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January 12th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ce, especially in assisting the sick and wounded soldiers in the interior, but whose unfortunate partiality we have already mentioned wherever they penetrated into army-centres. Before resuming the recital of military events, which we have interrupted, let us cast another rapid glance over the interior situation of the Southern States at the period we have now reached. No military measure of importance having marked the session of Congress, which lasted about four months from the 12th of January, 1863, and the consideration of the Confederate finances having brought us down to the second volume, closing with the end of the said session, in order to complete this sketch it only remains for us to speak about two questions which occupied the attention of the government, of Congress, and of the public—the questions relating to retaliation and impressments. The importance which these two questions then assumed shows, without any comment, how critical the situation of the Confederacy h
February 7th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
artment had charge of furnishing all the materiel of the army: as we have described it in the first volume, it formed, at the outset of the struggle, a modest bureau, which it was found necessary to transform suddenly into a vast department. In each of the years 1861, 1862, and 1863 the Secretary of War is asking for the necessary funds to increase the personnel of this department by more than one hundred clerks, both men and women, and a special law is enacted to this effect on the 7th of February, 1863. Their number, however, is still insufficient, the number of accounts rendered exceeding the calculation. A statement of the materiel on hand in each body has to be furnished monthly by each brigade and regiment, and in every quarter by each company. Now, in November, 1862, there were 300 brigades, 1000 regiments, and 10,000 companies, which makes 55,600 accounts to verify for this year; in 1863 each company commander has to furnish monthly statements of the materiel declared unf
March 3rd, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
eldom resorted to. Thus it happened with Mr. Boileau, the editor of a Philadelphia newspaper, who, having been arrested in the month of January in consequence of some articles openly favoring the South, was restored to liberty and the use of his printing-presses at the end of eight days on his promise to be more guarded in the future. In the month of December, after laying on the table all propositions censuring the government, Congress proceeded to discuss, and finally adopted on the 3d of March, 1863, so memorable in legislative history, an indemnity act, or a law endorsing the measures taken by the President for the purpose of suspending the writ of habeas corpus, and confirming explicitly the powers which, in the absence of a positive constitutional enactment, he had deemed it his duty to exercise on his own responsibility. He soon made use of this power in a striking manner, and in connection with a matter which caused more excitement throughout the country than all the arres
March 4th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
ning strength with the public, it has as yet exercised no direct influence upon Congress, where it is only represented by a weal minority. The composition of this body, in fact, cannot be modified until the electors shall be called upon to choose the Thirty-eighth Congress. The Thirty-seventh, whose labors we have followed since the extra session of July, 1861, began, as we have seen, its third and last session on December 1, 1862; it came to a close, together with its powers, on the 4th of March, 1863. The principal measures which characterized this session, inspired by the policy which had guided its action since the day of its first meeting, must be briefly enumerated here, for they exercised a powerful influence over the situation we have to describe. In our first volume we explained the state of legislation in regard to questions relating to slaves, the army, the finances, and individual liberty at the opening of the session. The President's message was almost exclusively d
April 13th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
io, and during the ensuing election campaign harangued more vehemently than ever against the policy of the government. General Burnside, who in the command of the territorial department of Cincinnati General Burnside was in command of the Department of the Ohio, with Headquarters at Cincinnati.—Ed. had found some temporary compensation for the disfavor which had fallen upon him after his defeat, having published an order General Orders, No. 38, Headquarters Department of the Ohio, April 13, 1863.—Ed. threatening to have any person shot who should give aid and comfort to the enemy in the State of Ohio, Vallandigham made an open attack upon this order. Five days later, on the 5th of May, he was arrested and tried before a military tribunal. Serious troubles broke out after his arrest in the little town of Dayton, where he resided. The writ of habeas corpus issued in his behalf by a Cincinnati judge was presented to the military authority without effect; but, despite the increas
April 18th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
e, however, was too often set by the officers in prolonging their leaves of absence without permission: in order to correct these abuses, two examining boards were established at Annapolis and Cincinnati, before which all officers on sick leave were ordered to report in person as soon as they were in a condition to travel, and where questions regarding the extension of leaves, admission to hospitals, or return to the armies in the field were settled. Finally, a law was enacted on the 18th of April, 1863, creating an invalid corps, Organization announced in General Orders, No. 105, War Department, A.-G. O., April 28, 1863, and designation changed to Veteran Reserve Corps by General Orders, N:). 111, War Department, A.-G. O., March 18, 1864.—Ed. which, by affording some honorable employment to men who had been wounded or overtaken by sickness in the line of duty, made it possible at the same time to utilize their services, instead of discharging them with a pension, which was an one
April 28th, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
hese abuses, two examining boards were established at Annapolis and Cincinnati, before which all officers on sick leave were ordered to report in person as soon as they were in a condition to travel, and where questions regarding the extension of leaves, admission to hospitals, or return to the armies in the field were settled. Finally, a law was enacted on the 18th of April, 1863, creating an invalid corps, Organization announced in General Orders, No. 105, War Department, A.-G. O., April 28, 1863, and designation changed to Veteran Reserve Corps by General Orders, N:). 111, War Department, A.-G. O., March 18, 1864.—Ed. which, by affording some honorable employment to men who had been wounded or overtaken by sickness in the line of duty, made it possible at the same time to utilize their services, instead of discharging them with a pension, which was an onerous burden for the appropriations to carry. Six months later, on the 1st of November, this corps numbered 491 officers and
May, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
y. The regiments that had been raised in response to the call of 1862 were only enlisted for a period of nine or twelve months: their term of service expired in May, 1863. There were two principal calls made in 1862—the first, dated July 2d, for 300,000 three years men, and the second, August 4th, for 300,000 militia for nine m Under the call of July 2d, 421,465 men were furnished, and under that of August 4th, 87,588 were obtained. It was the latter whose terms of service expired in May, 1863. Besides these, 15,007 men for three months service were, by special authority, furnished in May and June, 1862.—Ed. These two calls for volunteers had nearlyes of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville having proved its usefulness, the number of telegraphic equipages was increased from thirteen to twenty in the month of May, 1863: the Army of the Potomac had in its employ no less than five. The importance of this portable system, however, was a small matter compared with the ordinary
May 31st, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
present the number of those absent without leave at the totally insignificant figure of 3292. This deduction makes the effective forces of Meade amount to from eighty-two to eighty-four thousand men. The Army of Northern Virginia on the 31st of May, 1863, contained an effective force of 88,754 officers and soldiers present, 74,468 of whom were under arms. The latter consisted of— General staff and infantry59,420 Cavalry10,292 Artillery4,756 ——— Total74,468 And 206 pieces of arti hundred by the return of the sick and wounded and the arrival of a number of conscripts; that, consequently, the Army of Northern Virginia arrived on the battlefield of Gettysburg with about five thousand combatants more than it had on the 31st of May, 1863—that is to say, in the neighborhood of eighty thousand men. As we have done in regard to the Federal army in order to find out the amount of force really assembled on the battlefield, we will deduct the number of mounted men, which was i
June, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 4
mber it represents, or nearly so. Let us conclude with an exhibit which shows in the most striking manner the progress made in the sanitary condition of the armies. The mortality from sickness, which in June, 1862, was 4.7 per 1000, fell in June, 1863, to 3.9 per 1000. Before proceeding to the consideration of another subject, we must mention those private institutions which, under the inspiration of charitable zeal, played an important role during the war: their place in our work is natu of the 27th, and entered the valley of the Monocacy en échelon near its mouth and below Frederick; the Twelfth corps, which had arrived from Leesburg, pushed farther on in the direction of Harper's Ferry. The Army of the Potomac thus took, in June, 1863, the same position it had occupied under McClellan before the battle of Antietam. Hooker could not have made a better choice to harass his adversary. The operation had been well conceived and admirably executed. The seven army corps, with th
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