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John D. Billings, Hardtack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life, chapter 3 (search)
tide had changed, and they were then only anxious to prove their unfitness. After the citizen in question had become a soldier, he was usually sent at once to camp or the seat of war, but if he wanted a short furlough it was generally granted. If he had enlisted in a new regiment, he might remain weeks before being ordered to the front; if in an old regiment, he might find himself in a fight at short notice. Hundreds of the men who enlisted under the call issued by President Lincoln July 2, 1862, were killed or wounded before they had been in the field a week. Any man or woman who lived in those thrilling early war days will never forget them. The spirit of patriotism was at fever-heat, and animated both sexes of all ages. Such a display of the national colors had never been seen before. Flag-raisings were the order of the day in public and private grounds. The trinity of red, white, and blue colors was to be seen in all directions. Shopkeepers decked their windows and c
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Union view of the Exchange of prisoners. (search)
the weekly times. I read the history of the exchange of prisoners by Judge Ould the Confederate Commissioner of Exchanges, in which Secretary Stanton and other Federal officers are charged with violating the cartel, while the Confederate authorities are represented as acting in good faith. I believe that I will be able to show that all the obstructions to there exchange of prisoners during the late war were the result of bad faith in the President of the Southern Confederacy. On the 2d of July, 1862, a cartel was agreed upon by the belligerents, in which it was stipulated that all prisoners captured by either party should be paroled and delivered at certain points specified within ten days after their capture, or, as soon thereafter as practicable. This was to be done in all cases except those in which commanding generals on the battle-field paroled their prisoners by agreement. No other paroles were valid. If a guerrilla chief captured a foraging party, and paroled those who co
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1862. (search)
! be with us now; nerve the hearts and strengthen the arms of our men! Give wisdom and skill to our commanders, and grant us victory for thy great name's sake! June 28th, 1862. We have just heard of our success, and that Jackson and Ewell have come from the Valley, and have flanked the enemy on the Chickahominy. Two of our troopers called in this morning. July 1st, 1862. Firing continues, but lower and lower down. No news from my dear boys. I wish, but dread, to hear. July 2d, 1862. My boys and nephews safe, God be praised! Mc-Clellan in full retreat. C. and M. are sending off a wagon with ice, chickens, bread, eggs, vegetables, etc., to our hos-Pital at Cold Harbor. July July 4th, 1862. A beautiful, glorious day, and one which the Yankees expected confidently to spend triumphantly in Richmond. Last Fourth of July old General Scott expected to be there, to tread in triumph the fallen fortunes of his quondam friends, and to-day McClellan has been obliged
Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, July 2d, 1862. (search)
July 2d, 1862. My boys and nephews safe, God be praised! Mc-Clellan in full retreat. C. and M. are sending off a wagon with ice, chickens, bread, eggs, vegetables, etc., to our hos-Pital at Cold Harbor.
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter X (search)
tives shall be admitted therefrom as therein provided. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all elections in the States mentioned in the said Act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States shall, during the operation of said act, be by ballot; and all officers making the said registration of voters and conducting said elections, shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, take and subscribe the oath prescribed by the act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled An act to prescribe an oath of office : Provided, That if any person shall knowingly and falsely take and subscribe any oath in this act prescribed, such person so offending and being thereof duly convicted, shall be subject to the pains, penalties, and disabilities which by law are provided for the punishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all expenses incurred by the several commanding generals, or by vi
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 21: capture of New Orleans.--first attack on Vicksburg by Farragut's fleet and mortar flotilla.--junction of flag-officers Farragut and Davis above Vicksburg.--ram Arkansas. (search)
my force of 12,000 or 15,000 men. General Van Dorn's division is here, and lies safely behind the hills. The water is too low for me to go over twelve or fifteen miles above Vicksburg. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, D. G. Farragut, Commanding Western Gulf Squadron. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C. Flag-officer Farragut's report of the action of June 28, 1862, at Vicksburg. United States Flag-Ship Hartford, above Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 2, 1862. Sir — In obedience to the orders of the department and the command of the President, I proceeded back to Vicksburg with the Brooklyn, Richmond, and Hartford, with the determination to carry out my instructions to the best of my ability. My difficulties and expenses in getting coal and provisions up the river have been very great, and it has only been accomplished by great exertions on the part of Captain H. W. Morris, aided by the Army. Captain D. D. Porter's mortar flotilla, whic
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), April 29-June 10, 1862.-advance upon and siege of Corinth, and pursuit of the Confederate forces to Guntown, Miss. (search)
General, Commanding. The Adjutant-General U. S. Army, Washington. No. 3.-report of Brig. Gen. Alexander McD. McCook, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division, of operations from April 8 to May 30. headquarters Second Division, In Camp, July 2, 1862. Colonel: In compliance with section II of Special Field Orders, No. 99, June 9 1862, from Department of the Mississippi, I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of my division from the time of leaving Pittsburge saved. I certify that the above is a correct list of stores and arms burned at Booneville, as far as the same can be ascertained at present. M. Lewis Clark, Colonel, Acting Chief of Ordnance and Artillery, West. Dept. Tupelo, Miss., July 2, 1862. No. 39.-findings of a court of inquiry upon the conduct of the quartermaster's Department of the Confederate Army of the Mississippi. General orders, no. 81. Adjt. And Insp. General's office, Richmond, Va., June 11, 1863. I. A
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, List of regiments in the Union Armies, with total number of deaths in each. (search)
red terms, which were left at the front by the 5th, 6th, and 7th Infantry when those regiments went home, at the expiration of their term of enlistment The 2d and 10th Infantry were enlisted for two years, and were mustered out in May, 1863, just after Chancellorsville which was their last battle. The 18th Infantry became the 1st Heavy Artillery, leaving that infantry number vacant. The regiments, 16th to 20th inclusive, were organized under the second call for troops — the call of July 2, 1862, for 300,000 more; the regiments 21st to 28th, inclusive, were organized in response to the call of August 4, 1862, for 300,000 men for nine months service. The remaining regiments went out in response to the different calls for three-years men. The greatest mortality from disease in any regiment from the State occurred in the 15th regiment, and was undoubtedly due to the climate of the Gulf and Lower Mississippi, in which locality the regiment was stationed during much of its service
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 11: military operations. (search)
ents so sent away, on then comparatively unimportant errands, would have been invaluable if sent to Vicksburg, which was nearer him than the points where they were actually sent. The other answer is that President Lincoln, having Vicksburg strongly in his mind, as we know,--for the Secretary of War had ordered Halleck to co-operate with Farragut,--wrote to him expressly not to send any troops to Washington when he had important use for them in his own department:-- War Department, July 2, 1862. Major-General Halleck, Corinth, Miss.: Your several despatches of yesterday to the Secretary of War and myself received. I did say, and now repeat, I would be exceedingly glad for some reinforcements from you; still, do not send a man if, in your judgment, it will endanger any point you deem important to hold, or will force you to give up, or weaken or delay, the Chattanooga expedition. Please tell me, could you make me a flying visit for consultation, without endangering the servic
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 12: administration of finances, politics, and justice.--recall. (search)
e to the incompetency or carelessness of the Pay Department and perhaps in part to the inability of the national treasury to meet the demands. I take leave to insert the correspondence:-- headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, July 2, 1862. Mr. Asa S. Blake, agent Adams express company: Sir:--I hereby order you to furnish me with the sum of $25,000 at the earliest possible moment, for which amount I propose to give you a check on the Assistant Treasurer of the United States aaw, I have taken such steps in this affair as the occasion arid the wants of my troops demand. Respectfully, Benj. F. Butler, Major-General Commanding. War Records, Vol. XV., p. 514. headquarters Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, La., July 2, 1862. Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury: Sir:--Will be found inclosed herewith minutes of the doings of a commission to inquire into the seizure of the specie of Samuel Smith & Co. The finding is that the case should be sent to the
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