Providence Forge 1931

Providence Forge 1931
photograph of Providence Forge looking south from Railroad tracks- 1931
Showing posts with label D. H. Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label D. H. Hill. Show all posts

Sunday, August 4, 2013

Report of D. H. Hill







-The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Chapter XXXIX - Operations in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Department of the East. June 3-August 3, 1863.


Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Some Confederate personalities of July 1863 . . .

Grave of Colonel William P. Shingler

Col. William P. Shingler of South Carolina commanding Holcombe's Legion (really the cavalry thereof), a mounted battalion that numbered between a 125 and a 150 men at this time. Holcombe's Legion kept an eye on Union movements on the upper Peninsula.





General Micah Jenkins
General Micah Jenkins commanded a brigade of South Carolina troops.




General M. W. Ransom commanded a North Carolina brigade.


All these units fell under the authority of General D. H. Hill.