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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, Chapter 11 : list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each. (search)
rved through the war. 12 186 198 2 152 154 352 Terry's Tenth.
Sept., ‘61 4th New Hampshire
Re achusetts
Reenlisted. 7 90 97 1 122 123 220 Terry's Tenth.
Oct., ‘61 25th Massachusetts
Re necticut
Reenlisted. 8 99 107 4 124 128 235 Terry's Tenth.
Sept., ‘61 7th Connecticut
Reen Sept., ‘63 16th New York 42 42 2 284 286 328 Terry's Tenth.
Marine Artillery. rved through the war. 12 182 194 1 202 203 397 Terry's Tenth.
Oct., ‘61 101st New York 1 24 25 1 ., ‘61 85th Pennsylvania 7 90 97 4 146 150 247 Terry's Tenth.
Sept., ‘61 87th Pennsylvania
Se nia
Enlisted for one year. 1 1 29 29 30 Terry's Tenth.
Sept., ‘64 207th Pennsylvania
E rved through the war. 11 102 113 2 129 131 244 Terry's Tenth.
Dec., ‘61 63d Ohio
Reenlisted a rved through the war. 11 131 142 1 150 151 293 Terry's Tenth.
Dec., ‘61 68th Ohio
Reenlisted rved through the war. 12 129 141 2 130 132 273 Terry's Tenth.
Aug., ‘61 40th Illinois
Reenlis
d artillery, under Capt. Tourtelotte, served their guns most efficiently; and the Seventh Connecticut regiment, under Colonel Terry, very ably manned the batteries which they had most laboriously constructed; so that I designated them, as I was plea the heavy labor, were the Forty-sixth New-York Volunteers, Col. Rudolph Rosa; the Seventh Connecticut volunteers, Col. Alfred H. Terry; two companies of the New-York Volunteer Engineers (Capt. Graef and Lieut. Brooks) under command of Lieut.-Col. Ja apts. Mason and Rodgers,) and a small detachment from company A, corps of engineers, under Sergeant James E. Wilson.
Col. Terry and Lieut.-Col. Hall entered most zealously upon the discharge of their varied duties.
A detachment from Col. Rosa's ling down the flag.
They remained in the Fort during the next day, when Gens. Hunter, Benham and Gilmore visited it. Colonel Terry, of the Seventh Connecticut, is now in command, having come over with his regiment on the night of the surrender.
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of January, 1865.
No. Lxxvi.--The Resolution to present the Thanks of Congress to Major-General Alfred H. Terry, and the Officers and Men under his Command.
In the Senate, on the eighteenth of n, of Connecticut, introduced a joint resolution tendering the thanks of Congress to Major-General Alfred H. Terry for the brilliant victory of Fort Fisher, and it was read twice and referred to the after the resolving clause, and insert: That the thanks of Congress be presented to Major-General Alfred H. Terry, and to the officers and men under his command, for the unsurpassed gallantry and sk d, That the President of the United States be requested to communicate this resolution to Major-General Terry, and through him to the officers and soldiers under his command.
The amendment was agree e was so amended as to read: A joint resolution to present the thanks of Congress to Major-General Alfred H. Terry and the officers and men under his command.
In the House, on the twentieth, the j
Here the day passed off quietly, with the exception of occasional firing between the pickets.
Carpenter's battery was detached from my brigade on the twelfth, and was not under my orders during the engagement.
A report of its participation in the engagement by Lieutenant McKendree, commanding, is transmitted herewith.
I am much indebted to my regimental officers, Captains Nadenbousch and Colston, acting field officers of the Second Virginia regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Gardiner and Major Terry, Fourth Virginia regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Williams and Captain Newton, Fifth Virginia regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Edmondson and Major Shriver, Forty-seventh Virginia regiment, and Colonel Lee, Thirty-third Virginia regiment, for the exhibition of great gallantry, skill, and coolness in the discharge of their duties.
Lieutenant-Colonel Gardiner, after having passed unhurt, and distinguished for his gallantry, through all the battles of the campaign, (Port Republic, Richmond, Cedar Mo
pany G, deserves particular notice: wounded early in the day, he refused to leave the field.
In the last charge, he was the first to spring to the ground to open the fence; then dashing on at the head of the column, he was twice sabred over the head, his arm shattered by a bullet, captured and carried over the river, when he escaped and walked back, twelve miles, to his camp.
Lieutenant-Colonel Payne, commanding, also mentions privates Joseph Gilman, J. R. Gilman, Poindexter, Redd, Sydnor, Terry, and N. Priddy.
In the Third, Captain Collins, company H; Lieutenants Hill Carter and John Lamb, of company D; Lieutenant Stamper, of company F; Lieutenant R. F. Hubbard, company G; and first Lieutenant Hall, of company C, was twice wounded, before he desisted from the charge, and when retiring, received a third and still more severe wound, and was unable to leave the field.
Adjutant H. B. McClellan is also particularly commended for his gallantry.
Acting Sergeant-Major, E. W. Price, comp
s south of Snodgrass's house.
About the time the ridge was carried, Colonel Trigg, of Preston's division, reported to me with a part of his brigade.
I sent Captain Terry, of the Seventeenth Tennessee regiment, who was wounded and mounted on horseback, to place Trigg's command on our right, and it relieved Gregg's brigade, which of the Forty-fourth Tennessee regiment, commanding Johnson's brigade; Colonel R. H. Keble, of the Twenty-third Tennessee regiment; Lieutenant-Colonel Floyd and Captain Terry, of the Seventeenth Tennessee regiment, and Lieutenant-Colonel Snowden, and Acting Adjutant Gregg, of the Twenty-fifth Tennessee regiment.
To Colonel Suggs, I eenth Tennessee regiment, wounded and captured.
Adjutants Cross, Gwynn, and Fitzpatrick, and Lieutenant Gregg, who came into action on Sunday morning. Also, Captain Terry, who after he was wounded on Saturday evening, rendered me valuable service on Sunday.
Mention may also be made of the following: Private (Ex-Captain) Ridley,
al wound at the head of his regiment.
Observing some troops on the left, partially sheltered by a shallow cut in the road, who proved to be the remnant of Thompson's brigade, and out of ammunition, I ordered them to advance to the support of the First division with the bayonet.
The order was promptly obeyed, and in executing it, I happened to observe, as distinguished for alacrity, Colonel Crossland, of the Seventh Kentucky, Lieutenant-Colonel Goodwin, of the Thirty-fifth Alabama, and Lieutenant Terry, of the Eighth Kentucky, on duty with sharpshooters.
At this critical point, Major Brown, chief commissary, and Captain Richards, one of my aids, were conspicuous in urging on the troops.
In this assault we suffered considerably from the fire of the fleet until the opposing lines approached each other so closely that a regard for their own friends obliged them to suspend.
The contest at and around this last encampment was bloody, but at the end of it the enemy were completely routed,
became the target for Confederate gunners.
Two weeks later two 10-inch mortars were mounted in place of the Parrott.
It was later mounted in Trenton.
The Swamp-angel --one of the famous guns of 1863
After the 36th shot — the swamp-angel burst
Artillery.
This remarkable picture was taken while the flyingsap was being pushed forward to the fifth (and last) parallel.
The action of September 6th is thus reported by Major T. B. Brooks: The general commanding o r d e r e d General Terry to take and hold the ridge, and place the resources of the command at his disposal for that purpose.
It was accomplished at 6:30 P. M. by a brilliant charge of the Twenty-tourth Massachusetts Volunteers, Colonel Francis A. Osborn commanding, supported by the Third New Hampshire Volunteers, Captain Randlett commanding.
Sixty-seven prisonerswere captured.
They were afraid to retire on account of their own torpe-does, as they informed us, and had too little time, even if there had been n
lors attacked — the mound battery at Fort Fisher
In this photograph unexploded 12-inch shells can be plainly seen upon the beach, as they fell on January 13, 1865, in the terrific fire from the Federal fleet under Rear-Admiral Porter.
This was the land face; the portion to the left was the angle of the work.
The land assault by the sailors on January 15th, was repulsed with a loss of some three hundred killed and wounded. At the western end of the works, however, the army under General Alfred H. Terry succeeded in effecting an entrance and captured the Fort that evening.
One of the huge traverses, after the bombardment
A traverse in an earthwork built perpendicular to the main work in order to limit the destructive area of shells.
The traverses at Fort Fisher rose twelve feet above the twenty-foot parapet, ran back thirty feet, and exceeded in size any previously known to engineers. the still-delayed accumulation of wagon trains.
This caused a panic; traces were cut, an
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, List of regiments in the Union Armies , with total number of deaths in each. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 130 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 1 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 2 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 32 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 41 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 61 (search)
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 5: Forts and Artillery. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Attack and defense at Charleston (search)
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 5: Forts and Artillery. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Reminiscences of the Confederate engineer service (search)