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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 161 3 Browse Search
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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 24 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 9 1 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 7 3 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) 4 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 2 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 2 Browse Search
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and with carbines, the battles closely resembled infantry engagements, and being well supplied with horse artillery there was but little difference in the character of the fighting. Among the more important of these dismounted cavalry battles in Grant's campaign, might be mentioned Todd's Tavern, May 8; Hawes' Shop, May 28; Trevilian Station, June 11; St. Mary's Church, June 24; Dinwiddie Court House, March 31; Five Forks, April 1; and Appomattox, April 9, 1865. In August, 1864, Sheridan waok and George Crook. The casualties in the Cavalry Corps at that battle aggregated 32 killed, 136 wounded, and 300 captured or missing; total, 468. In the Department of the Gulf, the cavalry attached to Banks's Red River Expedition, April, 1864, was commanded by General Albert L. Lee, and comprised five brigades. General Lee was succeeded by Geneiral Richard Arnold. During Grant's Mississippi campaigns, Generals W. S. Smith and Cyrus Bussey were entrusted with important cavalry commands.
ure of a continuous organization is an important one in view of the fact that it was the only one, out of two hundred or more brigades, which served through the war without being broken up, or reorganized. The same five regiments of the old Vermont Brigade which picketed the Potomac in 1861, marched together at the Grand Review in 1865. It was commanded successively by General Wm. F. Smith, formerly of the Third Vermont; General W. T. Brooks; Col. Henry Whiting, Second Vermont; and General Lewis A. Grant, formerly of the Fifth Vermont. At one time the Twenty-sixth New Jersey, a nine months regiment, was attached to the brigade for a few months, but it was a temporary arrangement only. The old Brigade should not be confounded with the Vermont Brigade (Stannard's) which was so prominently engaged at Gettysburg. This latter organization was in the First Corps, and was composed of nine months troops, Gettysburg being its only battle. Iron Brigade. Equally good fighting was don
of Washington until May, 1864, when it joined Grant's Army at Spotsylvania. All its losses occurrsed the Rapidan with 507 men, and fought under Grant at the battle of the Wilderness, where its cas of 199, out of 440 present, all told. During Grant's opening campaign the brigade was commanded bits in camp. The regiment took the field with Grant, in May, 1864, as a part of General S. G. Grifhere provided. In June the Ninth Corps joined Grant's army, then besieging Vicksburg, but returned. John A. Lewis; Bvt. Brig. Gen. (2) Col. Lewis A. Grant; Bvt. Maj.-Gen. (4) Col. Ronald A. Kenn5 of whom were killed. In February, 1863, Colonel Grant was promoted to the command of the brigade864. It then served as an infantry command in Grant's Virginia campaign. It joined the Army of thce their slight loss in that battle. While on Grant's campaign, in 1864, the brigade was commandednel Parsons led the regiment in the battles of Grant's campaigns, its losses at the Wilderness amou