OR XL P1 (Broadfoot Sup.) #27: Excerpt from Article by Captain John W. Lewis, CS Arty, June 25, 18641
SOPO Editor’s Note: The Broadfoot Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies is rare and not sold in single volumes. As a courtesy to researchers, I’m making available summaries of the reports contained in this set relevant to the Siege of Petersburg.
Summary: Summary: In this excerpt from Volume 19 of the Southern Historical Society Papers, Captain John W. Lewis of the Confederate Artillery gives an account of a two-gun section of artillery to which he was assigned in the emergency situation at the June 25, 1864 Battle of Staunton River Bridge.
Source: Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19, pages 56-57
Available Online?: Yes. I have published this article in full on the Southern Historical Society Papers page. Note that the Southern Historical Society Papers article was itself lifted from the September 27, 1891 Richmond Times.
Source:
- Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Part I, Reports, Vol. 7, pp. 269-270 ↩