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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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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
ble of frequent application. By means of false information conveyed to the Federal garrison of Yorktown, on the 7th of February, 1863, a squadron of the enemy was enticed into a narrow road bordered ion of Harrison's Landing. They had then preserved the important positions of Williamsburg and Yorktown on the Virginia peninsula, of Norfolk and Suffolk on the right bank of the James. These were porps, commanded by General Keyes, had charge of these positions. It occupied Fortress Monroe, Yorktown, and Fort Magruder near Williamsburg with one division; the other, under General Peck, was locaough to withdraw his materiel, and on the 3d of May, precisely one year after the evacuation of Yorktown, he abandoned all his positions, which were occupied on the following day by the Federal forcesly destroyed a large foundry, and, the object of the expedition being accomplished, returned to Yorktown without accident. The navy, as will be seen, afforded powerful aid to the landtroops scatter
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
osed two divisions, the seventh being upon detached service. Johnston had received no reinforcements during the night except a few regiments from Georgia. When he found that the Federals were arriving in force by two routes, he realized the fact that he could no longer defend the city of Jackson, and immediate preparations were made for evacuating it. It was a delicate operation, but on this occasion he succeeded in deceiving Grant as completely as he had McClellan the preceding year at Yorktown. While the material of war, the money, and the archives of the State were being sent northward, in the direction of Canton, by the Mississippi Central Railroad, he placed nearly all his forces in an advantageous position along the road followed by McPherson, whose progress would have interrupted the evacuation, in order to hold this general in check as long as possible. A small body of skirmishers and a few field-pieces, which he had sacrificed, alone remained in the works adjoining the R
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
ence of strategic positions; but whereas Longstreet had brought back his army corps to Fredericksburg, Keyes was left at Yorktown with forces too small to exercise any serious influence over military operations, and yet sufficiently numerous to make uthorities, who had encouraged this scheme, acknowledged that it was impracticable, but only after Keyes had returned to Yorktown without having encountered a solitary enemy or attempted aught against Richmond. As will be seen presently, this fruitlk had so improperly left in the peninsula of Virginia had likewise taken the field. The Fourth army corps, assembled at Yorktown and Williamsburg under Keyes, was transported by water about the 20th of June to White House, where a brigade of cavalryand from eight to ten thousand of the twelve thousand who under Keyes were occupying their leisure hours in the lines of Yorktown in projecting a sudden descent upon Richmond. In short, by leaving in Baltimore the thirty-five hundred men charged wit
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
oring has been broken. In the midst of the inevitable confusion of such an occurrence two hours pass before the communication is re-established. The First corps is not assembled on the Virginia bank until nine o'clock on the morning of the 14th. It is now Hill's turn to cross the river. But it has been daylight during the last five hours. What has happened in the Federals' camp? They have been keeping good watch at the outposts, and yet nothing has been seen, nothing found out. As at Yorktown, at Corinth, and still on other occasions, the first news of the Confederate troops' retreat is brought by a negro, whose statement is received with but little credence. Stuart's movements, it is true, have been signalled from three o'clock in the morning, and at daybreak Kilpatrick has sent Custer's brigade to reconnoitre toward Williamsport. But it is only at half-past 6 o'clock that the first official news of the evacuation of the enemy's camps comes to Meade: at half-past 8 he does n