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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 71 1 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. 70 4 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 66 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 57 1 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 52 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 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 50 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 48 0 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 44 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 44 4 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] 36 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
orces. The majority of this large force is well drilled, well armed, and equipped, and ready for service, many of the regiments being officered by graduates of West Point, and officers of the regular army, who hold a regular commission as well as one in the volunteers. Uniforms and equipments of the army. The uniforms anost effective weapon. Many of the western regiments have been recently armed with the Enfield rifle. Discipline of the army. The military education of West Point officers has been a source of great benefit to the volunteer as well as the regular service.--The severe discipline and study which is undergone at West Point bWest Point by the young cadet, fits him, if he graduates, to hold not only an honorable position in the army proper, but in any position to which he may be called as a civilian. Having, of course, undergone a rigid discipline, he is ready, when he joins his company, to enforce the same discipline upon others under him; and the stringent rule
The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
gallant blue jackets. Officers and men all worked with a bravery and will that have earned them the thanks of the Union. Too much of the credit of this victory cannot be awarded to Flag-Officer Foote, who has labored incessantly in the preparation of his fleet, and finally, when the time for action came, left a sick bed, and, with hill life in his hands, struck this blow for the old flag. The prisoners taken in the fort are; Brigadier. Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, of Kentucky, a graduate of West Point; Maj. W. L. McCommice, of Tennessee, assistant Adjutant General; Captain H. L. Jones, of Kentucky, Brigadier Quartermaster; Capt. J. H. Hayden, of Tennessee, Chief of Engineers; Capt. John McLoughlin, of Tennessee, Quartermaster; Capt. Jesse Taylor, of Tennessee, commanding garrison; Capt. G. R. G. Jones, of Tennessee; Lieut. W. Ormsby Watts; Lieut. Frederick J. Wellen, and sixty privates. The guns taken in the fort are one 128 pounder, into the muzzle of which an eight-inch shell was