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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 461 449 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 457 125 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 432 88 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 425 15 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 398 2 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 346 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 303 1 Browse Search
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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. 201 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 9: events at Nashville, Columbus, New Madrid, Island number10, and Pea Ridge. (search)
mmand of the Department of Mississippi, was in immediate command of the troops, and the property at Jackson, Tennessee, after the evacuation of Columbus; and, inspired by an appeal from the Ordnance Department at Richmond, Tin, an essential article in the manufacture of brass cannon, was so scarce within the bounds of the Confederacy, that the Ordnance Department solicited the people to contribute bells for the purpose. It is said that sufficient bell-metal was sent to Richmond, from Fredericksburg aloes, to make two light batteries. he there indulged in his favorite amusement of issuing sensation orders. He sent forth one dated the 8th of March, addressed To the Planters of the Mississippi Valley, telling them that more than once a people fighting with an enemy less ruthless than theirs, for imperiled rights not more dear and sacred. for homes and a land not more worthy of resolute and unconquerable men, and for interests of far less magnitude than theirs, had not hesitated to m
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)
for communication were used elsewhere. While the contending armies were on the Rappahannock, the pickets of both sides would send newspapers backward and forward across the stream in that d way. Our little picture shows one in the possession of a Lieutenant C. A. Alvord, Jr., of General Caldwell's staff, which he brought from the Rappahannock. It is made of a piece of thin board, about twenty-three inches in length, with a strip of the same for a keel, and a rudder Newspaper-boat at Fredericksburg. of tin. Two small sticks formed masts, and the sails were made of checked cotton cloth. On it a newspaper was sent over by the insurgents from the Fredericksburg side of the river. Three siege batteries were erected on Bogue Spit behind sand-hills, the sides and front being formed by sand-bags. The most distant, under Lieutenant Flagler, of the New York Third Artillery, was in the borders of a marsh, about fourteen hundred yards from the fort, and mounted four teninch mortars. T
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 14: movements of the Army of the Potomac.--the Monitor and Merrimack. (search)
ided on the movement to the Peninsula. That Johnston was ignorant of the intended flank movement at the time of the evacuation, is evident from a remark of an English officer then serving under him, who said, in speaking of the forces there: In fact, McClellan was quietly maturing plans for the seizure of Centreville and Manassas, when Johnston suddenly gave orders for a general retreat, and all our army began to move rapidly southward. --See Battle-fields of the South, from Bull Run to Fredericksburg; by an English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery on the Field Staff. The removal of his stores and war materials commenced a few days before the prescribed time for McClellan to advance upon his position. It was a masterly movement, and evinced that ability which has caused Johnston to be regarded by experts on both sides as by far the most able of the commanders of the Confederate armies. On receiving information of the evacuation of Centreville and Manassas, March 9. McClellan cr
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 15: the Army of the Potomac on the Virginia Peninsula. (search)
of the Potomac. One was in the Mountain Department, under Fremont; another in the Department of the Shenandoah, under Banks; and a third in the newly created Department of the Rappahannock, under McDowell. At about the time of the siege of Yorktown, early in April, General Fremont was at Franklin, in Pendleton County, over the mountains west of Harrisonburg, with fifteen thousand men; General Banks was at Strasburg, in the Valley, with about sixteen thousand; and General McDowell was at Fredericksburg, on the Rappahannock, with thirty thousand. When the appearance of McClellan on the Peninsula drew Johnston's main body from the Rapid Anna to the defense of Richmond, Washington was relieved, and McDowell's corps was ordered forward to co-operate with the Army of the Potomac; and for this purpose Shields's division was detached from Banks's command and given to McDowell, making the force of the latter about forty-one thousand men and one hundred guns. Such was the disposition of the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 16: the Army of the Potomac before Richmond. (search)
essity of countermanding the order for McDowell to move on from Fredericksburg to join him, and he had as usual sent back a complaining remons asked him if he could not cut the railway between Richmond and Fredericksburg; and also what impression he had of the intrenched works for thvance from Charlestown to-day. General King telegraphs us from Fredericksburg, that contrabands give certain information that 15,000 left Handestroyed by a party under Major Williams, and the Richmond and Fredericksburg road was cut. A part of Emory's cavalry, under Captain Chamblisn ordered to march to his assistance by the shortest route from Fredericksburg, rendered it impossible for him to use the James River as a lindivision of McDowell's corps would be sent to him by water from Fredericksburg as speedily as possible. In reference to that notification theyoung life to his country in consequence of a wound received at Fredericksburg), who was among those detailed for that service, gave a graphic
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 17: Pope's campaign in Virginia. (search)
or service. These troops were posted from Fredericksburg to Winchester and Harper's Ferry in the Sh Rufus King, of the same corps, who was at Fredericksburg, was ordered to remain there, cover that cpurpose he directed General Rufus King, at Fredericksburg, to send forward detachments of cavalry to Detachments sent out by General King from Fredericksburg made bold dashes toward Richmond. One comy. The bulk of that army then lay between Fredericksburg, on the Rappahannock, and Culpepper Court-his communication with the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg at all hazards, and to that end he now madm the South Carolina coast, had moved from Fredericksburg, and were within supporting distance. Popict orders to keep up a communication with Fredericksburg, he was too weak in numbers to extend his retire to Warrenton Junction, or retire to Fredericksburg and abandon the Orange and Alexandria rail its right bank to get between himself and Fredericksburg. Sigel was directed to march his whole [1 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 18: Lee's invasion of Maryland, and his retreat toward Richmond. (search)
erseded by Burnside, 485. the Army before Fredericksburg, 486. position of the Confederates at FreFredericksburg, 487. attempts to build pontoon bridges attacks on the workmen, 488. passage of the Rdemanded the surrender of Farmers' bank, Fredericksburg. the city. Nov. 21. The authorities replember 1862. it lay in a semicircle around Fredericksburg, each wing resting on the river; its rightty. Eye-witnesses describe the scene in Fredericksburg after the bombardment on the 11th as sad i was satisfied that Burnside was moving on Fredericksburg, he ordered Jackson to cross the Blue Ridgter both he and Longstreet were ordered to Fredericksburg, when the division of D. The. Hill was sed. Ransom's division supported Scene in Fredericksburg on the morning of the 12th. the batteriesore able subordinates. The disaster at Fredericksburg touched Burnside's reputation as a judiciots that should retrieve the misfortunes at Fredericksburg, yet the General-in-Chief would not sancti[15 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 20: events West of the Mississippi and in Middle Tennessee. (search)
ltingly, Their bones are bleaching on the soil of every county from Red River to the Rio Grande, and in the counties of Wise and Denton their bodies are suspended by scores from the Black Jacks. A notable and representative instance of the treatment received by the Texan loyalists at the hands of their oppressors is found in the narrative of an attempt of about sixty of them, mostly young Germans belonging to the best families in Western Texas, to leave the country. They collected at Fredericksburg, on the frontier, intending to make their way to New Orleans by way of Mexico, and join the National army. On the night of the 9th of August they encamped on the edge of a cedar brake, on the Nueces River, about forty miles from the Rio Grande. They had moved with such secrecy that they scarcely felt any apprehension of danger from the guerrillas, who were scouring the country with orders to kill all Union men. But they were betrayed, and a leader named Duff sent over one hundred men t