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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 200 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 180 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 158 42 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 120 0 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 100 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 96 0 Browse Search
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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 72 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 65 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 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 49 1 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) or search for Missionary Ridge, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
parallel spurs. The first on the west is Missionary Ridge, a succession of big knobs like shelves dldered as it were to the southern part of Missionary Ridge, is at first higher, but its altitude dimt, and takes position at the beginning of Missionary Ridge, while Baird deploys his skirmishers to picate with Thomas by the western slope of Missionary Ridge. The right wing had been directed with is bounded on the west by the heights of Missionary Ridge: the principal crest is narrow and ratherhe country; they form on the two sides of Missionary Ridge a compact mass, broken only by the grassyn two sections the space included between Missionary Ridge and the Chickamauga. On the river-side, yed his right as far as the foot-hills of Missionary Ridge; he receives orders to move forward this hat at random, at last attain the foot of Missionary Ridge and discover the defile into which all the the road to Chickamauga Station crosses Missionary Ridge. At last the army found in Chattanooga t[24 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the siege of Chattanooga. (search)
tain on one side and the northern part of Missionary Ridge on the other. He hoped thus to compel Bre Cumberland should advance rapidly, take Missionary Ridge, and across the left side there should be line of works constructed at the foot of Missionary Ridge. Hazen has encountered a more serious resitions until all the northern portion of Missionary Ridge was occupied by the Fifteenth corps. Bution to Cleburne's, has planted himself on Missionary Ridge beyond the gap which divides the chain soy have just seized give them no access to Missionary Ridge, and afford them no advantage to attack i which, two months before, Thomas crossed Missionary Ridge. A detachment of the Confederate divisd of the first breastworks. The sides of Missionary Ridge, from the crest to the base, present a uneployed his three little divisions across Missionary Ridge to the northward of the defile; Osterhausdan in hot pursuit descends the slopes of Missionary Ridge with Wagner's and Harker's brigades deplo[52 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
by asking permission to remove them. As soon as Burnside sees that the enemy renounces any fresh attack, moved by so much suffering, he proposes a suspension of hostilities. All day long the Federal ambulances aid the Confederates in their work of charity. The men captured in the ditch of Fort Sanders gave to their adversaries the first reliable news of the battles fought around Chattanooga. The news is confirmed by the Confederate officers during the armistice, for the disaster of Missionary Ridge has been officially known for several hours in the camps of the besiegers. By a singular coincidence, at the very moment when Longstreet has just seen his supreme effort fail, while he rallies and encourages the valiant soldiers of McLaws, one of General Ransom's aides-de-camp, who comes up at full speed from Rogersville, the last telegraph-station on the Virginia side, brings him a despatch from Mr. Jefferson Davis ordering him immediately to join Bragg and his vanquished army. A f
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
all the forces at his disposal. We have mentioned elsewhere in what condition McClellan's old adversary had found the army of which Hardee had given him the command, and how much it was weakened by the sending of several brigades to the West, by battles, disease, desertion—how greatly its morale was shaken by defeat. He could not detach a part of it without abandoning the great gap which. opens in the Alleghanies, and the entrance of which he proposed to defend against the victors of Missionary Ridge. He explained this situation to the President; he represented to him that the reinforcements asked for by Polk could not, even by railroad, arrive in time to fight Sherman if the latter marched upon Mobile. But he was not listened to. He received on February 15th positive orders to send General Hardee with Cheatham's, Cleburne's, and Walker's divisions to Polk, and at once set about executing them. In the mean time, Sherman was only contemplating turning to account the easy conques
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Addenda by the Editor. (search)
ral Wm. S. Rosecrans, at the battle of Chickamauga, Ga., September 19 and 20, 1863. losses also sustained by the troops engaged at Chickamauga in the skirmishes at Rossville, Lookout Church, and Dry Valley, Georgia, September 21st, and at Missionary Ridge and Shallow Ford Gap, Tennessee, September 22d, are included. command.Killed.Wounded.Captured or missing.Aggregate. Officer.Enlisted Men.OfficersEnlisted Men.Officers.Enlisted Men. General Headq'rters 10th Ohio Infantry11 15th Penorces under Major-General U. S. Grant, engaged in the Chattanooga-Rossville campaign, November 23-27, 1863. includes skirmishes at Orchard knob (or Indian Hill) and Bushy knob (23d); engagement at Lookout Mountain and skirmish in front of Missionary Ridge (24th); battle of Missionary Ridge (25th); skirmishes at Chickamauga Station, Pea-Vine Valley, Pigeon hills, and near Graysville, Ga. (26th); and engagement at Taylor's Ridge, or Gap, Ringgold, Ga. (27th). command.Killed.Wounded.Captu