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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 21 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 19 1 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 12 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 10 2 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 10 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 8 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 8 2 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 8 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 3 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 7 1 Browse Search
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William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 12 (search)
hoice by casting lots—or, as General Grant has expressed it, by pulling straws or tossing coppers. The lot fell to the first division, under command of Brigadier-General Ledlie. With such a mode of determining such a question, need it be wondered that an elfish fate turned up of all the divisions the poorest—a division fitted nmine, and to one gun from another work south of the mine, which could not be effectually reached.—Hunt: Report of Artillery Operations. The leading division under Ledlie then advanced to the charge. The place d'armes was, however, very restricted: no proper debouches had been prepared for the assaulting column, On this point L disgraceful coil, and charged towards the crest; but, owing to want of support, he was compelled to fall back. It was now seven A. M., more than two hours after Ledlie occupied the crater, yet he made no advance himself, and obstructed the efforts of other officers. In this state of facts, the more troops that were thrown in, t<
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
,587; Union left (Warren's), disposition of the, 588; Lee's centre and left still intact, 600; Lee's centre assaulted by Parke, Wright, and Ord, 601; Confederates pressed back to chain of works close around, 602; the defence of Fort Gregg, 602; evacuated by Lee, 604; Lee's retreat from, and pursuit of—see Retreat. Petersburg mine fiasco, the, 518; Burnside's choice of assaulting column by lot, 521; Burnside's corps, the morale of before the assault, 521; effect of the explosion, 523; General Ledlie's assault after the explosion, 522; the disaster at the crater, 524; reports of Committee on the Conduct of the War and military court of inquiry, 524. Piedmont, the battle of, 469. Pipe Creek—see Gettysburg. Pleasonton's report of strength of cavalry after Chancellorsville, 310. Po, the river—see Spottsylvania. Pope, campaign in Northern Virginia, 167; placed in command of Army of Virginia (McDowell, Banks and Fremont), 168; his military reputation, 168; his bombastic non<