. Soldiers' and citizens' album of biographical record, containing personal sketches of army men and citizens prominent in loyalty of the Union; also a chronological and statistical history of the civil war, and a history of the Grand army of the republic, with portraits of soldiers and prominent citizens . nd several United States gun-boats were involved, in which tlie Union losswas 39 killed, 390 wounded and 200 missing;the confederate loss being 400 killed andwounded ; the fight continued three days. Dec. 7.—At Ebenezer Creek, Cypress Swampand at Eden Station on the Ogeeche River, thetr«>
. Soldiers' and citizens' album of biographical record, containing personal sketches of army men and citizens prominent in loyalty of the Union; also a chronological and statistical history of the civil war, and a history of the Grand army of the republic, with portraits of soldiers and prominent citizens . nd several United States gun-boats were involved, in which tlie Union losswas 39 killed, 390 wounded and 200 missing;the confederate loss being 400 killed andwounded ; the fight continued three days. Dec. 7.—At Ebenezer Creek, Cypress Swampand at Eden Station on the Ogeeche River, thetr«>ops connected with Shermans army, ad-vanced in their march to the sea; in the formerthe OlIi Michigan and 9tli Ohio Cavalry formedthe rear guard of the left wing, and took uppontoon bridges to prevent refugees following,and in the latter tlie troops referred to were the15th and 17th Corps of the right wing of thecommand.—At Sisters Ferry, Ga., (SavannahRiver) the rebels prepared to oppose the pro-gress of Shermans array.—Milroy foaglit For-rest and Bates, driving them and capturing200 prisoners; the Union loss was 200 killedand wounded.—W^arren started to destroy theWeldon railroad at a point which should severrailroad communication between Wilmingtonand Savannah. The movement occupied six. C^.EKvjei-TV \ liOGAN. p-^hK -^n-R ■f L<^ 2c -!?-& HISTORY OB^ THE CIA^L WAR. 129 days and 20 miles of road was destroyed, whenthe rebels were encountered in force and the ex-pedition returned, having marched a hundredmiles in six days; the 2nd division of the Cav-alry Corps of the Army of the Potomac and the5th Corps and 3rd Division of the 2nd Corps ofthe Army of the Potomac were engaged. Dec,6.—At Hatchers Run, three cavalryregiments and a division of the 3rd Corps en-gaged in a series of actions which occupied twodays and the Union loss was 125 killed andwounded. The raid of Custer and Merritt toGordonville commenced ; the movement occu-pied 20 days and 43 men belonging
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