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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 14 14 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 7 7 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 7 7 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 1, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 4 Browse Search
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 4 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 3 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 3 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 3 3 Browse Search
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 2 2 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 2 2 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 1.1 (search)
to not more than ten thousand men. With these, it was evident, I could not protect every vulnerable point at the same time; and thereafter, whenever the occasion arose, I had to withdraw troops from one quarter of the department to reenforce another. The fact that a new commander of high engineering repute, General Gillmore, had been sent to supersede General Hunter General Hunter was transferred from the Department of Kansas to the command of the Department of the South on the 31st of March, 1862, relieving Brigadier-General Thomas W. Sherman, and was himself relieved by General Quincy A. Gillmore on the 12th of June, 1863. Among the chief events of General Hunter's administration were the capture of Fort Pulaski, April 11th, 1862 (see General Gillmore's description of these operations, Vol. II., p. 1); the declaration of free-dom (April 12th, 1862) to slaves in Fort Pulaski and on Cockspur Island, Ga.; a similar declaration (May 9th) to slaves in Georgia, Florida, and South
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 12: operations on the coasts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. (search)
ervice magazine for two days supply of ammunition, and a depot powder magazine of 8,000 barrels capacity was constructed near the Martello tower, printed on page 125, which was the landing-place for all supplies on Tybee. On that day the commanding General issued minute orders for the working of the batteries, which was to corn mence at daybreak the next morning. See the report of General Gillmore, dated April 80, 1862. General David Hunter, who had just succeeded General Sherman March 31, 1862. in the command of the Department, arrived at Tybee on the evening of the 8th, accompanied by General Benham as district commander. At sunrise on the morning of the 10th, Hunter sent Lieutenant J. H. Wilson to the fort, with a summons to the commander of the garrison (Colonel Charles H. Olmstead, of the First Georgia Volunteers) to surrender. It was refused, the commander saying, I am here to defend this fort, not to surrender it, and at a quarter past eight o'clock the batteries opene
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), March 31, 1862.-skirmish on the Purdy road, near Adamsville, Tenn. (search)
March 31, 1862.-skirmish on the Purdy road, near Adamsville, Tenn. Reports. No. 1.--Brig. Gen. Lewis Wallace, U. S. Army. No. 2.-Lieut. Charles H. Murray, Fifth Ohio Cavalry. No. 1.-report of Brig. Gen. Lewis Wallace, U. S. Army. headquarters Third Division Crump's Landing, Tenn., April 1, 1862. Sir: I inclose a report of a skirmish between our picket at Adamsville and a small body of the rebels, which resulted unfortunately for us. As the general will see, the officer reporting attributes the misfortune to a deficiency of arms. My opinion is, however, it was partly from that cause and partly from his bad management, having, according to his own showing, but few arms; and the enemy being superior in number and armed with shot-guns, he ought either to have avoided a fight or charged pell-mell. What he says about the deficiency of arms and its effect upon his men I think worthy of attention, and with that opinion I beg to call the general's notice to it. Very r
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), March 31-April 2, 1862.-expedition to Paris, Tenn. (search)
March 31-April 2, 1862.-expedition to Paris, Tenn. Report of Capt. William A. Haw, Fifth Iowa Cavalry. camp Lowe, Tenn., April 3, 1862. Pursuant to verbal orders received I started from Camp Lowe, 76 horses strong (including two guides), at noon on the 31st March, 1862, and proceeded toward Paris, taking the road to Paris Landing, and turning to the southwest. I found a very broken and timbered country, with tolerably good roads, often crossed by small creeks; the timber consisting of small oak trees with but little underwood, so that an infantry force would be able to operate as skirmishers. Cavalry can only fight in the same way. There are but a very few and small places where charges could be made. The whole road is practicable for teams and artillery. About 14 or 15 miles this side of Paris I found a swamp land for the distance of about a mile and a half, where the road forms a dam, at the end of which is a narrow wooden bridge, about 250 feet long, in not a very
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862., Part II: Correspondence, Orders, and Returns. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), Confederate correspondence, Etc. (search)
R. E. Lee, General, Commanding. headquarters Post at Purdy, March 31, 1862. Maj. C. G. Rogers, Assistant Adjutant-General: sir: A priva Hdqrs. Second Army Corps, Army of the Miss., Corinth, Miss., March 31, 1862. General James R. Chalmers, Commanding Advance: General: Youeneral. headquarters Department of East Tennessee, Knoxville, March 31, 1862. General S. Cooper, Adjutant-General C. S. Army: General: Brmith, Major-General, Commanding. headquarters, Richmond, Va., March 31, 1862. Maj. Gen. E. Kirby Smith, Commanding, &c., in East Tennessee, eneral. headquarters Department of East Tennessee, Knoxville, March 31, 1862. Brig. Gen. S. B. Maxey, Commanding, &c., Chattanooga, Tenn.: entral Army of Kentucky, General A. S. Johnston commanding, for March 31, 1862. the original is incomplete and unsigned. See also return on, Army of the Mississippi, Maj. Gen. Braxton Bragg commanding, March 31, 1862. Troops. Present for duty. Effective total. Aggregate present
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 6: (search)
ut he, however, suggested many considerations in opposition to this step, and frankly and voluntarily avowed his purpose of allowing the division to remain with the Army of the Potomac. The astonishment, therefore, of General McClellan may well be imagined when by the receipt of the following note he learned that the President had changed his mind, and determined upon a measure the inexpediency of which was so obvious to him but a few days before :-- Executive Mansion, Washington, March 31, 1862. my dear Sir:--This morning I felt constrained to order Blenker's division to Fremont; and I write this to assure you that I did so with great pain, understanding that you would wish it otherwise. If you could know the full pressure of the case, I am confident that you would justify it, even beyond a mere acknowledgment that the commander-in-chief may order what he pleases. Yours, very truly, A. Lincoln. Major-General McClellan. The weak and deprecatory tone of this note disa
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 6 (search)
Move the remainder of the force down the Potomac — choosing a new base at Fortress Monroe, or anywhere between here and there; or, at all events, move such remainder of the army at once in pursuit of the enemy by some route. Just before starting for the Peninsula, Gen. McClellan received, with surprise, the following note, involving a subtraction, he estimates, of 10,000 troops from the force which he expected to have transferred to the Peninsula: Executive Mansion, Washington, March 31, 1862. Major-General McClellan: Mr dear Sir: This morning I felt constrained to order Blenker's division to Fremont; and I write this to assure you that I did so with great pain, understanding that you would wish it otherwise. If you could know the full pressure of the case, I am confident that you would justify it, even beyond the mere acknowledgment that the Commander-in-Chief may order what he pleases. Yours, very truly, A. Lincoln. Stonewall Jackson's advance to and fight at Wi
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 8: Corps organizations. (search)
mmand of General Ricketts, it became the Third Division of that corps. Fourth Corps. （Army of the Potomac.) Siege of Yorktown Lee's Mills Williamsburg Seven Pines Fair Oaks Oak Grove Seven Days battle Malvern Hill Antietam. Organized under General Orders No. 101, March 13, 1862, by which the First, Second, and Third Corps were also created. It was formed by the divisions of Couch, Smith, and Casey, with General E. D. Keyes in command of the corps. The returns for March 31, 1862, show that the Fourth Corps then numbered, in the aggregate, 37,910, with 60 pieces of artillery; of this number, there were 32,919 present for duty. The corps moved to the Peninsula in March, 1862, with General McClellan's Army, taking part in the siege operations at Yorktown, and participating in the battle of Williamsburg, where it sustained a slight loss only. On May 18th, General Wm. F. Smith's Division was detached and assigned to the newly formed Sixth Corps, leaving the Fourt
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 13: aggregate of deaths in the Union Armies by States--total enlistment by States--percentages of military population furnished, and percentages of loss — strength of the Army at various dates casualties in the Navy. (search)
7 and, though correct as to the percentage of deaths from disease, the actual percentage of killed was much higher than indicated by the figures given. At no time during the period of active hostilities did the Regular Army number, present and absent, over 26,000 officers and men. Its actual strength at various dates was as follows: Date. Present. Absent. Aggregate. January 1, 1861 14,663 1,704 16,367 July 1, 1861 14,108 2,314 16,422 January 1, 1862 19,871 2,554 22,425 March 31, 1862 19,585 3,723 23,308 January 1, 1863 19,169 6,294 25,463 January 1, 1864 17,237 7,399 24,636 January 1, 1865 14,661 7,358 22,019 March 31, 1865 13,880 7,789 21,669 As there were only thirty regiments in the Regular Army, it becomes apparent that their average numerical strength must have been small, and that their losses in action were severe in proportion to their numbers. The deaths from all causes, aside from battle — Column II, Table A — are subdivided in Table B
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 104 1/2.-capture of Union City, Tenn. (search)
Doc. 104 1/2.-capture of Union City, Tenn. A correspondent gives the following minute account of this affair: above Island no.10, Monday, March 31, 1862. Since my last I have had the extreme pleasure of seeing the clearing out of that pestiferous centrepot of treason, Union City. It may, perhaps, be recollected that when the National fleet first came down here, it found Hickman in possession of a company of confederate vagabonds, who plundered, insulted and outraged the citizens of Hickman, under the pretence of serving the Dixie government. For a week or so after this they held possession of the place, and compelled all who had shown any evidence of satisfaction at the arrival of the National fleet to leave the town. The gunboat Louisville, Capt. Dove, about this time went up and anchored abreast of the town. This, together with a battalion of the Twenty-second Missouri, under Col. Foster, that took possession of the town, convinced the rebels that thereafter there
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