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Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Books consulted in preparation of this work (search)
Books consulted in preparation of this work War of the Rebellion, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Massachusetts in the Civil War. I. L. Bowen. History of the Civil War. B. J. Lossing. Putnam's Record of the Rebellion. Moore. Century Company's War Book. The Mississippi. J. V. Greene. The Nineteenth Army Corps. Irwin. Regimental and Battery Histories of New Hampshire and Massachusetts.
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Nims' Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
uns in position and renewed the conflict, chasing the enemy back four miles, and securing thus a Union victory. When General Franklin was told of this experience he said, If there is ever another opportunity of racing a section of Nims' Battery give it your two best regiments for support, for it is the finest battery in the United States. One historian in relating this incident says, Nims' Battery saved the day. The following is the official report of Lieutenant Marland as given in Official Records, Vol. 26, p. 371. Bayou Bourbeau, Ion Crow Bayou. In pursuance to your orders I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken in the action at this place on the 3rd of November by the section under my command. In obedience to orders received on the evening of the 2d of November I harnessed up at 4 A. M. on the 3rd, remaining so until 11 A. M. when I was ordered to unharness—the pickets firing all the while. At about 11.45 P. M. the firing became general. He
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
st telegraphing to the War Department for authority, as was proper. Narrative of S. M. Felton, Schouler, I, 101. Official Records, II, 582. The phrases used in the despatch of Colonel Lefferts were: Will you give orders to despatch troops via An0.) For the manly reports of Devens, Schurz and Howard, vindicating their commands from the charge of cowardice, see Official Records, 39, pp. 631, 634, 658. General Hooker somewhat ungenerously reflected on this corps in his letter of May 7 to Presi Upton, brigade commander, the 37th Mass. Volunteers rendered invaluable service in supporting Stevens's battery. Official Records, 91, p. 173. Gen. D. A. Russell, himself a gallant Massachusetts officer, commanding a division, was killed by a pie death of Capt. G. W. Thompson, for a long time commanding the regiment, and a most valuable and gallant officer. Official Records, 90, p. 377. See Sheridan's Personal Memoirs (II, 14), for his opinion of the Massachusetts regiments at this battle
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
ncreased his effective to one hundred and fifteen thousand men. The rolls of the Army of the Potomac showed on the 26th of June the following figures: Total aggregate of present and absent, one hundred and fifty-six thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight; aggregate absent, twenty-nine thousand five hundred and eleven; aggregate on special duty, sick, etc., twelve thousand two hundred and twenty-five; aggregate present for duty, one hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and two. Official Records: Adjutant-General's Office. On the 16th he wrote: I hope two days more will make the ground practicable. I shall advance as soon as the bridges are completed and the ground fit for artillery to move. On the 18th . A general engagement may take place any hour. On the 25th: The action will probably occur to-morrow, or within a short time,—and so on and on in the like tenor, until the time when the enemy cut short the endless debate by seizing the initiative. Now it cannot be said that
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 9 (search)
5th. General Meade, as soon as he was satisfied that the enemy had actually withdrawn, took measures to follow up the retreat. When it became possible to take account of the losses of this great battle, it was found that on the Union side they included two thousand eight hundred and thirty-four killed, thirteen thousand seven hundred and thirty-three wounded, and six thousand six hundred and forty-three missing, making an aggregate of twenty-three thousand one hundred and ninety. Official Records of the War Department. On the side of the Confederates, they were supposed to be near thirty thousand, whereof nearly fourteen thousand were prisoners. This is simply an approximate estimate, as no report of the Confederate casualties was ever made public. It is not, says General Lee, in my power to give a correct statement of our casualties, which were severe. Lee: Report of Gettyaburg. The number of prisoners captured by the Army of the Potomac, as by official returns, was thirt
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
s that connected both the Dismal Swamp canal and the Currituck canal with the rivers. I have organized in conjunction with Commodore Rowan against that place (Elizabeth City), and if we succeed in capturing or driving the enemy back, we shall move up to South Mills and blow up the lock of the canal, and then proceed up to the head of Currituck canal and blow in its banks, thus rendering it impossible for the gunboats, which are said to be building at Norfolk, to come into these waters.—Official Records, page 271, Series I, Vol. IX. General Reno took with him from New Bern the Twenty-first Massachusetts, 500 picked men, and the Fifty-first Pennsylvania. On his way he was joined by Col. Rush Hawkins with his brigade, then stationed on Roanoke island. Hawkins says that his forces numbered 2,000 men. General Reno's whole command, including four pieces of artillery, numbered fully 3,000 men. This force was landed from transports at Elizabeth City, and at once marched toward the locks.
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
eight times, and that after the fight 100 dead men were lying twenty yards from the cut and some of them within two feet of it. General Gregg's reply, I am out of ammunition, but I think I can hold my place with my bayonets, breathes the spirit of Manassas. The result of the campaign was most gratifying to the Confederates. Pope, despite the fact that he unfortunately entered upon his new command with the declaration, I have come to you from the West, where we have always seen the backs of our enemies, had been forced back from Gordonsville to the Washington lines. His total battle casualties had been 16,843, Official Records, Series I, XII, II, 262, 139. and Lee had captured from him thirty pieces of artillery and upward of 20,000 small-arms, Lee's Report. to say nothing of the stores at Manassas. The North Carolina losses in the two days and one night at Manassas were as follows: killed, 70; wounded, 448. At Ox Hill, or Chantilly, they were: killed, 29; wounded, 139.
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 16: (search)
e honor of capturing a number of guns supposed to be part of the DeGress battery; the First regiment captured the line in its front with two guns, and the remaining regiments took the Federal lines up to a point near Bald hill. In the same fight Manigault's South Carolina brigade bravely participated, capturing the guns of DeGress' battery on the north side of the Georgia railroad. The location of these guns was described as follows by the adjutant-general of M. L. Smith's division (Official Records, serial No. 74, p. 189): Friday, July 22d—pushed forward and occupied [Confederate] works with our main line at 6:30 a. m., the First brigade on the left and Second brigade on the right [north] of the railroad. The skirmish line was pushed forward, supported by a section of Battery A, First Illinois light artillery. Then the works were reversed, and Battery A, First Illinois light artillery, placed in position, two guns on the right and two on the left of the railroad, which at that p
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix. (search)
ploding shell. 4824Exploding shell cracked parapet wall. 49Knocked out iron embrasure slab 1 foot wide, 6 inches thick, 3 feet long ; indented it 1 1/2 inches, and broke it in three pieces ; shook masonry. 52Entered western quarters and exploded, damaging walls. 54Demolished 10-inch columbiad carriage and chassis in southwest angle. note.—Three shots in all struck or entered quarters. A sketch by Major Echols, showing the effect of these shots, will be found in Volume XIV. of Official Records of War of the Rebellion. V.—Abstract from return of the United States military forces serving in the State of North Carolina, from January, 1862, to February, 1865. compiled from original returns. Command.Present for duty.Aggregate present.Commanding general. January, 186212,78613,451Brigadier-General A. E. Burnside, from January 13. 1862, to July 6, 1862. February, 180212,70014,143 March, 186211,32213,468 April, 186214,05416,528 May, 186214,50816,794 June, 186214,3711
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
h 25, 1864, placed this endorsement upon it: Attention is called to that part of the report giving the number of prisoners and small-arms captured, which is greater than the number really captured by the whole army. This General Hooker, who was so defiant of historical accuracy, is the same Gen. Joseph Hooker who was the author of a slanderous communication addressed to the Hon. S. P. Chase, dated December 28, 1863, and published in 1890, on page 339, Series 1, Vol. XXXI, Part 2, of Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, in which the following statement was made: Before the battle of Lookout, I had opened communication with Cheatham's division, holding the summit of the mountain, and had good reason to believe that I would have succeeded in bringing in all the enlisted men with some of the officers but for their untimely removal. They were relieved by Stevenson's division. The only conditions I required were that they should give themselves to me with arms in thei
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