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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. 132 128 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 82 28 Browse Search
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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 73 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 44 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 42 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 40 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 40 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 39 1 Browse Search
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John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 14: (search)
from sending reinforcements to the north side of the James, while Sheridan operated towards Richmond, the defences of which were thought to be so sparsely occupied as to be open to a surprise. To accomplish this end, we gather from Hancock's report, the latter was instructed to take and hold a position near Chapin's Bluff, which commanded the enemy's pontoons across the river at this point. Gen. Grant must have been misinformed as to the location of these bridges. The lowest was above Drewry's Bluff.—McCabe's Life and Campaigns of Gen. Robert E. Lee. But owing to a probable misapprehension of the Lieutenant General, and to the large reinforcements sent hither by Gen. Lee, the expedition was a failure in this respect. This movement induced Gen. Lee to send four out of his eight divisions to the north side of the James River.—Ibid. In its bearings on the assault made after the explosion of the mine, had the latter been anything but the wretched failure that it was, the result might h
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Index (search)
s, Moses K., 28, 29. Davis, Col. P. S., 51, 81. Day, George H., 150, 151, 207, 369, 380, 382, 400, 401, 402. Deane, Lieut. Sixth Me. Artillery, 365, 375. Deep Bottom, 295, 297, 326. De Trobriand, Gen., 160, 358, 373, 374. Devens, Gen., Chas., 200, 201, 202. Devereaux, Geo. N., 242, 303, 304, 305, 324, 338, 348. Devine, Timothy, 405, 406. Dixon, Geo. M., 47, 80. Dictator, Mortar, 298. Dillingham, Capt., 65. Doe, Chas. W., 31, 151, 208, 406, 407. Donnelly, Win. G., 87, 184. Drewry's Bluff, 297. Dwight, James, 47, 80, 201, 205, 207, 407, 409. E. Early, Gen., 293. Edwards, Joseph, 401, 402. Edwards, William, 80. Egan, Gen., 246, 357, 361, 364, 371, 373, 374. Elder, Lieut. M., 23, 24, 28. Ellsworth, Capt., 404, 405, 406. Ellsworth, James, 208, 209. Ellsworth, Thomas, 117, 147, 183, 199, 302, 401, 403, 441. Elliot Salient, 342, 396. Endicott, Win. E., 83, 96, 198, 253, 316, 325, 326, 339, 348, 397, 398. Estabrook, L. L., 198, 400. Estee, Frank M., 116, 398