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Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 583 9 Browse Search
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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 129 37 Browse Search
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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 4: the call for troops. (search)
monument On the pedestal is inscribed In honor of fifty-eight members of the Seventh Regiment who died in defence of the Union. In their so-called roll of honor appear the names of fifty-eight of our members killed in battle. The name of Robert G. Shaw is there. He was a private in the Seventh. He went to the front with a Massachusetts regiment, and afterwards was colonel of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts (colored) volunteers. He was killed while leading his regiment in the attack on Fort Wagner. S. C. The day he was killed the Seventh was in New York. The Seventh, having won no laurels, took one belonging to a regiment of negroes; and wear it as their own.< Hoping that you will find some portion of this letter interesting, I remain, Respectfully yours, * * * 280 Broadway, New York. As an illustration of the accuracy with which history is written, and especially in that book entitled Abraham Lincoln, a history, I beg leave to quote from that work the following descrip
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 19: observations upon matters connected with the War. (search)
of the Department of New England, I had as assistant adjutant-general and chief of ordnance, Maj. George C. Strong. I have said of him all I could say of any man, during the progress of this work. While I was at home unemployed in 1863, Major Strong's love of battle and hope of glory impelled him not to wait until I could have another appointment, and having been promoted he was sent to Charleston to report to General Gillmore. He was put in command of a brigade and ordered to assault Fort Wagner, where he lost his life by a wound that caused him a lingering and painful illness. Upon my recommendation the President appointed him a major-general, and his commission reached him on his dying bed. Col. George A. Kensel was my chief of artillery and inspector-general. He was a Kentuckian, having been appointed to West Point by General Breckinridge, but was loyal to the cause. He was one of the young artillery officers who, when I went to Fortress Monroe in 1861, had accepted an a
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
dgment, and in that of the experienced officers of his command who had been on the skirmish line, with any prospect of success, was impossible. This opinion coincided with my own, and much as I regretted the necessity of abandoning the attempt, yet the path of duty was plain. Not so strong a work as Fort Fisher had been taken by assault during the war, and I had to guide me the experience of Port Hudson, with its slaughtered thousands in the repulsed assault, and the double assault of Fort Wagner, where thousands were sacrificed in an attempt to take a work less strong than Fisher, after it had been subjected to a more continued and fully as severe fire. And in neither of the instances I have mentioned had the assaulting force in its rear, as I had, an army of the enemy larger than itself. I therefore ordered that no assault should be made, and that the troops should re-embark. While superintending the preparations for this, the fire of the navy ceased. Instantly the guns
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
tler justified in refusing to assault, 821; Farragut advises Butler against expedition, 823; reference to, 831-832, 849; Butler's defeat at, an excuse for his removal, 850. Fort Gilmour, Confederates repulse attack upon, 736, 737. Fort Harrison, captured, 733-734; name changed to Fort Burnham, 737; Lee attempts recapture of, 737. Fort Hatteras, expedition against, 281, 285. Fort Henry, reference to, 874. Fort Jackson, 748. Fort Malakoff, Fort Fisher compared with, 812. Fort Wagner, Maj. G. T. Strong, wounded at, 891. Fortress Monroe, assigned to, 240; arrival at, 243; description of, 243-255; Butler at, in 1861, 240, 286; headquarters for exchange of prisoners, 584; Grant visited Butler at, 592. Butler's headquarters at, 617; Grant plans Richmond campaign at, 630; colored troops embark at, 640; pontoon equipment ordered from, 683; Butler goes to, 752; receives telegram, 753; furnishes powder, 779; Butler prepares for Fort Fisher expedition, 783; Ord accompanies