The charge was repulsed by Union rifle and artillery fire, at great losses to the Confederate army.

Union General Sherman suffers heavy losses to the entrenched Confederate army.

Heavy losses for Confederate General Hood.

Confederate losses were estimated at 229.

Though eventually forced to retreat, the badly outnumbered Confederate forces commanded by General Richard Taylor cost the Union troops, under General Cuvier Grover, significant losses.

Locust Grove was the site of a small Civil War battle on July 3, 1862, in which approximately 250 Union troops surprised and destroyed a similar-sized Confederate contingent, killing about 100 and capturing another 100 while sustaining only minimal losses.

After the losses of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston withdrew his forces into western Tennessee, northern Mississippi, and Alabama to reorganize.

Confederate losses were lower: 93 killed, 847 wounded, and 6 missing, a total of 946 casualties in all — but still about 20 %.

Only 12 Confederate soldiers were killed, as opposed to the Union's 339 losses.

Confederate losses were 41 killed, wounded, and captured.

The holiday parades will be somber, with the U. S. flag being flown upside down as a sign of distress, signifying the two losses to the Confederate States.

An example in which one side used attrition warfare to neutralize the other side's advantage in maneuverability and unit tactics occurred during the latter part of the American Civil War, when Ulysses S. Grant pushed the Confederate Army continually, in spite of losses, confident that the Union's supplies and manpower would overwhelm the Confederacy even if the casualty ratio was unfavorable ; this indeed proved to be the case.

Kirby Smith would report that Confederate loss was " about 1, 000 killed and wounded " at Mansfield, but precise details of Confederate losses were not recorded.

When Ewell's corps did attack these positions on July 2 and July 3, the Union had had time to fully occupy the heights and build impregnable defenses, resulting in heavy Confederate losses.

According to Deborah S. Ing, author of Philip Armour ’ s biography in the American National Biography Online, “ the most important business coup of Armour's early career occurred near the end of the Civil War when he predicted heavy Confederate losses and thus the dropping of pork prices … he made contracts with buyers at $ 40 per barrel before prices plummeted to $ 18 when the war ended in a Union victory.

On the Confederate right, Hardee ’ s men ran into fierce opposition and were unable to make much headway, with the Southerners suffering heavy losses.

Confederate losses, though not stated explicitly, seem to have been only slightly greater.

Meeting with Cheatham, Lee decided the situation was dire and attacked at 9 p. m., taking serious losses from the Union position and from Confederate artillery as well.

Both attacks were repulsed with heavy losses, but a demonstration by Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield achieved a strategic success by threatening the Confederate army's left flank, prompting yet another Confederate withdrawal toward Atlanta and the removal of General Johnston from command of the army.

Across the entire line of battle, the Confederate troops reached only within of the Union Center and were repulsed by nightfall with heavy losses.

His caution in posting outlying videttes was also perhaps due to the severe losses he incurred in trying to suppress various Confederate cavalry raids that kept occurring in his district, such as on 26 February, when he sent the 1st New York Cavalry and the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry out to pursue raiders.

On the Confederate side, Stuart's losses are generally estimated as 9 dead, 50 wounded, and 58 missing, for a total of 117.

Its purpose was to investigate such matters as illicit trade with the Confederate states, medical treatment of wounded soldiers, military contracts, and the causes of Union battle losses.

A Confederate observed that the Yankees were: `` thicker than lise on a hen and a dam site ornraier ''.

On August 6, 1861, Lincoln signed the Confiscation Act that authorized judiciary proceedings to confiscate and free slaves who were used to support the Confederate war effort.

Once the abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective, as Union armies advanced south, more slaves were liberated until all three million of them in Confederate territory were freed.

Days later, when that city fell, Lincoln visited the vanquished Confederate capital ; as he walked through the city, white Southerners were stone-faced, but freedmen greeted him as a hero.

As the battle progressed, Zollicoffer was killed, Crittenden was unable to lead the Confederate force since he was probably intoxicated and the Confederates were turned back and routed by a Union bayonet charge, suffering 533 casualties from their force of 4, 000.

The Confederate troops who escaped were assigned to other units as Crittenden faced an investigation of his conduct.

Johnston and his wounded horse, named Fire Eater, were taken to his field headquarters on the Corinth road, where his body remained in his tent until the Confederate Army withdrew to Corinth the next day, April 7, 1862.

Since Johnson's proclamations allowed the Southern states to control the procedure and conduct of their elections in 1865, prominent former Confederate leaders were elected to the U. S. Congress ( but not seated ).

Both these charges were later found to be considerably lacking in evidence ; nevertheless Pike, facing arrest, escaped into the hills of Arkansas, sending his resignation from the Confederate Army on July 12.

Delaware is notable for being the only slave state from which no Confederate regiments or militia groups were assembled.

In the fall of 1862, Confederate laws were changed to permit the employment of women in hospitals as members of the Confederate Medical Department.

Union Colonel Streight and his men were captured by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

This was a common scenario in wars from time immemorial, and conditions faced by the Confederate army were even worse.

" The Confederate income tax was higher than the Union one ; and economic intervention, regulation, and state control of manpower, production and transport were much greater in the Confederacy than in the Union.

Although the First Battle of Independence in August 1862 resulted in a Confederate victory, the Southerners were unable to follow up their win in any significant fashion, as the City of Kansas was occupied by Union troops and proved too heavily fortified for them to assault.

The first modern mechanically fused high explosive anti-personnel land mines were created by Confederate troops of Brigadier General Gabriel J.

Mitchell's grandparents, married in 1863, were Annie Fitzgerald and John Stephens, who had also emigrated from Ireland and was a Captain in the Confederate States Army.

The other women were: Nancy Hart, Lucy Mathilda Kenny ( also known as Private Bill Thompson of the Confederate States Army ) and Mary Musgrove.

Other trapdoor actions include the rare Confederate Tarpley carbine, the Austrian Wanzl, the Belgian Albini-Braendlin rifle and Terssen conversion ( some of which were made from French 1777 pattern flintlocks!

The term was initially applied in Ireland to the isolated bands of guerrillas resisting Oliver Cromwell's nine-month 1649 – 1650 campaign in Ireland, who were allied with Royalists through treaty with the Parliament of Confederate Ireland, signed at Kilkenny in January 1649 ; and later to dispossessed Catholics in Ulster following the Restoration.

These could be as much a danger to Confederate as to Union shipping, and were sometimes marked with flags that could be removed if Union attack was deemed imminent.

Rivers mined with Confederate torpedoes were often cleared by Unionists placing captured Confederate soldiers with knowledge of the torpedoes ' location in small boats ahead of the main fleet.