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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), Chapter 6: Federal armies, Corps and leaders (search)
nd other political movements. He was a writer and speaker of note, and died in New York city, May 14, 1906. Twelfth Army Corps Created September 12, 1862, from the Second Corps, Army of Virginia, the troops of which, under Major-General N. P. Banks, had been in the Department of the Shenandoah, and in earlier organizations of the Army of the Potomac. It was the smallest corps in the army, and in the early days contained about twelve thousand men. The command was given to Major-General J. F. K. Mansfield, who was killed at Antietam, the first battle of the new corps. Its next battle was that of Chancellorsville where, with the Third, it bore the real brunt of the fight. After Gettysburg, in which we remember the Twelfth by its gallant defense of Culps' Hill, it went with Hooker to Tennessee where one division opened the line of supplies to the starving Army of the Cumberland and fought the battle in the clouds on Lookout Mountain. In April, 1864, the Twelfth Corps was merged
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, J. F. K. Mansfield (search)
J. F. K. Mansfield Brigadier GeneralJuly 22, 1862, to Sept. 8, 1862. Division at Suffolk, Seventh Army Corps, Department of Virginia Major GeneralSept. 12, 1862, to Sept. 17, 1862.Killed.Twelfth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac