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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 49 49 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 13 13 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 10 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles 10 10 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 10 10 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 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 4 4 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 4 4 Browse Search
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union 4 4 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 3 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Fire, sword, and the halter. (search)
e her sick sister and the frightened little children were sitting under the trees, the only shelter then left for them. Martindale's written order from Hunter also embraced another Virginia home. He burned it, too. The story is told by the gifted mistress of that household in the following letter, which was delivered to Hunter. I have been furnished a copy, with permission to publish it. This letter will live in history for its eloquence and sublime invective: Shepherdstown, Va., July 20th, 1864. General Hunter:-- Yesterday, your underling, Captain Martindale, of the First New York Cavalry, executed your infamous order and burned my house. You have the satisfaction ere this of receiving from him the information that your orders were fulfilled to the letter; the dwelling and every out-building, seven in number, with their contents, being burned. I, therefore, a helpless woman whom you have cruelly wronged, address you, a Major General of the United States Army, and demand w
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 3 (search)
at Howell's, Turner's, and Pace's Ferries, Isham's Ford, and other points. July 10-22, 1864.Rousseau's raid from Decatur, Ala., to the West Point and Montgomery Railroad, with skirmishes near Coosa River (11th), near Greenpoint and at Ten Island Ford (14th), near Auburn and near Chehaw (18th). July 18, 1864.Skirmish at Buck Head. General John B. Hood, C. S. Army, supersedes General Joseph E. Johnston in command of the Army of Tennessee. July 19, 1864.Skirmishes on Peach Tree Creek. July 20, 1864.Battle of Peach Tree Creek. July 21, 1864.Engagement at Bald (or Leggett's) Hill. July 22, 1864.Battle of Atlanta. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, U. S. Army, succeeds Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson in command of the Army of the Tennessee. July 22-24, 1864.Garrard's raid to Covington. July 23, 1864.Brig. Gen. Morgan L. Smith, U. S. Army, in temporary command of the Fifteenth Army Corps. July 23-Aug. 25, 1864.Operations about Atlanta, including battle of Ezra Church (July 28), assault at Uto
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 36 (search)
find, half completed barricades on the hill which we had just taken and which they imagined was only occupied by a skirmish line. I am ordered by General Thomas to make no further advance until I connect with General Wood on my left. I am, colonel, very respectfully, John Newton, Brigadier-General, Commanding. Lieut. Col. J. S. Fullerton, Assistant Adjutant-General, Fourth Corps. Inclosure. Report of casualties in Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, in action of July 20, 1864, on Peach Tree Creek, Ga. Zzz Respectfully submitted. John Newton, Brigadier-General, Commanding. Hdqrs. Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, In the Field, July 21, 1864. Hdqrs. Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, Near Atlanta, Ga., September-, 1864. Colonel: I have the honor to forward the following report of the operations of the Second Division, Fourth Army Corps, during the present campaign: Tuesday, May 3, the division marched from Cleveland to Red Clay. May 4, marc
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 1.1 (search)
t Moultrie. Sumter had been silenced for a week prior to that date. The picture shows the full height of the wall of the parapet, the first breach, and the fallen casemates of the north-western wall of Fort Sumter. Elliott had been selected by me with care for that post of honor and danger. He proved himself worthy of the confidence placed in him; as did, later on, Captain John C. Mitchel, who relieved him on the 4th of May, 1864, and lost his life while in command there on the 20th of July, 1864; he was succeeded by another brave officer, Captain T. A. Huguenin, who was fortunate enough to escape uninjured and only left the fort at its final evacuation on the 17th of February, 1865. Another gallant officer, Major John Johnson, of the Confederate States Engineers, was of much assistance in the defense of the ruins, and remained therein while they were held by us. The instructions for the evacuation of Batteries Wagner and Gregg had been prepared by me with much deliberation
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate defense of Fort Sumter. (search)
batteries around the harbor could be signaled to open on the fort. The successor of Lieutenant-Colonel Elliott in command of the fort was Captain John C. Mitchel, of the old garrison, viz., the 1st South Carolina Artillery. Few young Confederate officers impressed me more favorably. He was a born soldier, a man of nerve, finely tempered as steel, with habits of order, quick perception, and decision, and he had been earnestly recommended for promotion. A little after noon on the 20th of July, 1864, he took with him up to the highest point in the fort, the south-western angle, his favorite telescope, which he was using to observe the enemy's works on Morris Island, when he was mortally wounded. When demolished by land-batteries of unprecedented range, the fort endured for more than eighteen months their almost constant fire, and for a hundred days and nights their utmost power, until it could with truth be said that it at last tired out, and in this way silenced, the great gun
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
the National cavalry had a fight, at about the same time, at Ashby's Gap, and in the two encounters the Union loss was about five hundred men. Early then moved forward as if continuing his retreat, when Wright, handing the command oyer to Crook, returned to, Washington, and the former, with the troops, went to Harper's Ferry.. General Averill, in the mean time, had moved toward Winchester from Martinsburg, and near the former place encountered a body of Confederates, with whom he fought July 20, 1864. about three hours, and vanquished them. They lost nearly four hundred men (two hundred of them made prisoners), with four guns. Averill's loss was about two hundred. He was compelled to fall back, for he was menaced by Early, who, approached from Snicker's Ferry. Grant found it difficult to understand exactly the situation in the Shenandoah Valley. There was confusion in dispatches; but there seemed to be a general agreement in saying that Early was retreating up the Valley towar
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)
Total of killed and wounded, 481; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 31. battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Kanawha Gap, W. Va., Sept. 25, 1861 6 Lynchburg, Va. 5 Picket, W. Va., Nov. 4, 1861 1 Winchester, Va., July 20, 1864 14 Buck Ford, W. Va., Dec. 18, 1861 2 Winchester, Va., July 24, 1864 8 Princeton, W. Va., May 16, 1862 9 Martinsburg, Va. 3 Fayetteville, W. Va., Sept. 10, 1862 22 Bolivar Heights, Va. 1 Wytheville, W. Va., July 18, 1863 6 Berryvit there were 635 unassigned recruits. 119 killed == 10.7 per cent. Total of killed and wounded, 443; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 12. battles. K. & M. W. battles. K. & M. W. Shiloh, Tenn. 41 Atlanta, Ga., July 20, 1864 3 Corinth, Miss. 4 Atlanta, Ga., July 21, 1864 23 Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. 1 Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864 29 Hillsboro, Miss. 2 Ezra Church, Ga. 3 Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. 2 Siege of Atlanta, Ga. 3 Nickajack Creek, Ga. 4 Lovejoy's
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)
Sixth 8 28 -- 36 43d New York Getty's Sixth 7 29 -- 36 Tupelo, Miss.             July 13-15, 1864.             12th Iowa Mower's Sixteenth 9 53 1 63 7th Minnesota Mower's Sixteenth 9 50 1 60 Carter's Farm, Va.             July 20, 1864.             14th West Virginia Duval's Eighth 10 52 -- 62 91st Ohio Duval's Eighth 8 58 -- 66 Peach Tree Creek, Ga.             July 19-20, 1864.             46th Pennsylvania Williams's Twentieth 25 101 2 128 52d Ohio Davi20, 1864.             46th Pennsylvania Williams's Twentieth 25 101 2 128 52d Ohio Davis's Fourteenth 17 59 23 99 33d Indiana Ward's Twentieth 17 67 -- 84 141st New York Williams's Twentieth 15 65 -- 80 61st Ohio Williams's Twentieth 13 66 2 81 5th Connecticut Williams's Twentieth 23 52 1 76 Atlanta, Ga.             July 21-22, 1864. Including slight loss at Nickajack, and Ezra Chapel.             12th Wisconsin Leggett's Seventeenth 47 153 21 221 13th Iowa Gresham's Seventeenth 25 188 93 306 27th Ohio Fu
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), IV. Cold Harbor (search)
, is the most inquisitive and cool man I ever saw. Now I don't mind so much his smoking all my cigars and drinking all my liquors — which he does — but I had a bundle of most private papers which I had hidden in the bottom of my trunk, and, the other day, I came into my tent and there was Mr. Shaw reading them! And, when I asked him what the devil he meant, he said: Oh, General, I took the liberty of looking at them, and now I am so interested, I hope you will let me finish the rest! July 20, 1864 Our camp was this morning taken by assault by a cavalcade which turned out to be Major-General Ben F. Butler and a portion of his Staff. He is the strangest sight on a horse you ever saw: it is hard to keep your eyes off him. With his head set immediately on a stout shapeless body, his very squinting eyes, and a set of legs and arms that look as if made for somebody else, and hastily glued to him by mistake, he presents a combination of Victor Emmanuel, Aesop, and Richard III, which
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
th Corps; Confed., Gen. Early's command. Losses: Union, 30 killed, 181 wounded, 100 missing. July 18, 1864: Ashby's Gap, Va. Union, Duffie's Cav.; Confed. No record found. Losses: Union, 124 killed and wounded. July 19-20, 1864: Darksville, Stevenson's depot, and Winchester, Va. Union, Averell's Cav.; Confed., Cavalry of Gen. Early's command. Losses: Union, 38 killed, 175 wounded, 300 captured; Confed., 300 killed and wounded, 300 captured. July 20, July 20, 1864: Peach tree Creek, Ga. Union, Fourth, Fourteenth, and Twentieth Corps, Maj.-Gen. Geo. H. Thomas; Confed., Gen. J. B. Hood's army. Losses (estimates) Union, 300 killed, 1410 wounded; Confed., 1113 killed, 2500 wounded, 1183 missing. July 22, 1864: Atlanta, Ga. (Hood's first sortie.) Union, Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Corps, Maj.-Gen. McPherson; The refuge of the defenders When the wounded leaders (Lamb and Whiting) in command of Fort Fisher saw it wa
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