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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The opening of the lower Mississippi . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Farragut 's capture of New Orleans. (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The opposing forces in the operations at New Orleans, La. (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Fighting Farragut below New Orleans. (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Incidents of the occupation of New Orleans. (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Farragut 's demands for the surrender of New Orleans. (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Operations of 1861 about Fort Monroe . (search)
Operations of 1861 about Fort Monroe. Joseph B. Carr, Brevet Major-General, U. S. V.
Fort Monroe--and the old Hygeia Hotel, since torn down.
From a Lithograph.On the 24th of May, 1861, I arrived at Fort Monroe, with my regiment, the 2d New York Volunteers. Two days before Major-General B. F. Butler had arrived and assumed command of the department.
Previous to our arrival the fort contained, besides the regular garrison of four companies of artillery, the 4th Massachusetts Volunteers, a regiment of three-months men. We went into camp just over the border of Mill Creek, a stream dividing the fort from Virginia, and pitched our tents on a plowed field near a mansion known as the Segar House.
This camp was first called Camp Troy, and, later, Camp Hamilton.
Pickets were placed immediately on our arrival, and at once began operations by the capture of nine Confederate officers--one of them a surgeon.
The prisoners were brought before General Butler, confessed to being in arms
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The Peninsular campaign . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 5.21 (search)
Yorktown and Williamsburg.
Recollections of a private.--Iii. Warren Lee Goss.
Wagon train.
It was with open-eyed wonder that, as part of McClellan's army, we arrived at Old Point Comfort and gazed upon Fort Monroe, huge and frowning.
Negroes were everywhere, and went about their work with an air of importance born of their new-found freedom.
These were the contrabands for whom General Butler had recently invented that sobriquet.
We pitched our tents amid the charred and blackened ruins of what had been the beautiful and aristocratic village of Hampton.
The first thing I noticed about the ruins, unaccustomed as I was to Southern architecture, was the absence of cellars.
The only building left standing of all the village was the massive old Episcopal church.
Here Washington had worshiped, and its broad aisles had echoed to the footsteps of armed men during the Revolution.
In the church-yard the tombs had been broken open.
Many tombstones were broken and overthrown, a