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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 124 (search)
having been too busy in taking care of himself to think of such trifling matters as important official papers — among them a plan of Fort Pillow. The proclamation is a somewhat curious document as showing how very valorous a rebel brigadier-general may be only two days before he ignominiously runs away. I sent the interesting document by telegraph, in advance of this letter. The value of captured property amounts to over a million of dollars. There are nine steamboats — the Yazoo, H. R. W. Hill, Grampus, Ohio Belle, Admiral, Champion, De Soto, Red Rover, and Mars — worth four hundred thousand dollars. The first four were scuttled and sunk, but will be raised easily. There are seventy heavy position-guns of the first class, some of them navy guns, stolen from Norfolk. There are four mortars — small affairs, nothing like our thirteen-inch fellows. There are over ten thousand pounds of powder; one single magazine contains seven thousand pounds. Why they did not destroy it is a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 60 (search)
nticipating still more lively and vivid scenes on the approaching morrow. At five A. M., to-day, we arise and visit the deck of the Benton, and find we are at anchor one and a half miles above the city of Memphis. It is mild and clear, with a bright sun, and every indication of fair weather. Memphis lays spread out before us on the bluffs in all her beauty — her large and elegant buildings, and graceful domes and steeples presenting an inviting and imposing appearance. The steamers H. R. W. Hill, New National, Victoria, Kentucky and Acacia are laying at the wharf. Our fleet of ironclads, ordnance and supply steamers and transports, being in full view of the city, the bluffs at this early hour appear to be thronged with citizens. Two fine large wharf-boats are also to be seen, together with the charred, burning, skeleton wreck of the tug Gordon Grant, lying on the Island opposite where we lay, which was burned by the vandals last night. The timbers, or shape of the hull, is th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Diary of a Confederate soldier. (search)
er no longer waves o'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave. That proud banner, once the emblem of liberty, and manly independence, has been torn down by the hands of the intoxicated North. The people of the South cannot consent to live under a government in whose administration they virtually have no voice. They are, therefore, compelled to assert their independence, and withdraw from the Federal Union. May 4th, 1861.--Left Memphis to-night at 9 o'clock, on the steamer H. R. W. Hill, in the company of Hickory Rifles, under the command of Captain John D. Martin. Killed at Corinth, Mississippi, in command of a brigade. Our company marched in the afternoon to the Second Presbyterian church, where we were presented with a beautiful flag by the ladies of Memphis. The presentation was made by Miss Sallie White, and was responded to by Sergeant Chas. Pucci, Killed in battle. in a very appropriate and handsome speech. The Rev. Dr. Grundy, Died in Kentucky. pastor o
The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1860., [Electronic resource], Buenos Ayres. (search)
The recent steamboat explosion, &c. New Orleans, Nov. 5. --The explosion of the steamer H. R. W. Hill killed fifteen persons and wounded twenty. The Mobile tow-boat Baltic exploded yesterday, killing several and wounding others.
The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1860., [Electronic resource], The explosion of the H. R. W. Hill. (search)
The explosion of the H. R. W. Hill. --The explosion of the steamer H. R. W. Hill, near New Orleans, on the 1st inst., has been mentioned. Fifteen persons were killed and twenty wounded. The explosion was of a remarkable character. The boiler-head was driven out only from the upper part, and doubled over in its centre, having the appearance of a circular book cover half closed.--When the explosion took place this boiler-head was only partly bent over, consequently the steam and water escaped upwards in great force, and broke the floor of the saloon and damaged some of the state-rooms. As the steam and water gained egress, the pressure against the boiler-head caused it to fall over as already described, and then the steam and water took a horizontal course, dashing in the greatest fury aft over the cotton bales, where some forty-five persons, deck passengers and all hands, all Irishmen, were sleeping. Glidden Marks, of New Albany, Ind., was killed, and Henry Foster, of Memphis
The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Goldsboro' militia. (search)
Fatal occurrence. --Benjamin Franklin Martin, Esq., of Columbia, Tennessee, was killed at New Orleans a few days ago. The Crescent thus describes the unfortunate occurrence: The young man, we learn, was in the employment of Capt. Samuel G. Risk, to receive the levee dues of the 3d section of the city wharves, and while in discharge of his duties on Thursday evening, about seven o'clock, went on board the regular Memphis packet, H. R. W. Hill, and sat down on the rail which runs around the boiler deck, in jovial and friendly conversation with some of the officers of the boat. After a short time they all rose to separate, he to go home, when his boot-tie, came in contact with some obstacle, and unable to recover himself, fell backward on the lower deck, coming in contact with one of the hog-chains. By the kind and immediate attentions of Capt. Booker, of the Hill, he was conveyed to his residence, where the best medical care and attentive nursing proved unavailing. His spi
The Daily Dispatch: November 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Departure of troops. (search)
truck the boat, but the amount of the damage was not known at the time.--These gentlemen now bring the report, which is confirmed, that the gun boat Lexington has since sunk from the effects of her injuries. The wounded soldiers. The H. R. W. Hill, in command of Capt. Newell, arrived here soon after one o'clock, yesterday, (says the Memphis Appeal, of the 12th,) with a considerable number of the soldiers wounded at the battle opposite Columbus. The following is a list of their names ae groin; Gillon John, shot in the thigh and hip; Green Chas. E, wounded in the hand, hip and shoulder; Hyde F P, shot in the face; Hall Joe., shot in the thigh; Hows J S, shot in the leg; Herron G W. shot in the neck; Hogan John, shot in the arm; Hill A, shot in the body; James B W, wounded in the whist; Jackson Reuben, wounded in the hip; Keems W H, in the leg; Kennedy Jas, shot in the shoulder and hand; Locke J. W, wounded in the hip; Long Jas, shot in the hand; Lowe Ed, shot in the arm; Mood
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $50 reward. (search)
e gunboat at New Madrid made a reconnaissance some distance dawn the river, but were induced to put back by the appearance of our gunboats. A large number of coal barges, with sweeps, have been secured and prepared by the enemy at New Madrid and Point Pleasant, the object of which is to be to assist in placing a portion of their troops across the river below the island, with the hope of cutting off supplies to our forces. The Memphis Argue, of the evening of the 8th says: "The H. R. W. Hill arrived this morning from Hollinsville, having left there last evening. Everything around Madrid bend and Island 10 was quiet — so her officers informed us. The gunboat which passed the island and reached New Madrid is supposed to be the Benton or Essex. It had come down to Point Pleasant, and was lying under the of the battery opposite Tiptonville" The Peninsula. A correspondent of the Petersburg Express, writing from the Peninsula, April 10, says: The enemy have attack