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The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army 2 0 Browse Search
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 I. 2 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 2 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 2 2 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 2 0 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 2 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
d, H. Fulton. American, 57; 1,000 yards. In a possible 60. The sizes of the targets of the National Rifle Association at Creedmoor are as follows: — Up to 300 yds.300 to 600 yds.600 to 1,000 yds. Size6 × 2 feet6 × 6 feet6 × 12 feet. Bull's-eye.8 × 8 inches2 × 2 feet3 × 3 feet. Center2 × 2 feet4 × 4 feet6 × 6 feet. Bull's-eyes count4. Centers count3. Outers count2. See rifles. The following is the complete score of the shooting at Dollymount, Ireland; the targets are showBull's-eyes count4. Centers count3. Outers count2. See rifles. The following is the complete score of the shooting at Dollymount, Ireland; the targets are shown in Plate LXVIII. The American team. 800 yds.900 yds.1,000 yds. Total. Col. H. A. Gildersleeve565652164 G. W. A. Yale575251160 Major Henry Fulton585746161 R. C. Coleman564852156 Col. John Bodine525951162 Gen. T. S. Dakin585551164 ———— Total337327303967 The Irish team. Wilson585055163 Hamilton565451161 McKenna524453149 Milner553741133 Johnson585450162 Pollock595349161 ———— Total338292299929 Total for American team967 Total for Irish team929 —
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, New York Volunteers. (search)
on Manassas, Va., March 10. At Fairfax Court House till March 24. Ordered to join Fremont in West Virginia, and pursuit of Jackson up the Valley April and May. Near Strasburg June 1. Union Church June 5. Battle of Cross Keys June 8. Near Port Republic June 9. At Sperryville till August. Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 16-September 2. Fords of the Rappahannock August 20-23. Sulphur Springs August 23-24. Plains of Manassas August 27-29. Battle of Bull August 30. Duty in the Defenses of Washington till December. March to Fredericksburg, Va., December 10-16. Duty at Falmouth land Brook's Station till April, 1863. Mud March January 20-24. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee July 5-24. Near Bristoe Station till September. Movement to Bridgeport, Ala., September 24-October 3. Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29.
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 6: siege of Wagner. (search)
men were stationed on higher points to watch the enemy's batteries. Whenever a puff of smoke was seen these lookouts called loudly, Cover! adding the name by which that particular battery was known. Instantly the workers dropped shovels and tools, jumped into the trench, and, close-covered, waited the coming of the shot or shell, which having exploded, passed, or struck, the work was again resumed. Some of the newer batteries of the enemy were known by peculiar or characteristic names, as Bull in the Woods, Mud Digger, and Peanut Battery. At night the men worked better, for the shells could be seen by reason of the burning fuses, and their direction taken; unless coming in the direction of the toilers, the work went on. Becoming accustomed to their exposure, in a short time this dodging shells was reduced almost to a scientific calculation by the men. Most of all they dreaded mortar-shells, which, describing a curved course in the sky, poised for a moment apparently, then, burstin
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 24 (search)
he greater impunity. Not satisfied with taking articles of food, and, in some cases, all that they can lay hands on, they break and destroy furniture, looms, and farming implements, in the most wanton spirit. The commander of the Twenty-third army corps, I am glad to observe, has a stringent order against this indiscriminate pillaging. Officials of this corps, to my certain knowledge, have set their faces as a flint against these outrages, and have done all they could to prevent them. Colonel Bull, commanding the pioneer corps, is also entitled to the thanks of all who value the good name of the army. He allows no soldiers to enter a house upon any pretext, and when obliged to stop for water at a well, upon any person's premises, personally sees that they commit no depredations, and that they move along. Such officers redeem the character of the army. On Friday morning Rome was occupied by McPherson, who came upon the place suddenly, and prevented the destruction of the machin
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 6: Lowell's closing years in Cambridge (search)
asty Pudding Club — the reverse of a recluse position-and kept its records in verse. After leaving college he and Maria White were the King and Queen of what was probably the most brilliant circle of young people — the Brother and sister club-ever brought together in the neighborhood of Boston. After his marriage, too, Elmwood became the scene of a modest but delightful hospitality; for Mrs. Lowell had hosts of friends and loved to meet them. Eminent strangers were entertained there; Ole Bull, for instance, on his first arrival. Then followed by degrees the deaths of his older children, and the illness and death of his wife; then the sinking of Dr. Lowell into that sorrowful condition described in one of his son's most remarkable poems, The Darkened mind. It was the closing in of these shadows which changed for many years the life of Lowell, and made him, so far as he ever was, a recluse. For a time it made a reaction which took him positively away from his early associations
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 19: (search)
Polk, by another road, crossed the river some miles to the right, and gained the enemy's rear in the afternoon of the 16th. An immediate demand for the surrender of the garrison was made, and the next morning an unconditional surrender was obtained. We secured 4,267 prisoners, 10 pieces of artillery, 5,000 small arms, and a proportional quantity of ammunition, horses, mules, and military stores. Bragg's whole army was now on the road between Nashville and Louisville — the road by i which Bull would be forced to march if he sought to interpose his army between the Confederates and the Ohio. It was apparently an excellent opportunity of striking not only a military but a political blow against the Federal cause in Kentucky. Bragg might press on, and, in conjunction with Kirby Smith, capture Louisville, or lie might, with equal forces, meet Buell in the field, and force him back to Nashville. He adopted neither course. After the success of Mumfordsville, he suffered Buell and his
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ied. Its walls were scaled and some evidences of the former presence of natives were found. Professor William Libbey and F. W. Hodge both have written on the subject. While the pioneers were pouring into the West, exterminating the buffalo for hide-and-tallow profits, described by W. T. Hornaday in The Extermination of the American Bison (1889), and dispossessing the Plains Indians generally, the latter became restless and unruly. Under the spell of their crafty medicine priest, Sitting Bull, the Sioux were greatly disturbed. The army was ordered to compel their obedience and in 1876 made a determined move expected to crush the Indians. General Crook was defeated in one of the first encounters; and a few days later General Custer was annihilated with his immediate command. The Sioux were superior in numbers and in arms. The courage of Custer was of no avail. Custer wrote My life on the Plains (1874) and a number of articles for The Galaxy. General W. B. Hazen, who had a q
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
our mouth, 149 Siberia, 608 Siberian exile system, the, 165 Sights and scenes in the Goldregions, 145 Siljestrom, 406 Sill, E. R., 31, 53, 56-59, 64, 245 Siller, Franz, 581 Silver and Gold, 440 Silver Dagger, the, 512 Silver Pound, the, 440 Silver question, the, 440 Silver situation, the, 443 Simms, E. D., 479 Simms, W. G., 67, 338, 542, 549, 551, 551 n. Simon the Cyrenian, 267 Simpson, Henry I., 145 Simpson, S., 436 Singer, 481 Sir Hugh, 507 Sitting Bull, 159 Sixty years in public affairs, 351 Sixty years with the Bible, 206 Skal, Georg von, 579 Sketch Book, 125 Sketches of the rise and progress of Secession, 352 Sketches on a tour through the Northern and Eastern States, 162 Sketches on Rotations of crops, 430 Sketch of an English school, 393 Sketch of the finances of the United States, 430 Sketch of the life of R. F. Stockton, 143 Skidmore, T., 436 Skinner, J. S., 432 Skinner, Otis, 279 Skip to My Lou, 516
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 7 (search)
laying of the pontons that the little band of engineers, murderously thinned, was presently compelled to slacken work, and then cease altogether. Two regiments of Hancock's division, sent to cover the working parties engaged in building the bridge directly opposite Fredericksburg, soon lost from their thin ranks one hundred and fifty men.—Hancock: Report of Fredericksburg. These regiments were, the Fifty-Seventh New York, Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman, and the Sixty-Sixth New York, Lieutenant-Colonel Bull, of Zook's brigade, Hancock's division, Couch's corps. Several hours passed in renewed but unavailing efforts, and it became clear that nothing could be done until the sharp-shooters were dislodged from their lurking-places. To accomplish this, Burnside, at ten o'clock, gave the command to concentrate the fire of all the artillery on the city and batter it down. On this there opened from the massive concentration of artillery a terrific bombardment that was kept up for above an ho
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 10 (search)
by the heights on each side. Warren: Report of Operations. But the actual condition of things was not as bad as appeared. Little more than the mere van of Ewell's column, and that mainly cavalry, had yet come up: the crossing of Cedar Run was not interrupted; Hays, who was on the north side, having thrown out a couple of regiments, repulsed the enemy, and cleared the route over which the corps was to advance; These regiments were the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New York, under Lieutenant-Colonel Bull, supported by the Twelfth New Jersey Volunteers; and General Hays, in his official report, gives the following account of this spirited affair: I moved forward the entire regiment of the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New York, supported by the Twelfth New Jersey. In a short time our force came in contact with the rebels. It was short, but very decisive. The rebel cavalry, led by Colonel Thomas Ruffin, charged furiously upon the deployed One Hundred and Twenty-sixth, and were most
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