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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment, Appendix B: the First black soldiers. (search)
ored, dating from January 13, 1863. The first enlistment in the Kansas regiment goes back to August 6, 1862; while the earliest technical date of enlistment in my regiment was October 19, 1862, although, as was stated above, one company really dated its organization back to May, 1862. My muster as colonel dates back to November 10, 1862, several months earlier than any other of which I am aware, among colored regiments, except that of Colonel Stafford (First Louisiana Native Guards), September 27, 1862. Colonel Williams, of the First Kansas colored, was mustered as lieutenant-colonel on January 13, 1863; as colonel, March 8, 1863. These dates I have (with the other facts relating to the regiment) from Colonel R. J. Hinton, the first officer detailed to recruit it. To sum up the above facts: my late regiment had unquestioned priority in muster over all but the Louisiana regiments. It had priority over those in the actual organization and term of service of one company. On the o
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 41 (search)
Doc. 39.-rebel conscription. Proclamation by Jefferson Davis. whereas, it is provided by an act of Congress, entitled, An act to further provide for the public defence, approved on the sixteenth day of April, 1862, and by another act of Congress, approved on the twenty-seventh September, 1862, entitled, An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide further for the public defence, approved sixteenth April, 1862, that the President be authorized to call out and place in the military service of the confederate States, for three years, unless the war shall have sooner ended, all white men who are residents of the confederate States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, at the time the call may be made, and who are not at such time legally exempted from military service, or such part thereof as in his judgment may be necessary to the public defence. And whereas, in my judgment the necessities of the public defence require that every man capable of bearing a
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 2: (search)
brave but greatly exhausted command. The subjoined letter, I have no doubt, obtained my promotion about this period. I had no knowledge of its existence until after the close of the war, when it was handed to me in New York by Mr. Meyer, to whom I am indebted for the favor. He was at the time of the surrender a clerk in the War Office, at Richmond, and, in consideration of the unsettled condition of affairs, placed it among his papers for preservation: headquarters, V. Dist., Sept. 27th, 1862. General:--I respectfully recommend that Brig. Genl. J. B. Hood be promoted to the rank of a Major General. He was under my command during the engagements along the Chickahominy, commencing on the 27th of June last, when he rendered distinguished service. Though not of my command in the recently hard fought battle near Sharpsburg, Maryland, yet fox a portion of the day I had occasion to give directions respecting his operations, and it gives me pleasure to say that his duties were
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)
Springfield September 7, 1861, and ordered to Kentucky in October, where it remained until February 14, 1862. It was then in Kirk's Brigade of Rousseau's Division. It fought at Shiloh — then in McCook's Division of Buell's Army — losing 15 killed and 112 wounded; Major Charles H. Levanway was killed in this action. The Thirty-fourth was present at the Siege of Corinth, after which it marched with the army through Northern Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky to Louisville, arriving there September 27, 1862. It then moved on the Perryville campaign, after which it encamped at Nashville. At the battle of Stone's River it was in Kirk's (2d) Brigade, Johnson's (2d) Division, McCook's Corps, its casualties amounting to 21 killed, 100 wounded, and 74 missing, out of 354 engaged; General Kirk, formerly Colonel of the Thirty-fourth, was killed there. At Liberty Gap, Tenn., the regiment lost 3 killed and 24 wounded. In September, 1863, it was ordered to Carpenter's Ferry, on the Tennessee Rive
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 97 (search)
I have not now time to notice further the censure of the Commission; when I am at leisure, it will receive the attention which it merits. John E. Wool, Major-General United States Army. Captain Binney's letter. Somerville, mass., September 27, 1862. To the Editor of the Boston Journal: I have noticed with much pain and sorrow the many reflections and insinuations adverse to the character of Col. Dixon S. Miles, going the rounds in the papers, as well as the many ridiculous statemension. note:--Staff and escort of Brigadier-General Hamilton: Wounded, four officers; killed, one private. The General's horse was shot under him. Order of General Rosecrans. headquarters army of the Mississippi, Corinth, Miss., September 27, 1862. General orders, No. 180. The General Commanding has foreborne to notice in orders the facts and results of the battle of Iuka, until he should have before him the reports of all the commanders who participated in the action. broth
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 127 (search)
March, by Major-Gen. McClellan, then General-in-Chief. On the thirtieth of April, the Secretary of War sent the following order to Col. Miles, at Harper's Ferry: You will please make daily reports of the state of your command to this Department. I have not now time to notice further the censure of the Commission; when I am at leisure, it will receive the attention which it merits. John E. Wool, Major-General United States Army. Captain Binney's letter. Somerville, mass., September 27, 1862. To the Editor of the Boston Journal: I have noticed with much pain and sorrow the many reflections and insinuations adverse to the character of Col. Dixon S. Miles, going the rounds in the papers, as well as the many ridiculous statements in regard to the surrender of Harper's Ferry, and cannot but feel it my duty to deny the charges of disloyalty, and give the public a correct statement in regard to the above-mentioned lamented affair. Our first rumors of the enemy's crossing i
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 135 (search)
my division number one hundred and thirty-five; the wounded number five hundred and twenty-seven; the missing number twenty-six; total, six hundred and eighty-eight. Respectfully submitted, C. S. Hamilton, Brigadier-General Commanding Third Division. note:--Staff and escort of Brigadier-General Hamilton: Wounded, four officers; killed, one private. The General's horse was shot under him. Order of General Rosecrans. headquarters army of the Mississippi, Corinth, Miss., September 27, 1862. General orders, No. 180. The General Commanding has foreborne to notice in orders the facts and results of the battle of Iuka, until he should have before him the reports of all the commanders who participated in the action. brothers in arms: You may well be proud of the battle of Iuka. On the eighteenth you concentrated at Jacinto; on the nineteenth you marched twenty miles, driving in the rebel outposts for the last eight; reached the front of Price's army, advantageously
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
, Lieutenant-General. Report of Lieutenant-General Jackson, of operations from 5th to 27th September, 1862. headquarters Second corps, A. N. V., April 23, 1863. Brigadier-General R. H. Chiltoherewith, to submit a report of the operations of my command from the fifth to the twenty-seventh of September, 1862, embracing the capture of Harper's Ferry, the engagement at Shepherdstown, and so mby Lieutenant-General Jackson of the operations of his command from the fifth to the twenty-seventh September, 1862; that, after undergoing his last revision, he had directed it to be copied, with a v Report of Brigadier-General Early, commanding division, of operations from August 16 to September 27, 1862. headquarters Ewell's division, January 12, 1863. Captain A. S. Pendleton, A. A. Gene of his division, from Freeman's Ford to battle of Sharpsburg. division headquarters, September 27, 1862. Major G. M. Sorrell, A. A. G.: sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 38: (search)
rmy consists in the fact that long columns of dust extending from Winchester to Charlestown, and from Charlestown in this direction, and also troops moving this way, were seen last evening. This is corroborated by citizens. Gen. Sumner, with his corps and Williams's (Banks's), occupies Harper's Ferry and the surrounding heights. I think he will be able to hold his position till reinforcements arrive. On the 27th I made the following report: headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Sept. 27, 1862, 10 A. M. All the information in my possession goes to prove that the main body of the enemy is concentrated not far from Martinsburg, with some troops at Charlestown; not many in Winchester. Their movements of late have been an extension towards our right and beyond it. They are receiving reinforcements in Winchester, mainly, I think, of conscripts — perhaps entirely so. This army is not now in condition to undertake another campaign nor to bring on another battle, unless great a
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Meeting at the White Sulphur Springs. (search)
oad, and passing almost under the troops drawn up in line of battle on this road to intercept him. On the 23d he joined Bragg at Sparta, where he was for the first time furnished with a section of artillery, and as our army moved into Kentucky, was ordered to assist in protecting its left flank, which he did. Organizes a new command in middle Tennessee. But Forrest was best suited to independent action; and, at his own request, turned over his brigade in Bragg's army on the 27th of September, 1862, at Bardstown, Kentucky, and in five days had marched one hundred and sixty-five miles and was at Murfreesboroa, Tennessee, to organize a new command. By the first November, 1862, he had organized a new brigade, thirty-five hundred strong, and being anxious to retake the capital of his State, had persuaded General Breckinridge, then in command, to permit him, with his own force and three thousand infantry under General Roger Hanson, to attempt it. The movement was made; but just w
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