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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 1,239 1,239 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 467 467 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 184 184 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 171 171 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 159 159 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 156 156 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 102 102 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 79 79 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.) 77 77 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 75 75 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for 1862 AD or search for 1862 AD in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the American army. (search)
hydrographical works were entrusted to the corps of topographical engineers, to whom we are indebted for the handsome publications of the Coast Survey, and who, in 1862, were merged into the engineer corps, just as our geographical engineers were formerly merged into the general staff. The other functions of the latter corps, par, and who is the only medium between them and the department. The latter corps are, in the first place, the engineers and topographical engineers, separated until 1862, and united since that period; and then the various branches of the service, much more independent of each other, which, with us, constitute the military administrnsas in the name of the then pro-slavery government of Washington, with as much ardor as he displayed in defending the national cause in the army of the Potomac in 1862. Kearny, chivalrously brave and passionately fond of the military profession, always discontented with his superior officers, except when ordered to attack the en
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the first conflict. (search)
he long inaction which was deemed necessary to organize the national forces. This inaction, which lasted until the year 1862, was interrupted from time to time only by combats of little importance. The principal occupation of the chiefs of the Feined the duties of pontoniers with those of sappers. They commenced operations in the former capacity in the beginning of 1862; and in a single day they built a bridge across the Potomac at Harper's Ferry in spite of the obstacles presented by a rapy of the Potomac. Out of seventy-three batteries or four hundred and seven pieces which that army had at the beginning of 1862, there were twenty-nine regular batteries, comprising one hundred and sixty-six pieces; eighteen batteries formed a corps determined to control it; and in order to avoid being at its mercy, it largely extended its own establishments. Thus, in 1862, the Springfield manufactory delivered two hundred thousand rifles, while in the year 1863, during which there were manufa
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
Potomac and its new entrance in the field in the spring of 1862, we shall begin by speaking of the war of which the distantThe preparations for this campaign continued until the year 1862. In the mean time, Halleck was occupied in reorganizing itary operations for some time. When these were resumed in 1862, they were conducted with more concert of action. Those wehrough their energetic commanders. But the first months of 1862 were not of equal advantage to them. Inaction, depression the new vessels could be equipped before the early part of 1862. Fortunately, among her numerous steam-vessels America posg seventeen prizes he arrived at last, in the early part of 1862, at Gibraltar, where he intended to establish the base of hns, which were each to be subdivided at the commencement of 1862, had been formed in the month of July, 1861. One, called thces and additional sufferings were in prospect for the year 1862. The struggle, the importance and the difficulties of whic
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
ated, found itself at the beginning of the year 1862 strongly organized for the defence of a territothe theatre of the first military operations of 1862. This calculation had formed the basis of the dy from excessive obesity, Humphrey Marshall in 1862 was no longer the brilliant colonel of cavalry ors of civil war, became at the commencement of 1862 the theatre of bloody conflicts. In an earlyatter; and this occurrence, which took place in 1862, will convey some idea of the difficulties whicto other means. During the great operations of 1862 the Federal armies continued to be recruited in mode of recruiting was, on the contrary, since 1862 the principal resource of the Confederate armiehem in detail after having disposed of the year 1862, and shall confine ourselves at present to a suat which prevailed in the Confederate States in 1862. In the South, all able-bodied men being enlis staff of the Federals that in the beginning of 1862 he had only fifty-three or fifty-five thousand [4 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Bibliographical note (search)
e: Life of General Lee, one volume, Life of Stonewall Jackson, one volume, and Wearing of the Grey, one volume; and, finally, The Southern Generals, anonymous, one volume. The number of works published by Europeans possessing real interest is very limited; it will be enough to mention the remarkable work of M. Vigo Roussillion on The Military Power of the United States, and the writings of three officers with whom the author had the good fortune to serve in the campaign against Richmond in 1862: History of the War of Secession, by the Swiss Federal colonel F. Lecomte, two volumes; History of the War of Secession, by Lieutenant-colonel Fletcher of the British Guards, three volumes; and Four Years in the Army of the Potomac, by General Regis de Trobriand, two volumes, Paris, 1867. This last work, French in language, in spirit, and in the place of its publication, possesses at the same time, in an historical point of view, all the value of a narrative written by one of the eye-witnes