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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 105 5 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 100 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 95 3 Browse Search
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. 72 6 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 71 7 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 70 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 67 9 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 52 2 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 50 0 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 47 3 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in 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. You can also browse the collection for Gordon Granger or search for Gordon Granger in all documents.

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was composed of veteran brigades whose battle flags were scarred with the marks of hard fought fields; within this new command they were destined to wave amid the smoke and fire of many more. The command of the Fourth Corps was given to General Gordon Granger, the man who marched his division to Chickamauga with no other orders or direction than the sound of the enemy's cannon. The three divisions of this new corps were placed under the commands of Generals Palmer, Sheridan, and Wood. Soon aftained considerable loss. They were also engaged at Cane River, and at Cloutiersville, La. The corps organization was discontinued, June 11, 1864, and the troops transferred to other commands. It was reorganized, Feb. 18, 165, and Major-General Gordon Granger, of Chickamauga fame, was placed in command; the divisions were commanded by Generals Veatch, Andrews, and Benton. The corps proceeded to Mobile, and it participated in the investment of that city, and in the storming of Fort Blakely,
brigade in this division, and General Jackson, the dlivision commander, were also killed, while the regiment lost in this, its baptism of fire, 35 killed, 162 wounded, and 32 missing; a total of 229, out of 822 present for duty that day. The Ninety-eighth moved into Tennessee and was stationed successively at Franklin, Shelbyville, and Wartrace during the spring and summer of 1863, after which it joined in Rosecrans's advance to Chickamauga, having been assigned to Steedman's Division of Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps. Its casualty list at Chickamauga showed 9 killed, 41 wounded, and 13 missing, out of 201 present for action. Upon the reorganization of the Army of the Cumberland, in October, 1863, the regiment was placed in the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fourteenth Corps, in which it served until mustered out. This brigade fought under General John Beatty at Missionary Ridge, but in its subsequent campaigns it was commanded by General John G. Mitchell. The Ninety-eighth was no
- 5 29 5 39 2d West Va., M. Inf. ------------ ---------- 5 16 8 29 Chickamauga, Ga.             Sept. 19-20, 1863.             22d Michigan Steedman's Granger's 58 261 70 389 9th Ohio Brannan's Fourteenth 48 185 16 249 14th Ohio Brannan's Fourteenth 35 167 43 245 8th Kansas Davis's Twentieth McCook's Corps. 30 165 25 220 21st Ohio Negley's Fourteenth 34 153 56 243 18th U. S. Infantry Baird's Fourteenth 33 152 118 303 96th Illinois Steedman's Granger's 39 134 52 225 87th Indiana Brannan's Fourteenth 40 142 8 190 4th Kentucky Brannan's Fourteenth 25 157 9 191 25th Illinois Davis's Twentieth McCook's Corps. 10 171 24 205 21st Illinois Davis's Twentieth McCook's Corps. 32 144 62 238 115th Illinois Steedman's Granger's 22 151 10 183 26th Ohio Wood's Twenty-first 27 140 45 212 35th Ohio Brannan's Fourteenth 21 139 27 187 10th Indiana Brannan's Fourteenth 24 136 6 166 10th Kentucky Brannan's Fourteenth 21 134 11 166 1s
y it as an escort. The 96th Illinois, Colonel Thomas E. Champion, was another regiment which achieved a reputation as an efficient and reliable command. It distinguished itself at Chickamauga, where it fought in Steedman's Division of General Gordon Granger's Reserve Corps, holding its ground sturdily in the face of Longstreet's veterans, and retiring from the field only when darkness had terminated the conflict. Lieutenant-Colonel Clarke was killed in this battle, the total loss of the regeeded by Colonel John B. Yates. Many of the Michigan regiments went to the front in 1861 with Colonels who afterwards were numbered among the most distinguished generals of the war. On the roster of the 2d Cavalry are the names o f Colonel Gordon Granger, and Colonel Philip H. Sheridan. Generals Russell A. Alger and Robert H. Minty served at one time as Majors in this same regiment. Wisconsin.--The 4th Wisconsin Cavalry will be found in the list of infantry regiments, it having been organi