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J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 47 (search)
Gen. Lee writes that he thinks the crisis (starvation in the army) past. Good. In South Carolina we hear of public meetings of submission, etc. January 19 Clear and frosty. Among the rumors, it would appear that the Senate in secret session has passed a resolution making Lee generalissimo. It is again said Mr. Seddon will resign, and be followed by Messrs. Benjamin and Mallory, etc. The following dispatch was received by the President yesterday: Tupelo, Miss., January 17th, 1865.-Roddy's brigade (cav.) is useless as at present located by the War Department. I desire authority to dispose of it to the best advantage, according to circumstances.-G. T. Beauregard, General. The President sends it to the Secretary of War with this indorsement: On each occasion, when this officer has been sent with his command to distant service, serious calamity to Alabama has followed. It is desirable to know what disposition Gen. Beauregard proposes to make of this force.-J.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The defense of Fort Fisher. (search)
ediately be added, and these with the Napoleon and the torpedoes I felt sure would successfully defend that portion of the work. The assaulting line on the right was directed at the angle or point of the L, and consisted of two thousand sailors and marines, Secretary Welles, in his report of the Navy Department, December 4th, 1865, says: Fourteen hundred sailors and marines were landed and participated in the direct assault ; but Admiral Porter in his report, dated off Fort Fisher, January 17th, 1865, says: I detailed 1600 sailors and 400 marines to accompany the troops in the assault — the sailors to board the sea-face, while the troops assaulted the land side.--editors. the greater portion of whom had flanked my torpedo lines by keeping close to the sea. Ordering the mound battery, and any other on the sea-face that could do so, to fire upon them, and the two Napoleons at the sally-port to join our Columbiad in pouring grape and canister into their ranks, I held in reserve the in
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 50: Second attack on Fort Fisher. (search)
words on this occasion to express his gratification: Navy Department, Jan. 17, 1865. Sir — The Department has just received your brief, but highly gratifyingan, U. S. Marine Corps. United States Steam-Frigate Wabash, at sea, January 17, 1865. Captain — In obedience to your order, I have the honor to make the fol Steedman. United States Steamer Ticonderoga, off Wilmington, N. C., January 17, 1865. Sir — I have the honor to lay before you the following report of the pE. Belknap. United States Steamer Canonicus, off Fort Fisher, N. C., January 17, 1865. Sir — I have the honor to report that during the actions of the 13th, r Thomas O. Selfridge. United States Steamer Huron. off Fort Fisher, January 17, 1865. Sir — I have the honor to report that having landed with the men of thnt W. B. Cushing. United States Steamer monticello, off Wilmington, January, 17, 1865. Sir — I have the honor to report the part taken by this vessel i
so laid out as to have an enfilading fire on the centre, where there was a redoubt guarding a sally-port, from which two Napoleons were run out as occasion required. At the river end of the palisade was a deep and muddy slough, across which was a bridge, the entrance on the river road into the fort; com. manding this bridge was a Napoleon gun. There were three mortars in rear of the land face. [no. 137. see page 818.] North Atlantic Squadron, U. S. flag-Ship Malvern, off Fort Fisher, Jan. 17, 1865. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.: Sir:--. . . I have since visited Fort Fisher and the adjoining works, and find their strength greatly beyond what I had conceived. An engineer might be excusable in saying they could not be captured except by regular siege. I wonder even now how it was done The work, as I said before, is really stronger than the Malakoff tower, which defied so long the combined power of France and England; and yet it is captured by a han
28) officers and four hundred and seventy-three (473) men. As soon as they are received, I will forward the reports of brigade and regimental commanders, and take advantage of the opportunity to call to the notice of the Major-General commanding the officers and regiments which have most distinguished themselves. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, Your most obedient servant, (Signed) W. H. Emory, Brevet Major-General, commanding. headquarters Nineteenth army corps, January 17, 1865. Official copy. (Signed) Duncan S. Walker, A. A. General. Indorsement on Report by Major-General Franklin. headquarters U. S. Forces, Western Louisiana, Grand Ecore, La., April 13, 1864. Respectfully forwarded: I desire also to express my sense of the great gallantry, and good sense and military judgment, shown by Brigadier-General Emory in the battles reported on. (Signed) Wm. B. Franklin, Major-General, commanding. headquarters First division, Nineteenth army co
after debate, was agreed to without a division. The title of the joint resolution was changed so as to read, An act to amend the several acts heretofore passed to provide for the enrolling and calling out of the national forces and for other purposes ; and it was approved by the President on the third of March, 1865. No. Lxxxix.--The Bill making Appropriations for the Support of the Army for the year ending June thirtieth, 1866, and for other purposes. In the House, on the seventeenth of January, 1865, Mr. Stevens, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June thirtieth, 1866. On the seventh of February, the bill, on motion of Mr. Stevens, was taken up, and Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, moved to amend it by adding a proviso: That no money appropriated by the act should be paid for the purpose of paying any railway company for the transportation of property or troops of the United States where such compan
in the department were reorganized into the Twenty-third Army Corps, and this force is the Army of the Ohio associated with the Knoxville, Atlanta, and Nashville campaigns. The Ninth Corps was attached to the department from March, 1863, to March, 1864. Burnside was succeeded in turn by Major-Generals J. G. Foster, J. M. Schofield, and George Stoneman. A cavalry division organized in April, 1864, was headed by Major-General Stoneman, and afterward by Colonels Capron and Garrard. On January 17, 1865, the troops still in the department (the Twenty-third Corps having gone to North Carolina) were annexed to the Department of the Cumberland. Major-General John McAllister Schofield (U. S.M. A. 1853) was born in Chautauqua County, New York, September 29, 1831. After garrison duty in Florida and South Carolina, he held the chair of natural philosophy at West Point and later at Washington University, St. Louis, where the outbreak of the Civil War found him. He had command of the Di
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ship-building. (search)
own selfpreservation. On Oct. 24, 1864, Secretary Seward, acting under instructions from the President, wrote to Charles Francis Adams, our minister to England, instructing him to give to Earl Russell the six months notice necessary to terminate the convention. Mr. Adams gave this notice Nov. 23, 1864. It will be noted that the executive department acted in this matter, without any authority from Congress. It assumed the right to annul the convention without legislative action. Jan. 17, 1865, Senator Sumner, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, reported to the Senate, with an amendment, the resolution which had passed the House at its last session. On the next day the resolution passed the Senate. On Feb. 4 the amendment was agreed to by the House, and, on Feb. 9, the resolution was approved and signed by the President in the following form: Joint resolution to terminate the treaty of eighteen hundred and seventeen, regulating the naval force on the lakes
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
the Senate that the Committee on the Conduct of the War enquire and report on the Wilmington fiasco. This is the beginning of a war on Grant. Gibbon has been assigned to the Twenty-fourth Corps, in Ord's place, who takes Butler's army. This has pleased him very much, and when here to-day to say good-by he was in quite a good humor. I shall probably have to send Webb to Gibbon's division, although I believe he would prefer remaining on my staff. Headquarters army of the Potomac, January 17, 1865. To-day we have the news that the second expedition has succeeded in taking Fort Fisher, which is a most important and brilliant success. It will, however, have a most damaging effect on Butler's case, and will also materially injure Weitzel's reputation. I must confess I thought Butler's report cleared him in every particular except two. First, he should not have wasted three days, waiting for the enemy, when he knew the fort was weakly garrisoned. Secondly, he should not have le
gn. In any event, the condition of the railroads will not permit the speedy removal of troops to the East; and I believe I can effect more good to the cause by an interview with the President than in any other way. I feel it my duty to propose this, unpleasant as the trip to Richmond at this time is. I go to Mobile to-night, where I hope to hear from you. I am, General, most respectfully, etc., R. Taylor, Lieut.-Genl. To Genl. Beauregard, Tupelo, Miss. Telegram. Tupelo, Jan. 17th, 1865. Col. G. W. Brent, Chief of Staff: Order General Smith to inspect works at Choctaw and Open Bluff, and give such orders as may be necessary for defence of rivers at those points; obstructions and torpedoes recommended for Tennessee River must be used there. G. T. Beauregard. Headquarters, Military division of the West, Tupelo, Miss., Jan. 18th, 1865. Genl. J. B. Hood, Comdg. Army of Tenn.: General,—General Beauregard directs that you will hold Lee's corps in readine
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