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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 1 1 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
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune 1 1 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 1 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 1 1 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), An English officer on the battle of Manassas plains. (search)
the battle of Manassas plains. Richmond, Aug. 4. To the Editor of the Dispatch: dear Sir: The enclosed letter, which I have just received from an English officer, who took part in the famous fight on the 21st ult., may be of interest to your readers. I have, therefore, great pleasure in placing it at your service. Very truly yours, S. Phillips day, Special correspondent of the London Morning Herald and the Morning Chronicle. Headquarters Confederate army, Manassas Junction, July 29, 1861. my dear day: The accounts which you read in the Richmond papers about the great battle which has just come off, are not in the least exaggerated. You may give them verbatim to the London Press. I could never have contemplated that such a terrible disaster would have befallen the Northern arms. Their army was well appointed, well organized, and provided with a splendid artillery, the entire of which fell into our hands. Wheat's battalion, to which I was attached as a volunteer, co
was concurred in without a division, and the bill was approved by the President on the twenty-ninth of July, 1861. No. Iii.--The Bill providing for the better Organization of the Military Establishtary to an act entitled, An act to increase the present military establishment approved July twenty-ninth, 1861. The bill provided that the President might, during the insurrection, upon the recommel to provide for the Purchase of Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Stores. In the Senate, July twenty-ninth, 1861, Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to provide for the purchase of arms, ordnance and ordnancf the Act to increase the present military establishment of the United States, approved July twenty-ninth, 1861, should be so construed as to allow twenty-five dollars of the bounty of one hundred doact to increase the present military establishment of the United States, approved the twenty-ninth of July, 1861, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. But the repeal of the said act shall not be co
y could furnish only six regiments of cavalry, sixty batteries of artillery, a battalion of engineers, and nineteen regiments of infantry. The American volunteers, however, soon acquired the soldierly bearing Of the 3,559 organizations in all branches of the service in the Union armies, the States furnished 3,473. The Eleventh Infantry in the regular army was organized at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor, by direction of the President, May 4, 1861, and confirmed by Act of Congress, July 29, 1861. It fought throughout the war with the Army of the Potomac. This photograph was taken at Alexandria, Va., a month before the Wilderness. The regiment participated in every important battle of the Army of the Potomac, and was on provost duty at Richmond, Va., from May to October, 1865. The regiment lost during service eight officers, 117 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded, and two officers and eighty-six enlisted men by disease. Veterans in camp—the 114th Pennsylvania at
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Foreign governments and the United States. (search)
) had vanished. The Queen of Spain also hastened to proclaim the neutrality of her government, and to combine with France in replanting the seeds of monarchical institutions in the western hemisphere, now that the republic was apparently expiring. The King of Portugal also recognized the Confederates as belligerents. But the more enlightened and wise monarch of Russia, who was about to strike off the shackles of almost 40,000,000 slaves in his own dominions, instructed his minister (July 29, 1861) to say to the imperial representative at Washington: In every event the American nation may count upon the most cordial sympathy on the part of our august master during the important crisis which it is passing through at present. The Russian Emperor kept his word; and the powers of western Europe, regarding him as a pronounced ally of the American Republic, acted with more circumspection. The attitude of foreign governments encouraged the Confederates to believe that recognition and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hayes, Rutherford Birchard 1822-1893 (search)
ed all the prerequisites of the law in that respect. By this act it will be seen that the scope of the law of 1795 was extended so as to authorize the national government to use not only the militia, but the army and navy of the United States, in causing the laws to be executed. The important provision of the acts of 1792, 1795, and 1807, modified in its terms from time to time to adapt it to the existing emergency, remained in force until, by an act approved by President Lincoln, July 29, 1861, it was re-enacted substantially in the same language in which it is now found in the Revised statutes, viz.: Sec. 5,298. Whenever, by reason of unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages of persons, or rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States, it shall become impracticable, in the judgment of the President, to enforce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the laws of the United States within any State or Territory, it shall be lawful
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Melville, George Wallace 1841- (search)
Melville, George Wallace 1841- Naval engineer; born in New York, Jan. 10, 1841; was educated in the public schools and at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute; entered the U. S. N. as third assistant engineer on July 29, 1861; was promoted second assistant engineer, Dec. 18, 1862; first assistant engineer, Jan. 30, 1865; passed assistant engineer, Feb. 24, 1874; and chief engineer, March 4, 1881. On Jan. 16, 1888, Captain Melville was appointed chief of the bureau of steam engineering in the navy, with the relative rank of commodore, a post he has since retained. On the abolition of the grade of commodore by the Navy Personnel act in 1899 he was given the rank of rear-admiral during his occupancy of the office of chief engineer. In 1879 he joined the Jeannette polar expedition under the command of Lieut. George W. De Long, and sailed from San Francisco July 8. The vessel was crushed by the ice and sunk June 12, 1881. Melville and De Long succeeded in reaching land 150 miles apar
oughly verified, that no fortifications existed then at or around Washington; none, at any rate, that could have seriously obstructed the march of our army; second, to General Beauregard's letter to Colonels Chestnut and Miles, bearing date July 29th, 1861, and to his answer to President Davis (August 10th of the same year), wherein is considered this very question of an advance upon Washington, and its feasibility, as late as the 24th of July. These letters appear in full further on in the prd wrote the following letter to Colonels Wm. P. Miles and James Chestnut, both members of the Confederate Congress, at that time, and both of whom had acted as his volunteer aids in South Carolina and in Virginia. Manassas, Virginia, July 29th, 1861. My dear Colonels,—I send you, herewith, some important suggestions relative to the best mode of providing for the wants of this army, furnished me by Colonel L. M. Hatch, whose experience in such matters entitles his views and opinions
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Maryland, 1861 (search)
irmish, Seneca MillsDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--2d Battalion Infantry. June 17: Skirmish, Conrad's FerryNEW HAMPSHIRE--1st Infantry (5 Cos.). June 18: Skirmish, Goose Creek (Edward's Ferry)PENNSYLVANIA--1st and 17th Infantry. UNITED STATES--1st Dragoons (Cos. "B," "C," "D" and "I"). Union loss, 1 killed, 4 wounded. Total, 5. June 18: Action, Edward's FerryUNITED STATES--Battery "D," 5th Arty (Section). July 7: Skirmish, Great FallsDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--8th Battalion Infantry. Loss, 2 killed. July 29: Skirmish, Edward's FerryWISCONSIN--1st Infantry. Aug. 5: Skirmish, Point of RocksPENNSYLVANIA--28th Infantry. Aug. 18: Skirmish, Sandy Hook(No Reports.) Aug. 25: Skirmish, Great Falls(No Reports.) Sept. 4: Skirmish, Great FallsPENNSYLVANIA--7th (36th), and 8th (37th) Reserves Infantry. Sept. 15: Skirmish, Pritchard's Mills, near Antietam FordMASSACHUSETTS--13th Infantry (2 Cos.). NEW YORK--9th Indpt. Battery Light Arty. PENNSYLVANIA--28th Infantry (Cos. "B," "D," "I"). Sept. 16-20: S
Daniel Butterfield Brigadier GeneralMarch 13, 1862, to May 18, 1862. 3d Brigade, 1st Division, Third Army Corps, Army of the Potomac Brigadier GeneralMay 18, 1862, to Aug. 30, 1862. 3d Brigade, 1st Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac Brigadier GeneralNov. 1, 1862, to Nov. 16, 1862. 1st Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac Brigadier GeneralNov. 16, 1862, to Dec. 25, 1862. Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac Brigadier GeneralOct. 3, 1861, to March 13, 1862. 3d Brigade, Porter's Division, Army of the Potomac Col. 12th New York InfantryTo July 29, 1861. 8th Brigade, 3d Division, Department of Pennsylv
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Illinois Volunteers. (search)
ree other Infantry Companies and three Artillery Companies and mustered in for three months service by Capt. John Pope, U. S. A., April 29, 1861. Attached to Prentiss' Brigade and on garrison duty at Cairo, Ill., till July. Mustered out July 29, 1861. Lost by disease 4 during service. 3 years. Organized at Cairo, Ill., July 29, 1861. Attached to District of Cairo, Ill., to October, 1861. 1st Brigade, District of Cairo, to February, 1862. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, DistriJuly 29, 1861. Attached to District of Cairo, Ill., to October, 1861. 1st Brigade, District of Cairo, to February, 1862. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Army of Mississippi, to April, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Mississippi, to September, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 13th Division, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Centre 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 14th Army Corps, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Reserve Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade,