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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2	1,245	1,245	Browse	Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	666	666	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2	260	260	Browse	Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	197	197	Browse	Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company)	190	190	Browse	Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1.	93	93	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 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller)	88	88	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	82	82	Browse	Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1.	79	79	Browse	Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans)	75	75	Browse	Search
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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)

closing up your business here. The steamer Ida and appurtenances have also been taken possession of under the same authority. This, I believe, includes all the property held by you in the State of Georgia, as military engineer of the United States, but does not include any lighthouse property. You have already been notified, informally, that Forts Pulaski and Jackson had been occupied by the troops of the State of Georgia under my command. Another famous incident of this first month of 1861 was the seizure at New York, probably on the orders of the governor of that State, of thirty-eight boxes of muskets, purchased by the firm of D. C. Hodgkins & Sons, Macon, for shipment by the steamer Monticello to Savannah. After a sharp remonstrance, which was unheeded, Governor Brown directed Colonel Lawton to order out sufficient military force and seize and hold, subject to his order, every ship then in the harbor of Savannah, belonging to citizens of New York. When the property of whi

tside the State, previous to Manassas-coast operations in Georgia in 1861 (including Port Royal). The Georgia convention resumed its sessios W. Anderson, adjutant. The last named became major in the fall of 1861 on the resignation of Clark as lieutenant-colonel and the promotion rm they re-enlisted for the war. Thus in the first four months of 1861 there were five twelve months infantry regiments formed, besides the, J. W. Patterson (I), Mark H. Blanford (K). This regiment served in 1861 in West Virginia and afterward in the army of Northern Virginia throtby (H), E. W. Robinson (I), J. A. Long (K). This regiment served in 1861 in West Virginia; in December of that year was sent to Gen. R. E. Le The Twenty-second regiment Georgia volunteers, also organized in 1861, had at first the following officers: Col. Robert H. Jones; Lieut.-Cuth Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and throughout the latter part of 1861 and during 1862 served on the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina.

its commencement), Major Bagley was killed, Captain Morris and one private wounded, and Colonel Garnett's horse shot under him. During the period in the fall of 1861, when the descent of a Federal naval expedition was feared at all points of the coast, some of the Georgians who had been called to Virginia were ordered to North t's command was somewhat annoyed by the firing of the Federal steamer Monticello, but sustained no loss. This exploit of the Georgians was the only episode during 1861, in North Carolina, which resulted in advantage to the Confederate arms. In December the Third was sent to Savannah. The Georgia volunteers who arrived at Pensacola, Fla., in the spring of 1861, found the city and navy yard in the hands of a small force under General Bragg. These Georgia commands were Ramsey's First Georgia regiment, Villepigue's First Georgia battalion, Capt. Isadore P. Girardey's Washington artillery from Augusta, and the Fifth Georgia regiment. After being in camp

y a route which was known to be practicable, namely, after running under the fire of the fort a short distance, to enter Wright river, and thence through Wall's cut and other narrow channels, or down Mud river and entering Wright river entirely out of range of the fort. If the Emma had gone her length farther to the right at the fatal moment, she could have gone to sea without approaching nearer than five miles to the battery at martello tower. The famous ship Fingal, whose adventures in 1861 have been narrated, having become unavailable as a cruiser on account of the blockade, was converted into an ironclad, of the familiar Confederate type, known as the Atlanta. John A. Tift had charge of the construction. At the same time the ironclad battery Georgia was constructed, to which the ladies of Savannah made large contributions. The Fingal, whose length was 204 feet, breadth of beam 41, and draught 15 feet 9 inches, was cut down to the main deck, widened amidships, and overlaid w

he majority of them before the close of 1862. The Thirty-first regiment Georgia volunteers was organized in the fall of 1861 with the following field and staff officers: Col. P. J. Phillips, Lieut.-Col. Daniel P. Hill, Maj. C. A. Evans, Adjt. J. Hharles P. Crawford, (D) James A. Blackshear, (E) John T. Wingfield and later John Lane, who subsequently became major. In 1861 Capt. Allen S. Cutts went to Virginia in command of the Sumter Flying artillery. At Dranesville Gen. J. E. B. Stuart callM. V. D. Corput and John G. Yeiser, was one of the famous batteries of the Western army. It was sent to east Tennessee in 1861; served in that department and in Kentucky in 1862; was in Mississippi in 1863, being highly complimented for its part in lin, (I) I. F. Leak, (K) H. A. North. Maj. S. W. Davitt became colonel of this regiment. It was sent to east Tennessee in 1861. In July, 1862, before Bragg entered upon his campaign into Kentucky, it participated in the brilliant cavalry victory of

h, were more or less engaged. The Fourteenth lost among its killed Capt. John H. Etheridge, and the Nineteenth, Capt. A. H. Black. The Twelfth Georgia, which led by Edward Johnson had won distinction in the mountains of western Virginia during 1861, was now commanded by Col. Z. T. Conner, who also had charge of one of the two brigades which formed the little army of the Northwest commanded by Gen. Edward Johnson in the spring of 1862. They confronted the brigades of Generals Milroy and Schehirty-first, Col. C. A. Evans; Thirty-eighth, Col. Augustus R. Wright; Sixtieth, Col. W. H. Stiles; Sixty-first, Col. John H. Lamar, arrived in Virginia. These regiments had been serving on the Georgia coast under General Lawton since the fall of 1861, and some of the troops, especially of the Thirteenth regiment, had been engaged in two spirited affairs on Whitemarsh island, below Savannah, in March and April, 1862. On the 11th of June, Gen. R. E. Lee, who had succeeded J. E. Johnston, wrot

e State Guard he had suffered much embarrassment on account of lack of staff officers, and up to November 1st he had had 5,000 men in the field at various points without a commissary or surgeon. In the midst of these military movements threatening Georgia, the State legislature was in session, and concurred in the recommendation of Governor Brown for a fast day December 10th, in view of our national calamity and distress. The legislature adopted resolutions reaffirming the resolutions of 1861, declaring that the separation of those States now forming the Confederate States of America from the United States is and ought to be final and irrevocable, and that Georgia would under no circumstances entertain any proposition from any quarter which might have for its object a restoration or reconstruction of the late Union on any terms or conditions whatever. At Dalton, December 2d, General Bragg issued an address of farewell to the army of Tennessee, and turned over the command tempor

s in this ten days fight. On the skirmish line every regiment in the army was represented, and many unrecorded deeds of daring were performed. On the front of Mercer's Georgia brigade, near Ellsbury ridge, the Sixty-third regiment was thrown forward, and Company A of that regiment placed still farther in the front. For twenty-four hours the devoted men of this company remained in that position without rations, which reminded them of some of their experiences in West Virginia in the days of 1861. Here Capt. Louis Picquet lost a leg and was disabled for further duty in the field. In all the fighting on the New Hope church line, the Confederate loss exclusive of the cavalry, which was small, and prisoners, is reported by Foard as follows: Hardee's corps, 173 killed, 1,048 wounded; Hood's corps, 103 killed, 679 wounded; Polk's corps, 33 killed, 194 wounded; total, 309 killed and 1,921 wounded. The cavalry on the right, commanded by General Wheeler, lost from May 6th to 31st, 73 kill

r duty at Fort Walla Walla, Wash., from 1858 to 1861. The great sectional quarrel between the North 1853 to 1861 in Richmond county. From 1853 to 1861 he was a captain of Georgia militia. When thehen moved to Oglethorpe, where he resided until 1861. Being an honorary member of the Macon county of the crack companies of Milledgeville, and in 1861 its captain. When it was certain that there wo with the Third Georgia regiment to Virginia in 1861, and for the greater part of that year was in Nd judge of the Confederate courts in Georgia in 1861, but resigned in the same year to accept the raed with the military organization of Georgia in 1861, and the record of her gallant troops in Virgin of the Planters' bank at Savannah from 1841 to 1861. When Georgia seceded from the Union he enteretates. He served at Pensacola during a part of 1861. He was not of great physical strength, and hionel of the Eighteenth Georgia. During part of 1861 and 1862 he served in North Carolina. In the s[12 more...]

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