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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 1,756 1,640 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 979 67 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 963 5 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 742 0 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 694 24 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 457 395 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 I. 449 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 427 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 420 416 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 410 4 Browse Search
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William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 11: summer of 1862. (search)
n of our own men was pitiable enough, but the Federal wounded suffered to the last degree of horror. For five or six days hundreds of them lay about in the ravines, and under clumps of shrubbery, and in the open fields, exposed to the pelting rains, without covering, suffering the intolerable pangs of hunger and thirst, superadded to the torture of fly-blown, festering wounds. The victorious legions of Lee swept on toward Maryland, leaving the discomfited army of Pope huddled around Washington city. As the army approached Leesburg, Va., the Federals who occupied that place precipitately fled across the Potomac. They had come over from the point of Rock, says Mr. Mills in his narrative, to arrest some offensive citizens, among them some soldiers. They had gone so far in their cowardly work as to leave some of their victims under guard, when our cavalry came to their rescue. An old citizen of Leesburg described the scene to me thus: We were like Israel of old — the moun
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 15: winter of 1862-63. (search)
ly by a hair's breadth. The Louisville Journal said of this battle: It is painful and absolutely sickening to read of the horrible slaughter of our troops at Fredericksburg. The war cannot be carried on much longer as it has been. Gen. French went into battle with seven thousand men, and two days after the battle only twelve hundred reported to him. The total loss in his brigade alone was thirteen hundred and fifty-five. Concerning this disastrous battle General Burnside sent to Washington city this delicate dispatch: The army was withdrawn to this side of the river because I felt the position in front could not be carried. It was a military necessity, either to retreat or attack. A repulse would have been disastrous to us. The army was withdrawn at night without the knowledge of the enemy, and without loss either of property or men. This victory was not gained without a vast sacrifice of noble lives on the part of the Confederates. Gen. Lee was supported by some