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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)
llorsville; Totopotomoy; Boydton Road; Hicksford; Chapel House; Appomattox. notes.--The One Hundred and Forty-seventh was organized in the city of Oswego, N. Y., from companies recruited in Oswego county, and was mustered into service on September 23, 1862. Its first casualties in battle occurred May 29, 1863, in the affair at Fitz Hugh's Crossing below Fredericksburg, one of the preliminary movements of the Chancellorsville campaign. The regiment, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Millerounty, and organized at Syracuse, N. Y. It was mustered in on September 18, 1862, the Colonelcy having been accepted by General Barnum, who had already served with distinction as Major of the Twelfth New York. The regiment left Syracuse on September 23, 1862, and within a short time joined General McClellan's army. It was assigned to the Third Brigade, Geary's Division, Twelfth Corps, in which command it fought at Chancellorsville, losing there 15 killed, 68 wounded, and 103 captured or missin
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 97 (search)
ed States volunteers, is President, appointed to meet in the city of Washington on the twenty-fifth of September, pursuant to Special Order No. 225, of September twenty-third, 1862, to investigate the circumstances of the abandonment of Maryland Heights and the surrender of Harper's Ferry, have reported that Col. Thomas H. Ford, oe up. I was shot through the foot. J. Hooker, Brigadier-General. Brigadier-General Cox's report. headquarters Ninth army corps, mouth of Antietam, September 23, 1862. Lieutenant-Colonel L. Richmond, A. A. G., Headquarters Right Wing, Major-General Burnside Commanding: sir: I have the honor to submit the following repo was about fifteen thousand. U. S. Grant, Major-General. General Hamilton's official report. headquarters Third division, army of the Mississippi, September 23, 1862. Colonel H. G. Kennett, Chief of Staff: sir: I have the honor to report that my division, the Eleventh brigade leading, marched from Jacinto on the morni
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 127 (search)
e Potomac swifter to march, the enemy would have been forced to raise the siege, or would have been taken in detail, with the Potomac dividing his force. War Department order. Adjutant-General's office, Washington, November 8. General order No. 183. 1st. The Military Commission, of which Major-General David Hunter, United States volunteers, is President, appointed to meet in the city of Washington on the twenty-fifth of September, pursuant to Special Order No. 225, of September twenty-third, 1862, to investigate the circumstances of the abandonment of Maryland Heights and the surrender of Harper's Ferry, have reported that Col. Thomas H. Ford, of the Third Ohio volunteers, conducted the defence of Maryland Heights without ability, abandoned his position without sufficient cause, and has shown throughout such a lack of military capacity as to disqualify him, in the estimation of the Commission, for a command in the service. The said Colonel Thomas H. Ford is, by direction
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 130 (search)
was fought with great violence on both sides. The carnage has been awful. I only regret that I was not permitted to take part in the operations until they were concluded, for I had counted on either capturing their army or driving them into the Potomac. My wound has been painful, but it is not one that will be likely to lay me up. I was shot through the foot. J. Hooker, Brigadier-General. Brigadier-General Cox's report. headquarters Ninth army corps, mouth of Antietam, September 23, 1862. Lieutenant-Colonel L. Richmond, A. A. G., Headquarters Right Wing, Major-General Burnside Commanding: sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of the movements of the Ninth army corps on the sixteenth instant, and their parts in the battle of Sharpsburgh on the seventeenth. On the evening of the fifteenth instant the Ninth army corps having been ordered away from the remainder of the right wing, was encamped in the rear of the extreme left of the whole line of the ar
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 135 (search)
, Gen. Little killed, and Gen. Whitfield wounded. I cannot speak too highly of the energy and skill displayed by Gen. Rosecrans in the attack, and of the endurance of the troops under him. Gen. Ord's command showed untiring zeal, but the direction taken by the enemy prevented them taking the active part they desired. Price's force was about fifteen thousand. U. S. Grant, Major-General. General Hamilton's official report. headquarters Third division, army of the Mississippi, September 23, 1862. Colonel H. G. Kennett, Chief of Staff: sir: I have the honor to report that my division, the Eleventh brigade leading, marched from Jacinto on the morning of the nineteenth instant, to attack the enemy at Iuka. One half-mile west of Barnett's, the advanced pickets of the enemy were first encountered in a deep ravine. A battalion of the Third Michigan cavalry, by dismounting a body of skirmishers, soon drove the enemy from his cover. Soon after passing Barnett's, the cavalry were
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 132 (search)
as, Many persons owning and possessing real and personal estate, situate in that portion of the State of Tennessee within the jurisdiction of the Government of the United States, come within the provisions of sections fifth and sixth of an act of Congress approved July seventeenth, 1862, and have failed and refused to avail themselves of the provisions of the fifth section within the sixty days, which expired under the Proclamation of the President of the United States, on the twenty-third day of September, 1862; and, Whereas, Many such persons are now within the so-called confederate States, having left such property in charge of agents, who collect the rents, issues, and profits thereof, and forward the same to the parties, or retain and invest it for their benefit; therefore, in pursuance of said act of Congress, I, Andrew Johnson, Military Governor of the State of Tennessee, do hereby warn all persons holding, renting, occupying, or using any such real or personal estates, or t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
t near the Central Railroad. For this purpose I detached Lieutenant Owen with one section of the Washington artillery and one section of Maurin's battery. In obedience to your orders, at half past 5 o'clock P. M., I ordered all the guns back to their respective commands. Very respectfully, Colonel, Your obedient servant, C. W. Squiers, Captain, commanding First Company Bat. Washington Artillery. Report of Captain Miller, Washington artillery. bivouac near Martinsburg, September 23, 1862. To Colonel J. B. Walton, Colonel and Chief of Artillery Division: Colonel: I have the honor to report that on the morning of the twenty-third August, ultimo, pursuant to your orders, I proceeded, with my battery of four smooth-bore Napoleon twelve-pounders, to a point on the right of and near the road to Beverley Ford, on the Rappahannock River and distant about a thousand yards from the river. My position on a hill sloping towards the river was not such a one as I would have desi
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 54 (search)
ajor-General M. M. Kimmel, Major, and A. A. G. General Price to General Van Dorn: telegram. Iuka, September 19, 1862. General Van Dorn: I will make the movement proposed in your despatch of the sixteenth instant. Enemy concentrating against me. Please make demonstration towards Rienzi. Have written by courier. Send your telegrams to Tupelo. Sterling Price, Major-General, commanding. M. M. Kimmel, Major, and A. A. G. General Price to General Van Dorn. Baldwin, September 23, 1862. General Earl Van Dorn: I will leave here on Friday morning, twentieth. Wrote you this morning stating that I would meet you at Ripley. As you know more of the country, if any point be better state it, and I will meet you there. A few days ago the enemy's strength was thirty-five thousand. I learn that they are leaving in the direction of Jackson, and whether we attack them or not before receiving our exchanged prisoners, it is important that we should unite. Sterling Price,
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 13: (search)
ssued in denominations of one and two dollars, which were receivable for all public dues except the cotton duty. An amount of treasury notes bearing interest at two cents per day on each hundred dollars, as a substitute for as much of the one hundred and sixty-five millions of bonds authorized, was also authorized to be issued. On September 19, 1862, three million five hundred thousand dollars in bonds was authorized to be issued to meet a contract for six ironclad vessels of war. On September 23, 1862, the amount of treasury notes under the denomination of five dollars was increased from five million to ten million dollars, and a further issue of bonds or certificates of stock, to the amount of fifty million dollars, was authorized. On March 23, 1863, an effort was made to remove from circulation some of the issues of treasury notes by funding them. For this purpose it was provided that all treasury notes not bearing interest, issued prior to December, 1862, should be fundable i
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
7, 1862. General Meade General The Commanding Gen'l directs that you at once take command of the Army Corps, which was under the command of Genl. Hooker this morning. This order is given without regard to rank and all officers of the Corps will obey your orders. The Comdg. Genl. also directs me to say that you will be held responsible for this command as herein assigned to you. Very Respectfully R. B. Marcy Chief of Staff. To Mrs. George G. Meade: camp near Sharpsburg, Md., September 23, 1862. We have been very quiet the last few days, with now and then a stampede of the enemy, crossing at this place and that. I have no idea myself that he will attempt any more invasions of Maryland, the last having proved the most lamentable failure, both politically and in a military sense. Our army is stretched along the banks of the Potomac from Harper's Ferry to Williamsport. My corps was under orders yesterday to march to Harper's Ferry, but the order was countermanded before th
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