. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . jor. He resigned his army commjjelon on the 81st o) March, 1853, to take the position af cashier in a bank at Syracuse, N. Y.; bat ot the breaking out of th,. CiHl War he tendered his service) to the Government, and rp-cutered the inrny at tho head of a regiment of volunteer-. On the 9th of August, 1801, he was made
. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . jor. He resigned his army commjjelon on the 81st o) March, 1853, to take the position af cashier in a bank at Syracuse, N. Y.; bat ot the breaking out of th,. CiHl War he tendered his service) to the Government, and rp-cutered the inrny at tho head of a regiment of volunteer-. On the 9th of August, 1801, he was made a brigadier-general, an additional and at the time of the Virginia Peninsular Campaign, In April-May, 1863, was given the command of a brigndo in the Fourth Corps under General Darius N. Couch. He wtu appointed a major-general in July, 1683, and afterward con;- mamied at Suffolt--., Va., where Longstreet conducted a stage ogeiast him ; also in North CnrcMna, and on the borders of Canada, THE OCCUPATION OF NOEFOLE. When President Lincoln and Secretaries Ohnsoitod Fortress Btonroo after the enr-rendcrof Yorktown, General Wool repeated his re-quest to bo allowed to break up tho Confederate received severe wounds, that he was soon nftti breveted a blockade of the James Itiver,. JOHN JAMlid PHCB given tho desired loavo moro readily when it waslearned that tho Confedomto GeneralBenjamin Huger was preparing to leaveNorfolk. On tho 8th of Aloy, arrasgomentg wokraado for a joint land and naval ospe-dition. Commodoro Golds-borough transferred to Cap-tain James L, Lardner tho command ofa squadron composed of tho Monitor,NaugatucJc, Susquehanna, SsmtaalB, SanJacinto, Steve/is and Dakota, and GeneralWool embarked upon transports a Lintforce consisting of the First Delaware,the Tenth, Twentieth and Ninety-ninthNew York, and tho Fifty-eighth Penn-sylvania Regiments, os well as somemounted riflemen, and two batterieE oiartillery. Tho Sowalls Point and Craney Islandbatteries 1Y3 o at oneo enga
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