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William A. Crafts, Life of Ulysses S. Grant: His Boyhood, Campaigns, and Services, Military and Civil., Chapter 8: (search)
d; and not a little of its promptness and efficiency were due to the direction and influence of Grant, who had already at the west proved himself the ablest of administrative officers. During this brief delay, Grant determined upon his next move, which was another flank movement to force the rebel army back, farther from Washington, nearer to Richmond. But Lee, also, had made preparations to move; and, having still interior lines, he retired to another and stronger position between the North Anna and South Anna Rivers. Some persons, who were continually talking about strategy, and who were, doubtless, admirers of the strategy of the first campaign against Richmond, imagined Grant was simply an obstinate fighter, and possessed no attribute of a good general. Copperhead admirers of McClellan, such as had before maligned the hero of Donelson and Vicksburg, now called him a butcher who wantonly sacrificed his own men. But such malignant charges originated only with those whose sympat
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., General Grant. (search)
emy's country, but, moving by his left flank, was in connection with the sea, of which the Northerners were masters, and was abundantly supplied with everything. Of artillery, in particular, he had so much that he was embarrassed by it, and had to send some of it away. Overwhelmingly superior in numbers and resources, he pressed steadily forward, failing and repulsed sometimes, but coolly persevering. This campaign, of which the stages are the battles of Chancellorsville, Spottsylvania, North Anna and Cold Harbour, was watched at the time in Europe with keen attention, and is much better known than the operations in the West. I shall not attempt any account of it; for its severity let the losses of Grant's successful army speak. When he crossed the Rapidan the Army of the Potomac numbered 115,000 men; during the forty-three days campaign reinforcements were received amounting to 40,000 men more. When the army crossed the James River, it was 116,000 strong, almost exactly the same
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 25 (search)
he Potomac, having been furnished by one of Gen. Grant's staff to the author of Grant and his campaigns, can not be plausibly suspected of exaggerating them: Tabular Statement of Casualties in the Army of the Potomac, from May 5, 1864, to November 1, 1864. battles.dates.killed.wounded.missing.Aggregate. Officers.Enlisted Men.Officers.Enlisted Men.Officers.Enlisted Men. WildernessMay 5 to 122698,0191,01718,2611776,66729,410 SpottsylvaniaMay 12 to 211142,0322597,6973124810,881 North AnnaMay 21 to 3112138671,06333241,607 Cold HarborJune 1 to 101441,5614218,621512,35518,158 PetersburgJune 10 to 20851,1183616,492461,5689,665 DittoJune 20 to July 30295761202,3741082,1095,316 DittoJuly 30473721241,555911,8194,008 TrenchesAugust 1 to 181012858626145868 Weldon RailroadAugust 18 to 21211911001,0551043,0724,543 Reams's StationAugust 25249362484951,6742,432 Peeble's FarmSept. 30 to Oct. 11212910738561,7002,685 TrenchesAug. 18 to Oct. 8013284911,21448002,417 Boydton Plank-r
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Appended notes. (search)
on Ridge, Tenn., 441. Mobile Bay, Ala., 651. Murfreesboroa (or Stone River), Tenn., 273. Nashville, Tenn., 273. Newbern, N. C., 78. Newmarket. Va., 599. North Anna. Va., 577. Olustee, Florida, 531. Opequan Creek, Va., 608. Peach-tree Cr'k, Tenn., 631. Pea Ridge, Ark., 27. Perryville, Ky., 219. Petersburg, Va., 5al-his advance on Richmond, 562; his qualifications and ideas, 563-4; lie crosses the Rapidan, 567; fights Lee at the Wilderness, 567 to 570; advances to the North Anna river, 577; his flank movement to Cold Harbor, 579; his grand assault at Cold Harbor, 5S1; he crosses the James river, 583; end of his campaign of 1864 and losses, State Election of 1862, 484. Niagara, U. S. frigate, takes the Georgia, 646. Niagara, Peace overtures at, 665. Norfolk, Va., capture of, 127-8. North Anna river, Grant advances to the, 577. North Carolina, Burnside's operations in, 73-81. O. O'Brien, Col., killed in New York by rioters, 506. O'Connor, C
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, Chapter 2: maximum of regimental loss in killed in any one battle — proportion of wounded to killed. (search)
Iuka 141 613 36 4.3 Corinth 355 1,841 324 5.1 Chaplin Hills 845 2,851 515 3.3 Chickasaw Bluffs 208 1,005 563 4.8 Arkansas Post 134 898 29 6.7 Gettysburg 3,063 14,492 5,435 4.7 Vicksburg Campaign 1,514 7,395 453 4.8 Port Hudson 707 3,336 319 4.7 Rappahannock Station 83 328 6 3.9 Fort Wagner (July 18） 246 880 389 3.5 Mine Run 173 1,099 381 6.3 Missionary Ridge 752 4,713 349 6.2 Wilderness 2,246 12,037 3,383 5.3 Spotsylvania 2,725 13,416 2,258 4.9 North Anna and 591 2,734 661 4.6 Totopotomoy Cold Harbor and 1,844 9,077 1,816 4.9 Bethesda Church Petersburg, June 15-18 1,688 8,513 1,185 5.0 Deep Bottom 327 1,851 721 5.6 Atlanta Campaign 4,423 22,822 4,442 5.1 Opequon 697 3,983 338 5.7 Cedar Creek 644 3,430 1,591 5.3 21 Minor Engagements 835 4,597 461 5.5   Total 34,532 168,777 41,786 4.8 Included in the Captured and missing are many wounded men, also a large number of killed. Their relative proportion
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, Chapter 8: Corps organizations. (search)
ellorsville Gettysburg Bristoe Station Mine Run Morton's Ford Wilderness Corbin's Bridge Po River Spotsylvania North Anna Totopotomoy Cold Harbor assault on Petersburg, June 18th Jerusalem Road Strawberry Plains Deep Bottom Ream's Staurg Chancellorsville Gettysburg Rappahannock Station Mine Run Wilderness Alsop's Farm Laurel Hill Spotsylvania North Anna Totopotomoy Bethesda Church Cold Harbor Petersburg assault Siege of Petersburg Weldon Railroad Poplar Spring Chur Station Campbell's Station Fort Sanders Siege of Knoxville Strawberry Plains Wilderness Ny River Spotsylvania North Anna Bethesda Church Cold Harbor assault on Petersburg, June 17th Petersburg Trenches Petersburg Mine Weldon Railroad Stevensburg Mine Run Averell's Raid Barnett's Ford Kilpatrick's Raid Kautz‘ Raid Parker's Store Todd's Tavern North Anna Yellow Tavern Meadow Bridge Milford Station Hawes' Shop Hanover Court House Ashland old Church Cold Harbor Tre
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, chapter 10 (search)
5 Spotsylvania, Va. 9 Oak Grove, Va. 2 North Anna, Va. 1 Glendale, Va. 1 Cold Harbor, Va. 2 sylvania, Va. 20 South Mountain, Va. 1 North Anna, Va. 5 Antietam, Md. 74 Bethesda Church, Va 7 Spotsylvania, Va. 4 Manassas, Va. 2 North Anna, Va. 1 Fredericksburg, Va. 1 Petersburg, Va Spotsylvania, Va. 15 Farmville, Va. 3 North Anna, Va. 3 Place unknown 2 Totopotomoy, Va. 2   Spotsylvania, Va. 7 Five Forks, Va. 5 North Anna, Va. 2     Present, also, at Rappahannocpotsylvania, Va. 1 Malvern Hill, Va. 2 North Anna, Va. 3 Manassas, Va. 12 Cold Harbor, Va. 3 also, at Malvern Hill; Gettysburg; Mine Run; North Anna; Totopotomoy. notes.--Organized at Harrisilderness, Va. 30 Gravelly Run, Va. 10 North Anna, Va. 2 Five Forks, Va. 7 Cold Harbor, Va. 9vania, Va. 9 Salisbury Prison, N. C. 1 North Anna, Va. 2     Present, also, at Totopotomoyles. K. & M. W. Fredericksburg, Va. 66 North Anna, Va. 4 Picket, Va., Feb. 21, 1863 1 Cold Ha[125 more...]
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, Chapter 11: list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each. (search)
field's Twentieth 11 56 1 68 21st Wisconsin Johnson's Fourteenth 10 43 -- 53 Ware Bottom Church, Va. Bermuda Hundred.             May 18-20, 1864.             97th Pennsylvania Ames's Tenth 29 186 22 237 8th Maine Ames's Tenth 13 87 -- 100 13th Indiana Ames's Tenth 13 58 19 90 67th Ohio Terry's Tenth 9 60 -- 69 142d New York Turner's Tenth 10 39 2 51 Yellow Bayou, La.             May 18, 1864.             58th Illinois Mower's Sixteenth 12 51 -- 63 North Anna, Va.             May 23-27, 1864             6th New York H. A. ------------ ---------- 17 99 17 133 170th New York Gibbon's Second 22 55 22 99 3d Maine Birney's Second 12 40 18 70 56th Massachusetts Crittenden's Ninth 8 47 19 74 57th Massachusetts Crittenden's Ninth 10 28 8 46 7th Indiana Cutler's Fifth 8 31 4 43 182d New York Gibbon's Second 6 28 6 40 93d New York Birney's Second 6 27 4 37 149th Pennsylvania Cutler's Fifth 7 23 26
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, Chapter 14: the greatest battles of the war — list of victories and defeats — chronological list of battles with loss in each, Union and Confederate. (search)
12-16 Drewry's Bluff, Va 390 2,380 1,390 4,160 May 18-20 Ware Bottom Church, Va 103 796 49 948 May 21-31 Bermuda Hundred, Va 18 89 21 128 May 7-16 Cavalry engagements.Kautz's Cavalry Raid, Va 14 60 31 105 May 9, 10 Cloyd's Mountain, W. Va 108 508 72 688 May 11 Cavalry engagements.Yellow Tavern, Va 35 142 82 259 May 12 Cavalry engagements.Meadow Bridges, Va 15 128 27 170 May 15 Newmarket, Va 93 482 256 831 May 18 Bayou Glaize, La 54 261 6 321 May 23-27 North Anna, Va 186 942 165 1,293 May 28-31 Totopotomoy, Va 101 518 52 671 May 25-30 Cavalry engagements.Sheridan's Cavalry, Va 110 450 96 656 June 1 Bethesda Church, Va 194 824 348 1,366 June 2-4 Includes assault of Sixth and Eighteenth Corps, June 1; also, losses of the Fifth and Ninth Corps at Bethesda Church on June 2d and subsequently; also, Cavalry Corps at Cold Harbor, May 31 and June 1; also, loss in the trenches at Cold Harbor, June 4-14.Cold Harbor, Va 1,844 9,077 1,816 1
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
109, 217, 337. Mott's division, misconduct, 92, 93, 95, 109, 110n, 114, 208, 252, 294. Mt. Carmel Church, 122. Namozine road, 342, 346. Negro, Virginia, 67; free and slave, 74; troops, 102, 162, 180, 256, 262; aunty, 183; Petersburg mine, 199, 214; burying Rebel dead, 203n; arming southern, 245; poker game, 269. Nesmith, James Willis, 280; on Bull Run, 284. New London, Conn., 223. Newspapers, errors of, 100. Newton, John, 33, 56, 60, 80; visited, 9. Newton, Mrs., 131. North Anna, 122, 126. O'Connor, W. Ulick, Viscount Castle-Cuffe, 49. Officers, good quality, 11; promotion, 78; qualities of good, 121, 266; bearing of Rebel, 152. Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, 200, 233, 266, 320, 335, 357. Ordinary, in Virginia, 119. Otto, William Tod, 212. Ovens, Dutch, 351. Palfrey, Francis Winthrop, 65. Parke, John Grubb, 233, 234, 236, 323, 334; described, 213; engineer, 246. Parker, Isaac Brown, 288. Parker, Theodore, 260. Patrick, Marsena Rudolph, 74. Patten,
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