The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-04-08

invasion, particularly at Antietam, Fredericksburg,
ChancelosvilIs and Gettysburg In September, 1868,
be was sent with the remainder OF Longsrees corps
Georgia and engaged at Chickamsuga Septemberl9
and 20, and subsequently, in November OF the year.
In attack Knoxville fort saundersl McLaws
suspended from command for action on this OCCASION
and Kershaw succeeded him He returned TO Virginia
from East Tennessee In April 1884 in time engage
the battles Of the Wilderness and He has
since b,en actively engaged in the campaign and defence
Of Rehmond, and has his fate at the hands Of Gen
sheridan's forces. 9 nhi
Brigadier General Corss, Of Virginia,
who Is also reported captured by General Sheridan,
10 native Of Virginia When the rebellion began he
raised regiment of infantry hs Seventeenth yirgnla
and was commissioned il colonel. While In command
Of the regiment he was engaged at Bull Run In sep,em-
ber 1s63 he In command Of Pickets old bg lde Of
Longstreets corps Pickett having been promoted be
major general In May, 1854 he detached from this
division and sent 10 the vicinity Of Newbern c., but
returned under Beauegard in june 1884, to the defence
Of Petersburg He here promoted brgadicr general
and regularly assigned 10 Pickctt's old brigade.
Brigadier General De Bose.
General Du Bose also captured is native Of Georgia
and has been actively engaged capacities In
the since its beginning He ately General
W. p. woford In command Of the Georgia brigade Of
Twelfth Sixteenth and Twenty fourth Georgia regiments
Third Georgia sharpshoo,crs and Phillips and Cobbs
esions II improbable from the OF the cap
ture Of Kershaw, Barton and De Bose all OF whom be-
long to Longstreets CORPS, that that organization has
bccn very materially interfered with.
Brigadicr General Seth NJ. barton, OF
virginea.
General Barton Is native Of Fredericksburg Va,
where he born in 1922 He entered West Point In
1S45 and graduated in 1S49, standing number twenty
eight in the class OF which O A. Gilmore ranked
first, J. G. Parke second, J. X. Duncan
e, bc) fifth, Absalom Baird ninth, Rufus saxton
eighteenth, and r. W. Johnston thirtieth. He
entered United States Army brevet second leu
tenant Third infantry, July J. ls49 October 81 1857
he promoted captain in the First infantry but
signed Juno II, 1861 to take position in the rebel army
He sent to the West and assigned TO the command Of
brigade under General Stevenson, then In Braegs COM
mand in Tennessee When Sherman made his advance
vicksb.rg stevenson division to General 8.
d Lees assistance and arrived at the City OF the Hills in
time TO assist In the repulsc Of Shermans forcea He
captured at vicksburg On his exchange he was
assigned tho command Of brigade of Kershaws dvi-
sion, OF Longstrcets corps OF Lees army, and was
captured while endesvorng escape with his command
Brfgadier General George vvilliam Custis
Lee, OF Virginia.
This officer who Is reported captured by General Sherf
dan, is the first OF General Robert T. Lee He
at Arlington Heights, In 1881, entered West
Point in 1850, graduating July 1854, and entered the
United States Army brsvet second lieutenant October
20 1859, he commissioned FIRST lieutenant In tho
Engineer corps, but resigned May 1so and following
his fathers example, entered the rebel army After the
failure Of his father In Western Virginia. and his retire.
men TO the shades Of the War Department 1t Richmond,
young Gusts Leo made colonel and placed on the
stan OF Jen Davis When hts father called to the
cld In 1897 Cus,s Lee remained with the rebel Prcs
dent and his appears the rebel Army Register
for 1854 rs Coonel and aid the President" During
the spring Of the rebel Congress IN 1894 Lee was
nominated and confirmed brigadicr general and was
shortly afterwards assigned 70 duty with Ewe During
the siege OF Richmond he commanded large brigade Of
regular and militia troops including the former Leuen-
ant General Pemberon's artillery, the north side Of
tho James river his headquarters being on the famous
Chaplin farm. In January last IL reported that Lee
had been nominated q major general, but II % he was
confirmed