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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 23: the War in Missouri.-doings of the Confederate Congress. --Affairs in Baltimore.--Piracies. (search)
oncessions were no longer listened to by the opposing parties. The soothing echoes of the last Peace Convention, held at Frankfort, in Kentucky, on the 27th of May, See page 460. were lost in the din of warlike preparations; and it was evident that the great question before the people could only be settled by the arbitrament of the sword, to which the enemies of the Republic had appealed. As we look over the theater of events connected with the secession movement at the beginning of July, 1861, we perceive that the Insurrection had then become an organized Rebellion, and was rapidly assuming the dignity and importance of a Civil War. The conspirators had formed a confederacy, civil and military, vast in the extent of its area of operations, strong in the number of its willing and unwilling supporters, and marvelous in its manifestations of energy hitherto unsuspected. It had all the visible forms of regular government, modeled after that against which the conspirators had revol
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 25: the battle of Bull's Run, (search)
heater of operations on which the four armies were about to perform. Orders for the advance were given on the 15th, July, 1861. and at half-past 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Tyler's column, forming the right wing, went forward to Vential orders, dated Headquarters Army of the Potomac, July 20, 1861. McDowell issued specific orders on the 20th, July, 1861. for the advance and method of attack by the three divisions chosen for the work. The troops were supplied with three fighting on the defensive on their side of Bull's Run. The general disposition of the Confederate army on the 21st July 1861. was nearly the same as on the 18th. See note 2 on page 585. The arrival of re-enforcements, and preparations for thd the camps near Washington, which they had left Monument on Bull's Run battle-ground. in high spirits on the 16th, July, 1861. before daylight. Richardson left Centreville at two o'clock in the morning, when all the other troops and batteries h
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 2: civil and military operations in Missouri. (search)
ifty wounded. Pollard's First Year of the War, page 133. It is believed that the entire loss of the Confederates was at least 800 men. They also lost forty-five men made prisoners, eighty horses, and a considerable number of shot-guns, with which Jackson's cavalry were armed. Being outnumbered by the Confederates, more than three to one, Colonel Sigel did not tarry at Sarcoxie, but continued his retreat by Mount Vernon to Springfield, where he was joined by General Lyon on the 13th, July, 1861. who took the chief command. It was a fortunate movement for Sigel; for within twelve hours after the battle, Jackson was re-enforced by Generals Price and Ben McCulloch, who came with several thousand Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas troops. General Lyon had left Booneville in pursuit of the fugitive Confederates on the 3d of July, with a little army numbering about twenty-seven hundred men, with four pieces of artillery and a long baggage-train. The day was intensely hot. The commander
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 12: operations on the coasts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. (search)
no house upon that desolate sand-bar, and some charred boards were all the materials that could be had for the erection of a shanty for the accommodation of Mrs. Butler. The furniture for it was taken from a captured vessel. When the war broke out, there was an unfinished fort on Ship Island, to which, as we have observed, Floyd, the traitorous Secretary of War, had ordered heavy guns. See page 128, volume I. The insurgents of that region took possession of it in considerable force July, 1861. and, during their occupation of it for about two months, they made it strong and available for defense. They constructed eleven bomb-proof casemates, a magazine and barracks, mounted twenty heavy Dahlgren guns, and named it Fort Twiggs. When rumors of a heavy naval force approaching reached the garrison, they abandoned the fort, Sept. 16. burnt their barracks, and, with their cannon, fled to the main. On the following day, a small force was landed from the National gun-boat Massachuse
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
States Christian Commission. This volume contains 750 octavo pages, with several illustrations. That organization had its origin in the Young Men's Christian Association of New York City, and was first suggested by Vincent Colyer, See page 809, volume II. an earnest worker in Vincent Colyer useful fields, who, with Frank W. Ballard, and Mrs. Dr. Harris, who represented the Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia, went to Washington City immediately after the first battle of Bull Run, July, 1861. to do Christian labor in the hospitals and camps there. Mr. Colyer remained. The Government, through General Scott, gave him every facility for visiting the Union camps, and even a permission to go to the Confederate camps if they would allow him to do so. He distributed Bibles, tracts, and hymn-books among the soldiers, held prayer-meetings, and labored most zealously in many ways for their spiritual good. At length, feeling the comparative inefficiency of separate societies, laboring
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 13: building a navy on the Western rivers.--battle of Belmont. (search)
ved batteries on the banks could prevent their passage. The Secretary might have observed that the enemy's batteries on the Potomac did not stop even ordinary transports. At first the naval forces on the Western rivers were put under the direction of the War Department, as it was supposed the armed vessels would be a mere appendage of the land forces; and there does not seem to have been a man in the Cabinet at that time who knew the difference between a gun-boat and a transport. In July, 1861, Quartermaster General Meigs contracted with Mr. Eads to build a number of iron-clad gun-boats for the Western waters, and from the fact that Gen. Meigs contracted for them it is presumed the War Department paid for them, and that the Navy Department had not then risen to the height of the occasion. Seven of these gun-boats were each to be about 600 tons, to draw six feet of water, to be plated with two and a half inch iron, and steam nine knots. They were to be each 175 feet long and 51
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 6: (search)
h. In case of disaster, would not a retreat be more difficult by your plan than mine? Yours, truly, Abraham Lincoln. Major-General McClellan. These questions were substantially answered in the letter to the Secretary of War above referred to, which appears in General McClellan's Report; but its length forbids its being copied in full, and only an abstract of its contents can be given. He begins with a brief statement of the condition of the troops when he assumed the command in July, 1861, and of the defenceless position of the capital at that time, and thus recapitulates what had been accomplished up to the date of writing:-- The capital is secure against attack; the extensive fortifications erected by the labor of our troops enable a small garrison to hold it against a numerous army; the enemy have been held in check; the State of Maryland is securely in our possession; the detached counties of Virginia are again within the pale of our laws, and all apprehension of tro
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 26 (search)
al, 1,959. Many of the missing probably only straggled in the retreat, as the enemy took but 700 prisoners. They admitted only a total loss of 600; but 400 of their severely wounded were found in hospital at Frederick, when we reoccupied that city two or three days afterward. Johnson's cavalry next day approached Baltimore, when that city was filled with reports that Wallace's little army had been annihilated at the Monocacy. The Baltimore Secessionists, less numerous than in April or July, 1861, were no whit less bitter; and they reasonably hoped, for Defenses of Washington. Explanations. some hours, to welcome a liberating army. But Early, after a brief halt on the battle-field, was now marching on Washington; and Baltimore, though weakly held, was not to be taken on a gallop. Brig.-Gens. Lockwood and Morris were there; and they soon rallied thousands of loyal citizens, by whom every approach was guarded, and earthworks thrown up in the suburbs which could not be carrie
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xxxiv. Fall of Richmond--end of the War.—Grant-Lee — Sheridan. (search)
our still advancing column, entered the immediate suburbs of the burning city, amid a constant roar of exploding shells and falling walls, and were received with shouts of welcome and exultation from thousands of (mainly) negro throats. The last of the Rebel soldiers had departed, or were just going. Majs. A. H. Stevens, 4th Mass., and E. Graves, of Weitzel's staff, had already hoisted two cavalry guidons over the imposing Capitol of Virginia, wherein the Confederate Congress had, since July, 1861, held its sittings; but these, being scarcely visible from beneath, were now supplanted by a real American flag, formerly belonging to the 12th Maine, which had floated over the St. Charles, at New Orleans, when that hotel was Gen. Butler's headquarters. Gen. Shepley had long since expressed a hope that it might yet wave over Richmond; whereupon, Lt. Depeyster had asked and obtained permission to raise it there, should opportunity be afforded; and now, having brought it hither on purpose,
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)
sda Church, Va. 9 Chancellorsville, Va. 3 Petersburg, Va. 2 Gettysburg, Pa. 45 Gunboat service 1 Present, also, at Hanover C. H.; Seven Days; Manassas; Antietam; Shepherdstown; Rappahannock Station; Mine Run. notes.--Recruited in July, 1861, Six companies coming from Allegheny County, the others from the western part of the State. The regiment encamped in Virginia in September, 1861, and after six months of drill, discipline, and field duty, confronted the enemy at the Siege of Ylliken's Bend, La. 2 Champion's Hill, Miss. 27 Gillam's Bridge, Ga. 1 Vicksburg, Miss. 11 Place unknown 2 Jackson, Miss. 2     Present, also, at Corinth; Hatchie River; Port Gibson; Raymond. notes.--Organized at Burlington, in July, 1861, leaving the State on August 11th. During the rest of the year and in the following winter it was on active duty in Missouri. In March, 1862, it engaged in the operations around New Madrid, Mo., after which it was stationed for a few months i
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