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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 16: the Army of the Potomac before Richmond. (search)
ns but a short distance apart — the heaviest engagements of the great battle were fought on the same day, and partly by the same troops. were very heavy, and about equal on both sides, amounting in the aggregate to about seven thousand each. Among the National officers killed or disabled in this battle were Colonel Bailey and Major Van Valkenburg, of the artillery, and Colonels Riker, Brown, Ripley, and Miller, of the infantry. Among the wounded were Generals Naglee, Devens, Howard, and Wessels, and Colonel Cross, of the Fifth New Hampshire. This was heavy, when it is considered that not more than fifteen thousand men on either side were engaged in the conflict. Casey's division, that so gallantly withstood the first shock of battle, lost one-third of its number. This division, though composed in a large degree of raw troops, performed wonders of prowess, as we have seen; yet, in consequence of misinformation, it was exposed to severe public censure by McClellan's first dispat
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 40: (search)
on the part of the Government, the enemy besieged Plymouth. On the 18th of April, 1864, the Confederates opened with artillery upon Fort Gray, and in the afternoon, directing a heavy fire upon the town of Plymouth, the battle became general all along the line. The enemy assaulted the works with great gallantry, Lieutenant-Commander Charles W. Flusser. but were driven back by the aid of the gun-boats Miami and Southfield, under Lieutenant-Commander Flusser. A message was sent from General Wessels to Lieutenant-Commander Flusser, acknowledging the value of the Navy's services in driving back the enemy, and requesting that the Miami might be kept below the town to prevent a flank movement by the Confederates. The Southfield, Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant Chas. A. French, anchored with the Miami below Plymouth, and the ram, having been reported as coming down the river, the two gun-boats were chained together to meet her. At 3:45 P. M. both steamers got underway, and stood up the ri
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, List of regiments in the Union Armies, with total number of deaths in each. (search)
4 8th Massachusetts         4 4 4     July, ‘64 42d Massachusetts         20 20 20       Cavalry.                   Dec., ‘62 1st Rhode Island Reenlisted. 1 16 17 2 77 79 96 Averell's Cavalry. Dec., ‘62 2d Rhode Island   4 4   31 31 35 Augur's Nineteenth. Sept., ‘63 3d Rhode Island   8 8 4 135 139 147 Arnold's Nineteenth.   Heavy Artillery.                   Oct., ‘61 3d Rhode Island 2 39 41 4 90 94 135 Terry's Tenth. Dec., ‘61 5th Rhode Island 1 8 9 4 106 110 119 Wessels's Eighteenth.   Light Artillery.                     1st Rhode Island--                   June, ‘61 A--Tompkins's Reenlisted. 1 12 13   5 5 18 Sedgwick's Second. Aug., ‘61 B--Hazard's Reenlisted. 1 13 14   15 15 29 Howard's Second. Aug., ‘61 C--Weeden's   19 19   8 8 27 Morell's Fifth. Sept., ‘61 D--Monroe's Reenlisted.   10 10   12 12 22 Doubleday's First. Sept., ‘61 E--Randolph's
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: reduction of Newbern—the Albemarle. (search)
Williams. The firing being very exact caused the enemy to fall back. After three attempts to storm the fort, at nine o'clock the firing ceased from the enemy, they having withdrawn from range. Report of Well-s, commanding the Miami. General Wessels, who commanded the troops, said of this naval co-operation: The fire from the naval vessels was very satisfactory and effective—so much so that the advancing columns of the enemy broke and retreated. He desired that the Miami might be kept ualities to have made him distinguished as an officer. The Ceres, on picket duty above the town, on the 17th had been fired on by the field batteries of the enemy, by which 2 men were killed and 4 officers wounded. The army force under General Wessels had no longer the support of the vessels, and overwhelmed by numbers surrendered on the 20th, the Albemarle thereafter occupying the river until her destruction the October following. On the 21st of April, Rear-Admiral Lee sent instructio
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
U. S. vessel, 71, 146, 149 Watmough, Lieutenant-Commanding Paul G., 81 Weber, Colonel, 165 Weed, the, U. S. transport, 148 Weehawken, the, 90 et seq., 109, 114, 117 et seq., 125, 127 et seq., 130, 133 et seq., 137; sunk, 141 et seq. Weitzel, General, at Fort Fisher, 223 et seq. Welles, Gideon, Secretary of Navy, 3, 104 et seq. Welles, Master F. S., 177, 201 et seq. (note) Werden, Lieutenant-Commanding, Reed, 177 et seq., 189 Wescott, Master's Mate, 231 Wessels, General, 201, 203 West, Captain, John, 179 Western World, the, 46 Whelan, Surgeon, William, Chief of Medicine Bureau, 3 Whitehall, the. 176 Whitehead, the, 177, 181, 183 et seq., 186, 188, 194, 201, 204, 207, 200 et seq. Whiting, Lieutenant-Commander W. D., 128 Whiting, Major-General, 225 et seq. Wilderness, the, 220 et seq., 229 Wiley, Ensign, 237 Williams, Lieutenant-Commander E. P., 70, 138 Williams, the, 84, 129, 145 Winfield Scott, the, U. S. tran
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1860., [Electronic resource], A Successful Gambler Renounces his profession. (search)
The troubles in Kansas. St. Louis, Dec. 14. --A special dispatch from Mound City, Kansas, of the 8th inst., to the Democrat, says: All is quiet there and no arrests have been made. Montgomery, Jenison, Seamon and others, are not to be found. General Harney has ordered two companies of infantry, under Major Wessels and Capt. Lyon, to be stationed at Mound City, and two companies of dragoons, under Capt. Steele, at Fort Scott. Gen. Harney wished to declare martial law, but Governor Medairy would not consent, preferring that the United States Marshall should make the arrears, and the prisoners be tried by Territorial law.
The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe. (search)
Later from Europe. arrival of the Bremen at New York and North America at Farther Point. The New York Herald, of the 16th inst., publishes the arrival from Europe of the Bremen steamship Bremen, Captain Wessels, arrived at this port at 6 o'clock last evening, from Bremen and Southampton, with the mails, passengers, and cargo. She left Southampton on the 2d of October. The Bremen brings $36,950 in specie. The Bremen brings files of European papers to the 2d inst., which contain some interesting details of the news to that date. The steamship North American, which sailed from Liverpool at 9 o'clock A. M., on the 3d, and Londonderry on the afternoon of Friday, the 4th inst., passed Farther Point yesterday at 3 o'clock, on route to Quebec. She has 75 cabin and 163 steerage passengers, and has experienced strong westerly winds the whole passage. The news by the North America is one day later than that by the Glasgow. It is stated that Lord Monck i
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Butler in North Carolina. (search)
le distant, is the trading mart, where their produce is bought by the Yankee soldiers at their own price. They pay a buffalo twenty cents to carry the order to Major E. H. Willis, in Plymouth, a miserable old buffalo, who for many years has been a citizen of the place, and had the esteem and confidence of the people. He, knowing every man in the country, signs the order, if he is a good Union man that sends it, and for this he receives twenty cents also. The order is then carried to Brig Gen. Wessels for approval, who also must have his twenty cents for writing his name. The order is then carried back to the picket stand, and before the owner can get what he wants he must give a buffalo, appointed for the purpose, one dollar to go and get the articles. Frequently the amount of one man's sales will not reach a dollar and sixty cents, and in that case he must go back home and bring something else in order to get his request through the proper channels. I merely mention this in ord
The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional particulars from the Plymouth fight. (search)
n command, engaged the enemy's batteries, taking them in reverse. The town now being entirely in our possession, together with all the enemy's works, with the exception of the main fort, a demand was made for its surrender, which was refused, but as soon as our sharpshooters commenced to advance, the enemy began to desert by twos, threes and twenties, coming into our lines and throwing down their arms. The flag of the fort was then soon hauled down, which resulted in the surrender by Brig. Gen. Wessels of four regiments of infantry, one squadron of cavalry, a battalion of artillery, and two or three companies of N. C. "Buffaloes," together with the large amount of stores, provisions, siege guns, etc., previously reported in this paper. Our loss in killed and wounded in the land fight was much larger than that of the enemy, owing to the fact that our troops were exposed to a raking fire, without protection of any kind, while the enemy were covered by their works. Our total loss
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Chicago Times and Old Abe (search)
attributes to God the crimes for which he and his abettors are responsible, and dares to attribute to the Almighty the great wrong that he has done to the black race in forcibly depriving them of their comfortable homes and kind masters; and then, rising from the task with one of his hideous smutty jokes, he sets to work with Stanton to plan his campaign in North Carolina. As he penned it so it has resulted. The successful defence of Plymouth would have enabled. Burnside's corps to have landed there. The march of the united columns of Burnside, Peck, Wessels, and Baldy Smith towards Richmond would have enabled Grant to move the Army of the Potomac also towards the rebel capital, and, between the two great armies, Richmond might have fallen. This must be prevented, and it has been prevented. Richmond must not yet be takes. The war must still go on, in the interest of God and humanity; but no great victory must be won, lest the renomination of honest old Abe be imperiled."
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