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Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union 62 62 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 37 37 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 12 12 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 8 Browse Search
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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 6 6 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 4 4 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 17: Pope's campaign in Virginia. (search)
eed, so they began the more formidable movement of a march up the stream, to cross it above and flank rope's army. This movement was masked by leaving a strong force at Beverly Ford under Longstreet. Pope had expected and dreaded this; for, being still under strict orders to keep up a communication with Fredericksburg, he was too weak in numbers to extend his right any farther up the stream. He telegraphed to Washington that he must either be re-enforced or re-treat, and was assured August 21, 1862. that if he could hold on two days longer he would be so strengthened by troops expected from the Peninsula that he would be able to resume the offensive. But on the morning of the 25th, the designated time, only seven thousand troops of that army had reached him. These were 2,500 Pennsylvania Reserves, under General Reynolds, and the division of General Kearney, 4,500 strong, which on that day was at Warrenton Junction. In the mean time Pope had determined to paralyze the dange
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), April 7-12, 1862.--raid on Confederate line of communications between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Marietta, Ga. (search)
the results which it promised as absolutely sublime. It may be proper, therefore, to say that this statement is made for the sake of truth, and not to call attention to the extravagant colors in which it haA been presented. Very repectfuily, your obedient servant, D. O. Bueil, Major-Geeral. General Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington City, D. 0. No. 3.-miscellaneous Confederate reports and correspondence. headquarters Department no. 2, Chattanooga, August 21, 1862. Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith the petition of W. W. Brown and others, soldiers of the Twenty-first and Second Ohio Regiments, U. S. Army, and to request instructions in the matter. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Braxton Bragg, General, Commanding. Adjutant-General C. S. Army, Richmond, Va. [indorsement no. 1.] Respectfully submitted to the President. I recommend that they be respited until further orders, and detained as hostages
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)
giment was raised, principally, in the Penobscot Valley, and was organized August 21, 1862, as the Eighteenth Maine Infantry. Major Daniel Chaplin, of the Second Maiel, who commanded it during its entire service. Arriving at Washington on August 21, 1862, it was ordered immediately on active duty in Maryland. The fatigue and e May 28, 1864 21 Amelia Springs, Va., April 5, 1865 3 Rappahannock, Va., Aug. 21, 1862 1 Trevilian Station, June 11, 1864 2 Sailor's Creek, Va., April 6, 1865 2 a, Ga., Sept. 18, 1863 6 Lead's X Roads, Nov. 1, 1864 2 Gallatin, Tenn., Aug. 21, 1862 2 Mission Ridge, Tenn., Sept. 21, 1863 2 Bardstown Ky., Dec. 29, 1864 2 45 Atlanta, Ga. 1 Gay's Gap, Tenn. 1 Franklin, Tenn. 1 Iuka, Miss., August 21, 1862 1 Nashville, Tenn. 1 Chattahoochie, Ga. 1     Present, also, at Fl; Pulaski. notes.--Mustered in at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Ill., August 21, 1862. and ordered immediately on active duty in Kentucky. It assisted in cove
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 97 (search)
. Smith, Lieut.-Col. and A. D.C. Despatches and orders sent and received from Aug. 21 to Aug. 24 Inclusive. United States military telegraph. Received Aug. 21, 1862, from War Department, Washington. To Gen. Pope: I have telegraphed Gen. Burnside to know at what hour he can reinforce Reno. Am waiting his answer. Every orrow. (Signed) H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. A true copy: T. C. H. Smith, Lieut.-Col. and A. D.C. headquarters army of Virginia, Rappahannock station, Aug. 21, 1862. Major-General Halleck: The enemy has made no further advance since yesterday afternoon, but his cavalry-pickets are in plain view of our front. After fullver. (Signed) John Pope, Major-General. A true copy: T. C. H. Smith, Lieut.-Col. and A. D.C. United States military telegraph From Department, Washington, Aug. 21, 1862. To Gen. Pope: I have just sent General Burnside's reply. Gen. Cox's forces are coming in from Parkersburgh, and will be here to-morrow and the next day. D
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 110 (search)
. Smith, Lieut.-Col. and A. D.C. Despatches and orders sent and received from Aug. 21 to Aug. 24 Inclusive. United States military telegraph. Received Aug. 21, 1862, from War Department, Washington. To Gen. Pope: I have telegraphed Gen. Burnside to know at what hour he can reinforce Reno. Am waiting his answer. Every orrow. (Signed) H. W. Halleck, General-in-Chief. A true copy: T. C. H. Smith, Lieut.-Col. and A. D.C. headquarters army of Virginia, Rappahannock station, Aug. 21, 1862. Major-General Halleck: The enemy has made no further advance since yesterday afternoon, but his cavalry-pickets are in plain view of our front. After fullver. (Signed) John Pope, Major-General. A true copy: T. C. H. Smith, Lieut.-Col. and A. D.C. United States military telegraph From Department, Washington, Aug. 21, 1862. To Gen. Pope: I have just sent General Burnside's reply. Gen. Cox's forces are coming in from Parkersburgh, and will be here to-morrow and the next day. D
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 194 (search)
Doc. 181.-reconnoissance to Swansboro, N. C. Newbern progress narrative. Newbern, N. C., August 21, 1862. A reconnoissance in force to the town of Swansboro set out from Newbern on Wednesday, thirteenth August, under the command of Col. Stevenson, commanding Second brigade, First division. It consisted of a portion of the Twenty-fourth regiment Massachusetts volunteers, under Lieut.-Col. Osborn, a detachment of the marine artillery, under Lieut.-Colonel Manchester, and a company of the Third New-York artillery. On that day the transports Pilot Boy, Ocean Queen, Massasoit, Wilson, and Union--carrying a portion of the troops — proceeded through Core Sound to Beaufort, where they were joined by the others, who had come down by rail. Thursday was passed in providing the vessels with coal and water, and on Friday the expedition proceeded on its route. The Union, together with the Wilson and the launches of the marine artillery, went by way of Bogue Sound, while the ot
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 196 (search)
Doc. 183.-capture of the steamer Fair play. Chicago evening Journal account. United States steam ram fleet, above Vicksburgh, Miss., August 21, 1862. the rams Switzerland, Monarch, Sampson, and Lioness, of Col. Alfred W. Ellet's Mississippi ram fleet, in connection with the gunboats Benton, Mound City, and Gen. Bragg, under command of Capt. Phelps, of the Benton, (who is in command of the gunboat flotilla during Commodore Davis's illness,) together with the transports A. McDowell and Rocket, with the Fifty-eighth and Seventy-sixth regiments Ohio volunteers, and a battalion of cavalry, under command of Col. Wood, of the Seventy-sixth Ohio, left Helena, Arkansas, on Saturday morning, August sixteenth, for a cruise down the Mississippi. Nothing of interest took place until Sunday afternoon, when we picked up seven contrabands in a skiff, who reported that a rebel steamer had come up the river a short distance above them the day before. There being a plantation below, we
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
retreat began the night previous, the wagon trains having been sent off early in the day, corroborating the conclusions arrived at by the commanding General, on Clark's Mountain. Accompanying this report will also be found a map of the country traversed in the operations described, drawn by Captain Blackford, my topographical engineer. Most respectfully, your obedient servant, J. E. B. Stuart, Major-General, commanding Cavalry. Report of Major-General Stuart of operations from August 21, 1862, to expedition to Catlett's Station. headquarters cavalry division, A. N. V., February 23, 1863. Brigadier-General R. H. Chilton, Assistant Adjutant and Inspector-General A. N. V.: General : I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of my command with the Army of Northern Virginia, continuing the series from the morning of the twenty-first August, when the army was near Brandy Station, with my command in front along the Rappahannock, until its return to t
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), chapter 1.9 (search)
nd trained organizations resulted in a vast amount of suffering during the first eighteen months of the war, and gave rise to much criticism of the Medical Department which the latter in nowise deserved. A carefully matured plan for the organization of a hospital corps, to belong to the Medical Department and take over work which was at that time being inefficiently done by some sixteen thousand enlisted men detailed from the line of the army, was submitted to the Secretary of War on August 21, 1862, but failed of adoption as a result of the opposition of General Halleck, general-in-chief. An appeal was then made as follows: Surgeon-General's Office, September 7, 1862. Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Sir: I have the honor to ask your attention to the frightful state of disorder existing in the arrangement for removing the wounded from the field of battle. The scarcity of ambulances, the want of organization, the drunkenness and incompetency of the drivers, the t
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), With the ambulance corps: transportation of Federal sick and wounded (search)
nd trained organizations resulted in a vast amount of suffering during the first eighteen months of the war, and gave rise to much criticism of the Medical Department which the latter in nowise deserved. A carefully matured plan for the organization of a hospital corps, to belong to the Medical Department and take over work which was at that time being inefficiently done by some sixteen thousand enlisted men detailed from the line of the army, was submitted to the Secretary of War on August 21, 1862, but failed of adoption as a result of the opposition of General Halleck, general-in-chief. An appeal was then made as follows: Surgeon-General's Office, September 7, 1862. Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. Sir: I have the honor to ask your attention to the frightful state of disorder existing in the arrangement for removing the wounded from the field of battle. The scarcity of ambulances, the want of organization, the drunkenness and incompetency of the drivers, the t
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