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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 67 (search)
e fort without impediment other than the bayonets of the enemy. We were not repulsed and never would have been until we found, after getting into the stockade, there was yet a ditch to cross, running in front of and parallel with the river, and no means whatever on hand to cross it. At this ditch a most desperate fight ensued between the commands of Shannon and Phillips and the enemy. Our men here used brickbats upon the heads of the enemy, who returned the same. Captain Killough and Lieutenant Land and other officers and men were wounded on their heads with bricks, thrown by the enemy, which had first been thrown by our men. There never was more desperate courage displayed than was shown by our men engaged in this assault. The enemy have been shown an example of desperate courage which will not be without its effect. But for the false information in relation to that part of the fort fronting the river, it would most certainly have fallen into our hands. Had we known of the exis
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
Denmark66110 1868Italy to Sicily540 1868Havana to Key West, Florida125 1869Peterhead, Scotland, to Egursand, Norway25070 1869Grisselhamm, Sweden, to Nystadt, Russia9647 1869Newbiggin to Sondervig33448 1869*Black Sea300 1869*Scilly Isles to Land's End, England2740 1869Malta to Sicily5475 1869Tasmania to Australia176 1869Scilly Isles to Land's End, England2742 1869*Corfu to Santa Maura50160 1869*Santa Maura to Ithaca7180 1869Ithaca to Cephalonia7 1869*Cephalonia to Zante1060 1869BuLand's End, England2742 1869*Corfu to Santa Maura50160 1869*Santa Maura to Ithaca7180 1869Ithaca to Cephalonia7 1869*Cephalonia to Zante1060 1869Bushire, Persia, to Jask50597 1869Brest, France, to St. Pierre2,5842,760 1869St. Pierre to Duxbury, U. S.749259 1869Moen to Bornholm, Sweden8028 1869Bornholm, Sweden, to Libau23062 1870Scotland to Orkney Isles37 1870Salcombe, England, to Brignogan, France10159 1870Beachy Head to Cape Antifer7034 1870Suez, Egypt, to Aden, Arabia1,460968 1870Aden, Arabia, to Bombay1,8182,060 1870Porthcurno, England, to Lisbon8232,625 1870Lisbon to Gibraltar331535 1870Gibraltar to Malta1,1201,450 1870*Po
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Yorktown, Va.,June 14, 1861. (search)
Yorktown, Va.,June 14, 1861. In the special correspondence of the Dispatch, dated June 11. I perceive some inaccuracies, which I know you will cheerfully correct. Your correspondent states that "on Saturday last the first excursion of considerable importance was made. A detachment of 200 infantry, and a howitzer gun, under Major Randolph, and a party of 70 men and another howitzer, under Major Land, of the North Carolina Regiment, started different routes to cut off a party which had left Hampton." The latter part of the sentence above quoted is correct; but the former is not consonant with the facts of the case. When information was received at camp that a marauding party of the enemy were pillaging the house of Mr. Whiting, three and a half miles from Hampton, Col. D. H. Hill, of the North Carolina Regiment, asked for a detachment of 30 infantry to volunteer their services as a support for our howitzer under Major Randolph, and immediately 34 men of Company F, of the North
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], Westminster Palace. (search)
The late Capt. Stanard. --The body of Capt. Robert C. Stanard, of the third company Howitzer Battalion, arrived here by a special train over the York River Railroad, at an early hour yesterday morning. The escort was composed of members of the same command, namely: Adjutant T. P. Maye, Sergeants Judson Dickinson, A. C. Porter, Henry C. Tinsley, and William Gretter. Capt. Stanard died of typhoid fever, at Land's End, Warwick county, on Sunday night last, about half-past 11 o'clock. The intelligence of the sad event was totally unexpected by his relatives in this city, who have the sympathy of many friends in their affliction. Soon after their arrival, the remains were placed in a coffin, over which was spread the Confederate flag, and conveyed to the late residence of the deceased — The funeral ceremonies took place at the First Baptist Church at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Rev. Dr. Burrows officiating. A large congregation was present, and the scene was one of deep solemnity.
The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
An attack on the Peninsula. A correspondent writing from Camp Curtis, Land's End, gives the particulars of the bombardment of Merry Point and Watts's Creek, which took place on the night of the 22d inst. Lieut. Col. D. J. Godwin, of the 14th Virginia regiment, was ordered down with six companies of his regiment, and one from the 15th Virginia, a section of the Howitzer battery, and the Nottoway cavalry, to occupy a point at Smith's store, on the road to Newport News. On arriving at this place he stationed one company of infantry at Watts's Creek, and sent a detachment of infantry and cavalry to Merry Point to prevent the enemy from landing in our rear. About 12 o'clock at night we were aroused from our slumbers by the repeated firing of cannon, which preceded from two ships which were engaged in the very meritorious work of bombarding Merry Point and Watts's Creek. Col. Godwin ordered us into line, and as we stood expecting to see the Hessian scamps marching up in our fron
The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], The necessity of Cotton to England. (search)
The necessity of Cotton to England. Editors Dispatch: Charles Dickens, in his Household Woras, says, "Let any social or physical convulsion visit the United States, and England would feel the shock from Land's End to John O'Groot's. The lives of nearly two millions of our countrymen are dependent upon the cotton crop of America; their destiny may be said, without any hyperbole, to hang upon a thread. Should any dire calamity befall the land of cotton, a thousand of our merchant ships would rapidly in dock; ten thousand mills must stop their busy looms, and two million mouths would starve for lack of food to feed them." Such is the language of England's most popular author eight or ten years ago, and it comes to us now with double force, fresh and as full of meaning as it came from his graphic pen. The same argument then, answers now, and although the Federal Government may lick the dust "and yield for the present," yet there is a power greater than diplomacy that wil
The Daily Dispatch: January 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Yankee account of the treatment of Confederate prisoners. (search)
past few days to the effect that the prisoners in Camp Douglas were being shot down promiscuously and remorselessly by the soldiers of the guard, without real cause. It was not for some time possible to trace these rumors to any reliable source or to ascertain the exact extent to which these abuses have been carried. --A little inquiry has, however, developed the fact that, whether the reports be true or not, there is at least very strong reason to believe them so. It is said that Col. De Land has issued orders that if any prisoners shall fall to comply instantly with any requirement of a soldier belonging to the guard he shall be shot down. This regulation may be necessary enough in its strict acceptation as requiring obedience to orders of a disciplinary character, but is exceedingly liable to abuse when the guarding soldier is made the judge of what constitutes an act of insubordination, and is permitted to revenge non- compliance with commands emanating from himself and no
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], The salt question. (search)
f this immense line of fortifications: The Dannewerk is the great Danish bulwark of the Duchy of Schleswig. It is of very ancient origin. It is situated at the extreme southern part of the Duchy of Schleswig, and is now an enormous earthwork that stretches almost across the entire country. The length of the peninsula of Schleswig-Holstein to the end of Jutland is said to be near three hundred miles; so that it extends almost as far as the base line of England from the North Foreland to Land's End. The breadth of the peninsula, however, is but one-third of its length, and the Dannewerk is a fortification that reaches very nearly across the land from the German Ocean to the Battle. This "border wall" is said to have been erected in the ninth century, and, according to the accounts given of it in "Olat Trygbeson's Saga," it was built of wood, stone, and earth. In the year 937 the wall, we are told, was strengthened by Queen Thyra, whom the people, in their thankfulness for th
The Daily Dispatch: March 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], 50 dollars reward (search)
Recaptured. --James, slave of Mrs. Land, of Hanover, George, slave of Emily Shelton, of Goochland, and Rentz, slave of Col. E. Fontaine, negroes taken off from their owners by the Yankees who have recently been raiding around Richmond, were yesterday recaptured by our troops and committed to Castle Thunder to be called for by their owners. When found they were in the neighborhood of the Chickahominy swamp, and when overtaken by some of Col. Robinson's battalion they did not manifest much aversion at being brought back. There were also committed to the Castle yesterday as suspicious characters, the following negroes: Hundley Mitchell, Junius Mangram, and Joe Hawley.