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G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 9: (search)
cause if a forward movement were contemplated many of the sick could be of service at the depots, and he could not decide what cases to send off unless he knew what was to be done with the army. On the 3d of August, Coggin's Point, on the south side of the James, was occupied by our troops, and Colonel Averill, at the head of three hundred cavalry, attacked and dispersed a cavalry force of the enemy four hundred and fifty in number, at Sycamore Church, on the main road from Petersburg to Suffolk, four miles from Cole's House. On the 5th of August, General Hooker attacked a very considerable force of infantry and artillery stationed at Malvern Hill, carried the position, and drove the enemy back to Newmarket, four miles distant; and on the same day Colonel Averill returned from a reconnoissance in the direction of Savage's Station towards Richmond, in the course of which he had encountered the 10th Virginia Cavalry near White Oak Swamp bridge and driven them back some distance towa
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., chapter 6 (search)
in 40 miles of Richmond if her draft were lessened to 18 feet; but, after five or six hours had been devoted to this work, and she had thus been disabled for action, they, for the first time, declared that, as the winds had for two days been westerly, the water in the James was too low, so that she could not now be run above the Jamestown flats, up to which point each shore was occupied by our armies. He had now no alternative but to fire her, land his crew, and make the best of his way to Suffolk. A Court of Inquiry, presided over by Capt. French Forrest, after an investigation protracted from May 22d to June 11th. decided that her destruction was unnecessary, and that she might, after being lightened to a draft of 20 feet 6 inches, have been taken up James river to Hog Island. Part of the blame, however, was laid on the hasty retreat from Norfolk of the military under Gen. Huger. Two unfinished iron-clads were among the vessels fired by the Rebels ere they left. The serious
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., chapter 16 (search)
across the river Hooker recrosses also Stoneman's raid a failure Longstreet assails Peck at Suffolk is beaten off with loss. Gen. Burnside reluctantly, and with unfeigned self-distrust, succeocks on the James River Canal; crossing the Nottoway, and reporting to Gen. Peck, in command at Suffolk; while several other flying expeditions were to distract the enemy's attention and deceive him he extreme left of our position in Virginia; where Gen. John J. Peck held the little village of Suffolk, with a force ultimately increased to 14,000 men, aided by three gunboats on the Blackwater. SSuffolk being an important railroad junction, covering the landward approaches to Norfolk, and virtually commanding that portion of North Carolina which lies east of the Chowan, had been occupied and his loss will not exceed 50; among them Col. Poage, 5th Virginia, and Capt. Dobbins, killed. Suffolk was never seriously threatened till the Spring of 1863, when Longstreet advanced April 10. a
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., Xvii. Lee's army on free soil-gettysburg. (search)
k at the heights and woods so recently and so fruitlessly crimsoned with their blood, Gen. Lee was impelled to break the brief rest by a determined and daring offensive. He was, of course, aware that our army had been depleted, directly after its sanguinary experience of Chancellorsville, by the mustering out of some 20,000 nine months and two years men; while his own had been largely swelled by the hurried return of Longstreet and his corps from their sterile and wasteful demonstration on Suffolk, and by drafts on every quarter whence a regiment could be gleaned; so that it is probable that the superiority in numbers was temporarily on his side; but why not seek directly a collision, which Fighting Joe would so readily have accorded? Why shun the convenient and inspiring neighborhood of Cedar Mountain and Bull Run for one more remote, and which invoked ominous recollections of South Mountain and the Antietam? Grant was beginning to be triumphant in Mississippi, and would soon be t
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., chapter 25 (search)
to some 40,000 men, of whom perhaps 30,000 were disposable. Having sent May 1. a small force on steamboats up the York to White House, to move out and menace Richmond so as to draw the enemy's attention to that quarter, the day after Gillmore's arrival his real movement commenced, May 4. in cooperation with General Grant's, and with others. Embarking his infantry and artillery, 25,000 strong, Gen. Butler proceeded up James river, while Gen. Kautz, with 3,000 cavalry, moved out from Suffolk, crossing the Blackwater and cutting the Weldon road at Stony creek; Col. R. West, with 1,500 more troopers, simultaneously advancing from Williamsburg up the north bank of the James. The armed transports moved up the James by night, the unarmed following next day, May 5. pioneered by the iron-clads and other naval forces under Admiral Lee. Wilson's wharf, Fort Powhattan, and City Point, were seized without resistance; 10,000 men being at once pushed forward to possess and secure the p
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., Appended notes. (search)
his movements, 180; advances to support Jackson, 183: at second Bull Run, 187; reenforces Hill at South Mountain, 197; at Fredericksburg, 344; baffled by Peck at Suffolk, 367; at Gettysburg, 380-387; at Chickamauga, 422; against Burnside in East Tennessee, 431-2; abandons the siege of Fort Sanders, 432; at the Wilderness, 569-571. N. C., 80 Spring Hill, Tenn., 284. Springfield, Mo., 447. Springfield, W. Va., 599. St. Charles, Ark., 554. Stony Creek, Va., 588. Strasburg, Va., 612. Suffolk, Va., 366. Sutherlands Depot, Va., 734. Talladega, Ala., 631. Tebb's Bend, Ky., 404. Thoroughfare Gap, Va., 183. Town Creek, N. C., 715. Trevilian's, Va., 58232; losses at, 31. Peace negotiations in Hampton roads, 675. Peace overtures at Niagara and Richmond, 664-6. Peck, Gen. John J., repels Longstreet at Suffolk, Va., 367. Pegram, Gen., routed by Gillmore near Somerset, Ky., 427; wounded at the Wilderness, 568; killed at Dabney's Mill, Va., 726. Pelouze, Major, severe
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, Chapter 4: loss in officers — list of Generals killed — Surgeons and Chaplains killed. (search)
: Name. Regiment. Battle. Rev. Arthur B. Fuller, 16th Massachusetts, Fredericksburg. Rev. Orlando N. Benton, 51st New York, New Berne. Rev. John M. Springer, 3d Wisconsin, Resaca. Rev. Francis E. Butler, 25th New Jersey, Siege of Suffolk. Rev. John L. Walther, 43d Illinois, Shiloh. Rev. Levi W. Sanders, 125th Illinois, Caldwell's Ferry. Rev. John W. Eddy, 72d Indiana, Hoover's Gap. Rev. Horatio S. Howell, 90th Pennsylvania, Gettysburg. Rev. Thomas L. Ambrose, 12thfour hours in the hottest of the fight. Love: Wisconsin in the War. Howell, of the Ninetieth Pennsylvania, was shot at Gettysburg during the retreat through the town, and died on the steps of a church. Butler was killed at the Siege of Suffolk, while carrying water to some wounded men. Bartlett, of the First Maine Cavalry, was killed at Cold Harbor. He was struck in the breast by a shell and literally blown to pieces. Benton fell at New Berne, and General Reno states in his off
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, Chapter 8: Corps organizations. (search)
rom whence it went, after a few months stay. to Suffolk, Va. The Fourth Corps was officially dliscontinued inps, and, also, in the Seventh Corps at the Seige of Suffolk. The place of the Third Division was filled by theent of Virginia.) Deserted House Siege of Suffolk. This corps was organized under General Orders Nal John A. Dix at Fort Monroe, Norfork, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and vicinity. Soon after its organization, its rend Getty's Divisions were engaged in the defence of Suffolk, losing 41 killed, 223 wounded, and 2 missing, the etty's (3d) Division was detached and ordered to Suffolk, Va., where it was subsequently incorporated in the Sl Goldsboro Siege of Washington (N. C.); Siege of Suffolk Quaker Bridge Gum Swamp Bachelor's Creek Wintonn engaged, in the spring of 1863, in the defense of Suffolk against Longstreet's besieging Army. After the withdrawal of the enemy from the vicinity of Suffolk, there were no operations of consequence during the year 10
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, chapter 10 (search)
ped for the winter. In May, 1862, it went to Suffolk, and in June joined McClellan's army, then bed Thirtieth Infantry, and served as such at Suffolk, Va., and in Keyes's Peninsular campaign. On Juwn, Md., until April, 1863, when it went to Suffolk, Va. After participating in the Peninsular campahere until April 19, 1863, when it moved to Suffolk, Va. It participated in the campaign of Gordon's battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Suffolk, Va. 2 Petersburg, Va., June 30, 1864 26 Fort battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Suffolk, Va. 2 Siege of Petersburg, Va. 11 Carrsville battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Suffolk, Va., May 30, 1862 1 Suffolk, Va., June 4, 1863 , 1862, some of the companies doing duty near Suffolk, while five companies served with General McCrovost duty, and thence, after two months, to Suffolk. In September it joined McClellan's army, ththe Peninsula the Thirty-ninth was ordered to Suffolk, where it remained for a few months. The yea[19 more...]
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, Chapter 11: list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each. (search)
Seventh 7 20 2 29 Thompson's Station, Tenn.             March 4-5, 1863.             19th Michigan ------------ ---------- 20 92 345 457 33d Indiana ------------ ---------- 13 85 407 505 Fort Bisland, La.             April 12-13, 1863.             38th Massachusetts Emory's Nineteenth 6 29 -- 35 Irish Bend, La.             April 14, 1863.             159th New York Grover's Nineteenth 19 78 20 117 25th Connecticut Grover's Nineteenth 9 77 10 96 Siege of Suffolk, Va.             April 12--May 4, 1863.             99th New York Corcoran's Seventh 13 58 -- 71 Fitz Hugh's Crossing, Va.             April 29-30, 1863.             24th Michigan Wadsworth's First 4 20 -- 24 Port Gibson, Miss.             May 1, 1863.             18th Indiana Carr's Thirteenth 19 64 -- 83 29th Wisconsin Hovey's Thirteenth 10 65 -- 75 69th Indiana Osterhaus's Thirteenth 14 45 -- 59
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