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The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 15 (search)
capable of containing from twenty-five to forty bodies) fully explain where most of the 255 missing of that day went to. I am fully satisfied that nearly the whole of them were either killed outright on the field or were wounded and could not be brought away, and fell into the hands of the enemy when we abandoned the field at 10 p. m. on the 27th. Respectfully submitted. O. O. Howard, Major-General, Commanding. headquarters Fourth Army Corps, Near Acworth, Ga., June 8, 1864. Brigadier-General Whipple, Assistant Adjutant-General and Chief of Staff. List of casualties in Fourth Army Corps in action of June 27, 1864. Command.Killed.Wounded.Missing.Aggregate. Officers.Men.Officers.Men.Officers.Men. First Division17777700884 Second Division1270454418258597 Third Division1260027 Total13785452818268688 Total loss,756. Respectfully submitted. O. O. Howard, Major-General, Commanding. Brig. Gen. William D. Whipple, A. A. G. and Chief of Staff, Dept. of the Cumberland.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, December (search)
there does not exist the slightest excuse. If the insurgents wish to increase the notoriety which they possess for burning villages and frame houses, and destroying property belonging to their own people, as well as others, it affords an opportunity for our opposite policy to stand out in bold relief, and should not be neglected. The Major-General Commanding would again express his decided disapprobation of such proceedings on the part of our troops. By command of Major-General Wool. W. D. Whipple, A. A.-G. This order was sent to Camp Butler. to be read to all the troops under the command of General Mansfield. The rebel privateer Isabel succeeded, after several fruitless attempts, in running the blockade off Charleston, S. C., last night. There were eleven war vessels off the harbor at the time. The gunboat Pocahontas was despatched in pursuit, but without success, the Isabel being far the faster of the two.--N. Y. Herald, Jan. 4, 1862. This evening the bridges ov
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Battle of Bull Run. (search)
o alleviating their sufferings. Captain G. P. Woodbury, Chief Engineer of the division, fearlessly exposed himself in front of the skirmishers during our whole advance, and determined, with great judgment, the route of the division. Captain W. D. Whipple, Assistant Adjutant-General; Captain Cook, of the Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, aide-de-camp; Lieutenant Cross of Engineers, and Lieutenant D. W. Flagler, aide-de-camp, all performed their duties to my entire satisfaction: they were absecting wood with great tenacity, and the Rhode Island battery became so much endangered as to impel the commander of the 2d brigade to call for the assistance of the battalion. of regulars. At this time I received the information through Capt. W. D. Whipple, A. A. G., that Col. Hunter was seriously wounded, and had directed him to report to me as commander of the division, and in reply to the urgent request of Col. Burnside, I detached the battalion of regulars to his assistance. For an ac
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
epartment of the Cumberland--(Continued.) commands.absent.present and absent.Aggregate Last Return.present for duty equipped.horses.guns.  Sick.Without Authority.Infantry.Cavalry.Artillery.  Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Aggregate.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Commissioned Officers.Enlisted Men.Serviceable.Unserviceable.Number.  Department Staff1   27 2727         Brig.-Gen. W. D. Whipple. Fourth Army Corps825,685274082,24836,86339,11139,11278514,115  123812952524Maj.-Gen. O. O. Howard. Fourteenth Army Corps.504,004263691,82037,51639,33638,94168618,406  237826645242Maj.-Gen. J. M. Palmer. Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps413,728113711,61833,40935,02734,85883818,297150259888024452Maj.-Gen. J. Hooker. District of Nashville7983535769315,90616,59918,0743628,006289247395391065Maj.-Gen. L. H. Rousseau. Cavalry Command442,800172371,06720,93522,00222,0021041,
The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e Seventeenth corps, was two thousand one hundred and forty-two. The other divisions of the Seventeenth corps repulsed six assaults of the enemy before they fell back, and which will swell the rebel loss in killed to at least three thousand. The latest report states we buried over three thousand two hundred rebels, killed in this fight. There were captured from the enemy, in this battle, eighteen stands of colors and five thousand stands of arms. "By order of Major-General Thomas. "W. D. Whipple, Assistant Adjutant-General." In the fight of the 20th, it seems, in front of one Yankee corps alone, five hundred and sixty-three rebels were buried by the Yankees, and the rebels were permitted to bury two hundred and fifty more; so that in front of that corps alone, on that day, eight hundred an thirteen rebels were killed. The second division of the Fourth corps buried three hundred more — total for that day, one thousand and thirteen killed.. There was no report from the F