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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 279 279 Browse Search
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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 26: (search)
usand men; that Canby should move to Montgomery, and he himself towards the same point, and, then forming a junction, they should open the line to the Gulf of Mexico. On the 10th, he said to Canby: We must have the Alabama river now. . . . My line is so long now that it is impossible to protect it against cavalry raids; but if we can get Montgomery, and Columbus, Georgia, as bases, in connection with Atlanta, we have Georgia and Alabama at our feet. . . . I will be ready to sally forth in October, but ought to have some assurances that, in case of necessity, I can swing into Appalachicola or Montgomery. This of course was to carry out the original strategy of Grant. The general-in-chief, however, had by this time different views. The rebels west of the Mississippi, relieved of all fear of attack front Canby, had begun themselves to threaten offensive operations. Ten thousand men under Price were marching through Arkansas to invade Missouri, while Kirby Smith had set out to cro
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 27: (search)
ed the proceedings of those whom, two thousand years ago, they called Northern barbarians. But, as Sherman told the inhabitants of Atlanta, when he expelled them from their homes: War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. It was the men who brought these evils on themselves who were responsible .for all the terrible results of their crime. The national commanders were no more answerable, than the weapons they employed, for the destruction and ruin which the rebellion entailed. Late in October Grant determined to attack the communications of Lee. The left of Meade's entrenched line was at this time only two miles east of the Boydton plank road, which approaches Petersburg midway between the Southside and the Weldon railways. The rebels were known to have begun the construction of a line of defences to cover this route, along which, since the seizure of the Weldon road, they were obliged to wagon all their supplies from the Atlantic coast; and before these defences should be com
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 28: (search)
served under and near him, which rivalled that inspired by any of the great commanders in history. During this period the general-in-chief was making every preparation to support and facilitate Sherman's march. At 11.30 P. M. on the 11th of-October, he had first authorized the movement. If you are satisfied the trip to the sea-coast can be made, holding the line of the Tennessee river firmly, you may make it, destroying all the railroads south of Dalton or Chattanooga, as you think best. , to show that Hood received the reinforcement of a man, after he left the Tennessee; or that any troops were included in his command, besides those on the above return, and Forrest's cavalry. See Appendix for Returns of Thomas and Hood, during October, November, and December, 1864. Until Smith could arrive from Missouri and Wilson remount his cavalry, Schofield's force was therefore inferior to Hood's; but when the reinforcements from all quarters were concentrated, the national numbers w
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 29: (search)
is impossible to entirely close the port. To secure the possession of this point required the co-operation of a military force; and during the summer of 1864, Grant agreed to furnish a sufficient number of troops for the purpose. A formidable fleet was accordingly assembled, the command of which was entrusted to Admiral Porter, with whom Grant had served with complete co-operation and success in his Mississippi campaigns. It was originally intended that the expedition should set out in October; but through the imprudence of officers both of the army and the navy, and afterwards of the public press, the exact object of the enterprise became known; and the enemy thus warned, prepared to resist it. This caused a postponement of the expedition; but towards the end of November, the project was revived; and six thousand five hundred men were promised from the army of the James. Grant selected Major-General Weitzel to command the force, and sent him down the coast, to reconnoitre the g
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Chapter 30: (search)
conception and the originality of the design are not lessened because danger disappeared before the skill of the execution or difficulties amid the consternation of the enemy. An abler opponent might have concentrated the garrisons of Augusta, Macon, Charleston, and Savannah, and stayed, at least for a while, the advance of the national army. On the 6th of December, Beauregard reported to Jefferson Davis that he had counted upon a force of thirty thousand men to oppose Sherman; In October last, when passing through Georgia to assume command of the Military Division of the West, I was informed by Governor Brown that he could probably raise, in case of necessity, about 6,000 men, which I suppose might be doubled in a levy en masse. General Cobb informed me at the same time that at Augusta, Macon, and Columbus, he had about 6,500 local troops, and that he hoped shortly to have collected, at his reserve and convalescent camp near Macon, 2,500 more. Of these 9,000 men, he suppos
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2, Appendix to Chapter XXXII. (search)
mac.2,281673125493,12853,97312,3144,14631770,75073,8785,0296,45839,51551,002 Sept.Army of the James8339767121,00921,8711,9721,9026725,81226,8211,7702,40021,60325,773 Total3,114770192614,13775,84414,2866,04838496,562100,6996,7998,85861,11876,775 Oct.Army of the Potomac.2,394579109473,12961,13611,9974,29041077,83380,9623,9155,33247,82957,076 Oct.Army of the James91911555161,10528,7112,2542,07913833,18234,2872,3802,17623,41427,970 Total3,313694164634,23489,84714,2516,369548111,015115,2496,2957Oct.Army of the James91911555161,10528,7112,2542,07913833,18234,2872,3802,17623,41427,970 Total3,313694164634,23489,84714,2516,369548111,015115,2496,2957,50871,24385,046 Nov.Army of the Potomac.2,71555699563,42661,83411,2314,75438778,20681,6326,3535,51945,68557,557 Nov.Army of the James1,01112563231,22230,5192,2872,21813535,15936,3812,2012,44524,52029,166 Total3,726681162794,64892,35313,5186,972522113,365118,0138,5547,96470,20586,723 Dec.Army of the Potomac.3,550786136694,54180,27614,4345,392448100,550105,0916,6146,61060,93874,162 Dec.Army of the James1,22918679181,51236,0943,2422,75821342,30743,8193,3602,97229,87036,202 Total4,77997221577