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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 197 (search)
nd at Germantown caught up with the head of the column. Here we took aboard the Ninety-third Illinois, commanded by Colonel O'Meara, and three pieces of artillery belonging to Captain Cheeney's Illinois battery, and, with orders from General Corse n to be between us and Colliersville, then only nine miles distant, continued on our way. After going a few miles Colonel O'Meara, who is an Irishman, and appears to be a genuine fighting man, threw out skirmishers ahead of the train, whom we fol. Two miles this side of Colliersville we came to the first obstruction, a large culvert that had been burnt. Here Colonel O'Meara disembarked his force, and after distributing one hundred and fifty rounds of ammunition to each man, we advanced. eport of the citizen last picked up to be the correct one. Before this, just after the cartridges were distributed, Colonel O'Meara, who had his sleeves rolled up, slaughter-house style, and was mounted on a very fine horse, and had his sword drawn
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Ball's Bluff and the arrest of General Stone. (search)
owed by the remnants of my two companies and a portion of the California regiment, but, for some reasons unknown to me, was not joined by either the 15th or the 20th Massachusetts regiments. We were overpowered and forced back to our original position, and again driven from that position to the river-bank by overwhelming numbers. On the river-bank I found the whole force in a state of great disorder. As I arrived, two companies of my own regiment [42d New York], under Captains Gerety and O'Meara, landed from the large boat. I ordered these fresh companies up the bluff, and they instantly ascended and deployed as skirmishers to cover the passage to the island, while I took about a dozen men and moved to the left to check a heavy fire of the enemy which had opened on us from the mouth of the ravine near. We were almost immediately surrounded and captured. This took place shortly after dark. Colonel Cogswell says in conclusion: I deem it my duty as commander of the field during
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., Xviii. The Chattanooga campaign.—Middle and East Tennessee. (search)
es our losses in this series of struggles (not including Burnside's at Knoxville) at 757 killed, 4,529 wounded, and 330 missing: total, 5,616; The returns of the corps commanders add up as follows: Hooker's960 Sherman's1,989 Thomas's3,955 Total6,804 And even this makes the loss in Granger's corps (included with Thomas) but 2,391; whereas, Granger makes it about 2,700. It is probable that our entire loss here was at least 7,000. Among our killed were Cols. Putnam, 93d Ill., O'Meara, 90th Ill., and Torrence, 80th Iowa; among our wounded, Cols. Baum, 56th Ill., Wangeline, 12th Mo., Wiley, 41st Ohio, and Berry, 5th Ky. and adds: We captured 6.142 prisoners, of whom 239 were commissioned officers; 40 pieces of artillery, 69 artillery carriages and caissons, and 7,000 stand of small arms. Bragg's loss in killed and wounded was comparatively light — his men fighting mainly behind breastworks, in rifle-pits, or on the crests of high ridges, where they suffered little
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 15 (search)
received: Corps, divisions, etc.Killed.Wounded.Missing.Total. Fifteenth Army Corps:      First Division6736466497  Second DivisionNo report.62 (in hosp.) 62  Third Division89288122499  Fourth Division7253521628       Total   1,686 Eleventh Army Corps:      Bushbeck's Brigade3714581263       Aggregate Loss    1,949 No report from General Davis's division, but loss is small. Among the killed were some of our most valuable officers: Colonels Putnam, Ninety-third Illinois; O'Meara, Ninetieth Illinois; and Torrence, Thirtieth Iowa; Lieutenant-Colonel Taft, of the Eleventh Corps; and Major Bushnell, Thirteenth Illinois. Among the wounded are Brigadier-Generals Giles A. Smith, Corse, and Matthias; Colonel Raum; Colonel Waugelin, Twelfth Missouri; Lieutenant-Colonel Partridge, Thirteenth Illinois; Major P. I. Welsh, Fifty-sixth Illinois; and Major Nathan McAlla, Tenth Iowa. Among the missing is Lieutenant-Colonel Archer, Seventeenth Iowa.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 16 (search)
my corps.  Killed.Wounded.Missing.Total. First Division,8736466497 Second Division,10902102 Third Division,89288122499 Fourth Division,7253521628      Total loss in Fifteenth Army Corps,1726 Eleventh army corps.  Killed.Wounded.Missing.Total. Burkbank Brigade,3714581263 General Jeff C. Davis has sent in no report of casualties in his division, but his loss was small. Among the killed were some of our most valuable officers — Colonels Putnam of the Ninety-third Illinois, O'Meara of the Ninetieth Illinois, Torrence of the Thirtieth Iowa, Lieutenant-Colonel Taft of the Eleventh corps, and Major Bushnell of the Thirteenth Illinois volunteers. Among the wounded are Generals Giles A. Smith, J. M. Corse, and Matthews; Colonel Baum; Colonel Wangeline, Twelfth Missouri volunteers; Lieutenant-Colonel Patridge, Thirteenth Illinois volunteers; Major P. J. Welch, Fifty-sixth Illinois volunteers; and Major M. Allen, Tenth Iowa volunteers. Among the missing is Lieutenant-
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Campaign of General E. Kirby Smith in Kentucky, in 1862. (search)
rvice with the army of Mississippi upon the staff of General John C. Breckinridge. Depleted by disease, caused mainly by the want of water, which a little foresight should have provided, that army, as it is well known, was forced to retreat in the latter days of June, 1862, from Corinth all the way to Tupelo, and it was generally understood that no serious operations were likely to transpire in that quarter during the ensuing summer. The greatest necessity of a soldier, said Napoleon to O'Meara, is water, of which a true history of the Confederate army at Corinth would furnish a sad and disastrous illustration. Delayed by a severe attack of fever, I did not reach Knoxville until the 15th of August. General Smith had already left to place himself at the head of the column, which was toiling at slow pace, but with indefatigable energy and in glorious spirits through the difficult, and by the enemy considered, for artillery at least, impracticable pass of Big Creek Gap, a few mile
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.29 (search)
d his squad on the Bluff, until the flanking party under his guidance, moved up along the bank of the river, under the Bluff, to the point of co-operation, where the surrender was to be demanded, or, in case of refusal, the enemy was to be fired on—how he called for a surrender, and receiving no reply ordered Fire, which caused a stampede, a large number of them jumping into the river, while some ran along the shore above—and how, immediately after the firing, a gallant Irish captain, named O'Meara, who had swam the river to get some means to save his men, and failing, had swum back to share their fate, recognizing the inevitable, had called out: We surrender; who is in command? whereupon Captain W. N. Berkeley, replied: General White—how the general offered the terms of war, which were satisfactory, and how the gallant Irish captain gathered the Federals together from the river and the woods and marched them up the bluff to the plateau, where he formed them in line and handed over <
The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1860., [Electronic resource], Succession movement at the South. (search)
The War in China. While Napoleon the Great was a captive in St. Helena, Lord Amherst touched at the island on his return from China, and paid him a visit at Longwood. When the Ambassador had retired, the Emperor entered into a long discourse with O'Meara, upon the failure of his Lordship's mission, and the causes which led to it. In the course of his remarks he said that it would be very impolitic in the British Government to enter into a war with the Chinese. They could easily beat them at first, he said, but they would teach them how to fight, and when they had one learned their numbers, that they would become the most formidable people upon the face of the earth. Part of this prediction seems to becoming true. If the first war undertaken by England against China, about twenty years ago, her operations were confined to Canton and its vicinity. Her men-of-war easily sunk the wretched junks that attempted to oppose their advance, and her troops quite as easily dispersed
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Boy Mortara. (search)
threw the six-pounder down the hill into the river.--The howitzers were left on the field, and fell into the enemy's hands. The Fifteenth and Twentieth Massachusetts regiments suffered very severely, losing a large part of their numbers in killed and wounded. The Tammany regiment covered itself with glory. Captain O'Merra often rallied his command, throwing defiance into the very teeth of the enemy, and showing the Confederates that he could scream equal to the worst of them. Captain O'Meara took charge of the landing, and refused to let any but wounded men enter the boat, ordering the sound troops to go back and pepper the Confederates. His conduct was very gallant throughout, evincing a true and lofty courage. Lieut. Messer took command of the scow, and continued to ferry over the wounded, who poured down the hill. Several times the Confederates fired upon him as he was crossing with the wounded men. The fourth boat load was capsized by the men rushing into it in too g
The Daily Dispatch: June 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
to help himself. If so, then there never was a fatalist in the world, and there never will be. The very Turk, who, seeing his house on fire, contents himself with saying, "It is the will of God." and suffers it to barn down without moving a finger to put out the fire, will move the own carcass out of the way when the flames come too near for his comfort. We explained the species of fatalism which we attributed to General Jackson, by likening it to that of Bonaparte. The sitter told Dr. O'Meara what sort of fatalist he was. The doctor told him he had heard that he was a fatalist. "In action," that is, in battle, "I am," said Napoleon. He then proceeded to exemplify his meaning. At the sings of Tonlon. where he commanded the artillery, a young officer of artillery, instead of observing the effect of his battery, skulked down behind the works. The men in consequence fired very wildly. "Coms up here, eir," said Bonaparts, "and see the effect of your shot" The young officer rose