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Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
1859. George Wellington Batchelder. Sergeant 8th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), April 18—August 1, 1861; first Lieutenant 19th Mass. Vols. (Infantry), August 22, 1861; Captain, March 21, 1862; killed at Antietam, Md., September 17, 1862. George Wellington Batchelder was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on the 20th of December, 1838, and was the youngest son of Jacob and Mary Wellington Batchelder. He was a child of very delicate organization, and at several periods during his infancy and boyhood was reduced so low by severe illness that his recovery was regarded as almost miraculous. He possessed a sweet and happy disposition and a buoyant and joyous temperament, which caused him to be greatly beloved by all who knew him. Nearly all of his school days were passed under the instruction of his father, who, at the time that George entered college, was principal of Lynn High School, where his preparatory studies had been completed. During all this time he was a studious and thoughtfu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
, 1864.Actg. Asst. Paymr.Mahaska.South Atlantic.--- Allen, Sherman,--Mass.Mar. 21, 1862.Actg. Master's Mate.Powhatan.South Atlantic.Oct. 6, 1862.Revoked.Actg. Mastchusetts.West Gulf.Mar. 17, 1862.Appointment revoked.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr. Mar. 21, 1862.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr.Somerset; Fort Henry.East Gulf. Sept. 23, 1863.Actg. c; So. Atlantic.--- Coffin, Peter F., Credit, Cambridge. Mass.Mass.Mass.Mar. 21, 1862.Actg. Master.Gem of the Sea.East Gulf.Dec. 7, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ma, 1864.Resigned.Actg. Master. Hancock, John, Credit. Roxbury.Mass.Mass.-Mar. 21, 1862.Actg. Master's Mate.Fort Henry.East Gulf.Nov. 8, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. 29, 1869.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign. Howland, Charles H.,Mass.Mass.Mass.Mar. 21, 1862.Actg. Master's Mate.Powhatan.South Atlantic.Oct. 12, 1863.Resigned.Actg. Ma 1863.Actg. Ensign. Jacobs, Benjamin F., Credit, Roxbury.Mass.Mass.Mass.Mar. 21, 1862.Actg. Master's Mate.Housatonic.South Atlantic.May 26, 1864.Resigned.Actg. M
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
at the battles of Port Hudson Plains, Fort Rice and Port Hudson; engaged in Indian campaign in Dakota, 1864 and 1865. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Mustered out, Nov. 27, 1865. Dodge, Grenville Mellen. Born at Danvers, Mass., Apr. 12, 1831. Colonel, 4th Iowa Infantry, July 6, 1861. Served in Missouri under Fremont; commanded a brigade in the Army of the Southwest; engaged in the battle of Pea Ridge, where he was wounded. Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 21, 1862. In command of the district of Mississippi, June, 1862; superintended the construction of the Mississippi and Ohio Railroad; served during the Vicksburg campaign. Appointed to the command of Corinth, Nov. 15, 1862; engaged in building railroad from Decatur to Nashville. Engaged in the battles of Sugar Valley, May 9, 1864, and Resaca, May 14 and 15, 1864. Maj. General, U. S. Volunteers, June 7, 1864. In command of 16th Corps in Sherman's Georgia campaign; engaged in the siege of Atlan
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 3 (search)
ieut. Colonel, Sept. 8, 1862. Mustered out, Nov. 10, 1864. Ball, Benjamin Absalom. Second Lieutenant, 53d N. Y. Infantry, Sept. 23, 1861. Mustered out, Mar. 21, 1862. First Lieutenant, 3d Unattached Co., Mass. Heavy Artillery, afterwards 3d Mass. Heavy Artillery, Dec. 31, 1862. Captain, Sept. 8, 1864. Brevet Major, U. S. VU. S. Volunteers, Apr. 6, 1865. Mustered out, June 21, 1865. Chandler, Charles L. Second Lieutenant, 1st Mass. Infantry, May 25, 1861. First Lieutenant, Mar. 21, 1862. Captain, 34th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 6, 1862. Lieut. Colonel, 40th Mass. Infantry, Jan. 24, 1864; not mustered. Lieut. Colonel, 57th Mass. Infantry, Apr. 20, nteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Mustered out, June 11, 1865. Dodge, James Gordon Clarke. Second Lieutenant, 19th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 22, 1861. First Lieutenant, Mar. 21, 1862. Captain, Apr. 5, 1863. Major, 61st Mass. Infantry, Nov. 9, 1864. Brevet Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, Apr. 9, 1865. Mustered out, June 4, 1865. Died a
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 4 (search)
t Lieutenant, Apr. 1, 1865. Mustered out, June 29, 1865. Batchelder, George Wellington. Sergeant, 8th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Apr. 18 to Aug. 1, 1861. First Lieutenant, 19th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 22, 1861. Captain, March 21, 1862. Killed at Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862. Batchelder, Greenleaf W. See Bachelder, Greenleaf W. Batchelder, John true. Private and Sergeant, 1st Battalion Heavy Artillery, Feb. 24, 1862. Second Lieutenant, Apr. 10, 1863. First Lksburg. Hill, William Augustus. Private, 8th Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., Apr. 17, 1861; mustered, Apr. 30, 1861. Mustered out, Aug. 1, 1861. Private and Sergeant, 19th Mass. Infantry, Feb. 13, 1862. Second Lieutenant, Mar. 21, 1862. First Lieutenant, Sept. 18, 1862; mustered, Apr. 28, 1863. Captain, Dec. 13, 1863; mustered, Mar. 12, 1864. Discharged, July 29, 1864 (Letter, War Dept., Dec. 1, 1888). Hill, William B. Second Lieutenant, 21st Mass. Infantry, July 22
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
eneral, Nov. 17, 1864. Brevet Major, U. S. Volunteers, Dec. 2, 1864. Brevet Lieut. Colonel, U. S. Volunteers, Apr. 9, 1865. Mustered out, Sept. 19, 1865. Dudley, Nathan Augustus Monroe. See General Officers. Dunham, Thomas Harrison, Jr. See General Officers. Dutton, Everell Fletcher. See General Officers. Dwight, Howard. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, 24th Mass. Infantry, Sept. 1, 1861. Second Lieutenant, 4th Mo. Cavalry, Oct. 4, 1861. First Lieutenant, Mar. 21, 1862. Captain, Nov. 4, 1862. Captain and Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Nov. 10, 1862. Killed by guerillas at Bayou Boeuf, La., May 4, 1863. Dwight, William. See General Officers. Eaton, Alonzo. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, 2d Iowa Infantry, May 28, 1861. Regimental Quartermaster, Aug. 7, 1861. Captain, Commissary of Subsistence, U. S. Volunteers, June 30, 1864. Mustered out, Oct. 30, 1865. Eaton, Charles G. See General Officers. Eaton, Joseph
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 8 (search)
. 21, 1862. （Adj. General's Report of Iowa, 1867, p. 81.) Ball, Benjamin Absalom. Second Lieutenant, 53d N. Y. Infantry, Sept. 23, 1861. Mustered out, Mar. 21, 1862. First Lieutenant, 3d Unattached Company, Mass. Heavy Artillery, afterwards 3d Mass. Heavy Artillery, Dec. 31, 1862. See Mass. Field Officers. Ballou, Era, Mar. 9, 1884. Dwight, Howard. First Lieutenant, 24th Mass. Infantry, Sept. 1, 1861. Second Lieutenant, 4th Mo. Cavalry, Oct. 4, 1861. First Lieutenant, Mar. 21, 1862. Captain, Nov. 4, 1862. Captain, Assistant Adj. General, U. S. Volunteers, Nov. 10, 1862. See U. S. Army. Dwight, William. See General Officers. Eanfantry, July 28, 1861; mustered, July 24, 1861. Resigned, Aug. 31, 1862. Garrett, Jesse B. Born in Massachusetts. First Lieutenant, 17th Iowa Infantry, Mar. 21, 1862. Resigned, Jan. 20, 1863. Gerry, Edson. Born at Whately, Mass., May 27, 1815. Captain, 12th Penn. Cavalry, Nov. 20, 1861. Discharged, Nov. 20, 1864.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
ton Evening Journal, Feb. 21, 1862, p. 4, col. 4; Feb. 26, p. 4, col. 3. — – – Ship Island, Miss., and Port Royal, S. C., letters. Boston Evening Journal, March 21, 1862, p. 2, cols. 1, 3-5. — – March. General gulf news. Boston Evening Journal, March 29, 1862, p. 2, cols. 3, 4. — – In Fighting Farragut below New Orleanspied, 1862. Special cor. Boston Evening Journal, Feb. 18, 1862, p. 4, col. 3. — March Letters; Gen. B. F. Butler's expedition. Boston Evening Journal, March 21, 1862, p. 2, cols. 1, 3-5. — – Summing up of events. Boston Evening Journal, March 31, 1862, p. 4, col. 6. — April. Col. Edward S. Rand reports condition of2. — – News during tedium of waiting. Boston Evening Journal, Feb. 21, 1862, p. 4, col. 4; Feb. 26, p. 4, col. 3. — – Letters. Boston Evening Journal, March 21, 1862, p. 2, cols. 1, 3-5. — In Three years on the blockade. I. E. Vail. United Service Mag., vol. 5, pp. 177, 374. — Letter from,
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
kes to indulge in reminiscences of the stirring events of 1861-65. For most of the time since the war he has been in the employ of the government in the revenue department. He was married December 22, 1852, to Miss Mary Archer and they have four living children: one son and three daughters. Rev. Hezekiah W. Bays, for over thirty years a minister of the Methodist church, was born in Russell county, Va., and was educated at Emory-Henry college, where he received the degree of A. M. On March 21, 1862, being then in Lebanon, Va., he enlisted in the cavalry command of the famous John C. Morgan, beginning as a corporal, soon afterward being promoted to second sergeant, and acting as orderly-sergeant until July, 1863, when he was transferred with the McFarland battalion to General Forrest's cavalry command. He was put in command of a body of couriers, and just before the battle of Chickamauga earned the favorable attention of Gen. William Preston, of Kentucky, by his gallantry and succe
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
87, 2 Fourth Division, 2d Corps, picket-line 87, 5 Peninsula, the 92, 1 Peninsular Campaign, March 17-Sept. 2, 1862. 13, 3, 4; 14, 1; 15, 1-15, 4; 16, 1; 17, 1-17, 3; 18, 1, 18, 2; 19, 1; 20, 1-20, 4; 21, 1-21, 11; 22, 1; 42, 3; 63, 8; 64, 4; 66, 7; 86, 17; 90, 9 Petersburg 40, 1; 56, 1 Rapidan to the James, May 4-June 12, 1864 55, 1-55, 5; 74, 1; 77, 1; 81, 1-81, 3, 81, 7; 83, 1-83, 3; 94, 5-94, 7; 96, 1-96, 3, 96, 6; 97, 2 Rappahannock Station, March 21, 1862 105, 3 Richmond 89, 2 Richmond Campaign, 1864-65 64, 1-64, 3; 65, 1, 65, 6, 65, 7, 65, 8, 65, 9; 67, 4, 67, 7, 65, 7, 65, 8, 65, 9; 68, 1, 68, 2, 68, 6; 74, 1; 77, 1-77, 3; 78, 5; 79, 1; 100, 2, 105, 2, 105, 7; 118, 3 Shenandoah Valley: May 15-June 17, 1862 5, 5; 21, 12; 42, 4; 85, 5, 111, 2 June 23-Aug. 3, 1864 81, 4; 82, 1-82, 3; 83, 5, 83, 6; 84, 20, 84, 21 Feb. 27-April 23, 1865 84, 11 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 69, 1-69, 3; 81, 5;
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