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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 587 133 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 405 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 258 16 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 156 0 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 153 31 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 139 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 120 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 120 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 119 1 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 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 111 3 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 4: military operations in Western Virginia, and on the sea-coast (search)
garrison at Newport-Newce, and to abandon the village of Hampton, the latter movement causing a general exodus of the colored people living there, July 26, 1861. who flocked into the Union lines. The whole country between Old Point Comfort and Yorktown was now left open to Confederate rule; and General Magruder, commanding at the latter post, moved down the peninsula with about five thousand men, infantry, cavalry, and artillery, to menace Newport-Newce, and take position at or near Hampton, fdals. The cruelty of this destruction was at first charged upon the Union troops, but the truth was soon known, and the odium fixed where it belonged. Magruder contented himself with this performance, and withdrew his forces to Big Bethel and Yorktown. It was at about this time that General Butler was relieved of his command at Fortress Monroe, and MajorGeneral John E. Wool was put in his place. Butler was not assigned to any other duty; but he was not long idle. The generous and sagacio
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 11: operations in Southern Tennessee and Northern Mississippi and Alabama. (search)
d for our subjugation? One more manly effort, and, trusting in God and the justness of our cause, we shall recover more than we lately lost. Let the sound of our victorious guns be re-echoed by those of Virginia on the historic battle-field at Yorktown. It so happened that the Confederates had fled from Yorktown, before McClellan, on the day this address was issued. He staggered at Shiloh and fell at Corinth. The fugitives were pursued by the brave Gordon Granger from Farmington to GuntoYorktown, before McClellan, on the day this address was issued. He staggered at Shiloh and fell at Corinth. The fugitives were pursued by the brave Gordon Granger from Farmington to Guntown, on the Mobile and Ohio railway, a little more than forty miles south of Corinth, and there the chase ended. Few captures were made, excepting of stragglers. The expedition of Colonel Elliott, with his Iowa cavalry, had not materially intercepted Beauregard in his flight, for he did not strike the road until two o'clock on the morning of the 30th, when the Confederates were pressing southward in force. He destroyed much property at Boonville, and produced a panic, but the raid had little.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 14: movements of the Army of the Potomac.--the Monitor and Merrimack. (search)
t-House (which was Magruder's Headquarters in Yorktown), with the ruins of buildings near it, in 186mily, which was bombarded during the siege of Yorktown in 1781. a position, experts say, to performmes and York rivers, with his Headquarters at Yorktown, which he had fortified. Magruder had intendtend such assistance in storming the works at Yorktown and Gloucester, provided the latter position er. The latter stream heads within a mile of Yorktown, and, flowing Scene at Warwick Court-House.irst parallel was opened at about a mile from Yorktown, and under its protection batteries were estato assign to Franklin, namely, the turning of Yorktown by an attack on Gloucester, was the cause of his failure to attack Yorktown, and made rapid and brilliant operations impossible. Another and morttack upon us. and Johnston took command at Yorktown in person. The spectacle was now exhibitedd their morale. We did not carry with us from Yorktown so good an army as we took there. Of the bit[11 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 15: the Army of the Potomac on the Virginia Peninsula. (search)
Peninsula. The Confederates evacuate Yorktown, 377. pursuit of the fugitives Confederate neral was driven out. When the writer visited Yorktown in 1848, the walls of that house exhibited scf the 3d of May, the Confederate garrisons at Yorktown and Gloucester, and the troops along the linery under General Stoneman, followed along the Yorktown road by the divisions of Generals Joseph Hook not far in the rear of a brick church on the Yorktown road, was impatient to move forward, but the me time two companies of Poe's Boad between Yorktown and Williamsburg. Second Michigan were preek, about a mile and a half eastward of the Yorktown road. Hancock d crossed the creek, took posshe Prince de Joinville rode in great haste to Yorktown, to urge McClellan to go immediately to the fy of the army moving up from the direction of Yorktown should arrive. Then, on the 8th, May, 1862. But it was not until after the evacuation of Yorktown, when President Lincoln and Secretaries Chase[14 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 16: the Army of the Potomac before Richmond. (search)
and Savage's Station, 439. Williamsburg and Yorktown, 440. We left the Army of the Potomac with Army of the Potomac for a whole month before Yorktown. Every thing was ready for such movement. Thcted a signal-tower 100 feet high in front of Yorktown. They were so noted for their work as soldieame of deception practiced in the vicinity of Yorktown, and that he was at the, head of only twenty-, proceeded to the White House, and thence to Yorktown, and rejoined the army on the James River. Whe river by steamer to visit Williamsburg and Yorktown. Battery and Church-tower on Jamestown Isl McClellan and all of the Union commanders at Yorktown had their quarters. It was still used for thobserved that the names of the few streets in Yorktown had been changed, and bore those of McClellanduring the war. McClellan's Headquarters in Yorktown. On the morning of the 4th, June 1866 we left Yorktown for Grover's Landing, passing on the way the house of Mr. Eagle, a mile from the town[1 more...]