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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 44: letter to his Holiness the Pope. (search)
Chapter 44: letter to his Holiness the Pope. Mr. Davis's early education had always inclined him to see in the Roman Catholics friends who could not be alienated from the oppressed. He addressed the following letter to His Holiness. Richmond, September 23, 1863. very venerable sovereign Pontiff: The letters which you have written to the clergy of New Orleans and New York have been communicated to me, and I have read with emotion the deep grief therein expressed for the ruin and devastation caused by the war which is now being waged by the United States against the States and people which have selected me as their President, and your orders to your clergy to exhort the people to peace and charity. I am deeply sensible of the Christian charity which has impelled you to this reiterated appeal to the clergy. It is for this reason that I feel it my duty to express personally, and in the name of the Confederate States, our gratitude for such sentiments of Christian good feelin
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 177 (search)
Doc. 174.-Jefferson Davis and Pope Pius IX. Richmond, September 23, 1863. Very venerable sovereign Pontiff: The letters which you have written to the clergy of New-Orleans and New-York have been communicated to me, and I have read with emotion the deep grief therein expressed for the ruin and devastation caused by the war which is now being waged by the United States against the States and people which have selected me as their President, and your orders to your clergy to exhort the people to peace and charity. I am deeply sensible of the Christian charity which has impelled you to this reiterated appeal to the clergy. It is for this reason that I fell it my duty to express personally, and in the name of the Confederate States, our gratitude for such sentiments of Christian good feeling and love, and to assure your Holiness that the People, threatened even on their own hearths with the most cruel oppression and terrible carnage, are desirous now, as they have always been,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
itish ministry, restrained by the good Queen, steadily refused to take decided action in the matter. Only the Pope of Rome, of all the rulers of the earth, acting as a temporal prince, officially recognized Jefferson Davis as the head of a real Government. In the autumn of 1862, Pope Pius the Ninth addressed a letter to the Archbishops of New York and New Orleans, enjoining them to employ their prayers and influence for the restoration of peace. These were published, and on the 23d of September, 1863, Jefferson Davis, in his official capacity, addressed a letter to The Most Venerable Chief of the Holy See, and Sovereign Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, thanking him, in his own name and that of the Confederate States, for his Christian charity and love, declaring that they then were and ever had been earnestly desirous that the wicked war should cease. To this the Pope replied on the 3d of December, in a letter To the Illustrious and Honorable Jefferson Davis, President of t
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 10 (search)
28 29 239   M 1 10 11   26 26 201 Totals 14 150 164 6 244 250 2,486 Total of killed and wounded, 584; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 56. battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Charlestown, Va., March 7 1862 1 Falling Waters Md., July 14, 1863 2 Trevilian Sta'n, Va., June 12, 1864 17 Middletown Va., March 24, 1862 1 Rapidan Va., Sept. 14, 1863 1 Winchester, Va., Aug. 11, 1864 2 Salem, Va., April 1, 1862 1 Robertson's River, Sept. 23, 1863 1 Front Royal, Va., Aug. 16, 1864 4 Piedmont, Va., April 17, 1862 2 Brandy Station, Oct. 11, 1863 1 Shepherdstown, Va., Aug. 25, 1864 2 Winchester, Va., May 24, 1862 10 Centreville Va., Nov. 6, 1863 1 Smithfield, Va., Aug. 29, 1864 2 Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862 4 Todd's Tavern, Va., May 6, 1864 8 Opequon, Va., Sept. 19, 1864 11 Manassas, Va., Aug. 30, 1862 15 Beaver Dam, Va., May 9, 1864 2 Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864 7 Brentsville, Va., Jan. 9, 1863 3 Yellow Tave
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Tennessee, (search)
t considerably past noon the plateau was cleared, and the Confederates were retreating in confusion towards the Chattanooga Valley. Hooker established his line on the easterly face of the mountain; so that, by an enfilading fire, he completely commanded the Confederate defences, stretching across the valley to Missionary Ridge. See Chattanooga campaign, the; Lookout Mountain, battle on; Missionary Ridge, battle of. General Burnside, with the Army of the Ohio, had occupied Knoxville, Sept. 23, 1863. The Confederate General Buckner, upon his advance, evacuated east Tennessee and joined Bragg at Chattanooga. Early in November, General Livingstone, with 16,000 men, advanced against Knoxville. On the 14th he crossed the Tennessee. Burnside repulsed him on the 16th at Campbell's Station, thereby gaining time to concentrate his army in Knoxville. Longstreet advanced, laid siege to the town, and assaulted it twice (Nov. 18 and 29), but was repulsed. Meantime Grant had defeated Bragg
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
....Sept. 4, 1863 Confederates evacuate Fort Wagner on the night of......Sept. 7, 1863 General Wood's division of the 21st Corps, Army of the Cumberland, occupies Chattanooga, Tenn.......Sept. 9, 1863 President Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus by proclamation......Sept. 15, 1863 Battle of Chickamauga......Sept. 19-20, 1863 Eleventh and 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac, Major-General Hooker, ordered to middle Tennessee to reinforce the Army of the Cumberland......Sept. 23, 1863 Engagement at Bristow Station, Va., between the rear of the Army of the Potomac and A. P. Hill......Oct. 14, 1863 Maj.-Gen. U. S. Grant appointed to the Division of the Mississippi, including the departments of the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Ohio; Maj.-Gen. William S. Rosecrans relieved of command of the Army of the Cumberland, and Maj.-Gen. George H. Thomas succeeds, by General Order No. 337, War Department......Oct. 16, 1863 President Lincoln calls for 300,000 men for three ye
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 33: (search)
inform you that the enemy is constructing a battery in rear of the middle of Black Island. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Jno. F. O'Brien, Major and A. A. G. Headquarters, Department S. C., Ga., and Fla., Charleston, S. C., Sept. 23d, 1863. Brig.-Genl. R. S. Ripley, Comdg. First Mil. Dist., etc., etc.: General,—The Commanding General instructs me to inquire if Fort Sumter is amply provided with water. He also directs that, in the daytime, our batteries only fire on Morrior the purpose of annoying the enemy's communication between Fort Pulaski and Hilton Head. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, John F. O'Brien, Major, and A. A. G. Headquarters, Department S. C., Ga., and Fla., Charleston, S. C., Sept. 23d, 1863. Brig.-Genl. R. S. Ripley, Comdg. First Mil. Dist., etc., etc.: General,--It is the wish of the Commanding General that you call on Generals Hagood, Colquitt, and Taliaferro, and Colonels Keitt and Harrison, to furnish the names of such o
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Arkansas, 1863 (search)
er Battery. Sept. 11: Skirmish, WaldronKANSAS--14th Cavalry. Union loss, 1 killed, 2 wounded. Total, 3. Sept. 11: Skirmish near Little RockILLINOIS--10th and 13th Cavalry. INDIANA--1st Cavalry. MISSOURI--2d, 7th and 8th Cavalry; Clarkson's Battery "K," 2d Light Arty.; Lovejoy's 2d Cavalry Howitzer Battery. Union loss, 1 wounded. Sept. 12: Skirmish, DardanelleKANSAS--2d Cavalry. Sept. 12: Skirmish near BrownsvilleKANSAS--5th Cavalry. Sept. 16: Skirmish, BrownsvilleMISSOURI--3d Cavalry. Sept. 23: Skirmish, Bayou Metoe Bridge(No Reports.) Sept. 27: Skirmish, Moffatt's StationARKANSAS--1st Infantry (Detachment). Union loss, 2 killed, 2 wounded, 15 missing. Total, 19. Oct. 1: Skirmish, ElizabethtownIOWA--1st Cavalry. Oct. 2: Skirmish, Vance's StoreIOWA--1st Cavalry. Oct. 6: Skirmish, Fort Blair, WaldronWISCONSIN--3d Cavalry. Oct. 7: Skirmish, Ferry's FordOHIO--25th Indpt. Battery Light Arty. Oct. 7: Skirmish, Evening Shade(No Reports.) Oct. 7-10: Scout to Spring River Country(N
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Louisiana, 1863 (search)
Total, 18. Sept. 13-Oct. 2: Scout near Lake PontchartrainConfederate Reports. Sept. 14: Skirmish, Cross BayouKANSAS--1st Mounted Infantry. WISCONSIN--17th Mounted Infantry. Sept. 14: Skirmish, VidaliaMISSISSIPPI--2d Colored Infantry. MISSOURI--20th Infantry (Detachment). Union loss, 2 killed, 4 wounded, 2 missing. Total, 8. Sept. 19: Skirmish, Greenwell Springs Road, near Baton RougeWISCONSIN--4th Cavalry (Detachment). Sept. 20: Skirmish, Morgan's Ferry, Atchafalaya River(No Reports.) Sept. 23: Affair, opposito DonaldsonvilleNEW YORK--14th Cavalry (Capt. Metcalf's Company). Sept. 24-29: Exp. from Carrollton to New and Amite RiversILLINOIS--4th Cavalry. INDIANA--16th (Mounted), 60th and 67th Infantry. OHIO--17th Indpt. Battery Light Arty.; 83d and 96th Infantry. WISCONSIN--23d Infantry. Sept. 27-29: Exp. from Goodrich's Landing to Bayou Macon(No Reports.) Sept. 29: Action, Sterling's Plantation on Bayou Fordoche, near MorganzaILLINOIS--4th Cavalry; 37th Infantry. INDIANA--26th
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, South Carolina, 1863 (search)
TTS--24th Infantry. UNITED STATES--3d Colored Infantry. Union loss, 10 killed, 17 wounded, Total, 27. Sept. 1: Action, Morris IslandNEW YORK--"Enfans Perdu" Infantry. Sept. 7: Occupation of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris IslandCONNECTICUT--17th Infantry. MASSACHUSETTS--40th and 54th (Colored) Infantry. ILLINOIS--39th Infantry. NEW HAMPSHIRE--4th and 7th Infantry. NEW YORK--117th and 169th Infantry. OHIO--75th Infantry. RHODE ISLAND--3d Heavy Arty. Sept. 8: Night attack on Fort Sumpter413 U. S. Marines and Sailors. Union loss, 3 killed, 114 missing. Total, 117. Sept. 23: Action at Fort GreggNEW YORK--"Enfans Perdu" Infantry. Oct. 21: Action, Fort GreggNEW YORK--"Enfans Perdu" Infantry. Nov. 15: Demonstration on James IslandU. S. Navy. Nov. 24: Skirmish near Cunningham's BluffSOUTH CAROLINA--1st Colored Infantry (Cos. "E," "K"). Union loss, 2 killed, 7 wounded. Total, 9. Dec. 25: Action, LegaresvilleU. S. Gunboat "Marblehead." Dec. 28: Affair, John's IslandConfederate Reports.
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