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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 43 43 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) 15 15 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 12 12 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 12 12 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 11 11 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 10 10 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. 9 9 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 8 8 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 7 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 7 7 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.16 (search)
o surrender in his trenches; for it was a physical impossibility to have withdrawn his army across the Appomattox except under cover of night. General Lee, in his dispatch of that day to the Secretary of War, said: It is absolutely necessary that we should abandon our position to-night. It will be a difficult operation, but I hope not impracticable. The battle of Fort Gregg was the last great battle between the two armies, and was decidedly the bloodiest of them all. On the 1st of April, 1865, our brigade (Harris'), composed of the 12th, 16th, 19th and 48th Mississippi Regiments, was doing service in the trenches on the north side of James river. About dark we got orders to cook all the rations we had on hand, and to be ready to march at a moment's notice. The orders came at midnight to leave the pickets on duty and to move out quietly to the rear, and to leave everything but canteens and cartridge boxes. We moved on the road to Richmond, conjecturing that we were go
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Closing scenes of the war about Richmond. (search)
Closing scenes of the war about Richmond. Retreat of Custis Lee's Division and the battle of sailor's Creek. By Captain McHENRY Howard, of Baltimore, Assistant Inspector General, C. S. A., General Custis Lee's Division. Between 10 and 11 o'clock Saturday night, April 1, 1865, just as I was falling asleep on the lines in front of Chaffin's Bluff, on the north side of the James river; a faint red glare illuminated the tent, followed by a low muttering like distant thunder. The night was very dark and cloudy, the atmosphere damp and heavy, and at another time I might have found it hard to determine whether the sound was the distant roll of musketry or the rumbling of an approaching storm, but under the circumstance there was no difficulty in attributing it to the right cause. Flash after flash shone through the canvas, and the muttering presently became almost continuous, although very little louder. There was something particularly awful in these half-suppressed, but
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), History of Crenshaw Battery, (search)
ved to Winchester, Va. Farrell, John O., private, March 14, 1862; captured at Five Forks, April 1, 1865. Fleming, A., private, October 3, 1862; surrendered at Appomattox, April 9, 1865. Felt, private, March 14, 1862. Gibson, D. W., private, March 14, 1862; captured at Five Forks April 1, 1865. Gibson, T. C., private and corporal, March 14, 1862. Graves, B. V., private, March 14 prisoner of war until December 31, 1864; returned to duty and again captured at Five Forks, April 1, 1865. Nuckols, L. B., artificer, March 14, 1862; served until surrender. Nuckols, E. L., private, March 14, 1862. Parsil, Isaac, private, November 15, 1863; captured at Five Forks, April 1, 1865. Purnell, F., private, November 16, 1863. Payne, John A., March 14, 1862; killed at Frprivate, March 14, 1862. Walker, T. G., private, August 24, 1862; captured at Five Forks, April 1, 1865. Ware, G. E., private, March 1, 1864. Watkins, R. W., private, July 20, 1864. Wood