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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Marching through Georgia and the Carolinas. (search)
fine condition and fully prepared for the serious work ahead. In the middle of December in the neighborhood of Savannah, after Hardee's troops had nearly exhausted the country, which was now mainly under water, there was little opportunity for the foragers to exercise their talents, and some of them returned to the ranks. The troops bivouacked here and there in comparatively dry spots, while picket duty had to be performed at many points in the water. In going from Sister's Ferry to Robertsville, where my regiment was in bivouac, I waded for a mile and a half in water knee-deep. At Purysburg the pickets were all afloat in boats and scows and on rafts, and the crestfallen foragers brought in nothing but rice, which became unpalatable when served three times a day for successive weeks. At length, when we left Savannah and launched cheerily into the untrodden land of South Carolina, the foragers began to assume their wonted spirit. We were proud of our foragers. They constituted
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 10 (search)
a. 11 Buckton Station, Va. 2 New Hope Church, Ga. 28 Winchester, Va. 5 Dallas, Ga., June 6, 1864 1 Cedar Mountain, Va. 26 Lost Mountain, Ga. 1 Antietam, Md. 41 Kenesaw, Ga. 2 Fairfax Station, Va. 1 Peach Tree Creek, Ga. 2 Chancellorsville, Va. 22 Siege of Atlanta, Ga. 5 Beverly Ford, Va. 2 Siege of Savannah, Ga. 1 Gettysburg, Pa. 2 Argyle Island, Ga. 1 Guerillas, Tenn. 1 Averasboro, N. C. 7 Present, also, at Newtown, Va; Cassville, Ga.; Sherman's March; Robertsville, Ga.; Bentonville, N. C.; The Carolinas. notes.--The above enrollment includes 586 conscripts and substitutes, very few of whom joined the regiment. The Third Wisconsin left the State on July 12, 1861, proceeding to Maryland, where for several months, it remained on duty in Frederick and along, or near, the Upper Potomac. While there, a forage party of three companies had a sharp fight with Ashby at Harper's Ferry, in which they held their ground against a superior force, but with a lo