Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-05-04
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| The following list of occurrences of som.
thirty years ago will doubtless be remcm
hered by hundreds Of our readers, and re-
call similar events by the score;
1862. May S.-Farmiagton, Miss. Tenth
Sixteenth, Twenty second. Twenty seventh,
Forty second and Fifty-f first Illinois. Tenth
and Sixteenth Michigan, Yates shsrpshoct-
ers, Second Michigan Cavalry, Battery c.,
First Illinois artillery. Union. two killed,
IL wounded; Confederate, so killed, Is
wounded.
May +.--Licking, Mo-; Twenty fourth
Missouri, Fifth Missouri militia cavalry
Union, | killed, 5 wounded; Confederate
20 killed and wounded.
May Cheese Cake Church, Va; Third
Pennsylvania, First and Sixth United States
cavalry, Losses not recorded.
May 5,--Lebsncn, Tenn. First. Fourth
and Fifth Kentucky cavalry. Seventh Penn.
sylvania. Union. G killed, a5 wounded
Confederate, II killed, IS wounded; 81
prisoners.
May 5.-Lockrdge Mills or Dresden, Ky
Fifth Iowa cavalry; Union, 4 killed, ID
wounded, is missing; Confederate, losses
not reported. Williamsburg, Va, Third
and Fourth Corps, Army of the Potomac
Union, i56 killed, 400 wounded, 312 miss
ing; Confederate, 1000 killed, wounded and
captured.
1861. May Chalk Bluff, Mo. Second
Missouri militia, Third Missouri cavalry,
First Iowa cavalry, Battery 4, First Mis-
sour artillery Union, killed, l2 wounded
Confederate, 100 killed and wounded.
1868, May Port Gibson, Miss. (Thc
first engagement in General Grants cam
paign against vicksburg) Thirteenth corps,
General McClernan,l. and third division
Seventeenth corps, General Mcpherson
Union, 130 killed us wonndcd Confcler-
ate, 1850 killed and wounded. 500 missing
Confederate Brigadier General Tracy killed.
La Grange, Ark. Third Iowa cavalry
Union, killed, . wounded, so missing.
May to 4.--Chancellorsville, Va, in
GLIDING battles of Sixth corps at Fredericks-
burg and Salem Heights; Army of the Po-
tomac General Hooker; First corps, Gen
eral Reynolds Second corps General Couch /;
Third corps, General Sickles; Fifth corps.
General Meade: sixth corps, General Sedg-
wick; Eleventh corps, General Howard ;
Twelfth corps ,General Slocum; Union, 1919
killed, 95ls wounded, 5000 missing Con
federate, 1851 killed. 500 wounded, 1000
missing. Union Generals Berry and Whip
pie killed, Devan and Kirby wounded Con-
federate, General Paxton killed, General
Stonewall jackson, General A. Z. Hill,
Generals Hoke, Nichols, Ramseur. mellow.
an, Heth and Fender wounded.
May 3.--Warrenton Junction, Va, :;
First West Virginia cavalry, Fifth New
York cavalry; Union, killed, 10 wounded :;
Confederate, 3 killed, IL wounded.
May 4.-Siege of Suffolk, Va. raised
(See April l2.)
1864, May l.--.Jacksonville, Fla; Sew
May | to S.--Hudnots Plantation and
near Alexander, La. Cavalry divisions of
Thirteenth and Nineteenth Army corps
Union, 33 killed, 81 wounded; Confeder-
ate, % killed, 100 wounded.
May 2.-Governor Moore's Plantation,
La; f0ragng detachment Of Eighty third
Ohio and Third Rhode Island cavalry !;
Union, 9 killed, 10 wounded.
May 3.-Red Clay, Ga. First division
of McCook's cavalry Union, 10 killed and
wounded; Confederate losses unknown.
May 4.-Doubtful Canon, Ariz.; de
tachmcnt of Fifth United States cavalry
and First California cavalry; Union,
killed, 6 wounded; Confederate, 10 killed,
30 wounded.
May to l2.-kautz cavalry raiI from
Suffolk, Wales Bridge, Stony Crock Sta
ton, Jarrett's Station, Whites Bridge to
City Point, Va; Fifth and Eleventh Penn
sylvauia cavalry, Third New York rav,l-
ry, First District Columbia cavalry, Eighth
New York battery; Union, 10 killed,
wounded and missing; Confederate, 20
wounded, 80 prisoners.
May to l3.-Yazoo City expedition. in
Guiding Benton and Vaughn, Miss. Elcv-
enth, Seventy s,cond and Seventy sixth H.
LIMOS, Fifth Illinois cavalry, Third United
States oolored cavalry, Seventh Ohio bat
tery Union, s killed, 20 wounded Confed
crate losses not reported.
May Ram Albemarle. Roanoke Riv-
er, N. G.; u. s. gunboats Ceres, Commo-
dorc Hull, Mattabcsett, Sassacus, Seymour,
Wyalusing, Mama and Whitehead; I'nion
killed, 2G wounded; Confederate, 81 cap
tured. Dunn's Bayou, Red River, La +,
Fifty sixth Ohio, on boar1 U. S. gunboat
Signal steamer Covingt0n and transport
Warner. Union, 30 killed, 65 wounded,
$50 missing.
May s to Wilderness, Va; Army of
the Potomac, General Meade Second corps
General Hancock; Fifth corps, General
Warren; Sixth corps, General Sedgwick .
Moth corps, General Burnside and Sheri-
dams cavalry. Union, 5j97 killed, 2i ,iG3
wounded, 1857 missing. Confederaies,
200o killed, 5000 wounded 3400 missing.
Union Generals WadswOrth, Hays and Webb
killed; Confederate Generals Jones and
Pickett killed; and Longstreet, Pegram,
Stafford, Hunter and Jennings wounded.
May . to 9.-Rocky Face Ridge, Ga, in
cluling Tunnel Hill, Mill Creek Gap and
Buzzards' Roost, Army of the Cumberland,
General George II. Thomas; Army of the
Tennessee, General Mcpherson; Army of
the Mississippi, General Sherman. Union.
200 killed, G37 wounded; Confederate, 600