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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Virginia scenes in 1861. (search)
But it was only a little while after it had been bestowed that there arrived one day at our lodgings in Culpeper a huge, bashful Mississippi scout,--one of the most daring in the army,--with the frame of a Hercules and the face of a child. He had been bidden to come there by his general, he said, to ask, if I would not give him an order to fetch some cherished object from my dear old home — something that would prove to me how much they thought of the maker of that flag! A week later I was the astonished recipient of a lamented bit of finery left within the lines, a wrap, brought to us by Dillon himself, with a beaming face. Mounted on a load of fire-wood, he had gone through the Union pickets, and while peddling poultry had presented himself at the house of my uncle, Dr. Fairfax, in Alexandria, whence he carried off his prize in triumph, with a letter in its folds telling us how relatives left behind longed to be sharing the joys and sorrows of those at large in the Confederacy
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 15.61 (search)
ht shell were making but little impression upon her turret, Jones ordered the pilot to disregard the Monitor altogether, and carry out his first instructions by placing the Virginia as near to the Minnesota as possible. Instead, however, of taking us within a half mile of that ship, as we afterward learned he could have done, he purposely ran us aground nearly two miles off. This he did through fear of passing under the Minnesota's terrible broadside, as he confessed subsequently to Captain A. B. Fairfax, Confederate States navy, from whose lips I received it. After fifteen or twenty minutes we were afloat again. We sheered off from the Monitor in order to get a chance to turn and ram her. This was the time when Captain Van Brunt was under the impression we were in retreat and the little battery chasing us. As soon as the move could be effected, we turned and ran into the Monitor, and at the same time gave her a shot from our bow pivot-gun. Had our iron prow been intact, as I
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.), Commissioned and Warrant officers of the Navy of the Cofederate States January 1, 1864. (search)
861.Commanding navy yard, Rocketts. CommanderW. W. HunterPennsylvaniaLouisiana June 6, 1861.June 6, 1861.March 26, 1861.Commanding squadron, Savannah. CommanderMurray MasonVirginiaVirginia June 10, 1861.Oct. 23, 1862.March 26, 1861.Naval rendezvous, Richmond. CommanderE. FarrandNew YorkFlorida March 26, 1861.June 6, 1861.March 26, 1861.Special service. CommanderC. H. McBlairMarylandMaryland Oct. 19, 1861.Oct. 23, 1862.March 26, 1861.Commanding Confederate steamer Tuskaluza. CommanderA. B. FairfaxVirginiaVirginia June 10, 1861.Oct. 23, 1862.March 26, 1861.Special service. CommanderRichard L. PageVirginiaVirginia June 10, 1861.Oct. 23, 1862.March 26, 1861.Commanding naval station, Charlotte, N. C. CommanderFrederick ChatardMarylandMaryland June 15, 1861.Oct. 23, 1862.March 26, 1861.Naval battery, Drewry's Bluff. CommanderArthur SinclairVirginiaVirginia June 10, 1861.Oct. 23, 1862.March 26, 1861.Special service. CommanderC. H. KennedyVirginiaNorth Carolina June 25, 1861.Oct. 23,
The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
the North is very great. Now the South can appreciate the brotherly love. Gen. Scott is in his second childhood — has to be fed and carried about like an infant. Correct list of Naval resignations, 1861. Commodores.--L. Rossean, F. Forrest, J. Tatnall. Captains.--V. M. Randolph, F. Buchanan, D. J. Ingraham, J. S. Nichols, G. A. Magruder, L. M. Powell, Sam Baum, W. F. Lynch. Commanders.--S. S. Lee, W. C. Whittle, C. C. Turner, R. G. Robb, E. Fanand, C. H. McBlair, A. B. Fairfax, Wm. McBlair, R. L. Page, A. Sinclair, C. H. Kennedy, T. W. Brent, M. F., Maury, R. Semnes, John R. Tucker, T. R. Roots, E. M. Yard, H. J. Hartstene, T. T. Hunter, C. F. McIntosh. Lieutenants.--C. F. Spotswood, F. B. Renhaw, J. H. North, R. B. Pegram, G. T. Sinclair, H. Lewis, G. W. Harrison, J. N. Moffitt, Washington Gwathmy, T. B. Huger, John Rutledge, C. R. Jones, J. Wilkinson, C. M. Morris, C. M. Fauntleroy, N. B. Fitzgerald, A. Barbot, J. S. Maury, C. W. Hays, R. Fairfax, W. A.
The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rom the 19th of April, 1861. Captain G. A. Magruder, from the 22d of April, 1861. Captain Isaac Mayo, from the 18th of May, 1861. Commander Thomas J. Page, from the 22d of April, 1861. Commander S. S. Lee, from the 22d of April, 1861. Commander Robert G. Robb, from the 18th of April, 1861. Commander Arthur Sinclair, from the 18th of April, 1861. Commander William T. Muse, from the 2d of April, 1861. Commander Thomas R. Rootes, from the 19th of April, 1861. Commander A. B. Fairfax, from the 18th of April, 1861. Commander John R. Tucker, from the 18th of April, 1861. Commander Richard L. Page, from the 18th of April, 1861. Commander Thomas T. Hunter, from the 23d of April, 1861. Commander Charles F. McIntosh, from the 20th of April, 1861. Commander Wm. McBlair, from the 20th of April, 1861. Commander M. F. Maury, from the 26th of April, 1861. Lieutenant E. L. Winder, from the 22d of April, 1861. Lieutenant R. D. Minor, from the 22d of A
The Daily Dispatch: June 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Lines, & C. (search)
, June 24, 1862. A Naval General Court Martial is hereby ordered to convene at the city of Richmond, Virginia, on the 5th day of July, 1862, or as soon thereafter as practicable, for the trial of Flag-Officer Josiah Tatnall, and of such other persons as may be legally brought before it. The Court will be composed of the following officers, any five of whom are empowered to act, viz: Captain Lawrence Rousseau, Captain Franklin Buchanan, Captain Sydney S. Lee, Commander Robert G. Robb, Commander Murray Mason, Commander Eben Farrand, Commander A. B. Fairfax, Commander M. F. Maury, Commander Geo. Minor, Lieutenant Wm. L. Maury, Lieutenant Robert B. Pegram; and Robert Ould is hereby appointed the Judge Advocate. The above being the greatest number of officers that can be convened without manifest injury to the service. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, The Court will meet at 12 o'clock M., at the Navy Department. je 26--tJy5th.