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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 3 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 3 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Operations South of the James River. (search)
lmost completely surrounded. The loss of the division in this remarkable raid was about five hundred in killed, wounded, and missing, quite one-fourth of the command. The official table prepared in the War Department shows the loss of the division from June 15th to 30th, inclusive, to have been 48 killed, 153 wounded, and 429 captured or missing = 630. In his official report of the operations of June 28th and 29th General Wade Hampton says: The pursuit of the enemy, which ended near Peters's bridge, closed the active operations which began on June 8th, when the movement against Sheridan [see p. 233] commenced. During that time, a period of twenty-two days, the command had no rest, was badly supplied with rations and forage, marched upward of four hundred miles, fought the greater portion of six days and one entire night, captured upward of 2000 prisoners, many guns, small-arms, wagons, horses, and other materials of war, and was completely successful in defeating two of the m
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 18.113 (search)
t.-Col. Benjamin D. Pritchard; 3d Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Horace N. Howland, Maj. Darius E. Livermore; 4th Ohio, Lieut.-Col. George W. Dobb (k), Capt. William W. Shoemaker; 7th Pa., Col. Charles C. McCormick (w), Lieut.-Col. James F. Andress. Artillery: Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Capt. George I. Robinson. Fourth division, Brig.-Gen. Emory Upton; (after April 20th) Brevet Brig.-Gen. Edward F. Winslow. First Brigade, Col. Edward F. Winslow: 3d Iowa, Col. John W. Noble; 4th Iowa, Lieut.-Col. John H. Peters; 10th Mo., Lieut.-Col. Frederick W. Ben teen. Second Brigade, Brevet Brig.-Gen. A. J. Alexander: 5th Iowa, Col. J. Morris Young; 1st Ohio, Col. Beroth B. Eggleston; 7th Ohio, Col. Israel Garrard. Artillery: I, 1st U. S., Lieut. George B. Rodney. The effective strength of the foregoing commands was about 13,000. The loss in action aggregated 99 killed, 598 wounded, and 28 missing=725. the Confederate forces. Cavalry Corps, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana
hands. Colonel Noble led his regiment, which behaved admirably, and his adjutant lost his horse in the first charge. Meantime a body of the enemy attacked my column in rear and on the right, but this force was speedily driven off by Lieutenant-Colonel Peters with a portion of the Fourth Iowa cavalry. The enemy were very roughly handled today, and scattered by the impetuosity of our men. I have no doubt that the manner in which this day's work was done tended much to render our subsequentng parallel with the Somerville road. The Tenth Missouri cavalry, Lieutenant-Colonel F. W. Benteen commanding, on the Somerville road, four hundred yards in rear of the Third Iowa, in column of fours. mounted, and the Fourth Iowa, Lieutenant-Colonel John H. Peters commanding, in the same order on a byroad three hundred yards from the point of its intersection with the Summerville road, being thus to the right and rear of the Third Iowa two hundred yards. The moment we were ready to attack
Appointments by Lincoln. --James Watson Webb, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Brazil. Thomas H. Nelson, of Indiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Chill. Allen A. Burton, of Kentucky, to be Minister Resident of the United States to Bogota. George E. Wiss, of Maryland, to be Consul of the United States at Amsterdam. Timothy C. Smith, of Vermont, to be Consul of the United States at Odessa. Charles L. Bernays, of Missouri, to be Consul of the United States at Zurich. John D. Arnold, of Illinois, to be Consul of the United States at St. Petersburg. John H. Peters, of South Carolina, to be Consul of the United States at Tunis. Henry W. Lord, of Michigan, to be Consul of the United States at Manchester, Joseph & Nunes, of California, to be Commercial Agent of the United States at La Fas, Lower California.