This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...the offensive in a series of attacks on the intrenchments of the Confederates at Spottsylvania. Although it carried a portion of the works, it failed to carry the Confederate position. Neither side gained a victory. The combats, May 5-12, were, as far as testing the quality of the men was concerned, in effect a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...the offensive in a series of attacks on the intrenchments of the Confederates at Spottsylvania. Although it carried a portion of the works, it failed to carry the Confederate position. Neither side gained a victory. The combats, May 5-12, were, as far as testing the quality of the men was concerned, in effect a continuous battle, and may be fairly treated as such for the purpose of the foregoing comparison. As the cavalry were absent after the 8th of May and took no part in the infantry combat, it seems proper to omit their numbers and losses for this purpose. The loss of 267 in 1000 suffered by the Union column in the assault on the works of Port Hudson, June 14, entitles it to be compared with the attacking armies in the three battles above mentioned; but the endurance of a small and homogeneous force like that at Port Hudson does not give the same evidence of the martial quality of the armies, as a whole, as is afforded by their conduct in the great battles. There were repeated instances in the great battles where a division or corps, numbering as many as, or more than, the Union force at Port Hudson or Olustee, endured a greater per cent, of loss, as, for example, the loss at Gettysburg by the Second Corps of 328 in 1000 of its 12,141 effectives (43 W. R., 151, 177), and at Fredericksburg, by Hancock's division of the same corps, of 360 in 1000 of its 5006 effectives (31 W. R., 288, 130). At Chickamauga the Confederates, with a superior force, routed a part of the Union army, and compelled the rest to relinquish the field, although in good order and moving or standing at will. The Confederate loss was 259 in 1000. The attitude of the Union army at Antietam was similar to that of the Confederates at Chickamauga; but the Union commander allowed only 53,00...
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