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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 4 (search)
ortunity that Grant was about to give him. At the very outset of the campaign he could strike the Federals in a position where superior numbers counted little. If he could drive Grant beyond the Rappahannock — as he had forced Pope, Burnside and Hooker before him — says George Cary Eggleston (in the History of the Confederate war ), loud and almost irresistible would have been the cry for an armistice, supported (as it would have been) by Wall Street and all Europe. Meade learned the positiith the success of brilliant flank movement. The graveyard of three campaigns As this photograph was taken, May 12, 1864, the dead again were being brought to unhappy Fredericksburg, where slept thousands that had fought under Burnside and Hooker. Now, once more, the sad cavalcade is arriving, freighted still more heavily. The half-ruined homes, to which some of the dwellers had returned, for the third time become temporary hospitals. It was weeks before the wounded left. The Wilderne
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 7 (search)
led against the Federal left, driving it back. But at this point the Twentieth Army Corps under Hooker, of Thomas' army, dashed against the advancing Confederates and pushed them back to their formertures are seen the entrenchments which the Confederates had hastily thrown up and which resisted Hooker's assaults on May 25th. For two days each side strengthened its position; then on the 28th the there was not what might be called a pitched battle. Late in the afternoon of the first day, Hooker made a vicious attack on Stewart's division of Hood's corps. For two hours the battle raged without a moment's cessation, Hooker being pressed back with heavy loss. During those two hours he had held his ground against sixteen field-pieces and five thousand infantry at close range. The name H them, Hood abandoned the city, and the next day, September 2d, General Slocum, having succeeded Hooker, led the Twentieth Corps of the Federal army within its earthen walls. Hood had made his escape
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), To Atlanta (search)
led against the Federal left, driving it back. But at this point the Twentieth Army Corps under Hooker, of Thomas' army, dashed against the advancing Confederates and pushed them back to their formertures are seen the entrenchments which the Confederates had hastily thrown up and which resisted Hooker's assaults on May 25th. For two days each side strengthened its position; then on the 28th the there was not what might be called a pitched battle. Late in the afternoon of the first day, Hooker made a vicious attack on Stewart's division of Hood's corps. For two hours the battle raged without a moment's cessation, Hooker being pressed back with heavy loss. During those two hours he had held his ground against sixteen field-pieces and five thousand infantry at close range. The name H them, Hood abandoned the city, and the next day, September 2d, General Slocum, having succeeded Hooker, led the Twentieth Corps of the Federal army within its earthen walls. Hood had made his escape
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
on, Ga. Union, Second Division of Fourteenth Corps and Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland. Confed., Gen. Johnston's command. Losses: Union, 16 killed, 59 wounded. May 18, 1864: Bayou de Glaize or Calhoun Station, La. Union, Portions of Sixteenth, Seventeenth Corps, and Cavalry of Nineteenth Corps; Confed., Gen. Taylor's command. Losses: Union, 60 killed, 300 wounded; Confed., 500 killed and wounded. May 19-22, 1864: Cassville, Ga. Union, Twentieth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Hooker; Confed., Gen. Johnston's command. Losses: Union, 10 killed, 46 wounded. May 20, 1864: Bermuda hundred, Va. Union, Tenth and Eighteenth Corps, Army of the James; Confed., Gen. Beauregard's command. Losses: Union, 702 killed and wounded. Confed., (estimate) 700 killed, wounded, and missing. Siege of Petersburg. While the navy was perfecting the blockade along the coast, General Grant at Petersburg was trying to get across Lee's entrenchments. In the