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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Nashville — the end in Tennessee (search)
k on the opposing army's right, the striking of a sudden and irresistible blow on his left, followed by successive attacks until the Southern army was battered into Thomas at Nashville. Camp-fires were still smouldering along the side of the abatis where the lens caught the field of Nashville, while Thomas' concentric forward movement was in progress. Note the abatis to the right of the picture, the wagons moving and ready to move in the background, and the artillery on the left. White tents gleam from the distant hills. A few straggling soldiers remain. The Federals are closing with Hood's army a couple of miles to the right of the scene in the picture. Thomas advancing his outer line at Nashville, December 16th Guarding the line during the advance disorganization and routed. About forty-five thousand Federals were actually engaged at Nashville. Against them Hood mustered some thirty-eight thousand Confederates. At eight o'clock, Steedman sent Colonels Morg
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Confederate Secret service (search)
for signal duty from the noted Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. Most of the enlisted men were from the same volunteer organization. It is interesting to examine the field paraphernalia with which the corps was provided. Every man has a collapsible telescope, or a powerful field-glass. Leaning against the table is a bunch of staffs, to which the flags were attached, for wig-wagging signals. One of the signal flags is lying in front of the group, and another is extended in the breeze behind. White flags with a red center were most frequent. In case of snow, a black flag was used. Against a variegated background the red color was seen farther. In every important campaign and on every bloody ground, these men risked their lives at the forefront of the battle, speeding stirring orders of advance, warnings of impending danger, and sullen admissions of defeat. They were on the advanced lines of Yorktown, and the saps and trenches at Charleston, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson, near the bat
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Signal Corps (search)
fter; B = Before ; C = Can ; Imy = Immediately; N = Not; Q = Quiet; R = Are; U = You and Y = Why. When using Coston signals there were more than twenty combinations of colored lights which permitted an extended system of prearranged signals. White rockets (or bombs)= one; red=two, and green=three. White flags with a square red center were most frequently employed for signaling purposes, though when snow was on the ground a black flag was used, and with varying backgrounds the red flag witWhite flags with a square red center were most frequently employed for signaling purposes, though when snow was on the ground a black flag was used, and with varying backgrounds the red flag with a white center could be seen at greater distances than the white. To secure secrecy all important messages were enciphered by means of a cipher disk. Two concentric disks, of unequal size and revolving on a central pivot, were divided along their outer edges into thirty equal compartments. The inner and smaller disk contained in its compartments letters, terminations, and word-pauses, while the outer, larger disk contained At Yorktown. Skilled Union signal parties were availabl
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 9: Gettysburg: the high-water mark of the war (search)
ain, And the brooding barn-fowl left their rest With strange shells bursting in each nest. Just where the tide of battle turns, Erect and lonely, stood old John Burns. How do you think the man was dressed? He wore an ancient, long buff vest, Yellow as saffron,—but his best; And, buttoned over his manly breast, Was a bright blue coat with a rolling collar, And large gilt buttons,—size of a dollar,— With tails that the country-folk called ‘swaller.’ He wore a broad-brimmed, bell-crowned hat, White as the locks on which it sat. Never had such a sight been seen For forty years on the village green, Since old John Burns was a country beau, And went to the ‘quiltings’ long ago. Close at his elbows all that day Veterans of the Peninsula, Sunburnt and bearded, charged away; And striplings, downy of lip and chin,— Clerks that the Home-Guard mustered in,— Glanced, as they passed, at the hat he wore, Then at the rifle his right hand bore; John Burns: the subject of Bret Harte
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 12: Boonsboro or South Mountain, and Harper's Ferry (search)
enemy. At 8 A. M. our battery officers report their ammunition exhausted. Gen. White meets Col. Miles on the crest of heights and consults. . . . The white flag iblanket, and, obtaining six men, dragged him to an ambulance and sent word to Gen. White. Col. Miles only survived for a day. A military commission which reportedre into the enemy. The white flag was now displayed, and, shortly afterward, Gen. White (the commanding officer, Col. D. S. Miles having been mortally wounded), withery, some 13,000 small-arms, and other stores. Liberal terms were granted to Gen. White and the officers under his command in the surrender, which, I regret to say, reports contain two documents which may explain. The first is a letter from Gen. White to Gen. D. Tyler at Annapolis, as follows: O. R. 27, 801. — general: to forward them back. Tyler, however, instead of returning them, forwarded White's letter to Halleck's office, calling it a strange arrangement, and asks shall
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 27 (search)
s very severely. Not once did he ask for assistance. None of his staff being then with him, I offered to act as his aide-de-camp, and to bring up two regiments which were in rear of him and place them on his left. This I accomplished with one of them, and was bringing up the second, when a tremendous fire was opened upon us from, I think, two field-pieces and the heavy guns of the gunboats. The Tennessee regiment, which I was bringing into position, broke in disorder and fell back. Major White (formerly of General Hardee's staff, now commanding cavalry) assisted me in rallying them and inducing them to lay down behind the crest of a hill. After sundown General Hardee withdrew his command beyond the range of the guns of the gunboats. There were many orders which I bore from you during the day which it is impossible for me now to recall to mind. * * * * * * * * I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. R. Chisolm, 1st Lieut. and A. D. C., C. S. A
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Indiana Volunteers. (search)
Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., March 11, 1862, and mustered in July 5, 1862. Left State for Harper's Ferry, W. Va., July 5. Attached to D'Utassy's Brigade, White's Division, Army of Virginia, to September, 1862. Miles' Command, Harper's Ferry, September, 1862. Camp Douglas, Ill., and Indianapolis, Ind., to April, 18631862. Milroy's Independent Brigade, 1st Army Corps, Army of Virginia, to July, 1862. Piatt's Brigade, Winchester, Va., to August, 1862. Trimble's Brigade, White's Division, Winchester, Va., to September, 1862. Miles' Command, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September, 1862. Camp Douglas, Ill., and Indianapolis, Ind., to Marcssippi River to Fort Pillow, Tenn., May 19-23 (Detachment). Capture of Fort Pillow June 5 (Detachment). Moved to Memphis, Tenn., June 14-15. Expedition up White River, Ark., June 26-July 14. Action at Grand Prairie July 6-7. Near Duvall's Bluff July 7. Aberdeen July 9. Arrived at Helena July 14, and duty there
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Missouri Volunteers. (search)
1. Assigned to Curtis Horse, 5th Iowa Cavalry, as Company M, December, 1861. Schofield's Hussars. See 13th Missouri State Militia Cavalry, Company I. Soboleski's Independent Company Rangers. Organized at Benton Barracks, Mo., November and December, 1861. Mustered out January 24, 1862. Stewart's Cavalry Battalion. Organized at St. Louis, Mo., September to November, 1861. Duty in District of Southeast Missouri till February, 1862. Mustered out February 2, 1862. White's Cavalry Battalion. Organized September, 1861. Fremont's Campaign in Missouri September to November, 1861. Action at Springfield, Mo., October 25. (See 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry.) Backoff's Battalion Light Artillery Organized at St. Louis, Mo., April 22 to May 18, 1861. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Lyon's Army of the West. Moved to Springfield, Mo., June 16-27. Engagement at Carthage July 5. Dug Springs August 2. Expedition toward Fayette, Ark., August
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, New York Volunteers. (search)
to August, 1861. Blenker's Brigade, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861. Blenker's Brigade, Hooker's Division, Army of the Potomac, to January, 1862. Stahl's 1st Brigade, Blenker's Division, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, Blenker's 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to April, 1862. 1st Brigade, Blenker's Division, Mountain Department, to June, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Army Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia, to July, 1862. White's Brigade, Army of Virginia, at Winchester, Va., to September, 1862. Miles' Command, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September, 1862. Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., to December, 1862. Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, D. C., to February, 1863. 3rd Brigade, Abercrombie's Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington, to June, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 2nd Army Corps, to June, 1864. Colso
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Ohio Volunteers. (search)
Ohio, August 20 to September 7, 1861. Left State for Grafton, W. Va., September 15, thence moved to Cheat Mountain Summit. Attached to Kimball's Brigade, Cheat Mountain, District Dept. West Virginia, to November, 1861. Milroy's Brigade, Reynolds' Command, Cheat Mountain, District Dept. West Virginia, to March, 1862. Milroy's Brigade, Dept. of the Mountains, to June, 1862. Piatt's 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia, to July, 1862. Piatt's Brigade, White's Division, Winchester, Va., to September, 1862. Miles' Command, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., September, 1862. Captured September 15, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, January to December, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865. Service. Action at Greenbrier River, W. Va., October 3-4, 1861.
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