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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 18 18 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 16 16 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 14 14 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 13 13 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 8 8 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 6 6 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 5 5 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 4 4 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 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 3 3 Browse Search
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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 13 (search)
f the foragers, who had been out on a tramp, brought a hive of bees into camp, after the men had wrapped themselves in their blankets, and, by way of a joke, set No joke. it down stealthily on the stomach of the captain of one of the companies, making business quite lively in that neighborhood shortly afterwards. Foragers took other risks than that of punishment for absence from camp or the column without leave. They were not infrequently murdered on these expeditions. On the 7th of December, 1864, Warren's Fifth Corps was started southward from Petersburg, to destroy the Weldon Railroad still further. On their return, they found some of their men, who had straggled and foraged, lying by the roadside murdered, their bodies stark naked and shockingly mutilated. One of Sherman's men recently related how in the Carolinas one of his comrades was found hanged on a tree, bearing this inscription, Death to all foragers. A large number of men were made prisoners while away from thei
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate defense of Fort Sumter. (search)
st South Carolina Infantry (regulars), commanded by Colonel William Butler. The people of the State and city were proud of the two regiments; and the Charlestonians thought of no greater pleasure for their visitors than to give them an afternoon trip down the harbor to see the dress-parade and hear the band play at Fort Sumter. The fine record of this garrison, beginning with the 7th of April, 1863, when Rear-Admiral Captain Thomas A. Huguenin in the headquarters-room, Fort Sumter, December 7, 1864. from a War-time sketch. Du Pont's attack with nine iron-clad vessels was repulsed, continued until September of the same year, when the fort, silenced by Major-General Gillmore's breaching batteries, had no further use for artillerists, and was thenceforth defended mostly by infantry. One or two companies of artillerists would serve their turns of duty, but the new garrison was made up of detachments from infantry regiments of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, relievi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 9.64 (search)
that he felt we had lost a brilliant opportunity at Spring Hill to deal the enemy a crushing blow, and that he was greatly to blame. I telegraphed and wrote to the War Department to withdraw my application for his removal, in the belief that, inspired with an ambition to retrieve his shortcoming, he would prove in the future doubly zealous in the service of his country. The following are the dispatches above referred to: headquarters, six miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, December 7, 1864. Hon. J. A. Seddon: I withdraw my recommendation in favor of the promotion of Major-General Cheatham, for reasons which I will write more fully. J. B. Hood, General. headquarters, six miles from Nashville, on Franklin Pike, December 8, 1864. Hon. J. A. Seddon, Secretary of War; General G. T. Beauregard, Macon, Ga.: A good lieutenant-general should be sent here at once to command the corps now commanded by Major-General Cheatham. I have no one to recommend for the position. J. B
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
ee. Meanwhile, there had been some events that broke the monotony of his Army in. Winter quarters; and Sheridan had been performing gallant and useful services North and west of Richmond. To prevent Lee from receiving any supplies by the Weldon road, Meade sent Warren, early in December, with his own (Fifth) Corps, Mott's division of the Third Corps, and Gregg's mounted men, to destroy that railway farther South than had yet been done. This service was promptly performed. Warren moved Dec. 7, 1864. with his whole command along the road, without much opposition, and destroyed it all the way to De. Meherrin River, driving the few Confederates in his path across that stream to a fortified position at Hicksford. a few weeks later, while a greater portion of the naval force on the James River was engaged in a second expedition against Fort Fisher, see page 484. the Confederates sent down from under the shelter of strong Fort Darling, this Fort, which has been frequently mention
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., Xxxiv. Fall of Richmond--end of the War.—Grant-Lee — Sheridan. (search)
futility, and a confession of defeat, and after having mercilessly ridiculed the suggestion that negro slaves could ever be transformed into effective soldiers, the Rebel attempt to replenish with Blacks the thinned ranks of their armies — hitherto largely swelled by appeals to the intense prejudice of the lowest Whites against Nigger Equality --was a most palpable and damaging confession that the knell of the Confederacy had sounded. A single expedition, under Warren, was sent out Dec. 7, 1864. from Meade's left to destroy the Weldon railroad farthe<*> southward, and thus prevent its use by the enemy in transporting supplies from North Carolina nearly up to our lines; whence they were wagoned around our left to Lee's camps. This expedition, consisting of Warren's (5th) corps, Mott's division of the 2d, and Gregg's mounted division, moved down the railroad so far as the Meherrin; across which to Hicksford the few Rebels encountered were driven, while the road was effectually de
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)
ision (General Foster's)--the regiment sustained a loss of 6 killed, 42 wounded, and 4 missing; total, 52. In December the Tenth Corps was discontinued, and Curtis's Brigade was placed in Ames's (2d) Division of the Twenty-fourth Corps. On December 7, 1864, the regiment sailed with Butler's Expedition to Fort Fisher, N. C., where it disembarked; Captain Stevens, with Companies H, and B, made a short reconnoissance in which they intercepted and captured a battalion of 230 men belonging to the Fonfederate prisons (previously included), 16. battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Fort Donelson, Tenn. 54 Nickajack, Ga. 1 Shiloh, Tenn. 15 Atlanta, Ga. 17 Corinth, Miss. 25 Jonesboro, Ga. 2 Dallas, Ga. 4 Eden Station, Ga., Dec. 7, 1864 2 Present, also, at Siege of Corinth, Bear Creek, Ala.; Town Creek, Ala.; Resaca, Ga.; Rome Cross Roads, Ga.; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.; Litttle Ogeeche River, Ga.; Siege of Savannah, Ga.; Columbia, S. C.; Lynch's Creek, S. C.; Bentonville,
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 11: list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each. (search)
diana Wagner's Fourth 5 24 63 92 40th Indiana Wagner's Fourth 2 20 50 72 Honey Hill, S. C.             Nov. 30, 1864.             55th Mass. Colored Hatch's ---------- 31 112 1 144 25th Ohio Hatch's ---------- 24 134 3 161 35th U. S. Colored Hatch's ---------- 7 101 4 112 Deveaux Neck, S. C.             Dec. 6-9, 1864.             127th New York Hatch's ---------- 16 54 -- 70 32d U. S. Colored Hatch's ---------- 9 39 1 49 Murfreesboro, Tenn.             Dec. 7, 1864.             8th Minnesota ------------ ---------- 14 75 -- 89 Fort McAllister, Ga.             Dec. 13, 1864.             70th Ohio Hazen's Fifteenth 6 31 -- 37 Nashville, Tenn.             Dec. 15-16, 1864.             13th U. S. Colored Steedman's ---------- 55 165 1 221 100th U. S. Colored Steedman's ---------- 12 121 -- 133 71st Ohio Beatty's Fourth 21 101 - 122 12th U. S. Colored Steedman's ----------
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, List of regiments in the Union Armies, with total number of deaths in each. (search)
ed. and 1 missing; total, 107. The 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th Regiments served on the frontier in the Indian war, and afterwards fought under General A. J. Smith--Sixteenth Corps--at Tupelo, Nashville, and Mobile. The 10th Minnesota lost at Nashville 17 killed and 60 wounded. Including the mortally wounded. The 8th Minnesota served in the Indian Territory, after which it was stationed, in 1864, on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, where it had a sharp fight at Murfreesboro, December 7, 1864, in which it lost 14 killed and 75 wounded. Including the mortally wounded. Iowa.--The 3d Iowa Cavalry met its severest loss at Pea Ridge, the casualties in the five companies engaged there amounting to 24 killed, 17 wounded, and 9 missing. After the battle it was found that some of the bodies had been scalped, supposed to have been done by Indians who had joined the Confederate ranks. The 6th and 7th Cavalry served most of their time in the Indian Territory, engaged in campai
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
that the transportation furnished by General Grant's quartermaster was deficient, for four of the largest boats were behind on that date, and it will also show who, if anybody in the army, was delaying the expedition at that time. My troops were ready on the 6th. On the 7th, also, I received the following from General Grant in relation to the instructions I had issued, a copy of which had been forwarded to him for his approval:-- headquarters armies of the U. S., City Point, Va., Dec. 7, 1864. Major-General B. F. Butler, Commanding Army of the James: I had sent you a cipher despatch before receiving your instructions to General Weitzel. I think it advisable that all embarkation should take place at Bermuda. The number of intrenching tools I think should be increased three or four times. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. The number of intrenching tools was increased. To get additional transportation I sent word to Colonel Dodge that the Baltic was at Annapolis, and co
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
blow out the end of the canal. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. [no. 109. see page 784.] Dec. 7, 1864, 11.05 P. M. General Turner, chief of staff: We have here now the following boats [giving eaving space for ambulances, etc. George S. Dodge, Colonel, etc. [no. 110. see page 784.] Dec. 7, 1864. Colonel Dodge: The Baltic is at Annapolis. Get her ; we shall need her. Benj. F. Butler, Major-General Commanding. [no. 111. see page 784.] [Cipher.] Dec. 7, 1864. Lieutenant-General Grant: General Weitzel's command is encamped at Signal Tower near Point of Rocks, and awaits ordending. [no. 112. see page 784.] headquarters armies of the United States, City Point, Va., Dec. 7, 1864. Major-General Butler: Let General Weitzel get off as soon as possible. I don't want the navy to wait an hour. U. S. Grant, Lieutenant-General. [no. 113. see page 785.] Dec. 7, 1864, 9 P. M. Major-General Weitzel: You will embark your command and get off to Fortress Monroe as soon
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