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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)
inth 9 113 -- 122 57th Massachusetts Willcox's Ninth 6 31 53 90 Petersburg, Va.             March 25, 1865.             93d Pennsylvania Getty's Sixth 15 136 -- 151 28th Massachusetts Miles's Second 7 69 -- 76 120th New York Mott's Second 6 32 46 84 Appomattox campaign, Va. Includes Gravelly Run, March 29th; White Oak Road and Boydton Road, March 31st; Five Forks, April 1st; Fall of Petersburg, April 2d; Sutherland Station, April 2d; Sailor's Creek, and High Bridge, April 6th; Farmville, April 7th; and Appomattox, April 9th. The regiments sustained the above losses as follows: those of the Fifth Corps, at Gravelly Run. White Oak Road, and Five Forks; the Second Corps, at White Oak Road, Sutherland Station, Sailor's Creek, and Farmville; the Sixth Corps, at the Fall of Petersburg, and Sailor's Creek; the Ninth Corps, at the Fall of Petersburg; the Twenty-fourth Corps, at the Fall of Petersburg, High Bridge, and Appomattox. The cavalry sustained losses dai
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 7: Missouri. April and May, 1861. (search)
in her limits the people were acting with reasonable prudence and foresight. Yet neither party seemed willing to invade, or cross the border. Davis, who ordered the bombardment of Sumter, knew the temper of his people well, and foresaw that it would precipitate the action of the border States; for almost immediately Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee, followed the lead of the cotton States, and conventions were deliberating in Kentucky and Missouri. On the night of Saturday, April 6th, I received the following dispatch: Washington, April 6, 1861. Major W. T. Sherman: Will you accept the chief clerkship of the War Department? We will make you assistant Secretary of War when Congress meets. M. Blair, Postmaster-General. To which I replied by telegraph, Monday morning, I cannot accept; and by mail as follows: office St. Louis railroad Company, Monday, April 8, 1861. Hon. M. Blair, Washington, D. C.: I received, about nine o'clock Saturday night
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 12 (search)
at Fort Pillow, about fifty miles above Memphis. About this time Admiral Farragut, with another large sea-going fleet, and with the cooperating army of General Butler, was entering the Mississippi River by the Passes, and preparing to reduce Forts Jackson and St, Philip in order to reach New Orleans; so that all minds were turned to the conquest of the Mississippi River, and surely adequate means were provided for the undertaking. The battle of Shiloh had been fought, as described, on the 6th and 7th of April; and when the movement of the 8th had revealed that our enemy was gone, in full retreat, leaving killed, wounded, and much property by the way, we all experienced a feeling of relief. The struggle had been so long, so desperate and bloody, that the survivors seemed exhausted and nerveless; we appreciated the value of the victory, but realized also its great cost of life. The close of the battle had left the Army of the Tennessee on the right, and the Army of the Ohio on the
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
s out of service. I esteemed him very highly, and was actually mortified that the service should thus be deprived of so excellent and gallant an officer. He afterward settled in New Orleans as a lawyer, and died about 1867 or 1868. On the 6th of April, my command, the Fifteenth Corps, was composed of three divisions: The First Division, commanded by Major-General Fred Steele; and his three brigades by Colonel Manter, Colonel Charles R. Wood, and Brigadier-General John M. Thayer. The S her crew escaped in their own yawl-boat to the shore above. The Silver Wave, Captain McMillan, the same that was with us up Steele's Bayou, passed safely, and she also rendered good service afterward. Subsequently, on the night of April 26th, six other transports with numerous barges loaded with hay, corn, freight, and provisions, were drifted past Vicksburg; of these the Tigress was hit, and sunk just as she reached the river-bank below, on our side. I was there with my yawls, and saw Co
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
urning from furlough, with cattle, horses, etc.; and, by reason of the previous desolation of the country between Chattanooga and Knoxville, General Thomas had authorized the issue of provisions to the suffering inhabitants. We could not attempt an advance into Georgia without food, ammunition, etc.; and ordinary prudence dictated that we should have an accumulation at the front, in case of interruption to the railway by the act of the enemy, or by common accident. Accordingly, on the 6th of April, I issued a general order, limiting the use of the railroad-cars to transporting only the essential articles of food, ammunition, and supplies for the army proper, forbidding any further issues to citizens, and cutting off all civil traffic; requiring the commanders of posts within thirty miles of Nashville to haul out their own stores in wagons; requiring all troops destined for the front to march, and all beef-cattle to be driven on their own legs. This was a great help, but of course
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 25 (search)
eded, leaving a staff-officer to receive reports. He requires, absolutely, a report of each army or grand detachment each night, whether any thing material has occurred or not, for often the absence of an enemy is a very important fact in military prognostication. By order of Major-General W. T. Sherman, L. M. Dayton, Assistant Adjutant-General. But the whole problem became suddenly changed by the news of the fall of Richmond and Petersburg, which reached as at Goldsboroa, on the 6th of April. The Confederate Government, with Lee's army, had hastily abandoned Richmond, fled in great disorder toward Danville, and General Grant's whole army was in close pursuit. Of course, I inferred that General Lee would succeed in making junction with General Johnston, with at least a fraction of his army, somewhere to my front. I at once altered the foregoing orders, and prepared on the day appointed, viz., April 10th, to move straight on Raleigh, against the army of General Johnston, kno
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 118 (search)
ana Volunteers. Colonel Crafts J. Wright's report. On Sunday morning, April sixth, an order was brought from Col. Morsey, Acting Commander of the Second briga encampments. But despite the heavy casualties of the two eventful days of the sixth and seventh of April, this army is more confident of ultimate success than befof danger. The sun never rose on a more beautiful morning than that of Sunday, April sixth. Lulled by the general security, I had remained in pleasant quarters atissouri, Twenty-fifth Missouri, and Sixty-first Illinois. The battle on Sunday, April 6. our men surprised. Almost at dawn, Prentiss's pickets were driven in;e honor to report, in brief, the part taken by my division in the battle of the sixth and seventh April. On Sunday morning, April sixth, about half-past 7 A. M., April sixth, about half-past 7 A. M., I received a message from Brig.-Gen. Sherman, that he was attacked in force, and heavily upon his left. I immediately ordered Col. J. C. Veatch, commanding the Se
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 142 (search)
meet their intentions. With these disposals, we awaited the arrival and reconnaissance of Gen. Smith. The troops of my brigade maintained their position as above stated until seven o'clock of the evening of the seventh, when they were withdrawn about one mile further in the rear. My casualties are as follows: April 5.--One private of the Seventh Maine, and one of the Forty-ninth New-York killed, and two privates of the Seventh Maine, and one of the Forty-ninth New-York wounded. April 6.--Three privates of the Forty-ninth New-York wounded severely; one officer, Lieut. George Gale, of the Thirty-third New-York, seriously wounded; one of the Seventy-seventh seriously wounded. April 7.--One private of the Seventh Maine seriously wounded; one of the Seventy-seventh seriously wounded. April 8.--One private wounded, Thirty-third New-York volunteers. April 11.--One corporal, Seventh Maine, killed, and one private wounded. The Forty-ninth regiment and a company of the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 85 (search)
e reserve corps from the battle of Shiloh to the evacuation of Corinth. headquarters reserve corps, army of the Tennessee, camp Jackson, July 4, 1862. Major-General H. W. Halleck, Commanding Department of the Mississippi: my report of the part taken by my command, consisting of the First division of the Army of the Tennessee, in the battle of Shiloh, explains how the enemy was driven from my camp on the seventh and forced with great loss to abandon the ground he had gained on the sixth of April. I will not dwell upon the incidents of that great event now, it would be supererogatory to do so. They have passed into glorious and imperishable history, and there let them rest. Devoting my attention during the interval to measures necessary to repair the consequences of a protracted and sanguinary battle, and to restore the vigor and efficiency of my command; and having prepared the way by the construction of bridges, on the twenty-fourth, pursuant to order, I moved it to the fro
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), Battle of Pleasant Hill. (search)
our an order to get out of here. H. W. Missouri Republican account. Grand Ecore, April 13, 1864. The grand expedition up Red River, which promised such beneficial results, has met with an unexpected and disastrous check. On the sixth of April the Union army, under command of Major-General Franklin, moved from Natchitoches (pronounced Nackitosh) toward Shreveport. Natchitoches is four miles from Red River, the nearest point on the river being Grand Ecore, the place from which thisport, unless weakened by the withdrawal of Smith's force, in which event the Red River expedition must be abandoned for the present. A. W. M. New-York Herald narrative. Grand Ecore, La., April 11, 1864. Early on the morning of Wednesday, April sixth, General Banks's column, having rested for two days at Natchitoches, marched on the Shreveport road, General Lee with his cavalry leading the column. At night the head of the column rested at Bayou du Paul, seventeen miles from Natchitoc
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