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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 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 2 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Indiana Volunteers. (search)
amacomico October 4. Ordered to Fortress Monroe, Va., November 9, and duty there till March, 1862. Attached to Fortress Monroe, Va., Dept. of Virginia, to May, 1862. Robinson's Brigade, Dept. of Virginia, to June, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to August, 1862. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 3rd Army Corps, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to July, 1865. Service. Engagement at Newport News, Va., between Ram Merrimac and United States Ships Cumberland and Congress and the Monitor March 8-9, 1862. Occupation of Norfolk and Portsmouth May 10. Joined Army of the Potomac on the Peninsula June 8. Charles City Cross Roads June 19. Seven days before Richmond June 25-July 1. Battles of Oak Grove ( The Orchards ) June 25; White Oak Swamp and Glendale June 30; Jordan's Ford June 30; Malvern Hill July 1 and July 5. At Harrison's Landing till August 16. Movement to Fortress Monroe, thence to Ce
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Massachusetts Volunteers. (search)
till July 1, and at Hampton till July 16. Ordered home July 16, and mustered out July 22, 1861. Expiration of term. Militia 9 months. Organized at Lakeville September, 1862. Moved to Boston October 22, thence embarked on Steamers Merrimac and Mississippi for New Berne, N. C., arriving there October 26. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina, to December, 1862. Heckman's Brigade, Dept. of North Carolina, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division,ps, to September, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, to July, 1865. Service. Duty at Newport News, Va., till May, 1862. Sinking of the Cumberland and Congress by the Merrimac March 8, 1862. Battle between Monitor and Merrimac March 9. Occupation of Norfolk and Portsmouth May 10. Duty there till June 2. Moved to Suffolk, thence to Portsmouth and White House Landing June 6-7. March to Fair Oaks June 8. Near Seven Pines June 15. Fair Oaks June 24. S
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, New York Volunteers. (search)
Cavalry, Army of the James, to July, 1864. Cavalry Brigade, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to October, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Kautz's Cavalry Division, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to March, 1865. Headquarters, Dept. of Virginia, to April, 1865. District of Eastern Virginia, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1865. Service. Duty at Fortress Monroe and at Camp Hamilton, Va., till May, 1862. Action in Hampton Roads, Newport News, March 8-9, 1862, between Monitor and Merrimac. Howard's Bridge April 4 (Cos. A and B ). Near Lee's Mills April 5 (Cos. A and B ). Tranter's Creek, Norfolk, Va., May 10. Suffolk, Va., May 14. Reconnoissance to Edenton, N. C., May 27-31. Hertford, N. C., June 30. Duty at Suffolk, Va., till June, 1863. Smithfield July 10, 1862. South Mills September 4. Zuni September 15. Blackwater September 28. Blackwater near Zuni October 4. Zuni October 20 and 25. Near Franklin October 31. Zuni November 3.
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, United States--Regular Army. (search)
lery, 1st Division, 7th Army Corps, to August, 1863. U. S. Forces, Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to December, 1863. U. S. Forces, Yorktown, Va., Dept. Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, 18th Army Corps, Army of the James, to June, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 18th Army Corps, to December, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 24th Army Corps, to August, 1865. Service. Action at Newport News, Va., between Monitor and Merrimac March 8, 1862. Duty at Fortress Monroe till July, 1862, and at Suffolk, Va., to July, 1863. Expedition from Suffolk December 1-3, 1862. Franklin on the Blackwater December 2. Expedition toward the Blackwater January 8-10, 1863. Siege of Suffolk April 11-May 4. Providence Church Road May 3. Duty at Portsmouth, Va., till December, 1863. Expedition from Portsmouth to Jackson, N. C., July 25-August 3. Moved to Yorktown, Va., December, 1863, and duty there till April,
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
us, and the same voice, Shall I fire, sir? A hundred voices yelled Pawnee, and then cheer upon cheer broke from the Cumberland and Pennsylvania, and as heartily answered by us, who felt relieved from peril. The regiment immediately disembarked, and marched to a central position in the yard, and ordered to find quarters and rations; did not succeed in doing either. About eleven P. M., Captain Paulding informed Colonel Wardrop that he had been ordered to send out the United-States vessels Merrimac, Raritan, Germantown, and Cumberland, and destroy all public property that he could not carry away; that he had intended to hold the yard, if possible; but, from Captain Pendergast's representation, he doubted if he could. Captain Pendergast had felt so sure of this, that he had commenced destroying property during the afternoon, and had scuttled the very ships that he had been ordered to take away. Colonel Wardrop thought the yard might be held, and begged that Captain Paulding would con
Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General ., Chapter 26: (search)
crown that had been wrested from him by the misfortune of war. Darius, made King of Persia by the neighing of a horse-and in our own day historians agree, that had it not been for the opportune appearance of the Monitor when the rebel iron-clad Merrimac steamed out of Hampton Roads in March, 1862, the destruction of the Union might have been an accomplished fact. For had not that formidable battery met her match in the Yankee cheese-box, as the Monitor was derisively called, she might have cle in the history of nations, and demonstrated to the world the formidable character of iron-clad war vessels, hitherto unknown; and placed the United States on record as having produced the most invincible navy in the world. In addition to the Merrimac, the South, early in 1862, had devised a great many ingenious machines in the shape of torpedoes and submarine batteries, that were designed for the purpose of blowing up the Union vessels that blockaded the Southern ports. It was through the
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 14: the Peninsular campaign begun; Yorktown (search)
th his fleet; the entrance to York River was then clear enough of foes, but a terrible soreness was afflicting that naval squadron. There was a waning confidence in wooden vesselsl Only a few days back the long'dreaded Confederate ironclad, the Merrimac, had come like a gigantic, allpowerful monster and destroyed the Congress and the Cumberland and disabled the Minnesota and sent a large percentage of our naval force to the bottom. Nothing but that little shapeless Monitor, providentially arriving the day after that one-sided, hopeless, bloody battle, was between the fleet and utter destruction. The monster Merrimac had not only faced and defied our navy with the contempt of a Goliath and slain her stalwart sons without the hope of redress, but had humbled and conquered the old-fashioned and well-merited naval pride with which our brave officers and men had regarded their well-manned and wellarmed ships. The Monitor thus far was thought to have succeeded only in worrying the gigant
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 16: (search)
troops could be marched to oppose them. He was right. On March 13, a council of war was assembled at Fairfax Court-House, by McClellan. It agreed on the following resolution: That the enemy, having retreated from Manassas to Gordonsville, behind the Rappahannock and the Rapidan, it is the opinion of Generals commanding army corps that the operations to be carried on will be best undertaken from Old Point Comfort between the York and James Rivers: provided, 1st, That the enemy's vessel Merrimac can be neutralized; 2d, That the means of transportation sufficient for an immediate transfer of the force to its new base can be ready at Washington and Alexandria to move down the Potomac; and, 3d, That a naval auxiliary force can be had to silence, or aid in silencing, the enemy's batteries on the York River; 4th, That the force to be left to cover Washington shall be such as to give an entire feeling of security for its safety from menace. While the scene of the most important contes
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Nims' Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
and the encounter between the Monitor and the Merrimac. The following interesting account of the samter. After about an hour's hard fighting the Merrimac ran her prow into the Cumberland, causing herater covered the decks. Night coming on, the Merrimac anchored off Sewall's Point. That was a darkeen expected had arrived and would engage the Merrimac in the morning. Still it was but a grain. ather insignificant. About eight o'clock the Merrimac came saucily out accompanied by the Jamestowned her for several hours. At one o'clock the Merrimac hauled away for Norfolk with her guns all dised for four hours firing several shots at the Merrimac, which was, however, too far away to be reach practise. Several Confederate steamers, the Merrimac among them, came out of Norfolk and lay in liregular army on the left. About 4 P. M. the Merrimac moved a little nearer and fired at the Union t shot bursting just on the other side of the Merrimac—a distance of four and one-half miles. We rec
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: poets of the Civil War I (search)
and realism; his output, however, was very slight. The struggle for the possession of Missouri was recorded in Stoddard's The little Drummer, Henry Peterson's The death of Lyon, and Boker's Zagonyi. During the Confederate attempt to recapture Corinth in October, 1862, the Eighth Wisconsin imaginatively carried, instead of a flag, a live eagle which circled over the battlefield and which gave Brownell his occasion for The Eagle of Corinth. This same year on the sea the duel between the Merrimac and the Cumberland stirred the poets as did almost no other episode of the entire war. Thomas Buchanan Read wrote The attack; Longfellow, The Cumberland; Boker, On Board the Cumberland; Melville, The Cumberland; Weir Mitchell, How the Cumberland went down,—all of them poems which, with a larger eloquence than then appeared, sounded the knell of the wooden battleship. As might have been expected, defeat had more poets than victory; Boker, however, wrote The Cruise of the Monitor, and Lucy
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