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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 335 89 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 300 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 283 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 274 0 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 238 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 194 0 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. 175 173 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 124 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 122 0 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. 121 1 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
noon on May 1st he was in position around Chancellorsville with five army corps. General Sedgwick, wo be expected from the troops marching on Chancellorsville, and that the operations in his front at h the main army marched to meet Hooker at Chancellorsville. The divisions of Anderson and McLaws weven back upon the line immediately around Chancellorsville, in which they were strongly protected by next day formed in the front line before Chancellorsville, with thirteen companies thrown forward itinued until we reached a position beyond Chancellorsville, in rear of the enemy's line of works. efeated and driven back to the heights of Chancellorsville. Now, late in the day, General Jackson o The sacrifice which Carolina offered at Chancellorsville was costly, indeed. Over 550 of her sonsahannock, turning upon his advance toward Chancellorsville with the divisions of Anderson, McLaws anf the Fifteenth, who fell together before Chancellorsville, par mobile fratrum, was deeply mourned. [3 more...]
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15: (search)
had been given in its execution, the writer believes that the battle of Gettysburg would have been won by General Lee on July 2d by a victory as complete as Chancellorsville. They were not given and the plan failed. The actual fighting of the separate assaults was gallant and heroic, and the resistance both steady and aggressy in which the fights of the 2d of July were directed does not show the same co-ordination which insured the success of the Southern arms at Gaines' Mill and Chancellorsville. But it is time that our attention was directed to the South Carolina brigade, under Kershaw, operating with McLaws, in Longstreet's attack, and the batte but General Lee disapproved, and resolutely determined to attack the Federal citadel, confident that the men who had swept Hooker's army from the heights of Chancellorsville, if properly supported, could carry victory to the heights of Gettysburg. He selected the Federal left center as the point of attack; ordered, as on the
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
tles of First Manassas, Yorktown, New Stone Point, West Point, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Chancellorsville, Riddle's Shop, Darby's Farm, Fussell's Mill, Petersburg, Jerusalem Plank Road, Reams' Statof that memorable battle, and aided materially in the defeat of the Federal attacks; and at Chancellorsville he was identified with the gallant action of his brigade. During 1864 when not disabled he the fight at Marye's hill, where Kershaw was in command after General Cobb was wounded; at Chancellorsville he was an active participant, and at Gettysburg he and his brigade were conspicuous in the until the end of the war, receiving several wounds, the most severe of which befell him at Chancellorsville and during the fight at the bloody angle at Spottsylvania Court House. After the surrender, Sharpsburg and Fredericksburg, and then being promoted colonel, commanded the regiment at Chancellorsville, where, after the wounding of General McGowan and Colonel Edwards, he had command of the re
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
andy Station, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and escaped without wounds, ling Waters, Zoar Church, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Williamsport, Funkstown, Chiball; was shot through the right wrist at Chancellorsville, and at Jericho Ford, May, 1864, receivedven Days around Richmond, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Salem Church, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Tcipated in the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg. At the battle of Gettyss fight, Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Deep Bottom, Wilderness, Spottsylvania C, Seven Days, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Suffolk, Lookout Mountain, Will's Valleytation, White House, Va.; Brandy Station, Chancellorsville, Nance's Shop, Jack's Shop, Dinwiddie CouMalvern Hill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Knoxville, the rpsburg, Fredericksburg, First and Second Chancellorsville, Brandy Station, Gettysburg, Chickamauga,[66 more...]