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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 834 834 Browse Search
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 436 332 Browse Search
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies. 130 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 126 112 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 116 82 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 110 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 76 6 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 74 20 Browse Search
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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 11 (search)
and there Fort Morton was erected, and beyond the line of woods the historic Fort Stedman, the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting before Petersburg. If you lookront of which General John B. Gordon's gallant troops moved to the attack on Fort Stedman, the last desperate effort of the Confederates to break through the Federal captured during the battle of the Crater. Siege of Petersburg. at Fort Stedman was directed the gallant onslaught of Gordon's men that resulted so disastroenter of the most active portion of the lines, and was about a mile south of Fort Stedman. Where Gordon's men attacked, Fort Stedman The powder magazine at ForFort Stedman The powder magazine at Fort McGilvery Fort Morton, opposite the crater Siege of Petersburg. almost every one of the forts in the long Federal line was named after some gallant offird, with the Eighteenth Corps, and General Birney, with the Tenth, captured Fort Harrison north of the James, securing a vantage-point for threatening Richmond. The
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The investment of Petersburg (search)
and there Fort Morton was erected, and beyond the line of woods the historic Fort Stedman, the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting before Petersburg. If you lookront of which General John B. Gordon's gallant troops moved to the attack on Fort Stedman, the last desperate effort of the Confederates to break through the Federal captured during the battle of the Crater. Siege of Petersburg. at Fort Stedman was directed the gallant onslaught of Gordon's men that resulted so disastroenter of the most active portion of the lines, and was about a mile south of Fort Stedman. Where Gordon's men attacked, Fort Stedman The powder magazine at ForFort Stedman The powder magazine at Fort McGilvery Fort Morton, opposite the crater Siege of Petersburg. almost every one of the forts in the long Federal line was named after some gallant offird, with the Eighteenth Corps, and General Birney, with the Tenth, captured Fort Harrison north of the James, securing a vantage-point for threatening Richmond. The
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 16 (search)
he Shenandoah, in October, 1864. Near the crater stood Fort Stedman. Between it and the Confederate front, a distance of a off with a rapidly increasing army surrounding him. Fort Haskell, on the left, began to throw its shells. Under its covConfederates resisted the charge, and from the captured Fort Stedman and the adjoining batteries poured volley after volley Federal loss was not half that number. The affair at Fort Stedman did not turn Grant from his plans against the Confederathe siege of Petersburg, especially after the attack on Fort Stedman, religious devotion was uncooled. From the commander-iin this latter, almost impossible, task by an attack on Fort Stedman, which the Confederates believed to be the weakest poinp the Federal base. It was no light task, for although Fort Stedman itself was weak, it was flanked by Battery No. 10 on thder in the last desperate and forlorn hope that charged Fort Stedman, General Gordon, give a pen-picture of the condition of
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The siege and fall of Petersburg (search)
he Shenandoah, in October, 1864. Near the crater stood Fort Stedman. Between it and the Confederate front, a distance of a off with a rapidly increasing army surrounding him. Fort Haskell, on the left, began to throw its shells. Under its covConfederates resisted the charge, and from the captured Fort Stedman and the adjoining batteries poured volley after volley Federal loss was not half that number. The affair at Fort Stedman did not turn Grant from his plans against the Confederathe siege of Petersburg, especially after the attack on Fort Stedman, religious devotion was uncooled. From the commander-iin this latter, almost impossible, task by an attack on Fort Stedman, which the Confederates believed to be the weakest poinp the Federal base. It was no light task, for although Fort Stedman itself was weak, it was flanked by Battery No. 10 on thder in the last desperate and forlorn hope that charged Fort Stedman, General Gordon, give a pen-picture of the condition of
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
ree miles north through the dense woods to Fort Harrison. Stannard's division then came upon open ossed the James Palisades and parapet at Fort Harrison May 23-28, 1864: North Anna River, Jerproof at Fort Brady. After the capture of Fort Harrison the Union authorities strengthened that por precautions of the Confederates. Though Fort Harrison was lost, Fort Gilmer, a little farther noFort Gilmer, a little farther north, was held, and a line of entrenchments was strengthened from the rear of Harrison to the James.ering operations. The 27-foot ditch at Fort Gilmer, guard against Federal mines A well-prote killed and wounded. June 15-19, 1864: Petersburg, Va., commencement of the siege that continuedwounded, 6766 prisoners. March 25, 1865: Fort Stedman, in front of Petersburg, Va. Union, FirsPetersburg, Va. Union, First and Third Divisions Ninth Corps; Confed., Gen. John B. Gordon's Corps, supported by Lee's arti 2700 captured. April 2, 1865: fall of Petersburg, Va. Union, Second, Sixth, Ninth, and Twent[3 more...]