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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 5: events in Charleston and Charleston harbor in December, 1860.--the conspirators encouraged by the Government policy. (search)
od-cut, with the words Independence or Death. The title of this company was given in honor of the Irish exile, Thomas F. Meagher, whose honorable course, in serving his adopted country gallantly as a brigadier-general during the civil war that followed, was a fitting rebuke to these unworthy sons of Ireland, who had fled from oppression, and were now ready to fight for an ignoble oligarchy, who were enemies of human freedom and enlightenment. So were the Germans of South Carolina rebuked by Sigel and thousands of their countrymen, who fought in the National armies for those democratic principles which for years had burned intensely in the bosoms of their countrymen in Father-land. He read the general orders of R. G. M. Dunovant, the Adjutant and Inspector-General of the State, requiring colonels commanding regiments to report forth — with the number, kind, and condition of all public arms in possession of the Volunteer Corps composing the several commands, and the appointment of nine
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 19: events in the Mississippi Valley.--the Indians. (search)
ow personally from Captain Lyon whether the rumor of his intended attack on Camp Jackson was true. Lyon refused to receive Frost's note, but the traitor was answered by the vigilant commander personally that day, in a way to silence all further inquiries. Early in the afternoon, Lyon, by a quick movement, surrounded Camp Jackson with about six thousand troops and heavy cannon, so placed as to command the entire grove. The regiments of Missouri Volunteers, under Colonels Boernstein, Franz Sigel (afterward Major-General), and Blair, were drawn up on the north and west sides of the camp; the regiment of Colonel Nicholas Schuttner, with a company of United States Regulars and a battery of artillery, under Lieutenant Lathrop, were placed on the east side of the camp; and a company of Regulars, under Lieutenant Saxton, and a battery of heavy guns were on the north side of the camp. Lyon's staff consisted of Franklin A. Dick, Samuel Simmons, Bernard G. Farrar, and Mr. Conant. Mr. Dic
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 23: the War in Missouri.-doings of the Confederate Congress. --Affairs in Baltimore.--Piracies. (search)
eneral Lyon's first movement against Jackson and Price was to send June 12, 1861. the Second Missouri Regiment of Volunteers, under Colonel (afterward General) Franz Sigel, to occupy and protect from injury the Pacific Railway, from St. Louis to the Gasconade River, preparatory to an advance toward the southern portion of the Statsouri, and ten thousand more might be thrown into it, in the space of forty-eight hours, from camps in the adjoining State of Illinois. And, at the same time, Colonel Sigel, already mentioned, an energetic and accomplished German liberal, who had commanded the republican troops of his native state (the Grand Duchy of Baden) in thear had begun in earnest. The drum and fife were heard in every city, village, and hamlet, from the St. Croix to the Rio Grande. Propositions for compromises Franz Sigel. and concessions were no longer listened to by the opposing parties. The soothing echoes of the last Peace Convention, held at Frankfort, in Kentucky, on the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 2: civil and military operations in Missouri. (search)
ath of General Lyon Major Sturgis in command Sigel's troops lost by a trick of the Confederates, ey had been marching that morning in search of Sigel, and were now drawn up in battle order on the w eighty miles from Springfield. Satisfied of Sigel's peril, he decided to change his course, and us; three companies of the Third Missouri, Colonel Sigel; Fifth Missouri, Colonel Salomon; First Ioary commands to Brigadier-General Sweeney, Colonel Sigel, and Major Sturgis. They bivouacked that national Army were led respectively by Lyon and Sigel. The former, with Major Sturgis as his secondaring the continued roar of Lyon's heavy guns, Sigel now pressed forward to attack the Confederate e of a few minutes, of his twelve hundred men, Sigel had only about three hundred left. He saved t with vigor. At length, as we have seen, when Sigel was pushing along the Fayetteville road, to stts of Major Sturgis, August 20th, 1861; of Colonel Sigel, August 18th, 1861, and of the subordinate[34 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 3: military operations in Missouri and Kentucky. (search)
o general expectation, the Confederates did not pursue the shattered little army that was led by Sigel, from Springfield to Rolla. See page 54. McCulloch contented himself with issuing a proclamatarranged in five divisions under the respective commands of Generals David Hunter, John Pope, Franz Sigel, J. A. McKinstry, and H. Asboth, and accompanied by eighty-six pieces of artillery, many of tsaber. had arrived there on the 16th, October. after encountering a severe rain storm. General Sigel, who led the advance, had already crossed his force over the rapidly swelling stream by means ofdly out of Springfield, because it was unsafe for them to remain. They fell back until they met Sigel's advance, between Springfield and Bolivar. The report of this brilliant charge and victory, whed. They were to be assailed simultaneously by Generals Pope and McKinstry in the front, by Generals Sigel and Lane in the rear, and by General Asboth on the east, from the Fayetteville road. Gene
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7: military operations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Eastern Kentucky--capture of Fort Henry. (search)
d Halleck to concentrate his troops at Lebanon, the capital of Laclede County, northeastward of Springfield, early in February, under the chief command of General (late Colonel) S. R. Curtis. These were composed of the troops of Generals Asboth, Sigel, Davis, and Prentiss. In the midst of storms and floods, over heavy roads and swollen streams, the combined forces moved on Springfield Feb. 11, 1862. in three columns, the right under General Davis, the center under General Sigel, and the leGeneral Sigel, and the left under Colonel (soon afterward General) Carr. On the same day they met some of Price's advance, and skirmishing ensued; and on the following day about three hundred Confederates attacked Curtis's picket-guards, but were repulsed. This feint of offering battle was made by Price to enable him to effect a retreat. On the night of the 12th and 13th February. he fled from Springfield with his whole force. Not a man of them was to be seen when Curtis's vanguard, the Fourth Iowa, entered the to
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 9: events at Nashville, Columbus, New Madrid, Island number10, and Pea Ridge. (search)
y-guard, and Louisiana infantry. Fortunately, Sigel had remained with his rear-guard, and he handl camp, and McCulloch and McIntosh lay north of Sigel and Davis, after the National army had changedAlexander Asboth. Second divisions, under Sigel and Asboth, were on his left, the Third, underand take position at the Elkhorn Tavern, while Sigel should re-enforce Davis, and, if proper, pressAt two o'clock in the morning he was joined by Sigel and his command, who had been compelled to makght be moving off, did not wait for Asboth and Sigel to get into position, but ordered Davis, who oattle-line was soon perfected, with Asboth and Sigel a little to the rear of the remainder. Curtiseadiness, when the decisive action commenced. Sigel first ordered Colonel Coler to post his Twentyiately opened fire on them. At the same time, Sigel placed a battery of six guns on a rise of grou-field of Pea Ridge. Cross-Timber Hollow. Sigel's infantry at the same time crept steadily for[18 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 12: operations on the coasts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. (search)
beyond reach. Patiently the work was carried on under the supervision of General Gillmore, who was in chief command, and on the 9th of April eleven batteries, containing an aggregate of thirty-six guns, were in Siege of Fort Pulaski. readiness to open fire on the fort. These were batteries Stanton and Grant, three 10-inch mortars each; Lyon and Lincoln, three columbiads each; Burnside, one heavy mortar; Sherman, three heavy mortars; Halleck, two heavy mortars; Scott, four columbiads; Sigel, five 30-pounder Parrott, and one 48-pounder James; McClellan, two 84-pounders and two 64-pounders James; Totten, four 10-inch siege mortars. Totten and McClellan were only 1,650 yards from the fort; Stanton was 8,400 yards distant. Each battery had a service magazine for two days supply of ammunition, and a depot powder magazine of 8,000 barrels capacity was constructed near the Martello tower, printed on page 125, which was the landing-place for all supplies on Tybee. On that day the comm
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 17: Pope's campaign in Virginia. (search)
l to send forward Ricketts' division, directed Sigel to bring his men upon the ground as quickly asgan to arrive. On receiving orders to move, Sigel sent to inquire which route he should take, anforward and formed a line with his right under Sigel, on Robertson's River, his left under Reno, at to get between himself and Fredericksburg. Sigel was directed to march his whole corps upon Sulied by Buford's cavalry at noon, Aug. 24. and Sigel's advance under Milroy arrived there late in trnoon. Pope's army now faced westward, with Sigel's corps and Buford's cavalry near the Rappahanendeavored to regain what was lost by ordering Sigel, supported by Reynolds, to advance from Groveta furious battle was begun. Until ten o'clock Sigel steadily gained ground, in the face of a destr the Sudley Springs road, and took position on Sigel's right. At the same time Reno came up by thetake position on McDowell's left and rear; and Sigel and Porter to unite with the right of Sumner, [10 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 18: Lee's invasion of Maryland, and his retreat toward Richmond. (search)
, and others followed him. Perceiving this movement; the Confederates began retreating up the Shenandoah Valley, followed by Generals Sedgwick and Hancock a short distance. By the 4th, Nov. the National army, re-enforced by the divisions of Generals Sigel and Sickles from Washington, occupied the whole region east of the Blue Ridge, with several of its gaps, from Harper's Ferry to Paris, on the road from Aldie to Winchester, and on the 6th McClellan's Headquarters were at Rectortown, near Frono flank his foe and give him battle. For that purpose his army was speedily put in motion. The Grand Divisions of Franklin and Hooker ascended the river by parallel roads, while Couch's made a feint below the city. The reserve corps, now under Sigel, was ordered to guard the line of the river and the communications with the army. Every thing was in readiness to cross the river stealthily on the night of the 20th, when a terrible storm of wind, snow, sleet, and rain came on, such as had se
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