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Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia 2 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 2 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 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 1 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 78 (search)
Doc. 78.-the seven days Contests. Cincinnati Commercial account. James River, Va., Tuesday Evening, July 2, 1862. O friends! could you realize the afflictions of the past five days, you could almost shed tears of blood. Said a noble and gallant soldier, whose visage was wan, whose voice was tremulous with inexpressible emotion, whose beard was matted with his own precious blood — the crimson drops were trickling from his wound even then: O my friends! it is horrible, horrible! to see this proud army so wretchedly pressed upon every side, destruction threatening wherever we turn, scarce a hope of extrication save that which is born of despair. It is horrible. And the devoted soldier, who had faced the foe all day, and far into the night which had passed, turned into the forest to hide his manly grief. Had you seen his worn and haggard warriors plunge wearily on the soil around him, begrimed with smoke, and some of them stained with blood, and had you known that an
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 143 (search)
respect to so much of said resolution as directs the Secretary to report to the House my orders given said Hunter, and correspondence between him and the Department, the President instructs me to answer that the report, at this time, of the orders given to and correspondence between General Hunter and this Department would, in his opinion, be incompatible with the public welfare. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. War Department, Washington, July 2, 1862. sir: On reference to the answer of this Department of the fourteenth ultimo to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the ninth of last month, calling for information respecting the organization by General Hunter, of the Department of South-Carolina, of a regiment of volunteers for the defence of the Union, composed of black men, fugitive slaves, etc., it will be seen that the resolution had been referred to that officer with instructions to make an immediate report thereon
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
en, Colonel Fifty-seventh Virginia Volunteers. Daniel Anington, Acting Adjutant. Report of Lieutenant-Colonel Gilliam. Frazier's farm, near Richmond, July 2, 1862. Brigadier--General Armistead, commanding Fourth Brigade: sir: I beg leave to submit the following report of the action of the Ninth Virginia regiment durinng Reserve Artillery: Major: I have the honor to report, in accordance with an order to report what transpired in my company from the twenty-sixth June to second July, 1862: On Thursday, June twentieth, I was ordered, by yourself, to take our battery to a position on the Chickahominy, about one mile below the Mechanicsville rRespectfully, George O. Dawson, Captain, Company I, commanding Eighth Georgia Regiment. Battle of July 1, 1862. headquarters Eighth Georgia regiment, July 2, 1862. C. C. Hardwick, Lieutenant and A. A. G., Third Brigade, First Division: Lieutenant: In obedience to orders, I have the honor to make the following report
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 1 (search)
e Senate, on the twenty-fifth of June, Mr. Wilson introduced a bill to provide for additional medical officers of the volunteer service. The object, Mr. Wilson said, was to correct an error in the other bill then in the hands of the President. It was considered by unanimous consent, and passed. On the twenty-sixth of June, the House took from the Speaker's table the bill on motion of Mr. Olin, and, after explanations, it passed unanimously, and was approved by the President, on the second of July, 1862. No. Xxxii.--The Joint Resolution to encourage Enlistments in the Regular and Volunteer Forces. In the Senate, on the fourth of June, Mr. Wilson introduced a joint resolution to encourage enlistments in the regular army and volunteer forces. It proposed that so much of the ninth section of an act for the better organization of the military establishment as abolished the premium paid for bringing accepted recruits to the rendezvous, should be repealed, and a premium of two dolla
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 29: (search)
, and will bring it out. In a despatch from the President to me on the 2d of July he says: If you think you are not strong enough to take Richmond just now, I do not ask you to. Try just now to save the army material and personnel, and I will strengthen it for the offensive again as fast as I can. The governors of eighteen (18) States offer me a new levy of 300,000, which I accept. On the 2d of July the following was received from Gen. Barnard: Private. headquarters, July 2, 1862. dear general: It seems to me the only salvation is for this army to be ready promptly to reassume the offensive. For this we must immediately push our forces further forward, or we are bagged. Besides being able to shell us out, the enemy will entrench us in, and, shutting us up here with a small force, be off for Washington. The fresh troops (how many?) now here or on the river ought to enable us to push out at once and to assume an offensive as soon as our old army can be res
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Seven days Battles: the Confederate capital saved. (search)
nced of the impracticability of operating from the James River as a base, orders were issued by General Halleck for the withdrawal of the Army of the Potomac from the Peninsula. The net military result of the Seven Days was a disappointment to the South. Although thankful that the siege of Averell — the colonel who bluffed an army. Colonel W. W. Averell and Staff.--This intrepid officer of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry held the Federal position on Malvern Hill on the morning of July 2, 1862, with only a small guard, while McClellan completed the withdrawal of his army to Harrison's Landing. It was his duty to watch the movements of the Confederates and hold them back from any attempt to fall upon the retreating trains and troops. A dense fog in the early morning shut off the forces of A. P. Hill and Longstreet from his view. He had not a single fieldpiece with which to resist attack. When the mist cleared away, he kept up a great activity with his cavalry horses, making
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Naval chronology 1861-1865: important naval engagements of the Civil war March, 1861-June, 1865 (search)
hen in pursuit of them. June 28, 1862. Flag-Officer Farragut with nine vessels of his fleet ran by the Confed. batteries at Vicksburg, through a severe fire, forming a junction with Western Flotilla on July 1st. June 29, 1862. Steamship Ann, of London, with a valuable cargo, captured by the U. S. steamer Kanawha, in Mobile Bay, under the guns of Fort Morgan. July, 1862. July 1, 1862. Porter's mortar flotilla engaged the Confed. batteries at Vicksburg, Miss. July 2, 1862. Commencement of bombardment of Vicksburg, Miss., by the combined mortar fleets of Davis and Porter. July 4, 1862. Confed. gunboat Teaser captured on James River by U. S. steamer Maratanza. On the deck of the Agawam The easy attitudes of the acting ensign, to the left of the gun, and the volunteer acting-master with him, do not suggest the storm through which the ship on which they stand, the Federal gunboat Agawam, passed in the spring of 1864. Their vessel was calle
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Official statement of the strength of the Federal armies during the war. (search)
se of the war. From this statement we learn that under the call of April 15, 1861, for 75,000 three months militia, the States furnished 91,816. Under the call of May 3, 1861, (confirmed by act approved August 6, 1861), and under acts of July 22 and 25, 1861, for 500,000 three years men, 700,680 men were actually furnished, of whom, however, only 657,868 were three years men; while 15,007 men were furnished in May and June, 1862, by special authority, for three months. Under the call of July, 2, 1862, for 300,000 men for three years, 421,465 were furnished. Under the call of August 4, 1862, for 300,000 militia for nine months, only 87,588 were furnished. Under the President's proclamation of June 15, 1863, for militia of six months, 16,361 men were furnished. Under the call of October 17, 1863, (which embraces men raised by draft of 1863), and that of February 1, 1864, for 500,000 men for three years, 317,092 men were furnished, while 52,288 paid commutation, making a total of 369
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 55: (search)
for 500,000 men 385,163 Reduced by excess on previous calls. Call of December 19, 1864, for 300,000 men 211,752 ——— Total men furnished in eighteen months 1,257,134 The number of men furnished on call of the United States government, previous to October 17, 1863, was as follows: Men furnished Call of April 15, 1861, for 75,000 men for three months 91,816 Call of May 3, 1861, for 500,000 men 700,680 Men furnished in May and June, 1862, for three months 15,007 Call of July 2, 1862, for 300,000 men for three years 421,465 Call of August 4, 1862, for 300,000 militia for nine months 87,588 Proclamation of June 15, 1863, for militia for six months 16,361 Volunteers and militia at various times, of sixty days to one year 13,760 Volunteers and militia at various times for three years 75,156 ——— Total 1,421,833 The number of men furnished to the armies of the United States by the states of Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Tennessee, was as follows: S
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Army. (search)
ond in a straight line, and only about 8 miles from Petersburg. The movement produced great consternation at Richmond; but before Petersburg could be seriously threatened by Butler, Beauregard was there with troops from Charleston. Troops furnished the government during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. Under call of April 15, 1861, for 75,000 men for three months91,816 Under call of May 3, 1861, for 500,000 men for six months, one year, two years, three years700,680 Under call of July 2, 1862, for 300,000 men for three years421,465 Under call of Aug. 4, 1862, for 300,000 men for nine months87,588 Under proclamation, June 15, 1863, men for six months16,361 Under call of Oct. 17, 1863 (including drafted men of 1863), and call of Feb. 1, 1864, for 500,000 for three years317,092 Under call of March 14, 1864, for 200,000 for three years259,515 Militia for 100 days, mustered in between April 23 and July 18, 186483,612 Under call of July 18, 1864, for 500,000 (reduced by excess
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