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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 11: advance of the Army of the Potomac on Richmond. (search)
r General Breckinridge, whom Lee had sent to oppose his advance, with such troops as he might hastily gather. Breckinridge found it necessary to oppose Crook also, and for that purpose he sent General McCausland west-ward with as many troops as could be spared from the Valley. After much maneuvering and skirmishing near New Market, Breckinridge made an impetuous charge May 15. upon Sigel, and ended a sharp fight by driving him more than thirty miles down the valley, to the shelter of Cedar Creek, near Strasburg, with a loss of seven hundred men, six guns, a thousand small-arms, a portion of his train, and his hospitals. Grant immediately relieved General Sigel, and General Hunter took command of his troops, with instructions to push swiftly on to Staunton, destroy the railway between that place and Charlottesville, and then, if possible, move on Lynchburg. Meanwhile, General Crook, whose cavalry was led by General Averill, had moved May 1. up the Kanawha Valley from Charlest
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
Shenandoah Valley, 367. events at and near Cedar Creek, 368. battle of Cedar Creek, 369. Sheriday from total Sheridan's Headquarters near Cedar Creek. destruction by capture or dispersion. Se extract. He soon placed his forces behind Cedar Creek, about half way between Middletown and Strawere so strongly posted on the east side of Cedar Creek, that they had no expectation of being attary on its right flank, was to the View at Cedar Creek. this is a view of Cedar Creek, within tCedar Creek, within the lines of Sheridan's army, near the house and mill of Mr. Stickley, on the right side of the streketed the north fork of the Shenandoah from Cedar Creek to Front Royal. Strong as was this line me at a point a little east of the mouth of Cedar Creek, when they turned in the direction of Sheriional troops occupied their old position at Cedar Creek. Sheridan's promise, We will have all the carriage, went on to Strasburg, stopping at Cedar Creek on the way. After making arrangements for t
1.523. Carnifex Ferry, battle of, 2.95. Carrick's Ford, battle of, 1.535. Carthage, Mo., battle near, 2.43. Casey, Gen., Silas, at Seven Pines, 2.408. Cass, Gen., Lewis, letter of Gen. Wool to, 1.76; his resignation as Secretary of State, 1.77; the re-enforcement of Charleston forts urged by, 1.127; how he regarded the secession of South Carolina, 1.141. Castle Pinckney, description of, 1.117. Catawba River, railway bridge over destroyed by Major Moderwell, 3.505. Cedar Creek, battle of, 3.369. Cedar Mountain, battle of, 2.449. Cemetery at Chattanooga, visit of the author to in 1866, 3.178. Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg, battles at, 3.69, 71. Centreville, McDowell's advance on, 1.587. Chambersburg, incursion of Stuart to, 2.484; Jenkins and Ewell at, 3.53; burnt by Confederates under McCausland, 3.349. Champion Hill, battle of, 2.610. Chancellorsville, Gen. Hooker at, 3.24; battle of, 3.25-3.39; visit of author to battle-ground of, 3.311.
Opequan routs him at Fisher's Hill devastates the Valley the Richmond Whig on retaliation Early surprises Crook at Cedar creek Sheridan transforms defeat into victory losses. the anaconda is a clumsy, sluggish beast; effecting his ends by at 3 P. M., May 15. ordered a determined charge, by which Sigel's badly handled army was routed, and driven back to Cedar creek, near Strasburg, with a loss of 700 men, 6 guns, 1,000 small arms, his hospitals, and part of his train. Breckinridgeeened camp near Fisher's hill, he silently moved out at nightfall, Oct. 1<*>. resolved to flank our position across Cedar creek, 6 miles distant, and fall on our sleeping camps at daybreak next morning. Our forces were encamped on three crestsion of two or three cavalry skirmishes, there was no more fighting Early came down the Valley in November, crossing Cedar creek; but he was not in force to fight a battle, and, being pressed, retreated; his cavalry (under Lomax) being defeated an
tion, Va., 181. Bull Run (2d), Va., 183-7. Cedar Creek, Va., 612. Cedar Mountain, Va., 177. Champion Hilston attacks at, 707. Bidwell, Gen., killed at Cedar Creek, 615. Big Black, Gen. Grant crosses the, 309. ised at, 178; Stuart surprises Warren at, 395. Cedar creek, Early surprises Crook at, 613; Sheridan triumphsChampion Hills, 308. Crook, Gen., surprised at Cedar Creek, 613. Cross, Col., 5th N. H., killed at Gettyshington — is repulsed, 605; he surprises Crook at Cedar Creek, 613; Sheridan routs him at Cedar Creek, 614-5; aCedar Creek, 614-5; again routed at Waynesboro, 727. East Point, Ga. Sherman's operations at, 636. Ector, Brig.-Gen., at Chickat Malvern Hill, 166. Ramseur, Gen., killed at Cedar Creek, 615. Randolph, Edmund, on the Slave-Trade, 23609; devastates the Valley, 611; defeats Early at Cedar Creek, 613-14; routs Early at Waynesboroa, 727; attackeort Hindman, 293. Thoburn, Col. Jo., killed at Cedar Creek, 615. Thomas, Col., Ga., killed at Fort Sander
again in this same list. Spotsylvania Fredericksburg Pike, May 19, 1864. Tyler's Second 120 9th New York This regiment appears again in this same list. Cedar Creek Ricketts's Sixth 64 2d Pennsylvania Petersburg Assault of June 17, 1864. Willcox's Ninth 64 14th New York Petersburg Assault of June 17, 1864. Willcnnsylvania Spotsylvania Wright's Sixth 59 28th Illinois Shiloh Hurlbut's ------ 58 31st Illinois Fort Donelson McClernand's ------ 58 47th Pennsylvania Cedar Creek Dwight's Nineteenth 58 55th Pennsylvania Drewry's Bluff Ames's Tenth 58 125th Pennsylvania Antietam Williams's Twelfth 58 26th Massachusetts Opequon Grurch Petersburg, June 15-18 1,688 8,513 1,185 5.0 Deep Bottom 327 1,851 721 5.6 Atlanta Campaign 4,423 22,822 4,442 5.1 Opequon 697 3,983 338 5.7 Cedar Creek 644 3,430 1,591 5.3 21 Minor Engagements 835 4,597 461 5.5   Total 34,532 168,777 41,786 4.8 Included in the Captured and missing are many wo
8 22+ 111th New York Wilderness Barlow's 386 59 15+ 114th New York Opequon Dwight's 315 44 13+ 114th New York Cedar Creek Dwight's 250 39 15+ 121st New York Salem Heights Brooks's 453 97 21+ 121st New York Spotsylvania Russell's 346 6's 400 72 18+ 5th Vermont Wilderness Getty's 475 63 13+ 6th Vermont Wilderness Getty's 441 69 15+ 8th Vermont Cedar Creek Dwight's 156 26 16+ 10th Vermont Cedar Creek Ricketts's 277 27 10+ 1st Wisconsin Chaplin Hills Rousseau's 407 77Cedar Creek Ricketts's 277 27 10+ 1st Wisconsin Chaplin Hills Rousseau's 407 77 18+ 2d Wisconsin Manassas Hatch's 511 87 17+ 2d Wisconsin Gettysburg Wadsworth's 302 46 15+ 3d Wisconsin Antietam Williams's 340 41 12+ 4th Wisconsin Port Hudson Paine's 222 45 20+ 10th Wisconsin Chaplin Hills Rousseau's 376 52 13+ ethesda Church Second 240 20 108 38 69.0 20th Massachusetts Fredericksburg Second 238 25 138 -- 68.4 8th Vermont Cedar Creek Nineteenth 156 17 66 23 67.9 81st Pennsylvania Fredericksburg Second 261 15 141 20 67.4 12th Massachusetts Antie
neral Hiram Burnham Killed at Fort Harrison. Brigadier-General Daniel D. Bidwell Killed at Cedar Creek. Brigadier-General Charles R. Lowell Mortally wounded. Killed at Cedar Creek. BrevetCedar Creek. Brevet Brigadier-General Arthur H. Dutton Mortally wounded. Killed at Bermuda Hundred. Brevet Brigadier-General Griffin A. Stedman, Jr Killed at Petersburg. Brevet Brigadier-General George D. Wells Killed at Cedar Creek. Brevet Brigadier-General J. H. Kitching Mortally wounded. Killed at Cedar Creek. Brevet Brigadier-General Sylvester G. Hill Killed at Nashville. Brigadier-GeneralCedar Creek. Brevet Brigadier-General Sylvester G. Hill Killed at Nashville. Brigadier-General Theodore Read Killed at High Bridge. There were also 23 Brevet Brigadier-Generals who were killed in action, but who were without brigade commands. They were regimental or staff officers whosre Shenandoah campaign, and was in command of it at the time of his death. 1st West Virginia, Cedar Creek. Colonel Louis Bell, 4th New Hampshire, Fort Fisher. In each regiment there were off
ester Charlestown Opequon Fisher's Hill Cedar Creek Fall of Petersburg Sailor's Creek Appoma at the Opequon, and the gallant Bidwell at Cedar Creek. The casualties of the corps at the Opequo2 wounded, and 46 missing total, 1,699. At Cedar Creek, it lost 298 killed, 1,628 wounded, and 200n the Valley, with the dramatic incident at Cedar Creek; and the crowning success at the storming ohester Berryville Opequon Fisher's Hill Cedar Creek. These battles, which occurred between Mo divisions. Colonel Thoburn was killed at Cedar Creek, the last battle in which the corps partici wounded, and 7 missing--a total of 794; at Cedar Creek it lost 48 killed, 270 wounded, and 540 capalaya Berry ville Opequon Fisher's Hill Cedar Creek. Organized under General Order No. 5, da, 15 killed, 86 wounded, and 13 missing; at Cedar Creek, October 19th, 257 killed, 1,336 wounded, astock Waynesboro New Market Tom's Brook Cedar Creek Hatcher's Run Newtown Rood's Hill Darby[1 more...]
8 killed, 85 wounded, and 6 missing; and at Cedar Creek, 13 killed, 74 wounded, and 20 missing. Retisher's Hill, Va. 2 Wilderness, Va. 68 Cedar Creek, Va. 6 Spotsylvania, Va. 27 Fall of Petersbsher's Hill, Va. 2 Spotsylvania, Va. 3 Cedar Creek, Va. 24 Cold Harbor, Va. 54 Petersburg, Mar1864 15 Piedmont, Va., June 5, 1864 22 Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864 5 Lynchburg, Va., June 1862 1 Richmond Raid, Va., Mch. 1, 1864 2 Cedar Creek, Va., Nov. 12, 1864 3 Brandy Station, Va., attles of the Monocacy and the Opequon. At Cedar Creek the three battalions were again united, the4 3 Spotsylvania, Va., May 12, 1864 24 Cedar Creek, Va. 6 Spotsylvania, Va., May 18, 1864 1 PeSept. 21-22, 1864 9 Wilderness, Va. 56 Cedar Creek, Va. 6 Spotsylvania, Va. 31 Fort Welch, Marded by General Ricketts, who was wounded at Cedar Creek, and succeeded by General Seymour. At the 1863 1 Yellow Tavern, Va., May 11, 1864 5 Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, 1864 4 Boonsboro, Md., July [47 more...]
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