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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Army. (search)
there with troops from Charleston. Troops furnished the government during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. Under call of April 15, 1861, for 75,000 men for three months91,816 Under call of May 3, 1861, for 500,000 men for six months, one year, two years, three years700,680 Under call of July 2, 1862, for 300,000 men for three years421,465 Under call of Aug. 4, 1862, for 300,000 men for nine months87,588 Under proclamation, June 15, 1863, men for six months16,361 Under call of Oct. 17, 1863 (including drafted men of 1863), and call of Feb. 1, 1864, for 500,000 for three years317,092 Under call of March 14, 1864, for 200,000 for three years259,515 Militia for 100 days, mustered in between April 23 and July 18, 186483,612 Under call of July 18, 1864, for 500,000 (reduced by excess credits of previous calls) for one year, two years, three years, and four years385,163 Under call of Dec. 19, 1864, for 300,000 men for one year, two years, three years, four years211,752 Other
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ement at Bristow Station, Va., between the rear of the Army of the Potomac and A. P. Hill......Oct. 14, 1863 Maj.-Gen. U. S. Grant appointed to the Division of the Mississippi, including the departments of the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Ohio; Maj.-Gen. William S. Rosecrans relieved of command of the Army of the Cumberland, and Maj.-Gen. George H. Thomas succeeds, by General Order No. 337, War Department......Oct. 16, 1863 President Lincoln calls for 300,000 men for three years......Oct. 17, 1863 Regulations issued for the re-enlistment of soldiers in the field in veteran volunteer regiments ......Oct. 23, 1863 General Hooker crosses the Tennessee at Bridgeport, Ala., Oct. 23, and advances to the Wauhatchie Valley at the foot of Lookout Mountain, on the west......Oct. 27, 1863 Pontoon bridge thrown across the Tennessee at Brown's Ferry, below Chattanooga......Oct. 27, 1863 Battle of Wauhatchie......Oct. 27, 1863 General Longstreet, detached from the Confederate arm