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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 834 834 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 436 332 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 178 2 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 153 1 Browse Search
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies. 130 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 126 112 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 116 82 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 110 0 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 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 76 6 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 74 20 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fight at Petersburg. (search)
The fight at Petersburg. [from our Own Correspondent.] Petersburg, Va., October 28, 1864. The battle of Burgess'smill, which was fought yesterday, deserves to be chronicled in detail as an engagement reflecting great credit on the Confederate arms, and as showing the signal failure of the enemy in their flank movements towards the Southside railroad. As early as Wednesday night it was known to our authorities that the enemy were in motion, but for what point was uncertain. Early Thursday morning all doubts were removed, when it was ascertained that the enemy had moved, by a long denture, from Poplar Spring Church--their then farthest advanced position on the right — to the Quaker road, and thence down this road to the Beydton plankroad, driving in our cavalry and occupying their captured camps. They did not halt, but pressed on until they reached the south bank of the Rowenty stream, on the heights of which they halted and fortified, their progress being too hotly conteste