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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The opening of the lower Mississippi. (search)
ld be a difficult undertaking at any time to keep a long line of vessels in compact order when ascending a crooked channel against a three-and-a-half-knot current, and our commanders found it to be especially so under the present trying circumstances. The Iroquois, Commander De Camp, as gallant an officer as ever lived, got out of line and passed up ahead of her Rear-Admiral Theodorus Bailey, at New Orleans in command of the first division of the fleet. From a photograph. consorts; but De Camp made good use of his opportunity by engaging and driving off a ram and the gun-boat McRae, which attacked him as soon as he had passed Fort Jackson. The McRae was disabled and her commander (Huger) mortally wounded. The Iroquois was much cut up by Fort St. Philip and the gun-boats, but did not receive a single shot from Fort Jackson, although passing within fifty yards of it. While the events above mentioned were taking place, Farragut had engaged Fort St. Philip at close quarters with
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 13: aggregate of deaths in the Union Armies by States--total enlistment by States--percentages of military population furnished, and percentages of loss — strength of the Army at various dates casualties in the Navy. (search)
s Hampton Roads -- -- -- 121 Mch. 8 Congress Smith Hampton Roads -- -- -- 129 Mch. 14 Fleet Rowan New Berne 2 11 -- 13 April 24 Fleet Farragut New Orleans 37 147 -- 184 April 24 Iroquois Included, also, in the loss of the fleet. De Camp New Orleans 8 24 -- 32 April 24 Richmond Included, also, in the loss of the fleet. Alden New Orleans 2 4 -- 6 April 24 Winona Included, also, in the loss of the fleet. Nichols New Orleans 3 5 -- 8 April 24 Pinola Included, alsoagut Vicksburg 15 30 -- 45 July 15 Carondelet Walke Vicksburg Ram, Arkansas. 4 10 -- 14 July 15 Tyler Gwin Vicksburg Ram, Arkansas. 8 16 -- 24 July 15 Hartford Wainwright Vicksburg Ram, Arkansas. 3 6 -- 9 July 15 Wissahickon De Camp Vicksburg Ram, Arkansas. 1 4 -- 5 July 15 Winona Nichols Vicksburg Ram, Arkansas. 1 2 -- 3 July 15 Sciota Lowry Vicksburg Ram, Arkansas. -- 2 -- 2 July 15 Richmond Alden Vicksburg Ram, Arkansas. -- 2 -- 2 Oct. 3 Commodore
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 138 (search)
B. Mitchell's division. For a favorable mention of other officers and men I refer you to reports of General Rousseau; also, to those of the Adjutant-Generals of Generals Jackson and Terrell, and Col. Webster. To my personal staff--Lieut.-Colonel J. V. Bomford, Sixteenth United States infantry, Lieut. Colonel E. Bassett Langdon, Inspector-General; Capt. J. A. Campbell, Assistant Adjutant-General; Capt. W. T. Hoblitzell, Aid-de-Camp; Lieut. S. W. Davies, Aid-de-Camp; Lieut. S. M. Hosea, Aid-de Camp; Major Caleb Bates, volunteer Aid-de-Camp; Captain N. H. Fisher, volunteer Aid-de-Camp; Captain James P. Collier, volunteer Aid-de-Camp, I return my thanks for their conspicuous gallantry and intelligence on the field of battle. Lieut.-Colonel Bomford was wounded twice, while posting a regiment in line. My orderlies, privates Isaac Bailey, Second Indiana cavalry; George Richardson, Thirty-fourth Illinois infantry; Avery Graham, Thirty-fourth Illinois infantry; Henry Kline, First Ohio
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 64 (search)
venth New-York volunteers, commanding a provisional brigade. On the fourteenth, I announced the brigade staff as follows: Major Wilson Hobbs, Eighty-fifth Indiana, Surgeon in Chief; Captain A. G. Kellam, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General; Captain Wm. Bones, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Acting Assistant Inspector-General; Captain D. J. Easton, Nineteenth Michigan, Acting Aid-de-Camp; Lieutenant H. C. Johnson, Thirty-third Indiana, Topographical Engineer and Acting Aid-de Camp; Lieutenant L. M. Wing, Nineteenth Michigan, Acting Assistant Quartermaster; Lieutenant W. S. Harbort, Eighty-fifth Indiana, Acting Commissary Subsistence; Lieutenant C. A. Booth, Twenty-second Wisconsin, Provost-Marshal; Lieutenant H. C. Brown, Eighty-fifth Indiana, Brigade Ambulance Officer; Lieutenant John Hart, Thirty-third Indiana, Pioneer Officer. November fifteenth, pursuant to orders of the day before, the brigade moved out from Atlanta at nine o'clock A. M., taking the Decatur r
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), D (search)
, X., 277. Davis, M., IX., 289. Davis, V. A., Winnie, IX., 289. Davis, W. G. M., X., 261. Davis, W. H., son of Jefferson Davis, IX., 289. Davis' bridge, Miss., II., 160. Daylight,, U. S. S.: I., 362; VI., 316. Day's Gap, Ala., II., 332. Day's Point, Va., V., 306. Dayton, L. M., I., 248. Dead line, at Andersonville, Ga., VII., 175. Dean, F. J., X., 292. Dearing, J., III., 330; X., 157. Deas, Z. C., X., 255. De Camp, J., VI., 190. Decatur, Ala.: II., 297; III., 322, 338; VI., 233; officers' quarters at, VIII., 207; pontoon-bridge at, VIII., 207. Decatur, Ga., III., 138. Decatur, Ill., home of the G. A. R., X., 292. Declaration of Independence Ii., 234. Decoration Day odes Ix., 28. De Courcy, J. F., II., 185. Dechard, Tenn.: Elk River bridge at, II., 273. Deeds of valor Ix., 56 seq. Deems, J. M., X., 211. Deep Bottom. Va.: I., 309; III., 326; IV.
The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], From California. (search)
overnment and procured his discharge. The Baltimore Exchange positively denies the statement that Gen. Tench man is raising troops on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and intends taking a command in Virginia. The Holliday Street Theatre, Baltimore, has reopened, under the management of B. Phillips. Captain A. J. W head, late Sheriff of Pittsylvania county, Va., died last Monday, after a brief illness. Lieut. Jullan McAllister, who has been promoted to a containcy in Lincoln's army, is a native of Savannah, Ga. The Wilmington (N. C.) Saving Bank has taken five thousand dollars of the Confederate loan advertised for recently. Rev. George MoNell, one of the editors of the Fayetteville (N. C.) Presbyterian, that place, on Sunday last. Wm. N. Wolfe, Esq., who was a member of the Maryland Legislature in , from Frederick county, died a few days ago. Major-General Fremont has offered Capt. Thomas Francis position of Aid-de Camp with the of Colonel
The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
t at the old Fair Grounds to the field northeast of Hollywood Cemetery, for the purpose of receiving a stand of colors, prepared in accordance with a resolution of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. Quite a large number of ladies and gentlemen assembled to witness the ceremony, though many were prevented from attending by the inclemency of the weather. At four o'clock, a carriage, containing Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, Secretary of State, Colonel Jos. Davis, the President's Aid-de Camp, and Col. Cobb, arrived upon the ground; and the regiment, drawn up in column under command of Lieut. Col. Bryant, received them with presented arms. Cols. Davis and Cobb approached to the front, and the former, taking the flag, presented it with a brief address, in which he alluded to the patriotism of Georgia and the gallantry of her sons, who, he was assured, would never allow those proud colors to be trailed in the dust in front of an enemy. He then read the following letter from the
The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
ell sick, we understand, at Edenton, whither he had gone to hold court, and was removed to a point some twelve miles from Blackwater depot, where he died. Judge Dick was in the 73d year of his age. He had been on the Superior Court bench upwards of thirty years, having been elected, we believe, while a member of the Commons from Guilford county. He was a good man, and an honest, impartial, and upright judge. Appointed. Spier Whitaker, Esq., of Halifax, has been appointed Aid-de Camp to his Excellency Gov. Clark, with the rank of Lieut. Colonel, to take rank from the 16th of October, inst.--Col. W. was formerly Attorney General of the State, and ranks high as a gentleman, a jurist, and a patriot. His appointment will be hailed with general satisfaction. --Raleigh (N. C.) State Journal, 23d. Accident. A soldier attached to the regiment of Col., Dannovant, fell overboard from the steamer John A. Moore, says the Charleston (S. C.) Courier, while passing through
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest Northern news. (search)
w York or Philadelphia, so far as this army is concerned. " I immediately called Gen. Meigs's attention to this apparent neglect of his department. On the 25th he reported, as the result of his investigation, that 48,000 pairs of boots and shoes had been received by the Quartermaster of Gen. McClellan's army at Harper's Ferry, Frederick, and Hagerstown; that 20,000 pairs were at Harper's Ferry depot on the 21st; that 10,000 more were on their way, and 15,000 more ordered. Col. Ingals, Aid-de Camp and Chief Quartermaster to Gen. McClellan, telegraphed on the 25th, "The suffering for want of clothing is exaggerated, I think, and certainly might have been avoided by timely requisitions of regimental and brigade commanders." On the 24th he telegraphed to the Quartermaster General that the clothing was not detained in cars at the depots. "Such complaints are groundless. The fact is, the clothing arrives and is issued, but more is still wanted. I have ordered more than would seem
The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Lieut, Gay, commanding; the 44th N. C. regiment, Petrigrew's brigade, Col. Singletary commanding; the Armory Band, playing a funeral dirge; Col. Frank Skinner, 1st Va. regiment, and some of the Governor's Aids; the hearse containing the body, surmounted by raven plumes, and drawn by two white horses; the Staff of Gen. Jackson, including Major Pendleton, Adjutant General; Major W. I Hawkes, Chief Commissary of the Corps; Major D. B. Bridgford, Chief Provost; Capt. Douglas, Lieut. Smith, Aids-de Camp; Dr McGuire, Surgeon, and others; the members of the City Council, two abreast, and lastly, an immense host of citizens and strangers. The procession thus formed, (the military with reversed arms.) marched slowly to the corner of 9th street, and turned towards Main, entering the Capitol Square by the gate on Grace street. The military having formed a line extending across the Square past Washington's monument, the body was slowly conveyed down the line to the Governor's mansion, and car
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