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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 106 (search)
on the twenty-third inst., near Winchester, Va. They defeated an enemy whose forces outnumbered theirs, and who were considered the bravest and best disciplined of the confederate army. He also congratulates them that it has fallen to their lot to open the campaign on the Potomac. The opening has been a splendid success. Let them inscribe Winchester on their banners, and prepare for other victories. (Signed) Brig.-General Shields. headquarters Shields' division, Woodstock, Va., April 12, 1862. General order, No. 19. The General commanding the division directs that the special thanks of himself and command be tendered to Capt. Ambrose Thompson, Division Quartermaster, for the energy, industry, and efficiency with which he has conducted the affairs of his department, previous to and during the battle of Winchester, and in his untiring and successful efforts since, to employ every means which judgment and activity could devise to furnish this division with everything requi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 118 (search)
r-General Commanding. Report of Major-General Lew. Wallace. headquarters Third division U. S. Forces, District of West-Tennessee, Pittsburgh Landing, April 12, 1862. Capt. John A. Rawlins, A. A. General: sir: Sunday morning, sixth inst., my brigades, three in number, were encamped, the First at Crump's Landing, the Secon. Very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant, Lew. Wallace, Commanding Third Division. Brig.-Gen. Rousseau's report. battle-field of Shiloh, April 12, 1862. General: I have the honor to report to you, as commander of the Second division of the army of the Ohio, the part taken by my brigade in the battle at thiday, it was fighting. All honor to our Northern soldiers for it. Agate. Gen. Hurlbut's report. headquarters Fourth division, army of West-Tennessee, April 12, 1862. Capt. John A. Rawlins, Assistant Adjutant-General: sir: I have the honor to report, in brief, the part taken by my division in the battle of the sixth and
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 120 (search)
Geo. J. W. Nixson, Paymaster. W. H. Faulkner, Chief-Engineer. Chas. H. Caven, First Assistant. Samuel Brooks, Second Assistant. A. T. Crowel, Third Assistant. Francis Buford, Gunner. T. S. Gillmore, Master's Mate. J. S. Gilpson, Master's Mate. Oliver Donelson, Carpenter. R. J. Van Ness, Paymaster's Clerk. tip. the letter of thanks. The following letter of thanks was issued from the Navy Department, addressed to Flag-Officer Foote: Navy Department, April 12, 1862. Sir: The Department desires to convey to the commander, Henry Walke, and the officers and men of the Carondelet, also to Acting First Master Hoel, of the Cincinnati, who volunteered for the occasion, its thanks for the gallant and successful service rendered in running the Carondelet past the rebel batteries on the night of the fourth inst. It was a daring and heroic act, well executed, and deserving of special recognition. Commendation is also to be extended to the officers and cre
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 121 (search)
d only two of our men were wounded. I trust my next despatch, by the first opportunity of sending by a mail-steamer, will give an account of a large and as successful an operation. I think it due to the good conduct of the brave men of that expedition to ask to have published the general order upon that subject inclosed. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Benj. F. Butler, Major-General Commanding. headquarters, Department of the Gulf, ship Island, April 12, 1862. General orders, No. 10. The Major-General Commanding desires publicly to testify his approbation of the gallant courage and good conduct of the Ninth regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, Col. Cahill commanding, and a section of the Sixth Massachusetts battery, under Capt. Everett, in the recent expedition to Biloxi and Pass Christian, as exhibited by the report of the staff-officer in command of that expedition. Of their bravery in the field he felt assured. But another quality,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 130 (search)
very obedient servant, David Hunter, Major-General Commanding Department of the South. Report of Brigadier-General Benham. headquarters First division, Northern District, Department of the South, Fort Pulaski, Cockspur Island, Ga., April 12, 1862. To Major-Gen. David Hunter, Commanding De partment of the South: sir: I have the honor to report the conclusion of the operations of the siege of Fort Pulaski, in Savannah River, Ga., which have resulted in the capture of that fortress anour command. I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant. H. W. Benham, Brigadier-General Commanding Northern District, Department of the South. General Gilmore's report. headquarters, Fort Pulaski, Ga., April 12, 1862. Lieut. A. B. Ely, Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Northern District, Department of the South: sir: I have the honor to report that several batteries established on Tybee Island, to operate against Fort Pulaski, opened fire on the morni
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 135 (search)
Doc. 131.-the rebel Commerce. The following is a list of the vessels from rebel ports, arrived at Nassau, N. P., between the commencement of the National blockade and April 12, 1862: 1861.   June17.Sch. Parker, Smith, Fernandina, naval stores. June18.Sch. W. H. Northrop, Silliman, Wilmington, lumber. Aug.7.Sch. W. H. Northrop, Silliman, Wilmington, lumber. Aug.13.Sch. Victoria, Certain, Wilmington, rice. Sept.4.Sch. Mary Adeline, Carlin, Charleston, rice. Sept.9.Sch. Hampton, Gladding, Savannah, rice. Sept.19.Sch. Atkinson, Fitzinger, Georgetown, rice. Sept.20.Sch. Victoria, Vincent, Beaufort, S. C., rice. Oct.2.Sch. Carrie Sandford, Haggett, Wilmington, lumber. Oct.8.Sch. Mary Louisa, Bettilini, Jacksonville, naval stores. Oct.12.Sch. British Empire, Parsons, Jacksonville, lumber. Oct.15.Sch. J. W. Anderson, Black, Savannah, naval stores. Oct.15.Sch. Adeline, Smith, Savannah, naval stores. Nov.4.Sch. Lucy R. Waring, Smith, Savannah, naval stores.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 142 (search)
Doc. 138.-advance to young's Mill, Va. Gen. Davidson's official Rfport. headquarters Third brigade, Smith's division, camp near Lee's Mill, Warwick River, Va., April 12, 1862. Capt. L D. Care, Ass't Adjutant-General: sir: Having been directed by the General commanding the division to furnish a report of the operations of my brigade from the fifth instant to the present time, I respectfully state as follows: The advance of the division from Young's Mill was formed by my brigade, the Seventh Maine, Col. Mason commanding, being deployed as a line of skirmishers in front, with a section of Kennedy's battery, Lieut. Cowan, following the road. The Thirty-third New-York, Col. B. F. Taylor, Seventy-seventh New-York volunteers, Col. McKean, and the Forty-ninth New-York, Lieut.-Col. Alberger, in the order named, moving in rear of this advance in column. About four miles from Young's Mill, at eleven A. M., the enemy's pickets were driven in, exchanging occasional shots with o
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 16: (search)
fixing the position of the batteries. The same day the following reached me: By direction of the President, Franklin's division has been ordered to march back to Alexandria and immediately embark for Fortress Monroe. L. Thomas, Adj.-Gen. I replied to the secretary: I am delighted with Franklin's orders, and beg to thank you. I insert the following letter from my venerable friend, Francis P. Blair, as an indication of the state of feeling at the time: Washington, April 12, 1862. Maj.-Gen. G. B. McClellan: My dear Sir: There is a prodigious cry of On to Richmond! among the carpet-knights of our city, who will not shed their blood to get there. I am one of those who wish to see you lead a triumph in the capital of the Old Dominion, but am not so eager as to hazard it by hurrying on too fast. The veterans of Waterloo filled the trenches of Gen. Jackson at New Orleans with their bodies and their blood. If you can accomplish your object of reaching Richmond b
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil War with losses on both sides December, 1860-August, 1862 (search)
st Iowa Cav. Confed. No record found. Losses: Union 2 killed, 4 wounded. Confed. 22 captured. April 16, 1862: Whitemarsh or Wilmington Island, Ga. Union, 8th Mich., Battery of R. I. Light Artil. Confed., 13th Ga. Losses: Union 10 killed, 35 wounded. Confed. 4 killed, 15 wounded. April 16, 1862: Lee's Mills, Va. Union, 3d, 4th, and 6th Vt., 3d N. Y. Battery and Battery of 5th U. S. Artil. Confed., Gen. J. B. Magruder's The closing of Savannah, April 12, 1862 This terrific punishment was inflicted upon the nearest angle of the Fort by the thirty-six heavy rifled cannon and the mortars which the Federals had planted on Big Tybee Island, and by the gunboats which had found a channel enabling them to get in the rear of the fort. We get a more distant view of the angle in the lower picture. Fort Pulaski had been effectually blockaded since February, 1862, as a part of the Federal plan to establish supreme authority along the Atlantic coast f
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 7: Confederate armies and generals (search)
as agreed upon near Durham's Station, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. He was United States commissioner of railroads from 1885 to 1889. He died in Washington, March 21, 1891. Army of the Peninsula The Department of the Peninsula was established on May 26, 1861, and Colonel John B. Magruder was put in command. The troops therein were organized into divisions in November, and denominated the Army of the Peninsula. In December, the aggregate present was about sixteen thousand. On April 12, 1862, it was merged in the Army of Northern Virginia—constituting, under Major-General Magruder, the right wing of that army. Major-General John Bankhead Magruder （U. S.M. A. 1830) was born at Winchester, Virginia, August 15, 1810, and served in the Seminole and Mexican wars. He was stationed in Washington in 1861, and resigned in April to enter the Confederate service as colonel. He had charge of the artillery in and around Richmond, and after May 21st, a division in the Department o
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