History of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Hawley's Brigade, Terry's Division, Tenth Army Corps, 1861-1865 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from History of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Hawley's Brigade, Terry's Division, Tenth Army Corps, 1861-1865 At the thirty-fifth annual reunion of The Seventh Connecticut Regiment Association, held at Meriden. September 7, 1904. the following resolution was passed. Resolved: That Comrade Stephen Walkley be. and is hereby appointed historian, and authorized to compile a history of the Regiment from 1861 to 1865. In accordance with the above resolution this volume has been compiled. The authorities principally consulted are: 1. Official Records of the War of the Rebellion. 130 volumes and 175 maps. Published by the War Department. These are referred to in notes as "Official Records." For the use of these I am indebted to the courtesy of Congressman E. Stevens Henry. 2. A complete itinerary of the regiment compiled from private letters by Capt. E. Lewis Moore, A. A. G. By his permission I have copied freely, sometimes changing phraseology to adapt it to other parts of the narrative. For the many cases in which such changes impair his felicitous style I confidently expect pardon. 3. Extracts from Company Records furnished by O. S. Firmin of the Auditor's Department in Washington. 4. The Company Records of Co. H. loaned by the late Lieut. W. F. Goodyear. 5. Numerous private letters, journals, etc., which cannot be specifically mentioned. 6. Verbal accounts gathered by attendance at thirty-two company and thirty-five regimental reunions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




History of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Hawley's Brigade, Terry's Division, Tenth Army Corps, 1861-1865;


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History of the Seventh Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Hawley's Brigade, Terry's Division, Tenth Army Corps, 1861-1865; - Primary Source Edition


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The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864


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The Battle of Petersburg was the culmination of the Virginia Overland campaign, which pitted the Army of the Potomac, led by Ulysses S. Grant and George Gordon Meade, against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In spite of having outmaneuvered Lee, after three days of battle in which the Confederates at Petersburg were severely outnumbered, Union forces failed to take the city, and their final, futile attack on the fourth day only added to already staggering casualties. By holding Petersburg against great odds, the Confederacy arguably won its last great strategic victory of the Civil War. In The Battle of Petersburg, June 15-18, 1864, Sean Michael Chick takes an in-depth look at an important battle often overlooked by historians and offers a new perspective on why the Army of the Potomac's leadership, from Grant down to his corps commanders, could not win a battle in which they held colossal advantages. He also discusses the battle's wider context, including politics, memory, and battlefield preservation. Highlights include the role played by African American soldiers on the first day and a detailed retelling of the famed attack of the First Maine Heavy Artillery, which lost more men than any other Civil War regiment in a single battle. In addition, the book has a fresh and nuanced interpretation of the generalships of Grant, Meade, Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard, and William Farrar Smith during this critical battle.