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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of Company I , 61st Virginia Infantry , Mahone
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The monument to Mosby
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 10 (search)
The War News.
We have some further particulars of the naval fight off Mobile, which make it more disastrous to the enemy than represented by the first reports, and show that, on our part, the affair was one of desperate bravery, almost unequalled in the annals of naval warfare.
The following official account of the engagement has been received by the Secretary of the Navy:
"Mobile, August 9, 1864. "Hon. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy:
"The enemy steamed in through main entrance with four monitors and about sixteen heavy vessels-of-war.
The Tecumseh, Commander T. A. M. Craven, was sunk with nearly all her crew, and also another gunboat — the Philippi, which I subsequently learned.
The Richmond, Hartford and Brooklyn, in line of battle, followed by the remainder of the fleet, pushed by Fort Morgan under full headway, where they were encountered by the Tennessee, Morgan, Gaines and Selma.
"The Tennessee and the other vessels steamed in close range of the a
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Wright Petersburg . (search)
Wright's battery at Petersburg.
Near Petersburg, August 9, 1864. To the Editor of the Richmond Dispatch:
In the letter of your correspondent, "X," dated Petersburg, Virginia, August 2, and published in your issue of the third instant, occurs the following statement:
"In my report of Saturday I intended to have made mention of the splendid manner in which the artillery firing was directed by Major W. H. Caskie, of your city.
The battery of Wright, of his command, is especially deserving of honorable mention."
I desire to correct the errors into which your correspondent has been misled.
The only connection Major Caskie had with Wright's battery during the fight of July 30 was to deliver a message from Colonel Jones, chief of artillery, to Captain Wright.--Nor is it true that Wright's battery belongs to Major William H. Caskie's command, but to Major J. C. Cutts's battalion, who was in command of his battalion during the whole of the engagement.
It might be infe
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Additional Northern News. (search)
Additional Northern News.
The New York Herald of the 22d instant contains some intelligence, of which we give the following brief summary:
A land movement will be speedily made against Mobile by the roads leading up the left side of the bay. In reply to a summons to surrender Fort Morgan, the following note, from General Page, is published:
Headquarters, Fort Morgan, August 9, 1864. Rear Admiral D. G. Farragut, United States Navy; Major-General Gordon Granger, United States Army: Sirs:
I am prepared to sacrifice life, and will only surrender when I have no means of defence.
I do not understand that, while being communicated with under flag of truce, the Tennessee should be towed within range of my guns. Respectfully, &c., R. L. Page, Brigadier-General Commanding, Confederate States Army.
It appears that Anderson, who surrendered Fort Gaines, first made his offer to capitulate to Major-General Granger, commanding the forces which had landed o
Promotion.
Colonel Archibald C. Godwin, a native of Nansemond county, Virginia, has been promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in the Confederate service, his commission to date from the 9th of August, 1864. General Godwin was a resident of California at the breaking out of the war, where, although a very young man, he occupied a high position as a practicing lawyer.
Upon the passage of the Ordinance of Secession by his native State, he came hither, and was assigned by the Confederate Government to the command of the military prison at Salisbury, North Carolina.
Subsequently, upon the establishment of a prison here for captured Yankees, he was transferred to its management, but was afterwards made provost-marshal of Richmond, which position he filled with zeal and efficiency for upwards of twelve months. Feeling anxious for a more active life in the field, he resigned the office of provost-marshal and accepted the colonelcy of a North Carolina regiment, organized from citi