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1 Battery Bee516 Battery Beauregard112 Battery Cumming's Point112 Battery Wagner11 ————————— Total10321978181077 ————————— Ammunition—Shot3858086731140321343 Shell54593 Total shot and shell2,229 Total pounds of powder21,093 Casualties in action3 killed, 11 wounded. Number of shots fired by fleet151 Number of shots struck vessels520 Of shots fired by fleet, all but 24 were directed at Sumter. note.—This information is compiled from reports of General Beauregard, May 24, 1863; General Ripley, April 13. 1863; Colonel Rhett, April 13, 1863; Major Harris, Chief Engineer, dated April 28, 1883 ; Major Echols, Engineer, dated April 9, 1863; General Trapier, dated April 13, 1863; and from tabulated statements accompanying the reports of General Ripley and Major Echols. IV.—extract from Table of effect of projectiles on the walls of Fort Sunder, report of Major William H. Echols, Confederate States Engineer, transmitted to Major
e. It is entirely safe to us in time—I would say one week—if the enemy do not send a large army upon my rear. With the railroad destroyed to beyond Pearl river, I do not see the hope that the enemy can entertain of such relief. I hear that Davis has promised that if the garrison can hold out for fifteen days he will send one hundred thousand men, if he has to evacuate Tennessee. What shall I do with the prisoners I have? General Grant to General Halleck.—(letter.) near Vicksburg, May 24, 1863. My troops are now disposed with the right (Sherman's corps) resting on the Mississippi river, where the bluff strikes the water, we having the first crest and the upper of the enemy's batteries. McClernand is on the left with his corps, his right having one brigade north of the railroad, the rest south of it. One division occupies the roads leading south and southeast from the city. The position is as strong by nature as can be possibly conceived of, and is well fortified. The ga<
. Portis, belonging to brigade. Regiment subjected to heavy fire on the 3d, though their loss in killed and wounded was but 8 or 10, including 1 officer. Corp. J. A. Goring, color-bearer of the Forty-second, deserves particular notice. Though shot down once, he gallantly bore the flag through the fight on the 4th. No. 37—(327) Moore's brigade, army of Vicksburg, General Pemberton. (329) Lieut. Capers W. Bodie killed during the siege of Vicksburg. (362) Mentioned by General Forney, May 24, 1863. (369) Casualties, 8 killed and 19 wounded, May 17 to July 4, 1863, siege of Vicksburg. (381-383) Highly commended in General Moore's report of siege. (383) Lieut.-Col. Thomas C. Lanier coincides with other regimental leaders that the men are not able to make a successful evacuation. (385) Mentioned in Col. Ashbel Smith's report as a gallant regiment. No. 38—(721) Mentioned by Col. C. A. Fuller, April 7, 1863: At Yazoo City a Columbiad is manned by 2 officers and 20 men of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 22. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Hospitals and Medical officers in charge, attached to the Army of Tennessee, July, 1864. (search)
a brief sojourn in Baltimore, Md. Surgeon E. A. Flewellen, appears in the preceding roster as Surgeon of the 5th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers, and the date of his appointment given as May 17th, 1861. We extract the following from the Roster of the Medical Officers of the Army of Tennessee: Surgeon Edward Archelaus Flewellen, appointed by Secretary of War to rank from May 16, 1861. Assigned to duty as Assistant Medical-Director, S. O. No. 97, June 28th, 1862. December 23d, 1863, appointed Medical-Director, Department No. 2; May 24th, 1863, granted leave, 40 days, S. O. No. 138, Headquarters Department No. 2; May 29th, 1863, G. O. No. 16, announced Medical-Director, Medical-Director's Office, A. & I. G. O. Richmond; March 11th, 1864, S. O., 59, ordered to report to Surgeon A. J. Foard, April 30th, 1864. Assigned as Inspector of Hospitals of Army of Tennessee, August 8th, 1864, and so continued until paroled, May 18th, 1865. [From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, Dec, 14, 1894.]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
d April 2, 1865, near Petersburg, Virginia. Edward D. Blake. 1367. Born South Carolina. Appointed South Carolina. 37. Lieutenant-Colonel (Captain Confederate States Army), August, 1861. In 1861 Captain and Assistant Adjutant-General staff of Major-General Polk; in 1862 Inspector-General (Lieutenant-Colonel) staff General Hardee; in 1863 Commandant and Chief of Conscript Bureau, East Tennessee. Henry Heth. 1368. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 38. Major-General, May 24, 1863. Commanding division, A. P. Hill's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. 1848. Walter H. Stevens. 1372. Born New York. Appointed New York. 4. Brigadier-General, August 28, 1864. Chief Engineer Richmond defences, 1862-‘63; in 1863-‘64 commanding Richmond defences; 1864 Chief Engineer, Army of Northern Virginia. William E. Jones. 1378. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 1o. Brigadier-General, September 19, 1862. Commanded Cavalry Brigade in Army of Northern Virginia; 18
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
13, 1861; while in command of forces in Western Virginia opposing McClellan. Henry Heth, major corps of infantry, C. S. A., March 16, 1861; colonel Fourth Virginia Infantry, June 17, 1861; brigadier-general, January 6, 1862; major-general, May 24, 1863; died in Washington city, September 26, 1899. Commands—Brigade in 1862, composed of Fortieth, Forty-seventh and Fifty-fifth Virginia Regiments, Infantry, and Twenty-second Virginia Battalion, Infantry, A. P. Hill's Division, A. N. V., divisrew's, Archer's, Davis's, Cooke's and Brockenbrough's Brigades, Third Corps, A. N. V. Ambrose Powell Hill, colonel Thirteenth Virginia Infantry, —, 1861; brigadier-general, February 26, 1862; Major-general, May 26, 1862; lieutenant-general, May 24, 1863; killed at Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865. Commands—Brigade composed of First, Seventh, Eleventh and Seventeenth Regiments, Virginia Infantry; and Roger's Light Battery of Artillery, A. N. V.; division composed of brigades of Pender, Heth,<