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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. 24 24 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 12 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 10 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 9 3 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 8 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 1 1 Browse Search
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Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The capture of Port Hudson. (search)
oad toward Port Hudson, Saturday, march 14, 1863. from a sketch made at the time. by Closson's battery, went out and drove them away. At 6 the division took up the line of march to the Teche and bivouacked at nightfall on Madame Porter's plantation, five miles distant. Meanwhile Banks had moved Emory and Weitzel slowly up the Teche, seeking to hold Taylor's forces in position until Grover could gain their rear. Taylor fell back behind the intrenched lines below Centreville known as Fort Bisland, and there a brisk engagement took place on the 13th, Banks only seeking to gain a good position on both sides of the bayou, and to occupy the enemy's attention, while he listened in vain for Grover's guns, which were to have been the signal for a direct and determined attack in front. At night, knowing that Grover's movement must certainly have been seen and reported daring his passage up Grand Lake and surmising some miscarriage, Banks gave orders to carry the works by assault at day
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
rtifications at important points. Near Pattersonville, on the Teche, was an earthwork called Fort Bisland, with revetments; and well up the Atchafalaya, at Butte à la Rose, was another. There was alve these was the very formidable steamer Cotton, ready for battle, and batteries (one of them Fort Bisland) were planted on each side of the bayou, and defended by the Twenty-eighth Louisiana and artissed on the 12th, and all moved toward Franklin, driving the foe before them until he reached Fort Bisland and his other works near Pattersonville, where he made a stand. On the same day Banks sent Gthe intention of gaining their rear and cutting off their retreat, should they be driven from Fort Bisland. It was a most difficult landing-place, and besides the delay in getting ashore, Grover was He repelled the assailants, but the time consumed in the struggle enabled Taylor to abandon Fort Bisland and escape. Taylor burned several steamboats at Franklin and fled toward Opelousas, destroyi
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 15 (search)
t and debated. Beyond and above, all was Rebel; while fortifications at Butte à la Rose, well up the Atchafalaya, and Fort Bisland, at Pattersonville, on the Teche, were intended to bar ingress by our gunboats from Red river or by our land forces from New Orleans. Fort Bisland was flanked by Grand Lake on the right, and by impassable swamps on the left; a Rebel force, estimated [too high] by Gen. Banks at over 12,000 men, held these strong works and the adjacent country; while to hold New Orlen Franklin, while Gen. Grover's division was sent by transports up the Atchafalaya and Grand Lake to Irish Bend, above Fort Bisland, where lie effected a landing with great difficulty — the water being, shallow for over a mile from shore, precluding ground and beat off the enemy. Still, the attack sufficed to keep open the road for Gen. Dick Taylor, who, evacuating Fort Bisland, and burning several steamboats, retreated on Opelousas; making a brief stand at Vermilion Bayou, and losing heavily,
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, Chapter 8: Corps organizations. (search)
, it 13 difficult to understand what good season the War Department could have had for thus wiping out the honored name under which the corps had fought so long and well. Nineteenth Corps. Baton Rouge Georgia Landing Bayou Teche Fort Bisland Irish Bend Plains' Store assault on Port Hudson, May 27th assault on Port Hudson, June 14th Port Hudson Trenches Thibodeaux Brashear City Donaldsonville Sabine Cross Roads Pleasant Hill Cane River Cloutierville Alexandria Mansura22 regiments from New York, and 1 from Pennsylvania, the latter (47th Penn.) being the only Keystone regiment in the Department of the Gulf. Active operations were soon commenced, and on April 12, 1863, the corps encountered the enemy at Fort Bisland, La., with a loss of 40 killed, and 184 wounded; and on the 14th, at Irish Bend, La., with a loss of 49 killed, 274 wounded, and 30 missing; total casualties in both actions, 577. The investment of Port Hudson was accomplished in the following
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, chapter 10 (search)
  10 10 105   H 2 9 11   22 22 110   I   8 8   20 20 106   K   8 8   24 24 106 Totals 9 112 121 2 192 194 1,134 121 killed==10.6 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 423. battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Fort Bisland, La. 3 Opequon, Va. 44 Port Hudson, La., June 14, 1863 21 Cedar Creek, Va. 38 Port Hudson Trenches, La. 7 Guerillas 1 Sabine Cross Roads, La. 2 Place unknown 2 Pleasant Hill, La. 3     Present, also, at Cane River, Mansura; Fisin Madison. The regiment sailed from Baltimore on November 6, 1862, for New Orleans, where it was assigned to Weitzel's Brigade, Augur's Division, Nineteenth Corps, and stationed at Brashear City, La. Its first experience under fire was at Fort Bisland, April 112, 1863, where several men were wounded, some of them mortally. After the Teche Campaign,--a march through the garden of Louisiana, --the One Hundred and Fourteenth, on May 30, 1863, joined its Corps, which had already invested P
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, Chapter 11: list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each. (search)
863.             26th Iowa Steele's Fifteenth 18 99 -- 117 3d Missouri Steele's Fifteenth 14 61 -- 75 76th Ohio Steele's Fifteenth 11 57 -- 68 25th Iowa Steele's Fifteenth 10 43 2 55 Deserted House, Va.             Jan. 30, 1863.             130th New York Corcoran's Seventh 7 20 2 29 Thompson's Station, Tenn.             March 4-5, 1863.             19th Michigan ------------ ---------- 20 92 345 457 33d Indiana ------------ ---------- 13 85 407 505 Fort Bisland, La.             April 12-13, 1863.             38th Massachusetts Emory's Nineteenth 6 29 -- 35 Irish Bend, La.             April 14, 1863.             159th New York Grover's Nineteenth 19 78 20 117 25th Connecticut Grover's Nineteenth 9 77 10 96 Siege of Suffolk, Va.             April 12--May 4, 1863.             99th New York Corcoran's Seventh 13 58 -- 71 Fitz Hugh's Crossing, Va.            
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, Chapter 14: the greatest battles of the war — list of victories and defeats — chronological list of battles with loss in each, Union and Confederate. (search)
Dec. 31 Includes loss at Knob Gap, Dec. 26th; and at Jefferson Dec. 30th; also, losses Jan. 1, 2, 1863.Stone's River, Tenn 1,730 7,802 3,717 13,249 1863.             Jan. 7, 8 Springfield, Mo 14 146 5 165 Jan. 11 Hartsville, Mo 7 64 2 73 Jan. 11 Arkansas Post, Ark 134 898 29 1,061 Jan. 30 Deserted House, Va 23 108 12 143 Feb. 3 Fort Donelson, Tenn 14 54 10 78 March 4, 5 Thompson's Station, Tenn 48 247 1,151 1,446 March 17 Kelly's Ford, Va 6 50 22 78 April 13 Fort Bisland, La 40 184 -- 224 April 14 Irish Bend, La 49 274 30 353 April 11-30 Siege of Suffolk, Va 41 223 2 266 May 1 Port Gibson, Miss.Magnolia Hills, Miss 131 719 25 875 May 1-4 Includes loss at Marye's Heights and Salem Church, viz.; 493 killed, 2,710 wounded, 1,497 missing. Also, loss at Fitzhugh's Crossing.Chancellorsville, Va 1,606 9,762 5,919 17,287 May 12 Raymond, Miss 66 339 37 442 May 14 Jackson, Miss 42 251 7 300 May 16 Champion's Hill, Miss 410 1,844 187 2,4<
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
and on Bayou Teche by strong land fortifications near Pattersonville, called Fort Bisland, extending from Grand Lake on the right to impassable swamps on the left of boats of the enemy, and a garrison of three hundred to five hundred men; and Fort Bisland on the Teche, by a force of twelve thousand to fifteen thousand men, distribd Lake to turn the enemy's position; landing his force at Indian Bend, above Fort Bisland. It was estimated that his movement and landing would require about twelve Early on the following morning the balance of the enemy's forces evacuated Fort Bisland, which was immediately occupied by our troops, and we pursued the enemy with service to us in the campaign. A letter from General Taylor, commanding at Fort Bisland, was captured with an officer of the Queen of the west, which informed us thCity on the twelfth of April, the day before the assault was made by us upon Fort Bisland; and a subsequent despatch from Governor Moore to General Taylor was interce
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Sixth battery Massachusetts Light Artillery. (search)
lton, La. In October the battery was placed under command of General Weitzel and engaged in expeditions to Donaldsonville, La., and Bayou La Fourche; it was in action at Labadieville, La., Oct. 27, 1862, after which it went into winter quarters at Thibodeaux, La. Being engaged at one time in an expedition on the Teche, it moved to Brashear City, La., and then to Bayou Boeuf where it remained until April 2. The battery as part of the 1st Division, 19th Army Corps, engaged in the battle of Bisland, La., April 12 to 13, 1863. On May 17 it advanced to Port Hudson, La., remaining there until July 8, being engaged in the assault May 27. The battery was posted at Donaldsonville, La., from July 10 to 30, being engaged at Bayou La Fourche July 13. It was encamped at Thibodeaux, La., from July 30 to Sept. 25, 1863, and on October 6, as a four-gun battery, was sent to Berwick's Bay, where it lost an officer by disease. Leaving Berwick's Bay October 11 it was on the march through Franklin and
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., List of Massachusetts officers and soldiers who died of wounds. (search)
12, 1863. Everett, Manton,38th Mass. Inf.,Bisland, La., April 13, 1863.Bisland, La., April 16, 186Bisland, La., April 16, 1863. Ewell, Job L., Corp.,7th Mass. Inf.,– –June 5, 1864. Ewing, Samuel,33d Mass. Inf.,– –June 1, 18er, Algernon Sidney, Sergt.,38th Mass. Inf.,Bisland, La., April 13, 1863.Berwick City, La., April 27n. 3, 1863. Lyon, James A.,38th Mass. Inf.,Bisland, La., April 13, 1863.Berwick City, La., April 17 10, 1862. Shannon, Edward,38th Mass. Inf.,Bisland, La., April 13, 1863.Brashear City, La., May 5, , 1862. Simmons, Daniel F.,38th Mass. Inf.,Bisland, La., April 13, 1863.Berwick City, La., May 1, 1863. Simmons, Wilbur,38th Mass. Inf.,Bisland, La., April 13, 1863.Berwick City, La., April 27, 1863 1864. Sullivan, Marcus O.,38th Mass. Inf.,Bisland, La., April 13, 1863.Brashear City, La., May 7, 3, 1864. Swift, Francis C.,38th Mass. Inf.,Bisland, La., April 13, 1863.Brashear City, La., April 1c. 4, 1864. Tower, Lorenzo,38th Mass. Inf.,Bisland, La., April 13, 1863.Brashear City, La., April
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