nly of our men had been killed, and no gun hit or otherwise damaged; the garrison had 10 of their 40 guns dismounted or otherwise disabled, and several men wounded--one of them fatally.
They were especially impelled to surrender by the fact that our guns were purposely trained on their magazine, which must soon have been pierced and exploded had our fire continued.
The credit of this almost bloodless conquest is primarily due to Quincy A. Gillmore, who was at once General and Engineer; Gen. Viele, commanding under him the land forces, and Com'r John Rodgers their naval auxiliaries, who were employed only in transporting and landing the materiel. But the moral of this siege was the enormous addition made by rifling to the range and efficiency of guns.
Our artillerists were as green as might be; and their gunnery — as evinced more especially by the mortar-firing — was nowise remarkable for excellence; but the penetration of a solid brick wall of seven feet thick at a distance of 1,6
ed July 22, 1862, and was formed from the troops then under command of General John A. Dix at Fort Monroe, Norfork, Portsmouth, Suffolk, and vicinity.
Soon after its organization, its returns showed a strength of 9,574, present for duty, equipped, with an aggregate of 11,738, present and absent.
In April, 1863, it comprised the divisions of Corcoran, Getty, and Gurney, including, also, two brigades which were stationed at Yorktown, under General Keyes, and one brigade at Norfolk, under General Viele; in all, 52 regiments of infantry, 9 batteries of light artillery, and 5 battalions of cavalry.
The corps return for March 31, 1863, showed an aggregate of 32,741 present and absent, with 24,127 present for duty, equipped.
Corcoran's Division was in action, January 30, 1863, in an affair at Deserted House, Va., in which it lost 23 killed, 108 wounded, and 12 missing. Both Corcoran's and Getty's Divisions were engaged in the defence of Suffolk, losing 41 killed, 223 wounded, and 2 mis
bt, 599.
Conduct of war by Federal Army, 599-606.
Address of attorney general to president, 640; instances stated, 640-41.
Upton, General, 589.
V
Vallandigham, Clement L., Trial and sentence, 421.
Van Dorn, Gen. Earl, 39, 40, 204, 328, 330, 332, 338, 356.
Varuna (boat), 185.
Vaughan, General, 340, 588.
Venable, Col. C. S., 278, 437-38, 557, 558.
Vicksburg, Miss.
Attempts to advance against, 331-35.
Preliminary battles, 335-44.
Siege and fall, 344-49, 352, 353.
Viele, General, 82.
Virginia. Preparations for McClellan's advance on Richmond, 67-68; the advance, 68-105.
Jackson's activity in the Valley, 90-98. Seven Days Battle, 111-29.
Formation of West Virginia, 255-57.
Abolition of slavery by so-called government, 258.
State government in 1865, 258-59.
Reconstruction, 612-14, 619-22.
Assembly of convention, 1868, 620.
Virginia (frigate), 67, 68, 73, 82, 84-85, 191.
Trial trip, 165-66.
Battle with Federal ships, 166-67.
Fight with the Monitor, 168
n District of Northern Neck, Dept. of Virginia, till December.
Mustered out December 19, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 15 Officers and 163 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 6 Officers and 166 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 350.
3rd New Hampshire Regiment Infantry.
Organized at Concord and mustered in August 23, 1861.
Moved to Camp Scott, Long Island, N. Y., September 3, thence to Washington, D. C., September 18, and to Annapolis, Md., October 4.
Attached to Viele's Brigade, Sherman's South Carolina Expeditionary Corps, to April, 1862.
3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the South, to July, 1862.
District of Hilton Head, S. C.; 10th Corps, Dept. of the South, to April, 1863.
Guss' Brigade, Seabrook Island, S. C., 10th Corps, to June, 1863.
St. Helena Island. S. C., June, 1863.
2nd Brigade, Folly Island, S. C., 10th Corps, to July, 1863.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Morris Island, S. C., 10th Corps, to August, 1863.
1st Brigade, Morr
ington, D. C. September 16, 1861, thence moved to Annapolis, Md.
Attached to Viele's 1st Brigade, Sherman's South Carolina Expeditionary Corps, October, 1861, to to Washington, D. C., thence to Annapolis, Md., September, 1861.
Attached to Viele's 1st Brigade, Sherman's South Carolina Expeditionary Corps, to April, 1862.
10, 1861.
Left State for Annapolis, Md., September 17, 1861.
Attached to Viele's 1st Brigade, Sherman's South Carolina Expeditionary Corps, to April, 1862.
irginia, May, 1862.
Camp Hamilton, Va., Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1862.
Viele's Command, Norfolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to February, 1863. er 14, 1862.
Left State for Suffolk, Va., September 22, 1862.
Attached to Viele's Command, Norfolk, Va., 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1863.
Nat Norfolk, Va. Left State for Norfolk, Va., September 18, 1862.
Attached to Viele's Brigade, Norfolk, Va., Dept. of Virginia, to December, 1862.
Spinola's Bri
ed at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, September 21, 1861, to March 1, 1862.
Moved to Fortress Monroe, Va., March 8-10.
Attached to Camp Hamilton, Va., Dept. Virginia, to May, 1862.
2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of Virginia, to July, 1862.
Viele's Command, Norfolk, Va., Dept. Virginia, to October, 1862.
Foster's Provisional Brigade.
Peck's Division, at Suffolk, 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to December, 1862.
Gibb's Provisional Brigade, Division at Suffolk, 7th Corps, Dept. Virginember 3.
Moved to Washington, D. C., thence to Newport News, Va., and duty there till December 17.
Moved to Suffolk, Va., December 17.
Attached to Gibbs' Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to March, 1863.
Viele's Brigade, Norfolk, Va., 7th Corps, to July, 1863.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 12th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to August, 1863.
Service.
Duty at Suffolk, Va., till March, 1863, and in District of Norfolk, Va. At Deep Creek till July
