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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 27 (search)
burgh, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Charles City Cross-Road, Groveton, Chantilly, etc. The following is a correct list of the casualties that have occurred: Privates, Wm. Williams, company B, back; Charles Miller, company B, arm; Wm. Osborne, company C, hand; H. S. Briggs, company F, head; Michael Kane, company G, foot; Ira Austin, company I, foot. I have the honor to be, etc., M. B. Houghton, Major Commanding Third Michigan Volunteers. Report of Colonel Morgan. New-York City, December 24-29, 1862. your Excellency: Knowing that you will experience anxiety concerning the conduct and fortune of this regiment, I send you a brief narrative of the part which we took on that occasion. At two o'clock A. M. of the eleventh instant, we received orders to be in readiness to march, and at half-past 6 o'clock we left camp, and the left of Gen. Sully's brigade took position in the rear of an eminence in front of Fredericksburgh, near the point where the pontoons were to be laid a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 79 (search)
ested, in ten days from the time of setting out. If all our armies worked so well, so hard, and to such purpose, how long, think you, would it take to flatten out this rebellion? Why, about thirty days. There may be some inaccuracies, omissions, and mistakes in the foregoing, but so far as my limited observation can extend, the facts stated are mainly correct. P. Boston Transcript account. camp Amory, On the Trent, headquarters Forty-Fifth regiment mass. Vols., Newbern, December 24, 1862. A Letter from the Forty-fifth Regiment. Mr. Editor: My last was at the close of the day, on the tenth instant, just having received orders to march at daybreak next morning. Accordingly, four A. M. of the eleventh found us astir, and at five the regiment was in line, prepared to march. What a world of experience has dawned upon us since that time! As Cassio says, I remember a mass of things, but so crowded have events been one upon another, that, like him, it seems doubtful what
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
e he had put the money, and went to a mutual friend of himself, his room-mate, with a grievous story of his room-mate having robbed him. Half an hour after his room-mate heard of it, and told him that his money was in his own stockings. Ridiculous as the foregoing story may appear, it is all true, to which there are numbers here can attest. W. L. F. General Grant's order on the surrender. headquarters Thirteenth army corps, Department of the Tennessee, Holly Springs, Miss., December 24, 1862. special field orders, No. 23. It is with pain and mortification that the General Commanding reflects upon the disgraceful surrender of the place, with all the valuable stores it contained, on the twentieth instant, and that without any resistance, except by a few men, who form an honorable exception; and this, too, after warning had been given of the enemy northward, the evening previous. With all the cotton, public stores and substantial buildings about the depot, it would hav