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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
e same time the chief crossed, at the head of two regiments, to aid Pillow in his chase of the Nationals. The Confederates now were not less than five thousand strong, and pressing hard. There was desperate fighting for a short time. Grant pushed on in good order toward his landing-place, under fire of the Confederate batteries on the Iron Banks, turning once to punish severely some of Cheatham's troops on his flank, and once again to send back in confusion some of Pillow's men, under Colonel Marks, who had endeavored to cut him off from his boats. He finally reached his landing-place, and embarked, after suffering severely. The fight had been gallant on both sides. In a general order, Nov. 8th, General Grant said: It has been my fortune to have been in all the battles fought in Mexico by Generals Scott and Taylor, save Buena Vista, and I never saw one more hotly contested, or where troops behaved with more gallantry. In his report on the 12th, he spoke in highest terms of Ge
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 14: movements of the Army of the Potomac.--the Monitor and Merrimack. (search)
wed each other in quick succession. The wearied and heated men who worked in the trenches, or who were on duty under arms, were compelled to rest on the damp ground at night, by which they were chilled. Fevers followed. In a short time, says Dr. Marks, the sick in our hospitals were numbered by thousands, and many died so suddenly that the disease had all the aspect of a plague. --The Peninsula Campaign in Virginia, by Rev. J. J. Marks, D. D., page 138. General J. G. Barnard, McClellan's Rev. J. J. Marks, D. D., page 138. General J. G. Barnard, McClellan's Engineer-in-Chief, in his report to his commander at the close of the campaign says, after speaking of the toils of the troops for a month in the trenches, or lying in the swamps of Warwick: We lost few men by the siege, but disease took a fearful hold of the army; and toil and hardships, unredeemed by the excitement of combat, impaired their morale. We did not carry with us from Yorktown so good an army as we took there. Of the bitter fruits of that month gained by the enemy, we have tasted t
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 16: the Army of the Potomac before Richmond. (search)
wounded and sick men would so embarrass the army, that its escape might be impossible. --The Peninsula Campaign, by J. J. Marks, D. D., page 239. The other was a dispatch to the Secretary of War, which has no equal in history. 1 After reporting th and men. Many openly rebelled — they wished to sacrifice themselves in any way rather than by a disgraceful retreat. --Dr. Marks's Peninsula Campaign, page 254. Covered by French's brigade as a rear-guard, the National troops all fell back to Whitenext came a message demanding his presence on shore. A boat is manned, and McClellan left. That message, according to Dr. Marks, was from Heintzelman, who sent him word that the troops noticed his absence, and it was exerting a depressing influencresponsibilities of such a declaration, I say to you all, such an order can only be prompted by cowardice or treason. --Dr. Marks's Peninsula Campaign, page 294. However, it was obeyed, and by the evening of the 3d of July, 1862. the Army of the Po
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wounded Yankees. (search)
Wounded Yankees. On Sunday night, eight hundred wounded and Federal soldiers were brought to this city via York River Railroad and wagons. Among them were the following officers: Jno. McKerna, 2d Lt. to F. Penn; D. A. Moore. Capt co. B, 61st N. Y. E. M. Denning. Capt. co. I, 61st N. Y.; James Carolina Surgeon 2d Maine; J. J. Marks, Chaplain; Old pa Fred Jacob, 2d Lt. co. C. 7th N. Y.; Otto Hayne. Capt co. H, 20th Mass; Emile Burger. 1st Lt. co. L. 1st U. S. Sharpshooters; John M. Fox. Asst Surgeon. As intimated elsewhere, a number of the Yankees doctors have resolved to day and attend to their wounded men in our midst.