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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 26 (search)
s,3 Enlisted men,42 wounded. Commissioned officers,5 Enlisted men,140 Missing,8   Total aggregate,198 I remain your obedient servant, D. Kent, Major Commanding Nineteenth Regiment. To Col. Wm. W. Orme, Com'g Second Brigade Third Division Army of Frontier. General Herron's letter. The following letter from General Herron to a gentleman in Dubuque, Iowa, gives a detailed account of the battle: headquarters Third division army of the frontier, camp Prairie Grove, December 15, 1862. You have undoubtedly received ere this pretty full particulars of the fight at this place on Sunday last. I left Wilson's Creek to help Blunt as the rebels were pressing him hard, and had marched one hundred and ten miles in three days, with the entire baggage and commissary-train. This you will see at a glance was a tremendous matter; but I told the boys there was a fight on hand, and that we must get there, or break a wheel. On Sunday morning at three o'clock we reached Fayett
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 27 (search)
ore the supporting column arrived, and that after expending all their ammunition, they retired in good order. Major T. A. Smyth in command, is represented as having displayed much coolness and ability. The list of casualties will be reported by Lieutenant-Colonel Marshall, now in command. Very respectfully, your ob't servant, John W. Andrews, Colonel Commanding Third Brigade. Lieutenant-Colonel Birney's report. Post of Thirty-Eighth N. Y. Volunteers, on the battle-field, December 15, 1862. To Captain John. L Cooney, Assistant Adjutant-General: sir: I respectfully submit the following report of the part taken by the Thirty-eighth New-York volunteers in the action of the thirteenth instant: After crossing the Rappahannock in the forenoon with the brigade, I was ordered to support the batteries of the division, and was so employed until between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Thirty-eighth and Fortieth New-York volunteers were ordered to advance in l
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 81 (search)
Doc. 74.-Gen. Butler's farewell address to the army of the Gulf. headquarters Department of the Gulf, New-Orleans, December 15, 1862. General orders, No. 103. soldiers of the army of the Gulf: Relieved from further duties in this department by direction of the President, under date of November ninth, 1862, I take leave of you by this final order, it being impossible to visit your scattered outposts covering hundreds of miles of the frontier of a larger territory than some of the kingdoms of Europe. I greet you my brave comrades, and say farewell! This word — endeared as you are by a community of privations, hardships, dangers, victories, successes, military and civil — is the only sorrowful thought I have. You have deserved well of your country. Without a murmur you sustained an encampment on a sand-bar so desolate that banishment to it with every care and comfort possible has been the most dreaded punishment inflicted upon your bitterest and most insulting ene