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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 233 233 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 34 34 Browse Search
Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry 30 30 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 27 27 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 21 21 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 20 20 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 13 13 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 8 8 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 7 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 6 6 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Annual reunion of Pegram Battalion Association in the Hall of House of Delegates, Richmond, Va., May 21st, 1886. (search)
d April 15th, 1863; commanded Battery at the time of surrender. Letcher—First Captain, Greenlee Davidson; Captain Greenlee Davidson organized Battery February 17th, 1862; commanded it until killed on field of battle at Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863.Second Captain, Thomas A. Brander; Lieutenant Thomas A. Brander assisted in organizing Battery as Junior First Lieutenant; promoted Captain May 3d, 1863; promoted Major of Artillery January, 1865, and attached to Poague's Battalion, with whMay 3d, 1863; promoted Major of Artillery January, 1865, and attached to Poague's Battalion, with which he surrendered. Lieutenant-Commanding, James E. Tyler. Second Sergeant James E. Tyler, transferred from F Company, Twenty-First Regiment Virginia Volunteers, March 21, 1862; promoted to First Sergeant; promoted to Second Lieutenant; was in command of Battery at the time of surrender. Fredericksburg-First Captain, Carter M. Braxton; Captain Carter M. Braxton-Battery organized April, 1861; made Captain May 8, 1861; promoted Major of Artillery March 7, 1863, and assigned to another B
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Stonewall brigade at Chancellorsville. (search)
1864; We, the undersigned, officers of the Fourth Virginia infantry, Stonewall Brigade, do certify that we were engaged in the battle of Chancellorsville, May 3d, 1863, and that no troops passed through or over this regiment, and especially do we deny that any troops passed over us near the breastworks; some troops may have purth Virginia infantry; Wm. Wade, Adjutant, Fourth Virginia infantry; Joseph McMurran, Sergeant-Major, Fourth Virginia infantry. Early in the morning of the 3d May, 1863, the skirmishers of the Stonewall brigade were deployed some one hundred and fifty yards in the front of the brigade and about parallel with the breastworks on aptain Commanding Skirmishers. I certify that the within are the only officers of the Fourth Virginia infantry who were in the battle of Chancellorsville, 3d May, 1863, who are now with the regiment, and that the facts stated by these officers (except the statement of Captain Wade, who was in command of the skirmishers, of whi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Recollections of Fredericksburg.—From the morning of the 20th of April to the 6th of May, 1863. (search)
o attack at that point. It is true he failed, but he would have failed at any other point. General Lee had a dozen other slaughter pens along his line that would have proved more disastrous than Marye's Hill. Besides, Marye's Hill, on the 3d of May, 1863, was a weaker position to defend than it was on the 13th of December, for the reason that the out-houses, plank-fences, orchards, and other obstacles to a charge, that existed at that time, were all removed or destroyed by the army during theillery lost its gun and some of the men. The fourth company lost its two guns. Lieutenant De Russy was knocked down by a fragment of shell and badly contused. Privates Lewis and Maury killed, and several captured. The whole story of the 3d of May, 1863, at Marye's Hill, was fully told, though not amiably expressed, by a noble son of Louisiana, who gallantly stood by his gun on the hill, until the last hope of holding it had vanished. Passing to the rear by some artillerists belonging to Pe