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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.14 (search)
Preparing for the campaigns of 1864.
personal memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Copyright, 1885, by U. S. Grant.
All rights reserved. by Ulysses S. Grant, General, U. S. A.
My commission as lieutenant-general was given to me on the 9th of March, 1864.
On the following day I visited General Meade, commanding the Army of the Potomac, at his headquarters, Brandy Station, north of the Rapidan.
I had known General Meade slightly in the Mexican war, but had not met him since until this visit.
I was a stranger to most of the Army of the Potomac; I might say to all except the officers of the regular army who had served in the Mexican war. There had been some changes ordered in the organization of that army before my promotion.
One was the consolidation of five corps into three, thus throwing some officers of rank out of important commands.
Meade evidently thought that I might want to make still one more change not yet ordered.
He said to me that I might want an officer who had served wit
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., General Warren at five Forks, and the court of inquiry . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Notes on the Union and Confederate armies . (search)
Notes on the Union and Confederate armies.
In a statistical exhibit of deaths in the Union Army, compiled, (1885), under the direction of Adjutant-General Drum, by Joseph W. Kirkley, the causes of death are given as follows: Killed in action, 4142 officers, 62,916 men; died of wounds received in action, 2223 officers, 40,789 al, 9584 officers and 349,944 men, of which 219 officers and 29,279 men were prisoners.
Grand aggregate, 359,528; aggregate deaths among prisoners, 29,498.
Since 1885 the Adjutant-General has received evidence of the death in Southern prisons of 694 men not previously accounted for, which increases the number of deaths among pri icers, U. S. Volunt'rs 239
Miscellaneous U. S. Volunt'rs (brigade bands, etc.) 232
Regular Army 5,798
Grand aggregate
Increased by additional evidence since 1885 to 360,222.359,528
notes to the adjoining table.
Figures in the column of deaths, opposite names of States, represent only such as occurred among white tro