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663 Series I Volume XXIX-I Serial 48 - Bristoe, Mine Run Part I

Page 663 Chapter XLI. MINE RUN, VIRGINIA, CAMPAIGN.

NOVEMBER 26 - DECEMBER 2, 1863.- The Mine Run (Virginia) Campaign.

SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS.

Nov. 26, 1863.- The Army of the Potomac crosses the Rapidan.

Skirmish at Morton's Ford.

26-27, 1863.- Skirmishers at and near Raccoon Ford.

27, 1863.- Engagement at Payne's Farm.

Skirmishers at Robertson's Tavern, or Locust Grove.

Action near New Hope Church.

Capture of wagon train near Wilderness Church.

28, 1863.- Skirmishes along Mine Run.

29, 1863.- Action at Parker's Store.

Skirmish at New Hope Church.

30, 1863.- Skirmishes along Mine Run.

Skirmish near Raccoon Ford.

December 1-2, 1863.- The Army of the Potomac retires across the Rapidan.

REPORTS.*


Numbers 1.- Organization of the Army of the Potomac, November 20.


Numbers 2.- Abstract from returns of the Army of the Potomac for November 20 and 30.


Numbers 3.- Return of Casualties in the Union forces.


Numbers 4.- Major General John Newton, U. S. Army, commanding First Army Corps.


Numbers 5.- Brigadier General Lysander Cutler, U. S. Army, commanding First Division.


Numbers 6.- Lieutenant Colonel John E. Cook, Seventy-sixth New York Infantry, Second Brigade.


Numbers 7.- Colonel Edward B. Fowler, Eighty-fourth New York Infantry.


Numbers 8.- Brigadier General John C. Robinson, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division.


Numbers 9.- Major General Gouverneur K. Warren, U. S. Army, commanding Second Army Corps.


Numbers 10.- Colonel Nelson A. Miles, Sixty-first New York Infantry, commanding First Brigade, First Division.


Numbers 11.- Colonel Judson S. Farrar, Twenty-sixth Michigan Infantry.


Numbers 12.- Lieutenant Colonel K. Oscar Broady, Sixty-first New York Infantry.


Numbers 13.- Colonel H. Boyd McKeen, Eighty-first Pennsylvania Infantry.


Numbers 14.- Colonel John Fraser, One hundred and fortieth Pennsylvania Infantry.


Numbers 15.- Colonel Patrick Kelly, Eighty-eighth New York Infantry, commanding Second Brigade.


Numbers 16.- Colonel Richard Byrnes, Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry. Numbers 17.- Captain Thomas Touhy, Sixty-third New York Infantry.


Numbers 18.- Lieutenant James J. Smith, Adjutant Sixty-ninth New York Infantry.


Numbers 19.- Captain Denis F. Burke,eighty-eighth New York Infantry.


Numbers 20.- Captain Garrett Nowlen, One hundred and sixteenth Pennsylvania Infantry.


Numbers 21.- Colonel James A. Beaver, One hundred and forty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding Third Brigade.


Numbers 22.- Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Freudenberg, Fifty-second New York Infantry.


Numbers 23.- Lieutenant Colonel Alford B. Chapman, Fifty-seventh New York Infantry.


Numbers 24.- Lieutenant Colonel John S. Hammell, Sixty-sixth New York Infantry.


Numbers 25.- Lieutenant Colonel George A. Fairlamb, One hundred and forty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry.


Numbers 26.- Colonel John R. Brooke, Fifty-third Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding Fourth Brigade.

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*See also general reports, pp. 11-20, and Ingalls' report on the Bristoe (Virginia) Campaign, p. 227.

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