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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., A bit of partisan service. (search)
n escaped in the darkness. In the charge, Ames rode by my side. We. got off safe with our booty and prisoners. After daybreak, Colonel Wyndham followed at full speed for twenty miles on our track. All that he did was to go back to camp with a lot of broken down horses. Ames, like the saints, had been tried by fire; he was never doubted afterward. The time had now come for me to take a bolder flight and execute my plan of making a raid on headquarters. It was on the afternoon of March 7th, 1863, that I started from Aldie with 29 men on this expedition. Ames was the only one who knew its object. It was pitch-dark before we got near the cavalry pickets at Chantilly. We passed in between them and Centreville. Here a good point in the game was won, for once inside the Union lines we would be mistaken for their own men. By an accident one-half of my command got separated in the dark from the other, and it was nearly an hour before I could find them. We passed along close by th
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.63 (search)
t out of Missouri to reinforce Grant at Vicksburg, a force which gave him the victory there and opened all the Western waters to the Union fleets and armies. Even President Davis at last saw that General Holmes was unfit for his great command, and on the 7th of February, 1863, ordered LieutenantGeneral Edmund Kirby Smith to relieve him, and sent General Price to report to Smith. The latter assumed command of the Department of the TransMississippi at Alexandria, in Louisiana, on the 7th of March, 1863. Taylor was left in command of Louisiana, and Magruder of Texas. Holmes was put in command of the District of Arkansas. The change resulted in very little, if any, advantage to the Confederacy, for Smith was even feebler than Holmes, and though attempting to do a great deal more did almost nothing. General Price reached Little Rock on the 25th of March and was assigned to the command of Hindman's division. The state of affairs in Arkansas at that time is quite accurately depicte
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 6.49 (search)
o Mr. Davis, the President of the Confederacy, immediately after the occurrence of those events, and are official and have the merit of being written when events were fresh and before either prejudice or personal feeling could have biased. From these, chiefly, I take this narrative.--E. K. S. by E. Kirby Smith, General, C. S. A. Soon after my arrival in the Trans-Mississippi Department General E. Kirby Smith took command of all the Confederate forces west of the Mississippi River March 7th, 1863, and held it until the end of the war.--editors. I became convinced that the valley of the Red River was the only practicable line of operations by which the enemy could penetrate the country. This fact was well understood and appreciated by their generals. I addressed myself to the task of defending this line with the slender means at my disposal. Fortifications were erected on the lower Red River; Shreveport and Camden were fortified, and works were ordered on the Sabine and the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The Confederate cruisers. (search)
ition. No further attempt was made to remove the vessel, and she remained at Calais as a depot ship. In March, 1865, Barron turned her over to Bulloch, and an attempt was made to sell her; but as the Confederacy had now come to an end, Bulloch could give no legal title, and the ship was eventually delivered to the United States. In the latter part of 1862 a new cruiser, of the same type as the Florida, was projected by the Confederate agents in Liverpool. She was launched on the 7th of March, 1863, and was called the Alexandra. The suspicions of Mr. Dudley, United States consul at Liverpool, were aroused, and near the end of March Mr. Adams brought the subject to the notice of the Foreign Office, at the same time forwarding affidavits that left no doubt of the vessel's character. As a result she was seized by the customs officers, and the case was tried in the following June before the Court of Exchequer. The court, in interpreting the Foreign Enlistment Act, held that there
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 135 (search)
n form as good an idea of affairs below as I can. I shall not believe in the safety of the Indianola until I see her. The firing of the heavy guns may have been a ruse to entice some more of our gunboats down there, but it won't succeed. Brown may be there and out of coal, and I am afraid to set a coal-barge adrift for fear the ram might pick it up and be enabled to cut around with it, for they have a short supply now. D. D. Porter. Richmond Examiner account. Richmond, Va., March 7, 1863. In the early part of the war, the Southern Confederacy was much diverted with the Yankee fright at masked batteries, little thinking the day would soon come for them to turn the tables on us and join in a general guffaw over our panic at gunboats. During the summer of 1862, the newspapers (believed by the immense Conrad) pleaded earnestly for the fortification of coasts, harbors, and rivers, and endeavored to prepare the public mind for the disasters which would inevitably ensue as
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
anding niggers. After spending an hour in pleasant chat, I withdrew, and meeting Cram, we spent the night till near twelve o'clock, talking and walking about among the crowd in the hotel. This morning I left at eight o'clock and reached here about one P. M., being half a day behind my time. On the wharf at Acquia Creek I met Reynolds, on his way out, having just received his leave, and having been, as I expected, awaiting my return to have his granted. Headquarters Fifth Army Corps, March 7, 1863. Before this reaches you, you will have seen Alexander Coxe, who left this morning for home. I am most truly sorry to lose him, for he has not only rendered himself most useful to me, but has attached himself to me as a friend, from his manly character and social qualities. I sincerely hope he will be benefited by rest and medical treatment at home, and will be able to return. Captain Jay has joined me, and seems quite a clever gentleman. We have also had at our mess John Willia
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, North Carolina, 1863 (search)
rne to Trenton, Pollocksville, Young's Cross Roads and SwansboroughMASSACHUSETTS--3d Infantry. NEW YORK--2 Batteries 3d Light Arty.; 24th Indpt. Battery Light Arty.; 132d and 158th Infantry. PENNSYLVANIA--158th, 168th, 171st and 175th Infantry. March 7: Skirmish, Core CreekMASSACHUSETTS--25th Infantry. NEW YORK--3d Cavalry (Cos. "A," "E" and "H"). Union loss, 2 wounded. March 7: Skirmish near DoverNEW YORK--3d Cavalry (Detachment). PENNSYLVANIA--58th Infantry. March 7-14: Expedition from NewMarch 7: Skirmish near DoverNEW YORK--3d Cavalry (Detachment). PENNSYLVANIA--58th Infantry. March 7-14: Expedition from Newberne to Mattamuskeet LakeNEW YORK--3d Cavalry (Co. "F"); 3d Arty. (Detachment). PENNSYLVANIA--101st and 103d Infantry. March 8-16: Expedition against NewberneConfederate Reports. March 10-13: Demonstration on NewberneMASSACHUSETTS--27th Infantry. March 13-14: Skirmishes, Deep Gully, NewberneMASSACHUSETTS--44th (Cos. "A" and "G") and 46th Infantry. NEW YORK--3d Cavalry (Detachment). Union loss, 2 killed, 4 wounded. Total, 6. March 14: Action, Fort AndersonNEW YORK--92d Infantry. March 23:
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Tennessee, 1863 (search)
and 39th Infantry. MINNESOTA--2nd Battery Light Arty. OHIO--Battery "A" 1st Light Arty.; 15th, 49th and 101st Infantry. WISCONSIN--15th Infantry. March 6-7: Skirmishes, Christiana and MiddletonINDIANA--3rd Cavalry (Detachment); 32nd and 39th Infantry. OHIO--49th Infantry. Union loss, 5 wounded. March 6: Skirmish, Methodist Church, Shelbyville Pike, near MurfreesboroughILLINOIS--21st Infantry. INDIANA--3rd Cavalry (Detachment). MINNESOTA--2nd Battery Light Arty. WISCONSIN--15th Infantry. March 7: Skirmish, MiddletonINDIANA--3rd Cavalry. March 8: Skirmish near CarthageOHIO--11th Infantry (2 Cos.), forage train. March 8: Skirmish, Harpeth River, near TriuneTENNESSEE--1st East Cavalry. UNITED STATES--Battery "I" 4th Arty. Union loss, 2 wounded. March 8-12: Expedition from Franklin to ColumbiaKENTUCKY--3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th Cavalry. MICHIGAN--2nd and 4th Cavalry. OHIO--Battery "D" 1st Light Arty. (Section). PENNSYLVANIA--7th and 9th Cavalry. March 8-12: Expedition from La GrangeILL
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, P. H. Allabach (search)
P. H. Allabach Col. 131st Penn. InfantryMarch 7, 1863, to May 25, 1863. 2d Brigade, 3d Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac Col. 131st Penn. InfantrySept. 12, 1862, to February 15, 1863. 2d Brigade, 3d Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, J. B. Clark (search)
J. B. Clark Col. 123d Penn. InfantryFeb. 15, 1863, to March 7, 1863. 2d Brigade, 3d Division, Fifth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
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