FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119  
120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   >>   >|  
nd Division, Major-General W. B. Hazen; Third Division, Brigadier-General John E. Smith; Fourth Division, Brigadier-General John M. Corse. Artillery brigade, eighteen guns, Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Ross, First Michigan Artillery. Seventeenth. Corps, Major-General FRANK P. BLAIR, JR. First Division, Major-General Joseph A. Mower; Second Division, Brigadier-General M. F. Force; Fourth Division, Brigadier-General Giles A. Smith. Artillery brigade, fourteen guns, Major A. C. Waterhouse, First Illinois Artillery. The left wing, with Corse's division and Kilpatrick's cavalry, was at and near Sister's Ferry, forty miles above the city of Savannah, engaged in crossing the river, then much swollen. It was composed as follows: Fourteenth Corps, Major-General JEFF. C. DAVIS. First Division, Brigadier-General W. P. Carlin; Second Division, Brigadier-General John D. Morgan; Third Division, Brigadier-General A. Baird. Artillery brigade, sixteen guns, Major Charles Houghtaling, First Illinois Artillery. Twentieth Corps, Brigadier-General A. S. WILLIAMS. First Division, Brigadier-General N. I. Jackson; Second Division, Brigadier-General J. W. Geary; Third Division, Brigadier-General W. T. Ward. Artillery brigade, Sixteen gnus, Major J. A. Reynolds, First New York Artillery. Cavalry Division, Brigadier-General JUDSON KILPATRICK. First Brigade, Colonel T. J. Jordan, Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry; Second Brigade, Colonel S. D. Atkins, Ninety-second Illinois Vol.; Third Brigade, Colonel George E. Spencer, First Alabama Cavalry. One battery of four guns. The actual strength of the army, as given in the following official tabular statements, was at the time sixty thousand and seventy-nine men, and sixty-eight guns. The trains were made up of about twenty-five hundred wagons, with six mules to each wagon, and about six hundred ambulances, with two horses each. The contents of the wagons embraced an ample supply of ammunition for a great battle; forage for about seven days, and provisions for twenty days, mostly of bread, sugar, coffee, and salt, depending largely for fresh meat on beeves driven on the hoof and such cattle, hogs, and poultry, as we expected to gather along our line of march. RECAPITULATION-CAMPAIGN OF THE CAROLINAS. February 1. March 1. April 1. April 10 Pers: 60,079 57,676 81,150 88,948 The enemy occupied the cities of Charleston and Au
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   95   96   97   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119  
120   121   122   123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
General
 
Division
 
Brigadier
 
Artillery
 

brigade

 

Second

 

Colonel

 

Illinois

 

Cavalry

 

Brigade


Fourth

 

hundred

 

twenty

 

wagons

 

supply

 

ammunition

 

seventy

 
battle
 
forage
 

provisions


thousand

 

trains

 
contents
 

embraced

 

horses

 

ambulances

 
February
 

CAROLINAS

 

occupied

 
cities

Charleston

 
CAMPAIGN
 

RECAPITULATION

 

beeves

 
driven
 

largely

 

coffee

 

depending

 

cattle

 

gather


expected

 
poultry
 
Jordan
 

Sister

 

division

 

Kilpatrick

 

cavalry

 

Savannah

 

swollen

 
composed