FROM GEN. HOOKER’S ARMY: Our Wounded on the South Side of the Rappahannock; ARRANGEMENTS FOR BRINGING THEM OVER (5/12/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 5/12/1863

[Homer_J_Simpson]

HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Saturday Evening May 9, 1863.

By a flag of truce to-day we learn of the death of Col. VAN HOUGHTEN, who was wounded in the leg at the battle of Salem Heights on Monday evening, and taken prisoner. He was a brave man. This afternoon, Gen. BARKSDALE, Commander at Fredericksburgh, accompanied by several other officers, came down to the bank above the Lacey House, and held an interview with our authorities. Arrangements have been made for the bringing over of our wounded to this side, and they are arriving rapidly. In the morning several Surgeons, detailed from the various regiments, crossed over to administer to their wants.

BARNES' brigade, GRIFFIN's division, which pierced back yesterday to the various fords on the right, to assist in bringing away the pontoons, has returned to-day.

This was the rear brigade of the Fifth army corps, in covering the retreat of the right wing across the river. One thousand will fully cover the loss of this corps.

The figures of the total loss is being much diminishes by the coming in of stragglers.

D.W. JUDD.

EIGHTEENTH MASSACHUSETTS, COL. HAYES -- TOTAL LOSS OF REGIMENT.

Capt. Wm. G. Hewins, Co. B -- killed.
Isaac R. Simmons, Co. I -- wounded.
John Hughes, Co. B -- wounded.
Corp. Morris Nellozan, Co. B – wounded
George Wrin, Co. B -- wounded.
Corp. Chas. J. Brown, Co. D -- wounded.
Henry Galliyan, Co. B -- wounded.
Z. Churchill, Co. C -- wounded.
Corp. George II. Swift, Co. C -- wounded.
Sergt. Patrick Welch, Co. B -- wounded.
Wm. H. Goss, Co. F -- wounded.
Wm. H. Heath, Co. F -- wounded.

Correspondence of the Philadelphia Press.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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From Gen. Hooker’s Army: Our Wounded on the South Side of the Rappahannock – 2
The Great Raid in Virginia: The Exploits of the Force which Passed Around to Gloucester Point – 2-3
Important from the Southwest: Gen. Grant Said to be Investing Jackson, Mississippi – 3
Operations on the Mississippi: Running the Vicksburgh Blockade – 3-4
The War in Tennessee: A Fight at Lebanon – 4-5
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 5
Editorial: The Morale at Home and in the Army – 5-6
Editorial: The Mississippi Valley – Almost Redeemed – 6
The Port Gibson Affair – 6
Rosecrans – 6
Rebel Negro Soldiers – 6
News from Fortress Monroe – 6

[BroJoeK]

Another battle in Grant's Vicksburg campaign, at Raymond, Mississippi, a Union victory.

Mississippi 1862-'63 Engagements

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
April 29 - May 30, 1862	Corinth, MS	Union Army of the Mississippi (Halleck, Grant, Thomas, Buel ~120,000), Confederate Army of the Mississippi (Beauregard, Bragg, Van Dorn ~65,000)	Union 1,000+ total, Confederates 1,000+ total	USA
Sep 1	Denmark, MS	Union Army of the Missippi, (Dennis ~1,000), Confederate Army of the West (Armstrong -4,000)	Union 108-total (8-killed), Confederates 288 total (11=killed)	CSA
Sep 19-20	Iuka, MS	Union Army of Mississippi (Rosecrans, ~4,500), Confederate Army of the West (Price, ~3,179)	Union 790-total (144-killed), Confederates 1,516-total (263-killed)	USA
Oct 3-4	Corinth, MS	Union Army of MS (Rosecran s, 12,000), Confederate Army of West TN (Van Dorn, Price ~22,000)	Union 2,520-total (355-killed), Confederates 4.233-total (473-killed)	USA
Dec 27-29	Chickasaw Bayou, MS	Union Army of TN, MS Squadron (Sherman ~30,720), Confederate Dept of MS (Pemberton, SD Lee~13,792)	Union 1,776-total (208-killed), Confederates 187-total (57-killed)	CSA (CSA outnumbered
Apr 29, 1863	Grand Gulf, MS	Union Mississippi squadron (Porter 7-ironclads ~10,000), Confederate Army of Vicksburg batteries (Bowen 4,200)	Union 80-total (24-killed), Confederates 22-total (3-killed)	CSA (Grant changed his plans)
Apr 29	Snyder's Bluff, MS	Union XV Corps, Mississippi squadron (Sherman 8-gunboatss ~10,000), Confederate Herbert's Brigade (Herbert 3,000)	Union unkwn-total (unkwn-killed), Confederates unkwn-total (unkwn-killed)	CSA (Union feint to fix CSA forces)
May 1	Port Gibson, MS	Union Army of TN (Grant ~23,000), Confederate Army of Vicksburg (Bowen, ~8,000)	Union 861-total (129?-killed), Confederates 787-total (118?-killed)	USA
May 12	Raymond, MS	Union Army the Tennessee (McPherson 12,000), Confederate Army of Vicksburg (Gregg, 4,000)	Union 446-total (67?-killed), Confederates 515-total (77?-killed)	USA

Summary of Civil War Engagements as of May 12, 1863:
Engagements in Confederate states:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
South Carolina	2	2	1	5
Virginia	10	23	12	52
North Carolina	8	1	1	10
Florida	2	0	0	2
Louisiana	6	1	0	7
Tennessee	9	7	1	17
Arkansas	8	1	2	11
Georgia	1	1	0	2
Mississippi	5	4	0	8
Texas	0	1	0	1
Alabama	1	0	0	1
Total Engagements in CSA	53	49	18	120

Engagements in Union states/territories:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
Maryland	3	0	1	4
West Virginia	9	3	2	14
Missouri	14	13	1	28
New Mexico	5	8	0	13
Kentucky	5	6	2	13
Oklahoma	1	3	0	4
Total Engagements in Union	38	33	6	77
Total Engagements to date	91	82	24	197

Casualties totaled ~916, including 144 (?) killed in action.
These bring the war's totals to date, by my count, to around 348,000 casualties, including over 40,000 killed in action.

[BroJoeK]

Grant's Vicksburg campaign:

[Myrddin]

I have a co-worker in San Diego. Stoney Hooker. A descendant of Col Hooker. He knows the fine details of his family history. Always fun at a party.

[Myrddin]

My great grandfather arrived from Wales in 1863. He found his sweetheart from Aberystwyth in Pittsburgh, PA. To impress his future father-in-law, he joined the Union Army. His basic training occurred on a flatbed rail car rolling to the front lines of the battle. His unit was captured by the Confederates and he spent 2 years as a POW in a Confederate prison. He survived. Married his sweetheart in Pittsburgh. Raised 19 children. My grandfather and his twin brother were the last children born in 1887.

[BroJoeK]

Myrddin: "My great grandfather arrived from Wales in 1863."

Wow, your family's history is similar to mine. One of my great-grandfathers was a farm-boy from West Fresia, his family left to dodge the draft into a European war. Arrived in Illinois in the late 1850s and he volunteered in 1862.

His unit's first assignment was in western Tennessee, guarding a railroad, Gen. Grant's supply line, and they were also captured, but then "paroled" as was done early in the war. They sat in a Union camp in St. Louis until a prisoner swap was arranged, after the Battle of Vicksburg, and he returned to his Illinois regiment.

In his regiment's final battle, near Mobile, he was wounded slightly, and the wound got infected, nearly killed him.
But it didn't, and that's why I'm here. 😁 Those were difficult times, and they were very tough people.

[Myrddin]

My great grandfather was very skilled in metallurgy. He did lots of work for the railroads after the war. My grandfather followed in his footsteps as a civil and mechanical engineer. He built many dams and canals for the Bureau of Reclamation before setting up shop making cement pipe of his own design. He designed the machines to build the pipe as well. He was offered a position as a Brigadier General to build the AlCan highway. Before he could entertain the offer, he was summoned by the Secretary of War. The Secretary implored him to continue manufacturing pipe that was critically needed for the war effort. He told the Secretary that he would have all the pipe he needed and passed on the AlCan opportunity.

One of my grandfather's favorite patents was "the pipe that goes inside itself". Sections are used to build tunnels. Imagine a rectangle tall enough for a man to stand up and wide enough to span his reach. Slice a section of thet tube shorter than the width. That section can be rotated and transported with the long axis pointed down the pipe, width axis turned in the vertical plane. Clearance to the sides dependent on the section sliced off.

My grandfather helped Kettering design and build much of the manufacturing machinery used in automobile manufacturing.

I'm a bit sad that my sons have no children to carry on the family line. It was a good run.