. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Potomac. It was thesmallest corps in the army, and in the early dayscontained about twelve thousand men. The com-mand was given to Major-General J. F. K. j\Ians-field, who was killed at Antietam, the first battleof the new corps. Its next battle was that ofChancellorsville where, with the Third, it bore thereal brunt of the fight. After Gettysburg, inwhich we remember the Twelfth by its gallant de- [ fense of Culps Hill, it went with Hooker to Ten-nessee where one division opened the line of sup-plies to the starving Army of the Cu
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Potomac. It was thesmallest corps in the army, and in the early dayscontained about twelve thousand men. The com-mand was given to Major-General J. F. K. j\Ians-field, who was killed at Antietam, the first battleof the new corps. Its next battle was that ofChancellorsville where, with the Third, it bore thereal brunt of the fight. After Gettysburg, inwhich we remember the Twelfth by its gallant de- [ fense of Culps Hill, it went with Hooker to Ten-nessee where one division opened the line of sup-plies to the starving Army of the Cumberland andfought the battle in the clouds on LookoutjMountain. In April, 1864, the Twelfth Corps wasmerged in the newly formed Twentieth, for the At-lanta campaign. After ^lansfields death, the com-mand of the Twelfth Coips was held by ^lajor-General H. W. Slocum except for very brief pe-i-iods, when it was headed by Brigadier-General Williams, the senior division commander. In itsshort career, the corps is said to have never lost agun or a ]. John C. PalfreyCbief Engineer of the 13thArmy Corps. IVIASSACHUSETTS
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