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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 45 1 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 18 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 16 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 15 7 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 13 3 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 5 5 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 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 3 3 Browse Search
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Wheaton, Frank 1833- Military officer; born in Providence, R. I., May 8, 1833. A civil engineer, he was employed in the Mexican boundary surveys (1850-55), and, in the latter year, became a lieutenant of United States cavalry, and was employed against the Indians. He was made captain of the 1st United States Cavalry early in 1861, and was lieutenant-colonel of the 2d Rhode Island Volunteers at the battle of Bull Run. He served through the campaign on the Peninsula, and fought in the battles of Manassas, Antietam, and Fredericksburg, and commanded a brigade at Gettysburg; was active in the campaign against Richmond in 1864, and commanded a division of the 6th Corps in the Shenandoah Valley under Sheridan. He went with Sheridan to the siege of Petersburg, and was at the surrender of Lee. He was brevetted brigadier and major general of volunteers, and in March, 1865, major-general, United States army, for meritorious services during the Rebellion. In 1874 he was promoted colonel