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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
loss most small, when you consider that we have some thirteen thousand men, and that a large proportion have been exposed to the heavy firing of six of the enemy's batteries for nearly a week. But we have been enabled by the advantages of the ground, and throwing up works, to protect ourselves. For my individual part I have been pretty much a spectator for a week, the Corps of Engineers having performed all the engineering that has been done. This is attributable to the presence of Colonel Totten, who wishes to make as much capital for his own corps, and give us as little, as possible. My great regret now is that I was separated from General Taylor. His brilliant achievement at Buena Vista, exceeding any feat ever yet performed by our arms, or which ever will be, I should have gloried to have shared in, and regret exceedingly fate should have decided otherwise. Harry Ingersoll commanded yesterday the gun from his ship in the naval battery. He had several men killed at his g
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
will be able to return. Captain Jay has joined me, and seems quite a clever gentleman. We have also had at our mess John Williams, who has been taken away from Ricketts and ordered to report to this army for duty, but who has not yet been assigned to any general. The bill amalgamating the two corps of Engineers has passed, so the old Topographical Corps is defunct, and I shall have the honor of being borne on the register as a Major of Engineers. The bill makes one brigadier general (Totten), four colonels (of which Bache will be one), ten lieutenant colonels, twenty majors (of whom I shall be the tenth), thirty captains, thirty first lieutenants and ten second lieutenants. It don't make much difference to me, if the war lasts as long as I expect it to and I survive it. camp near Falmouth, Va., March 12, 1863. You will see by the papers that we have all been confirmed, with the dates of our appointment. You have never mentioned Reynolds in your letters. He has been o
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
6, 200, 201; II, 107, 191. Taylor, Chas. F., I, 273; II, 315. Terrejone, Gen., I, 97. Terry, A. H., II, 284. Thomas, Adj.-Gen., I, 265. Thomas, E. L., II, 52. Thomas, George H., I, 196, 243; II, 160, 241, 250, 253, 262, 284, 343. Thomas, Horace, II, 187. Thomas, Major, I, 35. Thompson, Capt., I, 286, 290, 291, 295. Thompson, James, II, 80. Tier, Mr., II, 229. Tilghman, Lloyd, I, 245. Tilton, W. S., II, 84-86, 334. Torbert, A. T. A., II, 100. Totten, Joseph G., I, 356. Touchet, I, 106. Towejon, Gen., I, 129. Townsend, G. D., II, 335. Tremaine, H. E., II, 327, 333. Trimble, I. R., II, 129. Trudeau, I, 90, 96, 106. Tucker, Mr., I, 302. Tuckers, II, 278. Turnbull, I, 380. Turnbull, Mrs., I, 313. Turnbull, Charles, I, 233, 235; II, 270. Turnbull, C. N., I, 212. Turnbull, J. G., II, 83. Turnbull, Wm., I, 177, 194. Turner, Thomas, I, 191. Twiggs, David E., I, 173, 174, 178, 191, 200-202. Twiggs, D