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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 185 185 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 46 46 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 11 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 9 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 9 9 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 9 9 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 7 7 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 6 6 Browse Search
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
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 5 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Battles. (search)
Baton Rouge (La.)Aug. 5, 1862 Cedar Mountain (Va.)Aug. 9, 1862 Bull Run (second）Aug. 30, 1862 South Mountain (Md.)Sept. 14, 1862 Harper's Ferry (10,000 Nationals surrendered)Sept. 15, 1862 Antietam (Md.)Sept. 17, 1862 Iuka (Miss.)Sept. 19 and 20, Corinth (Miss.)Oct. 3, 1862 Perryville (Ky.)Oct. 8, 1862 Prairie Grove (Ark.)Dec. 7, 1862 Fredericksburg (Va.)Dec. 13, 1862 Holly Springs (Miss.)Dec. 20, 1862 Chickasaw Bayou (Miss.)Dec. 27-29, 1862 Stone River (Murfreesboro, Tenn.）Dec. 31, 1862 and Jan. 3, 1863 Arkansas Post (Ark.)Jan. 11, 1863 Grierson's RaidApril 11 to May 5, 1863 Port Gibson (Miss.)May 1, 1863 Chancellorsville (Va.)May 1-4, 1863 Raymond (Miss.)May 12, 1863 Jackson (Miss.)May 14, 1863 Champion Hill (Miss.)May 16, 1863 Big Black River (Miss.)May 17, 1863 Vicksburg (Miss.)May 19-22, 1863 Port Hudson (La.)May 27, 1863 Hanover Junction (Pa.)June 30, 1863 Gettysburg (Pa.)July 1-3, 1863 Vicksburg (Surrendered)July 4, 1863 Helena (Ark.)July 4, 1863 Po
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rains, James Edward 1833- (search)
Rains, James Edward 1833- Military officer; born in Nashville, Tenn., April 10, 1833; was a stanch Union man before the war, and, at one time, edited the Daily Republican banner, at Nashville. He was also attorney-general of the State, but resigned, joined the Confederate army, and was for a time in command at Cumberland Gap. He was a brigadier-general; acted with bravery in the battles of Shiloh and Perryville, and was killed in the battle of Stone River, near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dec. 31, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Senate, United States (search)
was admitted as a State May 11, 1858, and her Senators, who had been elected Dec. 19, 1857, appeared and took their seats May 12, 1858. The question when their compensation should commence arose, and the judiciary committee reported that they should be paid from the date of the State's admission. They were paid from the beginning of the session at which the State was admitted. But the question was not settled. Oregon was admitted Feb. 14, 1859; Kansas, Jan. 29, 1861; West Virginia, Dec. 31, 1862; Nevada, Oct. 31, 1864. During all this time the act of 1856 was in force. Then came the act of July 11, 1866, and Nebraska was admitted March 1, 1867. The reorganization of the reconstructed States and the admission of their Senators kept the matter alive until the new Northwestern States came in. The Senators from Tennessee were seated July 27, 1866, and paid from March 4, 1865, the beginning of the Congress then in being (the Thirty-fifth). A Senator from Maryland was elected for
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sill, Joshua Woodrow 1831- (search)
Sill, Joshua Woodrow 1831- Military officer; born in Chillicothe, O., Dec. 6, 1831; graduated at the United States Military Academy and was commissioned second lieutenant in the ordnance department in 1853; assistant Professor of Geography, History, and Ethics at West Point till 1857; later was in command of the Vancouver ordnance depot, Washington, and the Leavenworth depot, Kansas, and resigned from the army in 1861 to become Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. He entered the volunteer service at the outbreak of the Civil War as colonel; was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in July, 1862, and was killed in the battle of Murfreesboro, Dec. 31, 1862.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
battle of Chickasaw Bayou. ] Monitor founders off Cape Hatteras in a storm, with a loss of sixteen of her crew, night of......Dec. 30, 1862 Act admitting West Virginia, to date from June 20, 1863 (the thirty-fifth State), approved......Dec. 31, 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, or Stone River......Dec. 31, 1862–Jan. 2, 1863 President Lincoln proclaims all slaves free in the seceding States......Jan. 1, 1863 Absent from duty in the army, 8,987 officers and 280,073 enlisted men......JaDec. 31, 1862–Jan. 2, 1863 President Lincoln proclaims all slaves free in the seceding States......Jan. 1, 1863 Absent from duty in the army, 8,987 officers and 280,073 enlisted men......Jan. 1, 1863 Galveston, Tex., captured by the Confederates......Jan. 1, 1863 Gold at New York 133 1/4 to 133 7/8......Jan. 2, 1863 M. Drouyn de l'huys, French minister of foreign affairs, addresses M. Mercier, French minister at Washington, concerning mediation between the United States government and Confederate......Jan. 9, 1863 Arkansas post captured by the United States forces under W. T. Sherman and McClernand, with a fleet of gun-boats under Admiral Porter......Jan. 11, 1863
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tennessee, (search)
rs and appointed military governor of Tennessee, March 5, arrives at Nashville......March 12, 1862 Governor Johnson suspends the mayor and other officials in Nashville for refusing the oath of allegiance to the United States......April 5, 1862 Two days battle of Pittsburg Landing, or Shiloh......April 6-7, 1862 Union meetings held at Nashville, May 12, and at Murfreesboro......May 24, 1862 Memphis surrendered to Commodore Davis......June 6, 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro......Dec. 31, 1862–Jan. 4, 1863 Battle of Spring Hill; Confederates under Gen. Earl Van Dorn victorious......March 5, 1863 Van Dorn repulsed by Federals under Gen. Gordon Granger at Franklin......April 10, 1863 Federal raid under Col. Abel D. Streight starts from Nashville......April 11, 1863 Kingston and Knoxville, evacuated by Confederates under Gen. Simon B. Buckner, occupied by Federal troops under Gen. A. E. Burnside......Sept. 1, 1863 Chattanooga abandoned by Confederates under Gen. B
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Virginia, state of (search)
tified by popular vote of 18,862 to 514......April, 1862 General Assembly of reorganized Virginia at Wheeling assents to the erection of the new State of West Virginia......May 12, 1862 Harper's Ferry surrendered by Gen. Dixon H. Miles to Confederates under Stonewall Jackson......Sept. 15, 1862 Gen. J. A. J. Lightburn retreats through the Kanawha Valley, pursued by Confederates under General Loring......1862 Congress admits West Virginia into the Union from June 20, 1863......Dec. 31, 1862 Confederates under General Jones burn 100,000 barrels of petroleum at Burning Springs......May 9, 1863 Inauguration of new State government takes place at Wheeling......June 20, 1863 Supreme Court of Appeals organized at Wheeling......July 9, 1863 Gen. W. W. Averill defeats Maj. John Echols in battle of Droop Mountain......Nov. 6, 1863 Transfer of the counties of Berkeley (Aug. 5, 1863) and Jefferson (Nov. 2, 1863) from the State of Virginia to West Virginia is recognize
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ward, Durbin 1819-1886 (search)
Ward, Durbin 1819-1886 Lawyer; born in Augusta, Ky., Feb. 11, 1819; settled in Fayette county, Ind.; admitted to the bar in 1842; prosecuting attorney of Warren county, O., in 1845-51; served throughout the Civil War; won distinction at the battle of Chickamauga, where he was severely wounded; promoted lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 31, 1862, and brevetted brigadiergeneral in October, 1865; was United States attorney for the southern district of Ohio in 1866-68; elected to the State Senate in 1870; and drew up the plan of the present circuit court system of Ohio. He died in Lebanon, O., May 22, 1886.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of West Virgina, (search)
to the people, and by them ratified. At a session of the convention on Nov. 27, the name of West Virginia was given to the new State. A new constitution was State seal of West Virginia. framed, which the people ratified on May 3, 1862. On the same day the legislature approved all of the proceedings in the matter, and established a new commonwealth. On July 20, 1863, West Virginia was admitted into the Union as a State, by act of Congress, which had been approved by the President, Dec. 31, 1862. A State seal, with an appropriate device, was adopted, inscribed, State of West Virginia. Montani Semper Liber (mountaineers are always free), and the new commonwealth took its place as the thirty-fifth State of the Union, covering an area of 23,000 square miles. Populalation in 1890, 762,794; in 1900, 958,800. See United States, West Virginia, in vol. IX.; Virginia. State governors. Arthur I. Boremaninaugurated1863 William E. Stevensoninaugurated1869 John J. Jacobinaugurated
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willich, August 1810-1878 (search)
Willich, August 1810-1878 Military officer; born in Gorzyn, Prussia, in 1810; was trained for the army and appointed second lieutenant of artillery in 1828; resigned in 1846 owing to his republican views, which led him to take part in the revolution; and after its failure he became an exile. In 1853 he settled in Brooklyn, N. Y., and a few years later removed to Cincinnati, O. When the Civil War broke out he was appointed adjutant in the 9th Ohio Volunteers and shortly after was promoted major. In the fall of 1861 he was made colonel of the 32d Indiana Infantry; in July, 1862, promoted brigadier-general of volunteers; and early in the battle of Stone River, Dec. 31, 1862, was captured and remained a prisoner for some months. He distinguished himself at the battle of Chickamauga and in other actions, and was brevetted major-general of volunteers, Oct. 21, 1865. He died in St. Mary's, O., Jan. 23, 1878.