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nsanitary. President H. W. Bellows of the Sanitary Commission says, June 30, 1862, speaking of the barracks, Nothing but fire can cleanse them, and urges the abandonment of the Camp as a prison. The place was not abandoned, however; and in February, 1863, out of 3884 prisoners, 387 died. This mortality rate, almost exactly ten per cent. for the month, was not reached in any month, in any other large prison during the war, so far as the Official Records indicate. Camp Chase, at Columbus, own under the strain of feeding both the Army of Northern Virginia and a considerable number of prisoners in Virginia. The exchange of prisoners following the agreement Camp Douglas, where ten percent of the prisoners died one month In February, 1863, out of 3,884 prisoners, 387 died at Camp Douglas in Chicago, or almost exactly ten per cent., a mortality rate for one month not reached by any other large prison during the war. The Camp was on low ground, the drainage bad, and conditions g
artermaster-general and his subordinates as shall provide for the safe custody and sustenance. A wet day at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois At any period the sanitary conditions at Camp Douglas were not satisfactory. The ground was low and always flooded after a rain, as seen in this photograph, and stagnant pools of water stood there with no means of draining them off. The highest rate of mortality for any one prison during one month of the war was reached at Camp Douglas in February, 1863. Unused to the rigors of the Northern climate, the Southern prisoners died like flies in their unsanitary surroundings. The mortality rate for this one month was ten per cent. Judging from the men shown in this photograph, some of the prisoners were fairly comfortable. The Confederate gray of some of the uniforms can be plainly discerned. The pipes show that they were not denied the luxury of tobacco. of prisoners of war; and the rations furnished prisoners of war shall be the s
and be off again for another flank attack while yet their adversary slept. Moltke said the armies of the great Civil War were two armed mobs, but Moltke failed to realize that in the matters of information and logistics, the Union generals had, from first to last, to deal with problems and conditions the best of his or Frederick's field-marshals never had met nor dreamed of. The business side of the war departments Embarking troops ninth army corps leaving Acquia creek in February 1863 Government bakeries at Alexandria Commissary buildings at Alexandria One of the government mess-houses at Washington Groups at the quartermaster-general's office in Washington Groups at the quartermaster-general's office in Washington Groups at the quartermaster-general's office in Washington Employees, transportation office Assistant quartermaster's office Warehouse no. 1—Washington Quartermasters. By water, rail, and horse the busy quartermasters tra
from destruction by the desperate onsets of Lee, but the New England poet preserves a scene which has a human, not a military significance. Was there ever message sweeter Than that one from Malvern Hill, From a grim old fellow,—you remember? Dying in the dark at Malvern Hill. With his rough face turned a little, On a heap of scarlet sand, They found him, just within the thicket, With a picture in his hand,— Off to the war—embarkation of ninth army corps at Aquia creek landing, in February, 1863 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' poem A message breathes a faith that inspired the mothers of many men who stand expectantly in this picture, and of many thousands more who, like them, were ‘off to the war’ in 1861-1865. Proud, indeed, were the sweethearts and wives of their ‘heroes’ marching away to the big camps or floating down the stream on the transports. Honor and glory awaited these sons and brothers who were helping to serve their cause. To each fond heart came the hope: ‘
reserve. A cavalry division was formed in July, 1862, and reorganized as a cavalry corps in February, 1863. The successive commanders of the Army of the Potomac were: Major-General George B. McClellded. After recovery he took command of the Second and Ninth corps for short periods, and in February, 1863, he became head of the Sixth Army Corps, with which his name is so nobly associated. His brwas placed at its head. There were five divisions, at first. Two divisions were detached in February, 1863, and sent to the Tenth Corps, Federal generals--no. 16 New York (continued) August, 1861. He was brigade commander in several corps of the Army of the Potomac, and in February, 1863, took charge of the troops in the District of Washington—a portion of the Twenty-second Armyneral A. Pleasonton was organized in July, 1862, and was with the Army of the Potomac, until February, 1863, when the Cavalry Corps was created with Major-General George Stoneman at its head. Its oth
e Northwest forces directly under Major-General T. J. Jackson, in May, 1862. The next year (February, 1863), he was made major-general. He had a division in the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virgin he took charge of the defenses of Richmond and was acting Secretary of War in November. In February, 1863, he resigned from the service, and on June 1, 1864, took command of the Georgia Militia. He Tennessee. He was made general, and assumed command of the Trans-Mississippi Department in February, 1863. He surrendered his troops to Major-General Canby at Baton Rouge, May 26, 1865, having, the, which fought with the Second Corps, Army of Tennessee, at the battle of Stone's River. In February, 1863, he was arrested on charges of conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline and from July 2 to September 28, 1862, and later a corps of Van Dorn's Army of Mississippi. In February, 1863, he was ordered to the Trans-Mississippi Department, where he held various commands in Arkan
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Van Dorn's operations between Columbia and Nashville in 1863. (search)
t fresh as to all the details of General Van Dorn's operations between Columbia and Nashville, Tennessee, in 1863, or as to the precise composition of his command at that time, yet I remember that it contained the brigades of Forest, Jackson, Armstrong, Whitfield and Cosby, numbering, perhaps, 7,000 effective cavalry and artillery; and I can no doubt give you with tolerable accuracy the main features of the transactions to which you refer. General Van Dorn arrived at Columbia early in February, 1863, and shortly thereafter (perhaps in March) took up his headquarters at Spring Hill, protecting the left of General Bragg's army, and operating against the Federal line of communication so effectively as to confine the enemy closely to their fortified positions at Nashville, Brentwood, Franklin, Triune and other points. Vexed at. Van Dorn's frequent attacks and constantly increasing proximity to their lines, the enemy repeatedly moved out in force from their strongholds, but could never
ssels by land batteries having guns of rather light caliber. One by one successful conflicts between river boats and gunboats impaired the estimate which had been put upon the latter. The most illustrious example of this was the attack and capture of the Indianola, a heavy ironclad, with two eleven-inch guns forward, and two nine-inch aft, all in iron casemates. She had passed the batteries at Vicksburg, and was in the section of the river between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, which in February, 1863, was the only gate of communication which the Confederacy had between the east and west sides of the Mississippi. The importance of keeping open this communication, always great, became vital from the necessity of drawing commissary's stores from the trans-Mississippi. Major Brent, of General Taylor's staff, proposed, with the towboat Webb, which had been furnished as a ram, and the Queen of the West, which had been four or five days before captured by the land battery at Fort De Rus
eering skill, as the direction given to his ditch was such that, instead of being washed out by the current of the river, it was filled up by its sediment. Another attempt to get into the Mississippi without passing the batteries at Vicksburg was by digging a canal to connect the river with the bayou in rear of Milliken's Bend, so as to have water communication by way of Richmond to New Carthage. These indications of a purpose to get below Vicksburg caused General Pemberton, early in February, 1863, to detach Brigadier General John S. Bowen, with his Missouri Brigade, to Grand Gulf, near the mouth of the Big Black, and establish batteries there to command the mouth of that small river, which might be used to pass to the rear of Vicksburg, and also by their fire to obstruct the navigation of the Mississippi. On March 19th the flagship of Admiral Farragut, with one gunboat from the fleet at New Orleans, passed up the river in defiance of our batteries; on the 25th, four gunboats f
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
an Francisco, 293; his territorial strategy, 358, 359; plan of clearing Missouri of rebels, 358, 359; at St. Louis, 359; takes command of the armies, 359; siege of Corinth, 359; antiquated tactics, 359; plan for campaign of 1864, 359; military education, 359, 360; singularity of conduct, 359-361; reflection on S.'s reputation, 360, 361; attitude toward Sherman, 360, 361; attitude toward Grant before Shiloh, 361 Correspondence with: Blair, F. P., Aug. 11, 12, 1862, 59, 60: Curtis, S. R., Feb. 1863, 65,: Schofield, J. M., Aug. 10, 1862, 59; Sept. 9, 60, 61; Jan. 31, 1863, 65, 66; Feb. 3, 65, 66; May 22, 68; July 7, 70; Sept. 3, 83; Sept. 26, 87; Sept. 30, 85-87; Oct. 2, 93; May 7, 1865, 370, 371: Sherman, W. T., Sept. 25, 1864, 333: Stanton, E., May 10, 1865, 360: Thomas, G. H., Nov. 28, 1864, 212 Hamilton, Col. John, organizes light-artillery school, 426 Hammond, Brig.-Gen. John H., needed at and ordered to Spring Hill, 209, 217, 258; battle of Nashville, 268 Hammond, Surg.