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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 461 449 Browse Search
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 457 125 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 432 88 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 425 15 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 398 2 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 346 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 303 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 247 5 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 210 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 201 1 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
s strength in vain against the redoubts of Fredericksburg, whilst Sherman, on the Mississippi, experhad particularly distinguished himself at Fredericksburg, took his place. The Sixth corps was take Federals had tried in vain to cross it at Fredericksburg and above and below that city; as we have tal of Virginia at a long distance back of Fredericksburg. Counting upon victory, he was thus takinck by a portion of Sedgwick's forces below Fredericksburg therefore engrossed for the time being alloth the clearings which border the road to Fredericksburg at the east and the plateau of Chancellors than one division ten miles behind him at Fredericksburg, a considerable detachment had yet to be sackson's corps, and of opening the road to Fredericksburg and Richmond to the Federals. Having reso without noticing what was taking place at Fredericksburg. He was probably influenced by his knowleshed itself before daylight in the city of Fredericksburg, which had been abandoned by the Confedera[64 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
ost of honor, being ordered to defend this important pass, while the other corps, continuing their march in a state of indescribable confusion, did not stop until one o'clock in the morning, in the vicinity of Bovina Station. The battle of Champion's Hill, considering the number of troops engaged, could not compare with the great conflicts we have already mentioned, but it produced results far more important than most of those great hecatombs, like Shiloh, Fair Oaks, Murfreesborough, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville, which left the two adversaries fronting each other, both unable to resume the fight. It was the most complete defeat the Confederates had sustained since the commencement of the war. They left on the field of battle from three to four thousand killed and wounded, three thousand able-bodied prisoners, and thirty pieces of artillery. But these figures can convey no idea of the magnitude of the check experienced by Pemberton, from which he could not again recover.
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
e East, by Burnside's disaster in front of Fredericksburg. The Confederates, forming one compact st the experience obtained at the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville having proved its useheir arms in times of war. The disaster of Fredericksburg, the check of Chickasaw Bayou, the inactio that an attack upon the weakened lines of Fredericksburg while a portion of Lee's army was probablygstreet had brought back his army corps to Fredericksburg, Keyes was left at Yorktown with forces tof the long column which was to extend from Fredericksburg to within sight of the Maryland mountains;d that, not being able to attack Hill near Fredericksburg, he ought not allow himself to be detained the tail of it on the plank-road between Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, said the President, portance, inasmuch as Lee was no longer at Fredericksburg or Culpeper at the end of the railroad linhe unanimous regrets of the inhabitants of Fredericksburg, of which town he had been the military go[4 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—Third winter. (search)
fensive, he is not willing to go as far as Fredericksburg, where the river would oppose to his moveer chances of success, Burnside's march on Fredericksburg. But the New York riots, which we will red, it covered neither Chancellorsville nor Fredericksburg. On the 2d of August he brought back his ourse of the river; he can arrive opposite Fredericksburg with his bridge equipage before Lee, and c without a chance of its outstripping him. Fredericksburg once in his possession, before the bad wename situated between Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg. Bartlett's Mill is also called Barclay'sen misled by incorrect maps. The one near Fredericksburg is named Zoan.—Ed.] which is on the left bout to assault. Almost all have witnessed Fredericksburg and Gettysburg; they know by a double expeonceal himself from the enemy and march on Fredericksburg, and thus derive a great advantage from thafraid that Meade may escape him and reach Fredericksburg. Two divisions advance on the plank road;[4 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Addenda by the editor (search)
the Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major-general Joseph Hooker, was posted on the north bank of the Rappahannock River, confronting the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, under General R. E. Lee, mainly concentrated about the town of Fredericksburg, on the south bank of the river. The several corps of the Army of the Potomac were distributed as follows: First corps (Reynolds'), in the vicinity of White Oak Church; Second corps (Couch's), near Falmouth; Third corps (Birney's), at Boscob), in the vicinity of Banks', United States, and adjacent fords on the Rappahannock; Sixth corps (Sedgwick's), near White Oak Church, with the Second division (Howe's), thrown forward to Franklin's Crossing of the Rappahannock, a little below Fredericksburg, near the mouth of Deep Run; Eleventh corps (Howard's), near Brooke's Station, on the Aquia Creek Railroad; and the Twelfth corps (Slocum's), near Stafford Court-house and Aquia Landing. The cavalry corps (Pleasonton's) had two divisions in