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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
urg; and the western, under General Brooks, the Department of the Monongahela, with Headquarters at Pittsburg. The Middle Department was under the command of General Schenck, Headquarters at Baltimore. On the 12th, Governor Curtin, of that State, issued a call for the entire militia of the commonwealth to turn out to defend its soe River at and near Edwards's Ferry, one hundred thousand strong, having been re-enforced from the defenses around Washington, under General Heintzelman, and from Schenck's Middle Department. General Heintzelman was in command of the Department of Washington, with about 36,000 men, and Schenck's Department east of the CumberlandSchenck's Department east of the Cumberland, included the posts of Harper's Ferry and Winchester. It was not until Hooker was about to cross the Potomac that Halleck consented to let him have any troops from these Departments. Then he placed the forces in both at his disposal, but only nominally, for, as the text shows, when Hooker was about to use a portion of these troo
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
n Pennsylvania. For a full account of the conduct of this man and his followers, at Chambersburg, see the narrative of the burning of that place, by the Reverend B. S. Schenck, D. D., who was an eye-witness. both bitter Maryland rebels, who now, as the chosen guides and assistants of the chief of the invaders, brought war with allnd children; but in ten minutes after McCausland ordered Gilmor, his torchbearer on the occasion, to apply fire, the village was in flames. Letters of Rev. B. S. Schenck, D. D., an eye-witness. They would beat in the door of each house with iron bars or heavy plank, says Dr. Schenck, smash up furniture with an ax, throw fluid oDr. Schenck, smash up furniture with an ax, throw fluid or oil upon it, and apply the match. They almost invariably entered every room of each house, rifled the drawers of every bureau, appropriated money, jewelry, watches, and any other valuables, and often would present pistols to the heads of inmates, men and women, and demand money or their lives. Twenty-five hundred persons were r
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
iswold, Herrick, Hotchkiss, Hulburd, Kellogg, Littlejohn, Marvin, Miller, Morris, Nelson, Odell, Pomeroy, Radford, Steele, Van Valkenburg; New Jersey--Starr; Pennsylvania--Bailey, Broomall, Coffroth, Hale, Kelly, McAllister, Moorhead, A. Myers, L. Myers, O'Neill, Scofield, Stevens, Thayer, Tracy, Williams; Delaware--Smithers; Maryland--Cresswell, Davis, Thomas, Webster; West Virginia--Blair, Brown, Whaley; Kentucky--Anderson, Kendall, Smith, Yeaman; Ohio--Ashley, Eckley, Garfield, Hutchins, Schenck, Spaulding; Indiana--Colfax, Derwent. Julian, Orth; Illinois--Arnold, Farnsworth, Ingersoll, Norton, E. B. Washburne; Missouri--Blow, Boyd, King, Knox, Loan, McClurg, Rollins; Michigan--Baldwin, Beaman, Driggs, Kellogg, Longyear, Upson; Iowa--Allison, Grinnell, Hubbard, Kasson, Price, Wilson; Wisconsin--Cobb, McIndoe, Sloan, Wheeler; Minnesota--Donnelly, Windom; Kansas--Wilder; Oregon--McBride; Nevada--Worthington; California--Cole, Higby, Shannon.--119. Fifteen of the above were Democr
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.21 (search)
This is a question that has never been solved. They had three men to our one, as our force, all told, did not exceed 1,000 men. A Northern explanation. From a little pamphlet published a few months after the burning, written by Rev. B. S. Schenck, D. D., I quote this paragraph in explanation: General Averill possibly might have saved Chambersburg, and I know General Couch exhausted himself to get Averill to fall back from Greencastle to this point. I do not say that General Averilleral Fitzhugh read them the order of General Early, levying a tribute of $100,000 in gold or $500,000 in United States currency, for the burning of property by the Federal army in Virginia. This little pamphlet I mentioned above, written by Rev. Dr. Schenck, has this to say on this point: Captain Fitzhugh exhibited to J. W. Douglas, Esq., an attorney of this place, a written order, with the name of Jubal Early to it, directing that Chambersburg should be burned in retaliation for the burning
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
claiming the secession of Alabama, 212. Reeve, Captain, E. Payson, 111. Reilly, Major, James, 161. Richmond, Va., Fall of, 375; hotels in 1863, 3. Rodes, General R. E., Commendation of Alabama troops, 31. Roosevelt, Hon., Theo., 342. Rosser, Rev. Dr. Leo., 18. Rowe, Colonel, Residence of, 25. Ruffin, Edmund, at Fort Sumter, 107. Russell, Lord, John, 332. Ryan, Lieutenant, killed, 11. Sanford, Col. J. W. A, Address of, 209. Sanford, Col. W. J., Address of, 184. Schenck, Rev. Dr. B S., 316 Screws, Capt. B. H., Address of, 212. Secession, Blain on, 59; right of, 189, 210, 330, 336. Seymour, Horatio, on the conquest of the South, 325. Shafer, Miss, Rose, Bravery of, 12. Shatter, General W. R., 227. Shields, Col. John C , 241. Shiloh, Battle of, 225. Simons, Gen., Jas., 108. Slave, Southern relation of master to, 262. Slavery not the cause of the disruption of the Union, 55, 319, 333. Smith, Rev. Dr., James Power, 289. Smith, Gol