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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 12: operations against Richmond. (search)
ps, sixteen thousand in number, which had been taken in transports around to White House. The two armies were now upon the old battle-field of Lee and McClellan two years before. The Confederate line, which had just been re-enforced by troops under Breckinridge, extended, with its cavalry on its flanks, a short distance from Hanover Court-House, down nearly to Bottom's Bridge. A. P. Hill's corps occupied its right, Longstreet's its center, and Ewell's its left. On the morning of the first of June, an attempt was made by Hoke's division to retake Cool Arbor. Sheridan had been ordered to hold it at all hazards, and he did so. His men dismounted, and fought desperately with their carbines. The assailants were repulsed, but were quickly re-enforced by McLaws's division. Wright's corps arrived in time to meet this new danger; and when, at three o'clock in the afternoon, General Smith came up, after a march of twenty-five miles, He had been erroneously directed to march to New Ca
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
thor of Grant and his Campaigns, was furnished, by an officer of the Lieutenant-General's staff, with the following tabular statement of casualties in the Army of the Potomac, from May 5 to November 1, 1864. battles. Dates. killed. wounded. missing. aggregate. Officers. Enl'ed men. Officers. Enl'ed men. Officers. Enl'ed men. WildernessMay 5 to 122693,0191,01718,2611776,66729,410 SpottsylvaniaMay 12 to 211142,0322597,6993124810,381 North AnnaMay 21 to 3112138671,06333241,607 Cool ArborJune 1 to 101441,5614218,621512,35513,153 PetersburgJune 10 to 20851,1133616,492461,5689,665 DittoJune 20 to July 30295761202,3741082,1095,316 DittoJuly 30473721241,555911,8194,008 TrenchesAug. 1 to 181012858626145868 Weldon RailroadAug. 18 to 21211911001,0551043,0724,543 Reams's StationAug. 25249362484951,6742,432 Peeble's FarmSept. 30 to Oct. 1.1212950738561,7002,685 TrenchesAug. 18 to Oct. 3013284911,21448002,417 Boydton RoadOctober 27 to 28161406698186191,902   7969,7762,79651,1617752
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
Secretary of War, November 22, 1865. It is estimated that at least 300,000 Union soldiers perished during the war. Full that number of the Confederate soldiers lost their lives; and the aggregate number of men, including both armies, who were crippled, or permanently disabled by disease, was estimated at 400,000. The actual loss to the country, of able-bodied men, in consequence of the Slave-holders' Rebellion, was full 1,000,000. The disbanding of the army went steadily on from the first of June, 1865. and by the middle of the autumn nearly 786,000 officers and men were mustered out of the service. The wonderful spectacle was exhibited for the contemplation of the civilized world, of vast armies of men, surrounded by all the paraphernalia of war, transformed, in the space of one hundred and fifty days, into a vast army of citizens, engaged in the blessed pursuits of peace. No argument in favor of free institutions and a republican form of government, so conclusive and potenti