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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 5: losses in the battles of the Civil War, and what they mean (search)
8 Missouri100,6161518,344109,11113,885 Nebraska3,1573,157239 Nevada1,0801,08033 New Hampshire32,93088212533,9374,882 New Jersey67,5008,1291,18576,8145,754 New Mexico6,5616,561277 New York409,56135,1644,125448,85046,534 North Carolina3,1563,156360 Ohio304,8143,2745,092313,18035,475 Oregon1,8101,81045 Pennsylvania315,01714,3078,612337,93633,183 Rhode Island19,5211,8781,83723,2361,321 Tennessee31,09231,0928,777 Texas1,9651,965151 Vermont32,54961912033,2885,224 Virginia42 Washington Territory96413396422 West Virginia31,87219632,0684,017 Wisconsin91,02916591,32712,301 Indian Nations3,5303,5301,018 Regular Army5,798 Colored Troops Colored troops recruited in the Southern States.99,33799,337 Includes all the deaths in the 178,975 Colored Troops.36,847 Veteran Volunteers106 U. S. Volunteers Ex-Confederate Soldiers. Eighty-six thousand seven hundred and twenty-four drafted men paid commutation and were exempted from service.243 U. S. Sharpshooters and Engineer
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 7: Confederate armies and generals (search)
ted in the Wilderness campaign and in the operations in the Shenandoah valley, where he was killed in action at Winchester, September 19, 1864. Major-General George Edward Pickett （U. S.M. A. 1846) was born at Richmond, Virginia, June 28, 1828. He served in the Mexican War, receiving the brevet of first lieutenant for gallant service at Contreras and Churubusco, and also the brevet of lieutenant for distinguished service at Chapultepec. He served with the regular army in the Territory of Washington, and at various posts in the West until June 25, 1861, when he resigned. He was appointed a colonel in the Confederate army, on July 23, and on January 14, 1862, he was appointed as brigadier-general. He served in command of a brigade in Longstreet's division of General Joseph E. Johnston's Army, and on October 11 he was made major-general, commanding a division in the Army of Northern Virginia. General Pickett made a memorable charge against the Federal front at Cemetery Hill on
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Official statement of the strength of the Federal armies during the war. (search)
76 Illinois244,496259,09255259,147214,133 Michigan95,00787,3642,00889,37280,111 Wisconsin109,08091,3275,09796,42479,260 Minnesota26,32624,0201,03225,05219,693 Iowa79,52176,2426776,30968,630 Missouri122,496109,111 109,11186,530 Kentucky100,78275,7603,26579,02570,832 Kansas12,93120,149220,15118,706 Tennessee1,56031,092 31,09226,394 Arkansas7808,289 8,2897,836 North Carolina1,5603,156 3,1563,156 California 15,725 15,72515,725 Nevada 1,080 1,0801,080 Oregon 1,810 1,8101,773 Washington Territory 964 964964 Nebraska Territory 3,157 3,1572,175 Colorado Territory 4,903 4,9033,697 Dakota Territory 206 206206 New Mexico Territory 6,561 6,5614,432 Alabama 2,576 2,5761,611 Florida 1,290 1,2901,290 Louisiana 5,224 5,2244,654 Mississippi 545 545545 Texas 1,965 1,9651,632 Indian Nation 3,530 3,5303,530 Colored Troops Colored troops organized at various stations in the States, embracing all not specifically credited to States, and which cannot be s
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 1: from the U. S.A. Into the C. S.A. (search)
the first blow. instructions to Maj. Anderson. Anderson's second excuse. third excuse. Buchanan's excuse. The year 1861 found me a second lieutenant of Engineers, U. S. A., on duty with Co. A, Engineer troops, at Fort Steilacoom, Washington Territory. I had entered West Point from Georgia in 1853, and graduated in 1857. For three years after my graduation I served, generally at the Military Academy, as an assistant instructor, but on two occasions was absent for six month at a time und ordered back to West Point, but was given a leave of absence for 60 days. During this leave I married Miss Bettie Mason of King George Co., Va. Soon after returning to West Point I was ordered to relieve Lt. Robert at Fort Steilacoom in Washington Territory with the detachment of our company. With my wife I sailed on the steamer Northern Light for Aspinwall on Aug. 10; by the John L. Stephens from Panama on the 19th; and by the Cortes from San Francisco on Sept. 8; landing at Steilacoom City
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
field delegation from Missouri and Kansas goes to, 91, 93-99; return of the radical delegation front, 99; nervousness in, over delays at Nashville, 236 et seq.; excitement in, on Lincoln's, assassination, 349; possibilities of its capture in 1863, 525; the question of living expenses at, 538; Gen. Scott removes his headquarters to New York from, 406; Sherman removes his headquarters to St. Louis from, 406; interviews between Evarts and S. at, 413-418; meeting of Miles and S. at, 494 Washington State, obstruction of rail-roads in, 512 Washington University, S. accepts professorship of physics in, 30 Weldon, N. C., Sherman's movement to, 334 West, development of the, 491 West Point, Grant at, 380. See also military Department of West Point; United States military Academy. Westport, Mo., S. at, 83 Wharton, Col. H. C., despatch from Thomas, Nov. 29, 1864, 228 Wheeler, Lieut.-Gen., Joseph, on the Tennessee, 318 Wherry, Brig.-Gen. William M., aide-de-camp to S.,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Connor, Patrick Edward 1820-1891 (search)
Connor, Patrick Edward 1820-1891 Military officer; born in Ireland, March 17, 1820; came to the United States and was educated in New York City; served in the war with Mexico and then engaged in business in California. When the Civil War broke out he recruited a band of 200 men and was ordered to Utah to drive plundering Indians out of the overland routes of travel, and to check the threatened revolt among the Mormons. After marching 140 miles he fell upon a fortified camp of 300 Indians in Washington Territory and destroyed the whole band. At the close of the war he received the brevet of majorgeneral. Later he commanded 2,000 cavalry to punish the Sioux and Arapahoe Indians for their robberies. He met and defeated the latter at Tongue River in August, 1865. He died in Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 18, 1891.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gregg, David McMurtrie 1833- (search)
Gregg, David McMurtrie 1833- Military officer; born in Huntingdon, Pa., April 10, 1833; graduated at West Point in 1855, entering the dragoon service. He was in expeditions against the Indians in Washington Territory and the State of Oregon (1858-60), and was promoted to captain of cavalry in May, 1861. He was colonel of the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry through the campaign in Virginia in 1862, and in November of that year was promoted to brigadier-general of volunteers. He commanded a division of cavalry in the Army of the Potomac from December, 1862, until February, 1865, when he resigned. In August, 1864, he was brevetted major-general of volunteers. He was appointed United States consul at Prague, Bohemia, in 1874.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Newell, William Augustus 1817- (search)
Newell, William Augustus 1817- Physician; born in Franklin, O., Sept. 5, 1817; graduated at Rutgers College in 1836. In 1847-49 and 1865-67 he was a member of Congress; in 1848 originated the United States life-saving service (see life-saving service, United States); and subsequently originated the Delaware breakwater, the United States agricultural bureau, and the purchase of the Mount Vernon estate for agricultural purposes. He was governor of New Jersey in 1857-59; superintendent of the life-saving service in 1860-64; an unsuccessful candidate for governor of New Jersey in 1876; governor of Washington Territory in 1876-80; and was appointed a United States Indian inspector in 1884. He has made his home in Olympia, Wash., since 1876.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Oregon, (search)
wife a like number of acres; also, to every man and his wife who should settle on such land between Dec. 1, 1850, and Dec. 1, 1853, 160 acres of land each. Under this law 8,000 claims were registered in Oregon. Settlers in Oregon and in Washington Territory, in 1855, suffered much from Indians, who went in bands to murder and plunder the white people. The savages were so well organized at one time that it was thought the white settlers would be compelled to abandon the country. Major-Genern, which comprised all the United States territory west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains and north of the forty-second parallel. The territorial government went into operation on March 3, 1849, with Joseph Lane as governor. In 1853 Washington Territory was organized, and took from Oregon all its domain north of the Columbia River. In 1857 a convention framed a State constitution for Oregon, which was ratified, in November of that year, by the people. By the act of Feb. 14, 1859, Oregon
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Phelps, Thomas Stowell 1822- (search)
Phelps, Thomas Stowell 1822- Naval officer; born in Buckfield, Me., Nov. 2, 1822; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1846; promoted lieutenant in 1855; distinguished himself in the Civil War, preventing the union of reinforcements with the main Confederate body during the battle of West Point; was promoted rear-admiral in 1884; and retired in 1885. He wrote Reminiscences of Washington Territory.
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