Part 1 (Serial Number 95)

PART I. – Reports

January 1-April 3, 1865. – The Richmond (Virginia) Campaign.*

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*Continued from Vols. XL and XLII, and, in addition to the separate events here enumerated, embracing the siege of Petersburg and Richmond

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Note: Specific reports will appear below as they are posted at Beyond the Crater.  Look for reports to start showing up here in October 2011, after the reports from Volume XLII, Part I have all been posted.

• Summary Of the Principal Events of the Siege of Petersburg in 1865 and the Appomattox Campaign

Siege of Petersburg (1865)

• Number 1. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, U. S. Army, commanding Armies of the United States, Including operations March, 1864-May, 1865
• Number 2. Abstract from tri-monthly returns, showing the "present for duty equipped," or effective strength of the armies operating against Richmond, under Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, for January 31, February 28, March 20, March 31, and April 10, 1865
• Number 3. Return of casualties in the Union forces at Hatcher's Run (otherwise known as Dabney's Mill, Armstrong's Mill, Rowanty Creek, and Vaughan Road) and Fort Stedman
• Number 4. Siege of Petersburg Itineraries of the Army of the Potomac, Sheridan's Cavalry Command, and the Army of the James (January-April 1865)
• Number 5. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Major General George G. Meade, U. S. Army, commanding Army of the Potomac, of operations February 5-7 and March 25
• Number 6. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Bvt. Col. James C. Duane, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, of operations January 14-February 25
• Number 7. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Lieutenant Col Nathaniel Michler, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, of operations March 11-18
• Number 8. Siege of Petersburg Report of Major Frank W. Hess, Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 9. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Bvt. Brigadier General Henry L. Abbot, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Siege Train, of operation January 1 - March 31
• Number 10. Siege of Petersburg Report of Major George Ager, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, of operations March 25
• Number 11. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Henry H. Pierce, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Fort Brady, of operations January 23-25
• Number 12. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain William C. Faxon, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Fort Emery, of operations March 25
• Number 13. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Lieutenant Henry A. Pratt, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Batteries Parsons and Wilcox, of operations January 23-24
• Number 14. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Frank D. Bangs, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Battery No. 5, of operations March 25
• Number 15. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Henry D. Patterson, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Fort Morton, of operations March 25
• Number 16. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Ebenezer P. Mason, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Battery Sawyer, of operations January 23-24
• Number 17. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant John O'Brien, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Battery No. 4, of operations March 25
• Number 18. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Robert Lewis, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Company L, of operations March 25
• Number 19. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Azro Drown, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Battery No. 9, of operations March 25
• Number 20. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant William H. H. Bingham, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, of operations March 25
• Number 21. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieut. James H. Casey, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, of operations March 25
• Number 22. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Charles N. Silliman, First Connecticut Heavy Artillery, commanding Battery Spofford, of operations January 24
• Number 23. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieut. George Booth, Ninth Battery Massachusetts Light Artillery, of operations March 25
• Number 24. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Joseph W. B. Wright, Fourth Battery Massachusetts Light Artillery, of operations March 25
• Number 25. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Major Christian Woerner, Third Battery New Jersey Light Artillery, of operations March 25
• Number 26. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Samuel A. McClellan, Battery G, First New York Light Artillery, of operations March 25
• Number 27. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Thomas C. Rice, Battery B, First Pennsylvania Light Artillery, of operations March 25
• Number 28. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Valentine H. Stone, Batteries C and I, Fifth U. S. Artillery, of operations March 25
• Number 29. Siege of Petersburg Report of Maj. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys, U. S. Army, commanding Second Army Corps, of operations February 5-11
• Number 30. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Bvt. Major General Nelson A. Miles, U. S. Army, commanding First Division, of operations February 5-7 and March 25
• Number 31. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel George W. Scott, Sixty-first New York Infantry, commanding First Brigade, of operations March 25
• Number 32. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Patrick H. Bird, Twenty-eighth Massachusetts Infantry, Second Brigade, of operations March 25
• Number 33. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain William H. Terwilliger, Sixty-third New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 34. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel James J. Smith, Sixty-ninth New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 35. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain John Smith, Eighty-eighth New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 36. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel George von Schack, Seventh New York Infantry, commanding Third Brigade of operations February 5-7
• Number 37. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel Augustus Funk, Thirty-ninth New York Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, of operations March 25
• Number 38. Siege of Petersburg Report of Major Jacob Scheu, Seventh New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 39. Siege of Petersburg Report of Major John McE. Hyde, Thirty-ninth New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 40. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Henry M. Karples, Fifty-second New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 41. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Lewis W. Husk, One hundred and eleventh New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 42. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain I. Hart Wilder, One hundred and twenty-sixth New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 43. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Brigadier General John Ramsey, Eighth New Jersey Infantry, commanding Fourth Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 44. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel William Glenny, Sixty-fourth New York Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 45. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel William M. Mintzer, Fifty-third Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 46. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel George C. Anderson, Fifty-third Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 47. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel St. Clair A. Mulholland, One hundred and sixteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 48. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain James H. Hamlin, One hundred and forty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 49. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Alfred A. Rhinehart, One hundred and forty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 50. Siege of Petersburg Report of Major Seward F. Gould, Fourth New York Heavy Artillery, of operations February 5-7
• Number 51. Siege of Petersburg Report of Brigadier General Thomas A. Smyth, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division of operations February 5-11
• Number 52. Siege of Petersburg Report of Brigadier General William Hays, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division of operations March 25
• Number 53. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel William A. Olmstead, Fifty-ninth New York Infantry, commanding First Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 54. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph W. Spaulding, Nineteenth Maine Infantry, of operations February 5-11
• Number 55. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Rice, Nineteenth Massachusetts Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 56. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur R. Curtis, Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 57. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel George W. La Point, Seventh Michigan Infantry, of operations, February 5-7
• Number 58. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Frank Houston, First Minnesota Infantry, of operations February 5-11
• Number 59. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel James A. Jewell, Fifty-ninth New York Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 60. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Charles H. Dygert, One hundred and fifty-second New York Infantry, of operations February 5-11
• Number 61. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel John H. Stover, One hundred and eighty-fourth Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations February 5-11
• Number 62. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Clement E. Warner, Thirty-sixth Wisconsin Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 63. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel Mathew Murphy, One hundred and eighty-second New York Infantry (Sixty-ninth National Guard Artillery), commanding Second Brigade, of operations February 5
• Number 64. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel James P. McIvor, One hundred and seventieth New York Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 65. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Francis E. Pierce, One hundred and eighth New York Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 66. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel A. Moore, Fourteenth Connecticut Infantry, of operations February 5-11
• Number 67. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Major General Gershom Mott, U. S. Army, commanding Third Division, of operations February 5-7
• Number 68. Siege of Petersburg Report of Brigadier General Regis de Trobriand, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade of operations February 5-9
• Number 69. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain John W. Shafer, Twentieth Indiana Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 70. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel Russell B. Shepherd, First Maine Heavy Artillery of operations March 25
• Number 71. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Madison M. Cannon, Fortieth New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 72. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain James McKenna, Seventy-third New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 73. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Nathan H. Vincent, Eighty-sixth New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 74. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Charles H. Weygant, One hundred and twenty-fourth New York Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 75. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Frederick W. Lewis, Ninety-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 76. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain John B. Fite, One hundred and tenth Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 77. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Brigadier General George W. West, Seventeenth Maine Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 78. Siege of Petersburg Report of Brigadier General Byron R. Pierce, U. S. Army, commanding Second Brigade, of operations March 25
• Number 79. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Bvt. Brigadier General Robert McAllister, Eleventh New Jersey, Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, of operations February 5-6 and March 25
• Number 80. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain James F. Mansfield, Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 81. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Rivers, Eleventh Massachusetts Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 82. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Colonel Francis Price, Seventh New Jersey Infantry, of operations February 5-7 and March 25
• Number 83. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Major Henry Hartford, Eighth New Jersey Infantry, of operations February 5-7 and March 25-26
• Number 84. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel John Schoonover, Eleventh New Jersey Infantry, of operations February 5
• Number 85. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Charles F. Gage, Eleventh New Jersey Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 86. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Abram L. Lockwood, One hundred and twentieth New York Infantry, of operations February 5-7
• Number 87. Siege of Petersburg Report of Major Walter F. Scott, One hundred and twentieth New York Infantry of operations March 25
• Number 88. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel John G. Hazard, First Rhode Island Light Artillery, commanding Artillery Brigade, of operations February 5-7 and March 25
• Number 89. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Captain John W. Roder, Battery K, Fourth U. S. Artillery, of operations February 5-11
• Number 90. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Edward S. Smith, Fifteenth Battery New York Light Artillery, commanding section Battery K, Fourth U. S. Artillery, of operations February 6-11
• Number 91. Siege of Petersburg Report of Major General Governeur K. Warren, U. S. Army, commanding Fifth Army Corps, of operations February 5-7
• Number 92. Siege of Petersburg Report of Surg. T. Rush Spencer, U. S. Army, Medical Director, of operations February 5-April 30
• Number 93. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Brigadier General Horatio G. Sickel, One hundred and ninety-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding First Brigade, First Division, of operations February 5-7
• Number 94. Siege of Petersburg Report of Brigadier General Joshua L. Chamberlain, U. S. Army, commanding First Brigade, of operations March 25
• Number 95. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel Allen L. Burr, One hundred and eighty-ninth New York Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 96. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Brigadier General Edgar M. Gregory, Ninety-first Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of operations March 25
• Number 97. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Brigadier General Alfred L. Pearson, One hundred and fifty-fifth Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 98. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain George R. Abbott, First Battalion, Maine Sharpshooters, of operations March 25
• Number 99. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Walter G. Morrill, Twentieth Maine Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 100. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel James A. Cunningham, Thirty-second Massachusetts Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 101. Siege of Petersburg Report of Major William O. Colt, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding Sixteenth Michigan Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 102. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Chauncey P. Rogers, Eighty-third Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 103. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Eli G. Sellers, Ninety-first Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 104. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Bvt. Lieut. Col. Henry O'Neill, One hundred and eighteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations February 5-7 and March 25
• Number 105. Siege of Petersburg Reports of Bvt. Major General Romeyn B. Ayres, U. S. Army, commanding Second Division, of operations February 5-7
• Number 106. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Brigadier General Frederick Winthrop, Fifth New York Veteran Infantry, commanding First Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 107. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel Richard N. Bowerman, Fourth Maryland Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 108. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Brigadier General James Gwyn, One hundred and eighteenth Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 109. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Brigadier General Henry A. Morrow, Twenty-fourth Michigan Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, Third Division, of operations February 5-6
• Number 110. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel Thomas F. McCoy, One hundred and seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, of operations February 6-9
• Number 111. Siege of Petersburg Report of Captain Aaron Bright, jr., Eighty-eighth Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations February 5-10
• Number 112. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel Thomas F. McCoy, One hundred and seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations February 5-6
• Number 113. Siege of Petersburg Report of Major Henry J. Sheafer, One hundred and seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations February 6-9
• Number 114. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Horatio N. Warren, One hundred and forty-second Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations February 5-10
• Number 115. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Fitzhugh, First New York Light Artillery, commanding Artillery Brigade, of operations February 5-7
• Number 116. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Major General Frank Wheaton, U. S. Army, commanding First Division, Sixth Army Corps, of operations February 5-8
• Number 117. Siege of Petersburg Report of Bvt. Brigadier General Joseph E. Hamblin, Sixty-fifth New York Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, of operations March 25
• Number 118. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel Oliver Edwards, Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Infantry, commanding Third Brigade, of operations March 25
• Number 119. Siege of Petersburg Report of Colonel James M. Warner, First Vermont Heavy Artillery, commanding First Brigade, Second Division, of operations March 25
• Number 120. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel John G. Parr, One hundred and thirty-ninth Pennsylvania Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 121. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Amasa S. Tracy, Second Vermont Infantry, Second Brigade, of operations March 25
• Number 122. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Horace W. Floyd, Third Vermont Infantry, commanding Third and Fourth Vermont Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 123. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Ronald A. Kennedy, Fifth Vermont Infantry, of operations March 25
• Number 124. Siege of Petersburg Report of Lieutenant Colonel Sumner H. Lincoln, Sixth Vermont Infantry, of operations March 25

Appomattox Campaign (April 3-9, 1865)