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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 48 12 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 46 4 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 28 2 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 27 11 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 22 6 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 21 9 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 17 15 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 15 11 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 13 1 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 12 4 Browse Search
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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 33: (search)
of the Confederate privateer Alabama, and the capture of her most efficient ally, the Florida. We shall discuss these in the order of their importance. Naval fight in Mobile Bay. The enemy had long contemplated the possession of Mobile Bay guarded at its entrance by two imposing fortifications. Here was a difficult point to blockade; here was a nursery of the Confederate navy; and here vessels were already being constructed for raising the blockade. In the latter part of July, Gen. Canby sent Maj.-Gen. Gordon Granger, with such forces as he could collect, to co-operate with Admiral Farragut against the defences of Mobile Bay. On the 5th August the Federal fleet, numbering fourteen steamers and four monitors, carrying in all more than two hundred guns, and manned by twenty-eight hundred men, moved steadily up the main ship-channel into Mobile Bay. Having once passed Fort Morgan, this huge armada had to encounter a Confederate naval force composed of one iron-clad — the ra
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 43: (search)
le. Wilson's expedition. the expedition of Gen. Canby against Mobile and Central Alabama. stateme surrender of the Trans-Mississippi army to Gen. Canby. the downfall of the Confederacy complete. avourable to operations. On the 25th March, Gen. Canby commenced to move his forces to the attack. anger and A. J. Smith, (the whole commanded by Canby in person) marched from their camp on and nearin the siege operations. On the 26th March, Canby appeared in heavy force before Spanish Fort, a8th April. During the following day, however, Canby was sending up his army from about Spanish Fore city. About two o'clock in the afternoon, Gen. Canby with his forces, marched into Mobile, and pe River upon Tuscaloosa and Selma, in favour of Canby's operations against Mobile and Central Alabam Dick Taylor, on the 4th May, surrendered to Gen. Canby the forces, munitions of war, etc., in the D surrendered what remained of his command to Gen. Canby. The last action of the war had been a skir[4 more...]