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on Bragg, Gen'l C. S. Army. M'Clellan's Congratulatory Address to his troops. The following is Gen. McClellan's "congratulatory order to the Army of the Potomac for their recent victories;" Headqrs army of the Potomac, Camp near Sharpsburg, Md., Oct. 3, 1862. The Commanding General extends his congratulations to the army under his command for the victories achieved by their bravery at the passes of the South Mountain and upon the Antietam creek. The brilliant conduct of Reno's and Hooker's corps, under Burnside, at Turner's Gap, and of Franklin's corps at Crampton's Pass, in which, in the face of an enemy strong in position and resisting with obstinacy, they carried the mountain, and prepared the way for the advance of the army, won for them the admiration of their brethren in arms. In the memorable battle of Antietam we defeated a numerous and powerful army of the enemy, in an action desperately fought and remarkable for its duration and for the destruction
mile away, when the rebels compelled us to return them to the hospital where we found them. All quiet on the James river. From Gen. Burnside. The following letter, dated Newbern, N. C., July 2d, is published in the Philadelphia Press: Burnside's entire corps d'armee is in motion, bound inland somewhere. Your readers will be surprised to hear that three divisions are now in motion from this place, and more to come. You will hear good news from Burnside, Parke, Foster, and Reno very soon. The troops are overjoyed to think that they are about to follow our gallant Burnside into a victorious field once more. Gen. Marcy's estimate of M'Clellan's loss in the recent battles.[correspondence of the New York Tribune.] I understand that Gen. Marcy, Chief of McClellan's staff, estimates the entire loss of McClellan's army at $30,000. A Federal wagon train was attacked by a small hand of Confederate guerrillas, near Flint Hill, Va, on Monday. A panic among the
acter of Lieut.-Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, late Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy" there. A perusal of it will well repay for the time spent, giving as it does many new facts in relation to the character of the great hero who has gone. It is an interesting fact that when the Board of Visitors of the institute was looking for a suitable person to fill the vacant chair to which Jackson was chosen, the faculty of West Point submitted to them the names of Gens. McClellan, Rosecrans, Reno, and Gustavus. W. Smith, besides that of Jackson. The lecture room of the great professor is still draped in mourning for his death. Of the punctuality of Gen. Jackson Gen. Smith says: Punctual to a minute, I have known him to walk in front of the superintendent's quarters, during a hard rain, because the hour had not quite arrived when it was his duty to present his weekly class reports. The early studies of a great man are always of interest to those who have seen the culminat
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Casualties among General officers on both Sides during the War. (search)
Casualties among General officers on both Sides during the War. The following is a list of the Yankee Generals killed, died, and resigned since the war: Killed or Died from Wounds in Battle.--Major Generals Philip Kearney, at Chantilly; Isaac I Stevens, Chantilly; Jesse L Reno, South Mountain; J K T Mansfield, Antietam; Israel B Richardson, Antietam; Hiram G Berry, Chancellorsville; A W Whipple, Chancellorsville; John F Reynolds, Gettysburg. Brigadier-Generals Nath'l Lyon, Wilson's Creek; F W Lander, Edwards's Ferry; W H L Wallace, Shiloh; Thos Williams, Baton Rouge; H Bohlen, Rappahannock Ford; Geo W Taylor, Manassas; Isaac P Rodman, Antietam; P A Hackleman, Corinth; Jas S Jackson, Perryville; W K Terrill, Perryville; Geo D Bayard, Fredericksburg; C F Jackson, Fredericksburg; Joshua W Sill, Stone river; E N Kirk, Stone river; Edmund Kirby, Chancellorsville; Geo Boomer, Vicksburg; Stephen H Weed, Gettysburg; E J Farnsworth, Gettysburg; S K Zook, Gettysburg; Geo C Strong