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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 63 3 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 62 6 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 51 5 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 43 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 42 6 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 28 2 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) 26 2 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 23 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 16 2 Browse Search
John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life 12 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Relative strength of the armies. (search)
0 officers and men. There were also 6116 officers borne on the return as present for duty, which, added to the foregoing, give an aggregate of 75,268 officers and men. The accessions by organizations to the army between May 31st and July 3d, were as follows; Estimated at not less than 1st. Pettigrew's infantry brigade 2,000 2d. Jenkins's cavalry brigade 1,600 3d. Imboden's cavalry brigade 2,000 Total gain 5,600 The loss by organizations during the same period was: 1st. Corse's brigade and one regiment of Pettigrew's brigade left at Hanover Court House, Va 2,000 2d. Three regiments of Early's division left at Winchester, Va 1,000 3d. One regiment of Stuart's cavalry left in Virginia 350   Total loss (estimated) 3,350 or a net gain of 2250, which, added to the strength on May 31st, of 75,268, makes a maximum in the campaign of 77,518. After making a liberal allowance for losses by sickness, straggling, guards to prisoners and casualties in the various encoun
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in the Vicksburg campaign: May 1st-July 4th, 1863. (search)
ben Williams; 100th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Albert Heath. Second Brigade, Col. Stephen G. Hicks: 40th Ill., Maj. Hiram W. Hall; 103d Ill., Col. Willard A. Dickerman; 15th Mich., Col. John M. Oliver; 46th Ohio, Col. Charles C. Walcutt. Third Brigade, Col. Joseph R. Cockerill: 97th Ind., Col. Robert F. Catterson; 99th Ind., Col. Alexander Fowler; 53d Ohio, Col. Wells S. Jones; 70th Ohio, Maj. Wm. B. Brown. Fourth Brigade, Col. Wm. W. Sanford: 48th Ill., Lieut.-Col. Lucien Greathouse; 6th Iowa, Col. John M. Corse. Artillery, Capt. Wm. Cogswell: F, 1st Ill., Capt. John T. Cheney; I, 1st Ill., Lieut. Wm. N. Lansing; Cogswell, Ill., Lieut. Henry G. Eddy; 6th Ind., Capt. Michael Mueller. Fourth division (joined May 13th to 20th, and temporarily attached to Fifteenth Corps), Brig.-Gen. Jacob G. Lauman. First Brigade, Col. Isaac C. Pugh: 41st Ill., Lieut.-Col. John H. Nale; 53d Ill., Lieut.-Col. Seth C. Earl; 3d Iowa, Col. Aaron Brown; 33d Wis., Col. Jonathan B. Moore. Second Brigade, Col. Cyru
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 9.97 (search)
eady gained. Morgan L. Smith moved along the east base of Missionary Ridge; Loomis along the west base, supported by two brigades of John E. Smith's division; and Corse with his brigade was between the two, moving directly toward the hill to be captured. The ridge is steep and heavily wooded on the east side, where M. L. Smith's s located. The enemy made brave and strenuous efforts to drive our troops from the position we had gained, but without success. The contest lasted for two hours. Corse, a brave and efficient commander, was badly wounded in this assault. Sherman now threatened both Bragg's flank and his stores, and made it necessary for him to wet could be brought to bear upon the Union forces was concentrated upon him. J. E. Smith, with two brigades, charged up the west side of the ridge to the support of Corse's command, over open ground, and in the face of a heavy fi re of both artillery and musketry, and reached the very parapet of the enemy. He lay here for a time, b
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Sherman's attack at the tunnel. (search)
on Missionary Ridge. For a hundred hours we had scarcely slept. The 25th of November dawned clear and beautiful, and with the sunrise came the bugle-sound for Corse's division at our center to advance on the enemy. All the morning the hills and woods in front of Missionary Ridge resounded with the crash of musketry. The battts, logs, and bowlders, that they could throw stones on the assaulting column and do almost as much harm with them as with bullets. More regiments were sent in to Corse, and the hand-to-hand assault was renewed till Corse himself was borne wounded from the field. Still his men fought on, retreating not a foot. Around to our leftCorse himself was borne wounded from the field. Still his men fought on, retreating not a foot. Around to our left, General J. E. Smith's division was gradually getting possession of that part of the enemy's line, and far off across Lookout Valley, Hooker's men, in possession of the heights, were driving in the left flank of the rebel army. It was 2 o'clock when our division, my own regiment with it, was ordered to fix bayonets and join in
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Opposing forces in the Chattanooga campaign. November 23d-27th, 1863. (search)
gade loss: k, 10; w, 76==86. Artillery: A, 1st Ill., Capt. Peter P. Wood; B, 1st Ill., Capt. Israel P. Rumsey; H, 1st Ill., Lieut. Francis DeGress. Artillery loss: w, 1. Fourth division, Brig.-Gen. Hugh Ewing. First Brigade, Col. John Mason Loomis: 26th Ill., Lieut.-Col. Robert A. Gillmore; 90th Ill., Col. Timothy O'Meara (k), Lieut.-Col. Owen Stuart; 12th Ind., Col. Reuben Williams; 100th Ind., Lieut.-Col. Albert Heath. Brigade loss: k, 37; w, 331; m, 18==386. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. John M. Corse (w), Col. Charles C. Walcutt: 4th Ill., Maj. Hiram W. Hall; 103d Ill., Col. William A. Dickerman; 6th Iowa, Lieut.-Col. Alexander J. Miller; 46th Ohio, Col. Charles C. Walcutt, Capt. Isaac N. Alexander. Brigade loss: k, 34; w, 201; m, 2==237. Third Brigade, Col. Joseph R. Cockerill: 48th Ill., Lieut.-Col. Lucien Greathouse; 97th Ind., Col. Robert F. Catterson; 99th Ind., Col. Alexander Fowler; 53d Ohio, Col. Wells S. Jones; 70th Ohio, Maj. William B. Brown. Brigade loss: w, 3. Art