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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 27 27 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 21 21 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 10 10 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 9 9 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 7 7 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 7 7 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 6 6 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 3 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 2 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 217 (search)
Doc. 214.-Baxter's Springs massacre. Report of Lieutenant Pond. Baxter's Springs, Cherokee nation, Oct. 7, 1864. Colonel: I was attacked by Quantrell to-day with about six hundred and fifty men, and after one hour's hard fighting I am able to report to you that I still hold the camp, and the old flag floats over us as proudly as ever. The attack was unexpected, as I had sent my cavalry out not more than an hour previous, to reconnoitre on the same road the enemy came in on. My men were at dinner when the attack was made, and most of them were obliged to break through the enemy's lines in order to get their arms, which were in camp. In doing this, four of my men were shot down. I was in my tent, about two hundred yards west of the camp, when I heard the first firing, (the reason of my tent being here was, that I had just arrived with reenforcements, and the camp was not large enough to accommodate the whole of my command, and I had just had the men at work extending
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The struggle for Atlanta. (search)
-l yet! My losses are very heavy. A force moving from Stilesboro' to Kingston gives me some anxiety. Tell me where Sherman is. John M. Corse, Brigadier-General. Inasmuch as the enemy had retreated south-west, and would probably next appear at Rolle, I answered General Corse with orders to get back to Rome with his troops as quickly as possible. . . . I esteemed this defense of Allatoona so handsome and important that I made it the subject of a general order, viz., No. 86, of October 7th, 1864: The general commanding avails himself of the opportunity, in the handsome defense made at Allatoona, to illustrate the most important principle in war, that fortified posts should be defended to the last, regardless of the relative numbers of the party attacking and attacked. . . . The thanks of this army are due and are hereby accorded to General Corse, Colonel Tourtellotte, Colonel Rowett, officers, and men, for their determined and gallant defense of Allatoona, and it is ma
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
e Ridge. For it appears that Kershaw and his command had not proceeded beyond Culpeper in his march to Lee's army before he was ordered to return to Early, the news of whose overthrow at Winchester, and afterward at Fisher's Hill, had reached the authorities at Richmond. On the 25th of September Torbert with the cavalry rejoined General Sheridan, and was at once put to work doing what damage was possible to the The rear-guard-general Custer's division retiring from Mount Jackson, October 7, 1864. from a War-time sketch. Central Railway. After proceeding to Staunton and destroying immense quantities of army stores, Torbert moved to Waynesboro‘, destroying the railway track, and after burning the railway bridges toward the Blue Ridge, and on being threatened by Early's forces, which had moved thither to attack him, he retired to Bridgewater. Naturally a question now arose between Sheridan, the authorities in Washington, and General Grant as to the future theater of the c
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
dst of the Brazilian fleet, and under the guns of the most powerful fort guarding the town. The American Consul, T. F. Wilson, protested against the hospitality thus given to the pirate by the Brazilian authorities, to which no attention was paid. Captain Collins determined that the Florida should never put to sea again. He tried to draw her into battle outside of the harbor, but did not succeed; and then, in disregard of the rights of the Brazilians in their own waters, he ran down Oct. 7, 1864. upon the Florida with a full head of steam, with the intention of crushing and sinking her. He failed. She was damaged, but not crippled. There was a little musket firing on both sides, without injury, when Collins demanded the surrender of the Florida. her commander and half his crew were ashore, and the Lieutenant in charge, having no choice, complied. The pirate ship was instantly boarded, and lashed to the Wachusett, when the latter put to sea under a full head of steam, towing he
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 59: (search)
1864 Virginia. Schooner Agnes 74,361 30 3,822 74 70,538 56 do Oct. 7, 1864 Chocura. Anchors, etc., from the Queen of the Wave. 745 95 4264 Potomac. Schooner Camille. 32,960 89 2,782 99 30,177 90 do Oct. 7, 1864 Virginia.   Cotton, 50 bales 7,254 19 841 50 6,412 69 New Yor.   Cotton, 63 bales 36,391 03 2,651 30 33,739 78 Springfield Oct. 7, 1864 Black Hawk.   Cotton, 5 bales 2,169 35 290 54 1,878 81 do Apr Schooner Frederick 2d 56,933 98 3,204 48 53,729 50 Key West. Oct. 7, 1864 Chocura. Sloop Fortunate 1,270 58 462 32 808 26 Philadelphia ket. Schooner Judson 23,495 74 1,895 33 21,600 41 New Orleans Oct. 7, 1864 Conemaugh. Steamer Jupiter 8,331 73 1,482 99 6,848 74 Boston uron, Midnight. Schooner Savannah 1,325 00 244 96 1,080 04 do Oct. 7, 1864 Perry.   Schooner, 1; sloop, 1 818 21 272 52 545 69 Washington Oct. 7, 1864 Morse. Schooner Sea Bird     3,288 09 Key West Mar. 29, 1864 De Soto. Steamer Sumter 3,600 00 237 95 3,362 05 St. Augusti<
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 26 (search)
t foolish as well as culpable burning of Chambersburg — to say nothing of the unauthorized but openly justified arson and butchery at Lawrence — furnished ample precedents; but it is not obvious that the National cause was advanced or the National prestige exalted by this resort to one of the very harshest and most questionable expedients not absolutely forbidden by the laws of civilized warfare. Sheridan reports this devastation, in a dispatch to Grant, as follows: Woodstock Va, Oct. 7, 1864--9 P. M. Lt.-Gen. U. S. Grant: I have the honor to report my command a this point to-night. I commenced moving back from Port Republic, Mount Crawford, Bridgewater, and Harrisonburg, yesterday morning. The grain and forage in advance of these points had previously been destroyed. In moving back to this point, the whole country from the Blue ridge to the North mountain has teen made untenable for a Rebel army. I have destroyed over 2,000 barns filled with wheat and hay and farm
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, chapter 10 (search)
Fort Wagner, S. C. (assault) 12 New Market Road, Va., Oct. 7, 1864 5 Siege of Fort Wagner, S. C. 5 Darbytown Road, Va.,et Heights, Va. 2 Olustee, Fla. 51 Laurel Hill, Va., Oct. 7, 1864 9 Drewry's Bluff, Va. 4 Darbytown Road, Va. 2 War 1862 2 Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864 3 Columbia Furnace, Oct. 7, 1864 7 Ashby's Gap, Sept. 22, 1862 1 Strawberry Hill, May 1864 3 Morris Island, S. C. 4 New Market Road, Va., Oct. 7, 1864 2 Fort Wagner, S. C. 28 Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 13burg, Va. 3 New Berne, N. C. 9 New Market Road, Va., Oct. 7, 1864 4 Kinston, N. C. 34 Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 13, 18 Chaffin's Farm, Va.   1 1 2 Darbytown Road, Va., Oct. 7, 1864 1 7   8 Fair Oaks, Va., Oct. 27, 1864 1 13 3 17 Fe original members were mustered out at Trenton, N. J., Oct. 7, 1864, but enough men remained in the field to preserve the o1862 1 Blackwater, Va., Nov. 10, 1863 1 Darbytown Road, Oct. 7, 1864 14 Deserted House, Jan. 30, 1863 2 Jarrett's Station
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, Chapter 11: list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each. (search)
7 41 -- 48 118th Pennsylvania Griffin's Fifth 8 37 3 48 83d Pennsylvania Griffin's Fifth 6 28 -- 34 11th U. S. Infantry Ayres's Fifth 5 12 -- 17 6th Ohio Cavalry Gregg's Cavalry 3 11 51 65 10th New York Cavalry Gregg's Cavalry 4 11 -- 15 Allatoona Pass, Ga.             Oct. 5, 1864.             39th Iowa Corse's Fifteenth 40 52 78 170 7th Illinois Corse's Fifteenth 35 67 39 141 93d Illinois Corse's Fifteenth 21 52 10 83 New Market Road, Va.             Oct. 7, 1864.             16th N. Y. H. A. (7 Cos.) Terry's Tenth 11 54 -- 65 5th Penn. Cavalry Kautz's ---------- 10 32 67 109 Darbytown Road, Va.             Oct. 13, 1864.             67th Ohio Ames's Tenth 3 60 2 65 39th Illinois Ames's Tenth 1 45 4 60 10th Connecticut Ames's Tenth 5 37 3 45 Strasburg, Va.             Oct. 13, 1864.             34th Massachusetts Thoburn's Eighth 9 48 40 97 Cedar Creek, Va.            
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 7 (search)
What did Biddle do but ride out by a road to the works, on horseback! In consequence of which the whole skirmish line opened on him, and he returned, after his inspection, quite gasping with excitement. As he was not hit, it was very funny. If there is a wrong road, he's sure to take it. Lord Mahon (son of the Earl of Stanhope, who presided at that literary dinner I went to at London) and Captain Hayter, both of the Guards, were down here — Spoons rather, especially the nobil Lord. October 7, 1864 There is a certain General Benham, who commands the engineers at City Point, and was up about laying out some works. Channing Clapp is on his Staff. You ought to see this Ginral. He has the face and figure of Mr. Briggs and wears continually the expression of Mr. B. when his horse sat down at the band of music. When he had got through all the explanations, which were sufficient to have laid out a permanent work of the first class, the Meade rose with weariness, and eased his spir
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 21 (search)
a hundred more dead rebels, who had doubtless been wounded, and died in the woods near Allatoona. I know that when I reached Allatoona, on the 9th, I saw a good many dead men, which had been collected for burial. Corse's entire loss, officially reported, was: garrison.Killed.Wounded.Missing.Total. Officers623635 Men136330206672 Total142353212707 I esteemed this defense of Allatoona so handsome and important, that I made it the subject of a general order, viz., No. 86, of October 7, 1864: The general commanding avails himself of the opportunity, in the handsome defense made of Allatoona, to illustrate the most important principle in war, that fortified posts should be defended to the last, regardless of the relative numbers of the party attacking and attacked. . . . The thanks of this army are due and are hereby accorded to General Corse, Colonel Tourtellotte, Colonel Rowett, officers, and men, for their determined and gallant defense of Allatoona, and it is mad
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