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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 89 89 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. 70 70 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 49 49 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 32 32 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 24 24 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 9 Browse Search
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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) 6 6 Browse Search
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lines. No order for its adoption was issued. The badge of the Seventeenth Corps, said to have been suggested by General M. F. Ford, and adopted in accordance with General Orders issued by his commander, Major-General Francis P. Blair, was an arrow. He says, In its swiftness, in its surety of striking where wanted, and its destructive powers, when so intended, it is probably as emblematical of this corps as any design that could be adopted. The order was issued at Goldsboro, N. C., March 25, 1865. The order further provides that the arrow for divisions shall be two inches long, and for corps headquarters one and one-half inches long, and further requires the wagons and ambulances to be marked with the badge of their respective commands, the arrow being twelve inches long. A circular issued from the headquarters of the Eighteenth Army Corps June 7, 1864, and General Orders No. 108, from the same source, dated August 25, 1864, furnish all the information on record regarding th
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A., Appendix: the testimony of letters. (search)
ot know it, your explicit, lucid pen reflects your mind more accurately always than your tongue, which must banter, willy-nilly. Wm. Preston Johnston. New York. General J. A. early: More than a year ago in some correspondence with the sons of General R. E. Lee, I was referred to you by General W. H. F. Lee, for information respecting the intention of the commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia at the time of the assault on Fort Steadman and Haskell before Petersburg, March 25th, 1865. Although you may not have been actually engaged there, General Lee says you are an authority on all the operations of that army. George L. Kilmer. Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. General J. A. early: Accept my special thanks for a copy of your narrative of the military operations in the Shenandoah Valley and east of the Blue Ridge. Knowing your strict and straightforward fidelity to the truth makes the perusal all the more interesting. W. S. Rosecrans. For the b
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 49 (search)
etersburg all the morning. March 27 Bright, calm, but cold,--my disorder keeping me at home. The dispatch of Gen. Lee, I fear, indicates that our late attempt to break the enemy's lines was at least prematurely undertaken. The Dispatch newspaper has an article entreating the people not to submit too hastily, as in that event we shall have no benefit of the war between France and the United States--a certain event, the editor thinks. headquarters Army Confederate States, March 25th, 1865-11.20 P. M. Hon. J. C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War. At daylight this morning, Gen. Gordon assaulted and carried the enemy's works at Hare's Hill, capturing 9 pieces of artillery, 8 mortars, and between 500 and 600 prisoners, among them one brigadier-general and a number of officers of lower grade. The lines were swept for a distance of four or five hundred yards to the right and left, and two efforts made to recover the captured works were handsomely repulsed. But it was foun
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Gordon's attack at Fort Stedman. (search)
Gordon's attack at Fort Stedman. by George L. Kilmer, Company I, 14TH New York heavy artillery. On the 25th of March, 1865, General O. B. Willcox's division, of the Ninth Corps, was formed on the Petersburg lines in the following order from right to left [see map, p. 538]: Second Brigade (Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Ely), from the Appomattox to Battery Ix, near the City Point Railroad; Third Brigade The Third Brigade was formed on the lines as follows: Eight companies of the 14th New York Heavy Artillery garrisoned Fort Stedman and Battery X, and guarded the trenches from the fort to a point one hundred yards to the right of the battery, and the 57th Massachusetts occupied the trenches on the right of the 14th; a detachment of Company K, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery, served a Coehorn mortar-battery near Battery X, and one section of the 14th Massachusetts Battery, Light Artillery, was stationed in the battery. Two sections of the 19th New York Battery occupied Fort Stedman. T
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 11.88 (search)
this camp and these works ran an old country road, somewhat sunken, from the rear of Stedman to Meade's Station. All the undergrowth and fences had long since disappeared, and the ground was generally open. Before dawn on the morning of March 25th, 1865, Major-General Gordon, of the Confederate Army, with his corps and two brigades, numbering probably 10,000 or 12,000 effectives, by a sudden and impetuous attack carried the line from Battery IX on the right to Fort Haskell on the left. Thi The losses of the enemy must have been very heavy. I transcribe the following receipt, found among the memoranda of the fight. It tells its own story: Received of Major Bertolette 120 dead and 15 wounded in the engagement of the 25th March, 1865. For Maj.-Gen. Gordon, Hy. Kyd Douglas, A. A. Gen. If the same proportion held between their dead and wounded as between ours, their total loss would have been a little over four thousand. The ratio in our case was, however, unusually h
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 59: (search)
0 Boston July 19, 1864 Connecticut. Schooner Sophia 1,212 60 359 26 853 34 New York Nov. 12, 1864 Dan Smith, Huron, 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. Augustine Nov. 4, 1864 Pawnee, Columbine. Steamer Susanna 60,284 20 5,297 60 54,986 60 Philadelphia Mar. 25, 1865 Metacomet. Schooner Spunky 5,396 81 484 02 4,912 79 St. Augustine Mar. 28, 1865 Beauregard. Schooner Susan 1,168 31 203 34 964 97 Key West April 26, 1865 Roebuck, Honeysuckle. Schooner Sort No. 1 35,080 26 2,059 53 3<*>,020 73 do June 29, 1865 O. H. Lee. Schooner (name unknown) 3,204 63 227 60 2,976 97 do   Nita. (Waiting for prize list.) Sloop (no name) 92 00 92 00   do No proceeds Gem of the Sea. Sloop Swallow 78,048 83 3,575 36 74,473 47 Boston June 3, 1865 Tioga.
Assault, June 16th, 17th 12 Hatcher's Run, March 25, 1865 6 Petersburg Assault, June 18th 210 Sai9 Cold Harbor, Va. 6 Duncan's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 3 Deep Bottom, Va. 4 Vaughn Road, Va., y fell, mortally wounded, at Fort Stedman, March 25, 1865. Fifty-Eighth Massachusetts Infantry- Cold Harbor, Va. 207 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 1 Petersburg Assault, Va. 42 Dabney's M Spotsylvania, Va. 27 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 4 North Anna, Va. 4 Place Unknown 1 Gettysburg, Pa. 18 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 1 Mine Run, Va. 1     Present, al Marye's Heights, Va. 15 Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865 4 Wilderness, Va., 34 Fall of Petersburtersburg, it was engaged with severe loss, March 25, 1865, in the advance of the Sixth Corps at the Gettysburg, Pa. 22 Hatcher's Run, Va., March 25, 1865 2 Auburn, Va. 1 Hatcher's Run, Va., Mar9 Spotsylvania, Va. 18 Petersburg, Va., March 25, 1865 3 North Anna, Va. 3 Quaker Road, Va. 3 [20 more...]
44 19 70 79th Pennsylvania Carlin's Fourteenth 10 38 6 54 14th Michigan Morgan's Fourteenth 7 43 8 58 16th Illinois Morgan's Fourteenth 9 40 2 51 20th Connecticut Williams's Twentieth 4 30 2 36 Fort Stedman, Va.             March 25, 1865.             14th New York H. A. Willcox's Ninth 12 45 217 274 100th Pennsylvania Willcox's Ninth 9 61 47 117 200th Pennsylvania Hartranft's Ninth 9 113 -- 122 57th Massachusetts Willcox's Ninth 6 31 53 90 Petersburg, Va.             March 25, 1865.             93d Pennsylvania Getty's Sixth 15 136 -- 151 28th Massachusetts Miles's Second 7 69 -- 76 120th New York Mott's Second 6 32 46 84 Appomattox campaign, Va. Includes Gravelly Run, March 29th; White Oak Road and Boydton Road, March 31st; Five Forks, April 1st; Fall of Petersburg, April 2d; Sutherland Station, April 2d; Sailor's Creek, and High Bridge, April 6th; Farmville, April 7th; and Appomattox, April 9th. The regiments sust
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 9 (search)
had overleaped, fall on him heavily. . . . Everything was extremely quiet and orderly, and no tipsy people about. . . . [Mrs. Meade, with a large party, including Mrs. Lyman, arrived at City Point on the evening of March 22. The next two days were spent in visiting the front, and in excursions on the river. On the morning of the 25th, it was found that the Confederates had made an unexpected attack. The visitors were shipped back to Washington, and their hosts made for the front.] March 25, 1865 We may indeed call this a many-sided field-day: a breakfast with a pleasure party, an assault and a recapture of an entrenched line, a review by the President of a division of infantry, and sharp fighting at sundry points of a front of eighteen miles! If that is not a mixed affair, I would like to know what is? It has been a lucky day, for us; and the 9th Corps, after patient waiting for eight months, have played the game of the Mine against their antagonists. The official despatche
Colonel Mosby outwitted. Colonel Mosby, the guerrilla chief, has become famous, and his dashing exploits are often recorded to our disadvantage; but even he meets with his match occasionally. On Friday, March twenty-fifth, 1865, Captain E. B. Gere, of the Griswold Light Cavalry, was sent out with one hundred and twenty-five men to the neighborhoods of Berryville and Winchester on a scout, and encamped at Millwood, some six or eight miles from the former place. After the men had got their fires built, Sergeant Weatherby, of company B, Corporal Simpson, of company H, and a private, went some two miles from camp to get supper at a farm-house, and, waiting for the long delayed tea, were surprised to find several revolvers suddenly advance into the room, behind each pair of which was either C:)lo el Mosby, a rebel captain or a lieutenant, all rather determined men, with shoot in their eyes, who demanded the immediate surrender of the aforesaid Yankees. The aim being wicked, the