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Confederates and lost
In April and May, the Confederates lost almost as many men to death by disease in Corinth as had been killed in battle at Shiloh.
The account of the township ’ s formation was lost when the Confederates burned the county seat Chambersburg in 1864, but according to the recollection of older citizens the township was organized ca.
West Manchester Township farmers and residents lost horses and mules to the Confederates.
This lost opportunity held up McClellan for two additional weeks while he tried to convince the U. S. Navy to bypass the Confederates ' big guns at Yorktown and Gloucester Point and ascend the York River to West Point and outflank the Warwick Line.
He lost his friendship with William Sherman when he quarreled with him over Sherman's tendency to be lenient toward former Confederates.
In the end the Polish loyalist cause was lost because King Stanisław August Poniatowski decided to join with the Targowica Confederates ( July 22-23 ), which effectively forced the despondent Prince Poniatowski to terminate military resistance.
Union casualties of 28, 000 engaged were 2, 325 ( 443 killed, 1, 807 wounded, and 75 missing ); Confederates lost 2, 685 ( 325 killed, 1560 wounded, and 800 missing ) of 18, 000.
During this divisive period the Confederates missed a second strategic chance to reorganise while their opponents were engaged in the Second English Civil War ( 1648 – 49 ), which was lost by their royalist allies.
The Union troops suffered 41 men killed or wounded, while the Confederates lost 45.
Reynolds ' forces lost a total of 88 casualties ( 10 killed, 14 wounded, and 64 captured ); Confederate casualties were unreported, but Reynolds and Kimball claimed 100 Confederates were killed and twenty were captured.
In an attempt to appear superior both the Union and the Confederates increased the enemies losses and both reported that they had lost around three-hundred men.
The Confederates had lost six men, had thirty-three wounded, and thirteen men missing.
Union losses totaled nearly 450 ( including over 200 prisoners ), while the Confederates lost only twenty-five men.
The Confederates lost 133 ( 11 dead, 88 wounded, 34 captured ); 71 Confederate horses were killed and 12 were captured.
Stone lost about 1, 000 men killed, wounded, captured, and drowned during Ball's Bluff, while the Confederates lost less than 160.
The Confederates lost 23 killed, 58 wounded, and 62 missing.
The Confederates lost fewer men — 538 — but that totaled 23 % of their total force.
The Confederates lost 4, 000 cavalrymen during this period but did cause Rosecrans some concern over his supply lines.
Although the Confederates had won a clear victory, they had lost a vital piece of the Weldon Railroad and from this point on they would be able to transport supplies by rail only as far north as Stony Creek Depot, south of Petersburg.
The Confederates had lost a key section of the Weldon Railroad and were forced to carry supplies by wagon from the railroad at Stony Creek up the Boydton Plank Road into Petersburg.
The Confederates lost two key commanders, Mouton and Green, and suffered casualties they could not afford.
Union losses numbered 28 dead, 5 wounded, 86 missing or unaccounted for, 188 captured, 260 horses and a 12-pound howitzer ; the Confederates lost three killed and five wounded, of whom two died the next day.

Confederates and 3
On the third day of battle, July 3, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12, 500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.
The 3500 Union casualties were over 3 for every 1 of the Confederates ; Grant admitted the tactic had been a " stupendous failure ".
* December 4 – American Civil War – Sherman's March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General Sherman's campaign of destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to Savannah, GA ( Union forces suffer more than 3 times the casualties as the Confederates, however ).
Two miles ( 3 km ) behind the front lines, out of sight of the Confederates, the men of the USCT division were trained for two weeks on the plan.
At 3: 30, the Confederates in the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry assaulted the bridge across the Tishomingo.
On November 3, 1863, the Confederates dispatched General James Longstreet north to attack Burnside at Knoxville.
Intelligence that the Confederates were working to develop an ironclad caused consternation for the Union, but Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles waited for Congress to meet to request permission to consider building armored vessels ; Congress gave this permission on August 3, 1861.
The Battle of Gettysburg lasted until July 3 and ends in the defeat and retreat of the Confederates.
An attempt of Bar Confederates ( including Casimir Pulaski ) to kidnap king Poniatowski on 3 November 1771 led the Hapsburgs to withdraw their support from the confederates, expelling them from their territories.
Finally, after a lengthy standoff, the largest Union Army of the war under General George B. McClellan chased the retreating Confederates through the Williamsburg Line and westward literally to the " Gates of Richmond ", where the swampy upper reaches of the Chickahominy River created a natural barrier behind which the defenders successfully held the Confederate capital, essentially prolonging the War for 3 more devastating years.
On June 3, 1864, a second battle was fought at Cold Harbor, between Union army under General Ulysses S. Grant and the Confederates under General Lee.
After the Confederates had pushed two Union Missouri State Militia Cavalry Regiments two miles ( 3 km ) north, the smoking ruins of burning homes on the outskirts of Springfield came into view.
This meant that the Confederates had to retreat back to Texas, reaching it by mid-April, losing over 1, 500 men out of an original force of 3, 700 men.
In 1792, upon the Confederates ' victory, Kołłątaj emigrated to Leipzig and Dresden in Saxony, where he co-authored with Ignacy Potocki On the Adoption and Fall of the Polish May 3 Constitution ( 1793 ).
The reforms instituted by the Great Sejm and the Constitution of May 3, 1791, were undone by the Targowica Confederation and the intervention of the Russian Empire at the invitation of the Targowica Confederates.
During the evacuation of Richmond by the Confederates on the night of April 2 – 3, 1865, the retreating troops were under orders to burn many of the munitions dumps and industrial warehouses that would have been valuable to the North.
Sedgwick first engaged the Confederates at 3 p. m. when Maj. Gen. Albion P. Howe's division of the VI Corps drove in Confederate skirmishers and seized a range of high ground three-quarters of a mile from the river.
Around 3 p. m., with the bulk of their force present, the Confederates commenced skirmishing, probing the defense maintained by Brig.
They returned to the main body of the Union force and, after observation and talking to a black man and a local woman as well, told the officers in command that the Confederates had between 3, 000 and 5, 000 men and 30 pieces of artillery.
* Captured by the Confederates at Vicksburg, May 3, 1863.
After midnight, in the wee hours of April 3, 1865, while the evacuating Confederates fired the city and looters ran wild in its streets, Taylor and Miss Saunders were married in the parlor of the Crenshaw house.
At 3 p. m. on August 1, the Confederates arrived at Folck's Mill, east of Cumberland.
As the Union Army pursued, and engaged the Confederates in the Battle of Namozine Church ( April 3 ) and the Battle of Amelia Springs ( April 5 ), Lee discovered that his route to Danville was blocked by fast-moving Union cavalry under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan.
Around 3: 00 p. m. the Federals began driving the Confederates back out of Mossy Creek towards Talbott's Station and Panther Creek.

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