave the field for refreshments. The figures include Jackson’s losses at Harper’s Ferry and Sharpsburg; Hill’s at South Mountain and Sharpsburg.
[137] “General Lee,” by Fitzhugh Lee. Marye’s Hill was the stronghold at Fredericksburg.
[138] Vide “The French under the First and Last Bonaparte;” the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia under Stonewall Jackson in 1862, in the Valley of Virginia, and J. A. Early in 1864.
[139] General Meade’s monthly return for June 30 shows 99,131 “present for duty, equipped.” The Comte de Paris estimates the force actually on the field, including the Sixth Corps, which was in reserve, at 82,000.
[140] Rebellion Record, vol. xxvii.
[141] Rebellion Record, vol. xxxvii. part i. p. 187.
[142] No reports on file for this brigade. Bryan was in command July 7, and was probably Semmes’s immediate successor. The commanders of the Tenth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-third Georgia are given as reported for June 22 and July 31. Manning reported in command of Fiftieth Georgia, June 22. No commander reported on return for July 31.
[143] The regimental commanders are given as reported for June 14.