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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. 15 15 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 10 10 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 6 6 Browse Search
Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry 6 6 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 5 5 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 5 5 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 4 4 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 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 3 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 3 3 Browse Search
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ith his Cabinet officers, and replied to Stanton's careful injunctions to take care of himself with the smiling assurance that he was in the hands of Grant and the army. The teeming wharves Supplies for an army. An engine of the U. S. Military railroad. A movable menace: the Railroad mortar. the 17,000-pound mortar, Dictator, was run on a flat-car from point to point on a curve of the Railroad track along the bank of the Appomattox. It was manned and served before Petersburg, July 9-31, 1864, by Company G, First Connecticut artillery, during its stay. When its charge of fourteen pounds of powder was First fired, the car broke under the shock; but a second car was prepared by the engineers, strengthened by additional beams, tied strongly by iron rods and covered with iron-plating. This enabled the Dictator to be used at various points, and during the siege it fired in all forty-five rounds--nineteen of which were fired during the battle of the Crater. It was given at
ith his Cabinet officers, and replied to Stanton's careful injunctions to take care of himself with the smiling assurance that he was in the hands of Grant and the army. The teeming wharves Supplies for an army. An engine of the U. S. Military railroad. A movable menace: the Railroad mortar. the 17,000-pound mortar, Dictator, was run on a flat-car from point to point on a curve of the Railroad track along the bank of the Appomattox. It was manned and served before Petersburg, July 9-31, 1864, by Company G, First Connecticut artillery, during its stay. When its charge of fourteen pounds of powder was First fired, the car broke under the shock; but a second car was prepared by the engineers, strengthened by additional beams, tied strongly by iron rods and covered with iron-plating. This enabled the Dictator to be used at various points, and during the siege it fired in all forty-five rounds--nineteen of which were fired during the battle of the Crater. It was given at
, Army of the Ohio, Maj.-Gen. Schofield; Army of the Tennessee, Maj.-Gen. McPherson; Army of the Cumberland, Maj.-Gen. Thomas-Division of the Mississippi, Maj.-Gen. W. T. Sherman; Confed., Gen. J. E. Johnston's command. Losses: Union, 80 killed, 450 wounded, 200 missing. July 7, 1864: Solomon's Gap and Middletown, Md. Union, 8th Ill. Cav., Potomac Home Brigade, and Alexander's Baltimore Battery; Confed., Gen. Early's command. Losses: Union, 5 killed, 20 wounded. July 9, 1864: Monocacy, Md. Union, First and Second Brigades of Third Division, Sixth Corps, and detachment of Eighth Corps; Confed., Gordon's, Breckinridge's and Rodes' divisions under Gen. Jubal Early. Losses: Union, 98 killed, 594 wounded, 1188 missing; Confed. No record found. July 11-22, 1864: Rousseau's raid in Alabama and Georgia, including ten islands and Stone's Ferry, Ala., and Auburn and Chewa Station, Ga. Union, 8th Ind., 5th Iowa, 9th Ohio, 2d Ky., and 4th Tenn. Cav.