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Battle of Fort Steadman

1865

March 25

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	Battle of Fort Stedman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Fort Stedman was fought on March 25, 1865, during the final days of the American Civil War.
		Gordon's next objective was to widen his breakthrough by capturing Fort McGilvery to the north, and Fort Haskell to the south of Stedman.
		There, near Fort Fisher, the Union counterattack prepared the ground for one of General Grant's breakthrough attacks on April 2, 1865.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Steadman (903 words)

	REGIMENTS
		Garrison Forts in the Defences of Washington from Fort Washington to Fort Mahone June 27 to September 11.
		At Fort Lincoln, Defences of Washington, until March 28, 1863, and in the Defences with 1st Maine Heavy Artillery until January, 1864.
		Fort Corcoran, Division of the Potomac, to October, 1861.
	members.tripod.com /~Paul_Emerson/Me.Regiments.html (10094 words)

	Battle of Petersburg
		On the morning of the 17th the 7th and 9th Corps renewed the attack upon the works at Petersburg, when the hill upon which Fort Steadman was afterwards built was carried and held by the former.
		The mine under one of the principal forts was exploded early on the morning of July 30, with terrible effect.
		In the place of the fort was left a crater of loose earth, 200 feet in length, fully 50 feet in width, and from 20 to 30 feet in depth.
	www.sonofthesouth.net /leefoundation/battle-of-petersburg.htm (3484 words)

	1865 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 13 - American Civil War: The Second Battle of Fort Fisher begins when United States forces launch a major amphibious assault against the Confederate stronghold of Fort Fisher.
		March 25 - American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces capture Fort Steadman from the Union.
		June 23 - American Civil War: At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory Confederate General Stand Watie, a Cherokee Indian, surrenders the last significant rebel army.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1865 (1644 words)

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		Between Fort Harrison and Battery No. 11 to the north, the manpower was equally divided between the two, 800.
		Ord had gathered the troops within his charge in the area and decided the time was right to move towards the James River and attack Fort Maury, and instead of staying behind to guide the operations, Ord himself chose to lead the attack with what he had.
		Fort Harrison would prove to be the only Federal success here, and yet it was a punched hole through Robert E.
	www.us-civilwar.com /aldie-3.html (4372 words)

	Mollus War Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This scheme was commenced by an attack upon Fort Steadman at half past four o'clock on the morning of March 25th.
		Fort Johnson with its threatening guns frowned upon the negroes of the 25th corps, and Gilmer faced our position and Laurel Hill farther to the right of our line was so manifestly the key to the rebel line that it seemed to invite an assault.
		Heavy earth works connected these forts, and outside of their whole line were strong lines of chevaux de frise, with one of abbatis about fifteen feet inside, and torpedoes planted thickly between the two.
	suvcw.org /mollus/warpapers/VTv1-16p.htm (5316 words)

	142d PVI - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The miners of the regiment at the same time were tunneling under their fort and works, which were, at the end of this time, blown up, burying a batter of artillery and quite a number of men.
		The enemy shortly after this were detected mining one of our forts, and the guns from this fort were removed and wooden ones substituted and a similar fort erected in the rear with the regular guns placed therein.
		Owing to mismanagement of their mine the explosion under out fort was nothing but a fizzle, the packing in the entry under the fort being badly put in, and the force of the explosion was to a great extent, spent in hurling the dirt back through the entry toward their own lines.
	www.142dpvi.org /history.htm (9550 words)

	2nd Regiment Michigan Infantry
		While in the process of organization the Regiment was ordered to Fort Wayne, near Detroit, where its recruitment was completed, being mustered into Federal service on May 25, 1861, with 1013 officers and men on its rolls, making them the first of the three year Regiments to be raised in the State.
		During the remainder of the month the Regiment made several short marches, finally reaching Fort Ward, where it encamped until the 25th, then marched to Upton's Hill, when in October the Third Corp, in which the Regiment was serving, made a reconnaissance up the Potomac River as far as Edward's Ferry, Md.
		On the 25th of March 1865 the Regiment, under the command of Captain J. Boughton, participated in the affair at Fort Steadman, sustaining a heavy loss.
	www.michiganinthewar.org /infantry/2ndinf.htm (2503 words)

	KCWRT - James Longstreet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The fort was constructed on an eminence near downtown Knoxville with a ditch 6-8 feet deep, but it appeared to be only 3-4 feet deep from Confederate observation posts.
		As they neared the fort the leading lines crashed through brush barriers and bowled them aside like tenpins, but in the darkness the men tripped and stumbled over the telegraph wires stretched between the stumps.
		At the moment of delay and confusion, one cannon...in the fort fired two quick rounds of canister into the storming party, but quickly closing their ranks the Confederates reached the ditch and chased away the gunners exposed on the platform.
	www.discoveret.org /kcwrt/history/hlo-text.htm (5989 words)

	Pawnee County, Part 3
		He participated in the battle of Fort Steadman, March 25, and at Petersburg, April 2, 1865, and skirmishes at Winchester Picket Line, and was mustered out June 7, 1865.
		Was one of the two hundred selected to reinforce Fort Sumter, and sailed in the steamer "Baltic" for that purpose, in, April, 1861; returned, after the surrender, with Major Anderson and his command to Governor's Island New York Harbor, and was assigned to Company K, Third United States Infantry.
		Began the study of law in 1867, and was admitted to the bar of practice in the district courts of Pawnee County in 1875.
	www.kancoll.org /books/cutler/pawnee/pawnee-co-p3.html (3812 words)

	PA Civil War Soldiers - 50th Regimental History - Free Pennsylvania Genealogy
		After the capture of the forts at Hilton Head by Admiral Dupont, in the brilliant sea fight which has immortalized his name, the regiment went into camp upon the island, and was employed in building fortifications.
		Remaining in the works in front of the ruined fort until the 19th of August, it was again put upon the march, and proceeded to the Weldon Railroad, where, at four P. M., it was attacked, but was repulsed.
		Upon the occasion of the surprise and capture of Fort Steadman, on the 25th of March, Major Schwenk, leaving a thin skirmish line upon his front, hastened with his regiment to the scene of conflict.
	www.pacivilwar.com /cwpa50history.html (3983 words)

	Dauphin Chapter 29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Samuel Baum, Aug. 24, 1864; wounded at Fort Steadman, Va., March 25, 1865; disch.
		Moreland, Jacob, Sept. 1, 1864; wounded at Fort Steadman, Va., March 25, 1865; disch.
		Sloat, Rudolph, Sept. 1,1864; wounded at Fort Steadman, Va., March 25, 1865; disch.
	www.accessible.com /amcnty/PA/DauphinLebanon/Dauphin29.htm (3514 words)

	Association to Commemorate the Chinese Serving in the American Civil War, Part 17 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In early November the regiment was on duty near Fort McGilvery, moving on the 29th farther to the left to relieve a part of the Ninth Corps, and on the 6th of December still farther on to relieve a portion of the Fifth Corps.
		February 5, 1864, the men were ordered out of their comfortable quarters to participate in another action at Hatcher's Run, remaining on the field until the 10th, when they went into camp some miles to the left of their recent camp.
		This movement was intended as a diversion at the time of the rebel attack upon Fort Steadman.
	members.aol.com /gordonkwok/cacwpart17.html (2820 words)

	Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County, V.II, p.294
		Fort Sedgwick, and at 4 o'clock it made the advance and charged the fort, capturing it with many prisoners.
		Alexander Jones; wounded at Fort Steadman, Va., March 25, 1865; disch.
		Richard F. Scott; wounded at Fort Steadman, Va., March 25, 1865; disch.
	www.rootsweb.com /~pacambri/books/Storey/v2/p294.html (232 words)

	History of the 12th North Carolina
		Fort Macon was seized by the State of North Carolina before it could be occupied by Federal troops.
		A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Solomon Williams, was elected colonel of the regiment.
		After this duty the 12th was sent to the front at Petersburg and took part in the assault on Fort Steadman.
	www.geocities.com /twelfthncstcof/history (2507 words)

	Fort Stedman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The idea was a surprise attack that would force Grant to shorten his lines or even set his lines back, allowing for a clean pullout for Lee.
		Gordon developed a pre-dawn surprise attack on a Union fort, Fort Stedman.
		It was one of the closest spots on the line, there were fewer wooden obstructions, and a supply depot on the U.S. Military Railroad was less than a mile behind it.
	www.nps.gov /pete/mahan/eduhistbtlstdmn.html (154 words)

	Civil War Weekly: A Journal of the American Civil War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Explosion of the magazine at Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
		Fort Anderson, Town Creek, and Wilmington, North Carolina.
		Siege of Mobile, Alabama including Spanish Fort and Port Blakely.
	www.civilwarweekly.com /1865 (231 words)

	Southern Trails Genealogical Home Page
		The initial assault was to be on Union Fort Steadman, but it was hoped that the campaign would continue on to other Union fortifications, sweeping them up from the rear.
		The assault on Fort Steadman was planned for early the morning of 25 March 1865, a surprise attack...
		The Confederates not only took Fort Steadman, but were succesful in taking the two fortifications to either side.
	www.angelfire.com /va3/southernrites/finalyr.html (1748 words)

	Views of the National Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Forts, bombproofs, covered ways, abatis, fraise, and many other defenses were constructed by engineers and infantry following the design of French military engineers.
		The forts were the strongholds of Petersburg’s trench system, though the Confederate lines contained more powerful batteries and fortified salients than large forts.
		Some of the more famous forts were Fort Stedman near the city, Fort Wadsworth on the Weldon Railroad, and Fort Fisher, the largest earthen fortification on the Petersburg front.
	www2.nature.nps.gov /views/Sites/PETE/HTML/ET_EF.htm (12154 words)

	Pennsylvania_198th
		At sixteen minutes of five, on the morning of the 30th, it was sprung, blowing the fort into the air, destroying its garrison of three hundred men and leaving a crater two hundred feet long, fifty wide, and about twenty-five deep.
		Four hundred yards behind the fort was Cemetery Hill, the possession of which would speedily cause the fall of Petersburg, and Grant had ordered an assault to immediately follow the explosion.
		Our line of strong intrenchments, with heavy forts at short intervals, commenced on the Appomattox, less than two miles below Petersburg, and extended nearly south for about five miles and a half, three miles of which was close to the insurgent works, at one point approaching within one hundred and tbirty-tbree yards of them.
	www.family2remember.com /198th/198history.htm (15508 words)

	37th Infantry
		The explosion of the mine under the enemy's fort on the 30th of July, 1864, and the disastrous defeat of the whole scheme, has become a matter of history.
		On the 30th of July, Private Rueben D. Shaw, of Company C was color bearer, and bore it in the charge upon the blown-up fort, and planted it on the works, when the flagstaff was shot away and flag blown out of the fort.
		On the 25th of March, 1865, the rebels succeeded in surprising and capturing Fort Steadman, which was situated nearly in front of the position of the Thirty-seventh.
	www.secondwi.com /wisconsinregiments/37th_infantry.htm (3956 words)

	Untitled Document
		The regiment was then involved in the battle to retake Fort Stedman on 25th March 1865.
		Fort Stedman was ultimately capture with no small part of the honor going to Major Maxwell.
		For gallant conspicuous services at the Battle of Fort Steadman, he was brevetted a Brigadier General, but he preferred to be known simply as the Colonel of the Roundheads.
	www.maxwellsociety.com /Biography/Miltary.htm (1748 words)

	Warren Chapter 23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The camp of the regiment was located midway between Fort Howard and Fort Alexander Hays, on the Army Line Railroad, to the extreme left of the division, which was posted in rear of, and acted as a support to, the Ninth Corps line.
		At the moment when this line was broken at Fort Steadman, at early dawn on the morning of the 25th of March, 1865, and the fort and a considerable portion of the line was captured, the Two Hundred and Eleventh was resting in its camp, nearly four miles away.
		It then moved to the front, passing around the right of Fort Sedgwick, and was formed with the brigade in column by regiments, the left resting on the Jerusalem Plank Road, the First Brigade standing in like formation just in the rear.
	www.accessible.com /amcnty/PA/Warren/Warren23.htm (5523 words)

	Dixie Outfitters
		Fort Fisher at Wilmington, North Carolina, falls, leaving the Confederacy with no open seaports.
		The damage was heavy on both sides: the Union suffered more than 900 Army casualties and 380 Navy casualties, and the Confederates suffered 500 killed or wounded and over 1,000 captured.
		Confederate Government evacuates Richmond, Virginia because the Union army was about to take control of the city.
	www.dixieoutfitters.com /heritage/tl5.shtml (1529 words)

	2d Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery Regiment - Unit History
		The brigade passed a line of rifle-pits, capturing the occupants, and advanced to a position which proved to be untenable (no support appearing), and was faced about and returned to the line occupied by the other troops.
		About midnight, April 1st, the brigade formed in front of the breastworks during the heaviest cannonading it had ever witnessed, and at dawn, April 2d, charged over the rebel works and into their camps, which were deserted as our line approached, the only casualties in the regiment being Lieutenant-Colonel Skinner and seven enlisted men wounded.
		June 27th, was transferred to Forts Ethan Allen, Marcy Albany, and Battery Martin Scott, on the south side of the Potomac.
	www.the2dconn.com /history.htm (1742 words)

	George Diary: June 1864
		Our troops are now erecting breastworks and forts in anticipation of a prolonged siege of the city of Petersburg Va. This is the key to Richmond.
		On the right of the line held by the Roundheads is Fort Steadman, and on our left is Fort Haskel.
		On the right of our regiment there is a battery of Cohorn Mortars, mounted, near Fort Steadman.
	www.georgediary.org /diary643.html (861 words)

	Civil War Service JM Gilfillan
		May, 1863 — The 17th is ordered to Fort Sumter, South Carolina to become part of the garrison.
		August 26, 1863 — The 17th leaves Savannah for Charleston, arriving on the 27th and is stationed on Sullivan’s Island and at various places in and around Charleston, including James Island and Fort Sumter.
		March 24, 1865 — The 17th receives marching orders and pulls out for Fort Steadman, located on the edge of Petersburg near Hare’s Hill.
	www.gilfillanfamily.com /civilwar.htm (2735 words)

	JOHN J. MUNNEL'S ACCOUNT OF ESCAPE FROM DANVILLE PRISON
		It was said Gen. Mead did not approve of the plan, he and his chief engineer, claiming that the history of all wars always showed such plans to be failures.
		On July 29th everything was ready, the mine completed and charged with four tons of gun powder, and on that night the troops of the 9th corps, and some other troops, were formed to make the assault and massed together to break the lines when the mine should be sprung.
		The charge on the fort, or where it had been before the explosion, was made by our division.
	www.100thpenn.com /munnellescape.htm (7995 words)

	Georgia 44th Infantry Regiment - Co. A
		Captured at Spotsylvania, and died in prison at Fort Delaware 1864.
		Died of smallpox at Fort Delaware, Dec. 1864.
		Captured at Spotsylvania, and died of smallpox at Fort Delaware 1864.
	www.researchonline.net /gacw/rosters/44infb.htm (419 words)

	Annotated Catalogue of Relics in Memorial Room Capt. Thos. Espy Post No. 153 G.A.R. Library Building: ...
		The bullets were taken from the Union breast works, grape shot near Fort Steadman, breast plate near Fort Hill, Petersburg, Va. Have been in possession of W. Lea 25 years.
		After the war, the mine constructed and used by the Union army in blowing up the rebel fort, July 30, 1864, at Petersburg, Va., directly between the two lines, caved in, leaving a trench some 10 feet deep.
		From the bottom of this trench a walnut tree grew, and from this tree this walnut was taken by W. Lea in September, 1881, while visiting the battlefield.
	www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu /~jw3u/round/051-100.htm (2924 words)

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