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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 1,217 1,217 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 440 440 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) 294 294 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 133 133 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 109 109 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 108 108 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
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 83 83 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 67 67 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 1: operations in Virginia.--battle of Chancellorsville.--siege of Suffolk. (search)
ne hundred and sixty-four Fredericksburg in the Spring of 1863. this is from a photograph by Gardner, taken from the Sts had been active for some weeks. On the 10th of February 1863. W. H. F. Lee, with his brigade, made an unsuccessful attemof Upper Virginia, east of the Blue Ridge, during the years 1863 and 1864, a large number of Moseby's men were volunteers fr railways in Lee's rear, and on Monday, the 27th of April, 1863. the turning column, composed of the corps of Meade (Fifth)dgwick, and at a little past midnight on the first of May, 1863. he put Jackson's column in motion toward Chancellorsville.on of the opposing forces on the morning of the 2d of May. 1863. Lee was satisfied that his situation was a perilous one,urt-House, at two o'clock on the morning of the 2d of May. 1863. Much of the railway in that vicinity was immediately destrition, and became the center of stirring scenes in 1862 and 1863. In September, 1862, Major-General John J. Peck was plac
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
o the number of almost thirty thousand, were expiring; and at the close of May, 1863. his effective army did not exceed eighty-eight thousand men. His cavalry had beumphal march of the French invaders toward the Mexican capital, in the spring of 1863, was hailed with delight by the authorities at Richmond. Soon after the late e officers and men of his regiment, that they presented him an elegant sword, in 1863, on which was inscribed the names of the battles in which the regiment had then was the General disposition of the two armies on the morning of the 2d of July, 1863. each having a large number of cannon in position. both commanders were aversrepulse, Lee's formidable invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863. in the preparation of this narrative of the events of the invasion, the writgreat Draft riot, as it was called, at the middle of Fort Delaware. July 1863. was at its height, and a considerable portion of the city was in the hands of a
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
y and pluck, was very busy in sowing the seeds of disaffection to the Government in the spring of 1863. On the 13th of April, General Burnside, then in command of a military department which includedevery county to seize, if necessary, supplies for the use of the army; and at about the: close of 1863, the Congress at Richmond passed an act which declared every white man in the Confederacy, betweedo so. See map on page 405, volume II. So ended the campaign of the Army of the Potomac in 1863, and at about the same time co-operating military operations in West Virginia were closed, by the sixty-three men. After this there was comparative quiet in West Virginia, until the summer of 1863, when a raiding party, one thousand strong, under Colonel John Tolland, composed of Virginia Unioere struggle for the pass ensued, which lasted a greater portion of the 26th and 27th of August. 1863. Averill's ammunition began to fail at noon of the latter day, when Patten was re-enforced. Aver
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 4: campaign of the Army of the Cumberland from Murfreesboro'to Chattanooga. (search)
e Army of the Cumberland at Murfreesboroa, after the Battle of Stone's River, at the beginning of 1863, where he established a fortified depot of supplies. General Bragg, his opponent, had taken a stonsequence was that at no time while the two armies confronted each other, from January to June, 1863. could Rosecrans have brought into the field to fight his foe a number of troops equal to that ofhim in, moving southward. Before considering that important act, which took place late in June, 1863. let us take a brief survey of the doings of the cavalry and mounted infantry of the two armies c had been at Palmyra for the same purpose; and now, at a little past noon on the 3d of February, 1863. he demanded the surrender of Fort Donelson and the garrison. Harding was weak in numbers, but sned. General Burnside, who had been assigned to the command of the Army of the Ohio in March, 1863. taking with him the Ninth Corps, with the expectation of speedily undertaking the liberation of
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 5: the Chattanooga campaign.--movements of Sherman's and Burnside's forces. (search)
rdered the concentration of three armies there, under one commander, and on the 16th of October, 1863. an order went out from the War Department, saying: By order of the President of the United Stateon's corps, to drive Johnston from Jackson and the railway. In the afternoon of the 4th of July 1863. the re-enforcements were in motion, and when, the next day, they joined Sherman, that leader had cavalry of Curtis's army took possession of it; See page 525, volume II. and in the summer of 1863 the post was in command of General B. M. Prentiss, whose troops were so sorely smitten at Shiloh.housand effective men. He was ignorant of Prentiss's real strength, and when, on the 3d of July, 1863. he and his army were within four miles of Helena, they were marching to certain defeat and humilch dashed up in advance of Longstreet, and attacked the outposts there, on the 16th of November. 1863. The main body of the Confederates were then near, and, on the morning of the 18th, Longstreet op
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 6: siege of Knoxville.--operations on the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia. (search)
inas, that they could not well be spared to re-enforce Lee or others. At the middle of January, 1863. he sent out Colonel Mix, with his Third New York Cavalry, to raid through the counties of Onslowent to General Peck, at Suffolk, for aid. Hill soon invested the place, and on the 30th of March 1863. demanded its surrender. Foster refused, and a siege was begun. Batteries were erected by Hill arefully marked by buoys. Every thing was in readiness for an advance toward the middle of May, 1863. when that movement was hastened by information given respecting military-affairs at Charleston b(over which Hunter resumed command after the death of Mitchel) during the succeeding winter, 1862-63. toward attempting to capture Charleston, excepting preparations such, as it was believed, would s lying under the guns of the fort, watching an opportunity to slip out to sea. Late in February, 1863. a squadron of monitors and mortar-vessels These consisted of the Passaic, Montauk, Ericsson,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. (search)
Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. e direction of General Vogdes, on the 15th of June, 1863. and were prosecuted with vigor under a heavy fire, ns, as it appeared from Fort Wagner, at the close of 1863. From that time until near the close of the year he all Texas, by the Confederates, at the beginning of 1863; See page 595, volume II. Banks's triumphant marcommonwealths, after brief repose, again convulsed in 1863 by the machinations of disloyal resident citizens, aother was shot through the head. In the spring of 1863, Fayetteville was occupied by some Union cavalry andthan that of the Nationals. On the 20th of May, 1863. Fort Blunt, not far from Fort Gibson, in the Cheroktary events west of the Mississippi, to the close of 1863, only to take a glance at the trouble with the IndiaSioux War was not ended until the following summer, 1863. when General Pope took command of the Department, p
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. The National finances, 226. Financial measures adopted, 227. finances of the Confefederates, 229. Emancipation of the slaves, the Government policy, 230. the autumn elections in 1863, 231. list of the members of Congress, 232. position of the contending forces, 233. Grant creaage 46. became heavy holders of the worthless paper. The Confederate currency, at the close of 1863, had become so nearly worthless, that it was sold at four and six cents on the dollar, and the prjust ground, that it would give equal protection to all its soldiers, and, at the close of July, 1863. the President issued an order to that effect, in which he declared, in allusion to a threat to r refused longer to follow the leadings of the disloyal Peace Faction. When the autumn elections 1863. had passed, it was found that the friends of the Government, who had spoken at the ballot-box, w
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 9: the Red River expedition. (search)
Ecore, 264. battle at Cane River, 265. a fight on the Red River, 266. the Red River Dam, 267. passage of the Red River rapids, 268. end of the Shreveport or Red River expedition, 269. General Steele's Army in Arkanass battle at Jenkinson's Ferry, 272. Steele's Army at little Rock, 273. Let us now look across the Mississippi River and see what was occurring there in 1864. We left General Banks at New Orleans, after his failure to repossess Texas in the autumn and early winter of 1863, engaged in planning another expedition to that State, the first important work to be the capture of Galveston. While so engaged he received Jan. 23, 1864. a dispatch from General Halleck, dated the 4th of January, informing him that it was proposed to operate against Texas by the line of the Red River, that route having the favor of the best military opinions of the generals of the West. Halleck proposed to have the expedition to consist of the forces of Banks and Steele, and such troops
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
king War patriotic Governors, 294. The failure of the Red River expedition, and the expulsion of Steele from the country below the Arkansas River, by which two-thirds of the State of Arkansas was given up to the Confederates, had a disastrous effect upon the Union cause and people in that State, where the restoration of civil power in loyal hands, amply sustained by the military, had been, it was believed, made permanent. The occupation of Little Rock by General Steele in the autumn of 1863, and the seeming acquiescence of the Confederates in the necessity of giving up the State to National rule, emboldened the Unionists, who finally met, by delegates, in a State Constitutional Convention, Jan. 8. at Little Rock, in which forty-two of the fifty-four counties in the State were represented. A State Constitution was framed, whereby slavery was forever prohibited. Isaac C. Murphy, the only stanch Unionist in the Secession Convention of that State [see page 474, volume I.], was ch
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