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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 57: (search)
of the war. At first, this concentration looked like a preparation for an attempted ascent of the river, but if any attempt of the kind was ever entertained by Porter, he had the good sense, when he came to view the situation, to abandon it. I usually visited the Navy Department, during this anxious period, once a week, to confer with the Secretary on the state of my fleet, and the attitude of the enemy, and to receive any orders or suggestions that the Government might have to make. Mr. Mallory was kind enough, on these occasions, to give me carte blanche, and leave me pretty much to myself. At length the winter passed, and spring set in. The winds and the sun of March began to dry the roads, and put them in good order for military operations, and every one anticipated stirring events. As I sat in my twilight cabin, on board the Virginia, and pored over the map of North Carolina, and plotted upon it, from day to day, the approaches of Sherman, the prospect seemed gloomy enough
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 58: (search)
ce of his disaster, or of what his intentions were. As mine was an entirely independent command, he, perhaps, rightly considered, that it was the duty of the Executive Government to do this. Still, in accordance with the expressed wishes of Mr. Mallory, I endeavored to communicate with him; sending an officer on shore to the signal station, at Drury's Bluff, for the purpose. No response came, however, to our telegrams, and night having set in, I paid no further attention to the movements ofs as much as they could do to stagger under their loads—marching any distance seemed out of the question. As I reviewed my troops, after they had been drawn up by my captains, who were now all become colonels, I could not but repeat to myself Mr. Mallory's last words— You will join General Lee, in the field, with all your forces. Yes; here were my forces, but where, the d—l, was General Lee, and how was I to join him? If I had had the Secretary of the Navy, on foot, by the side of me, I ra<
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 59: (search)
Chapter 59: Interview with President Davis and Secretary Mallory my command organized as a Brigade of artillery Brigade marches to Greensboroa, North Carolina capitulation between General Joseph E. Johnston and Sherman dispersion of Johnston's troops author returns home, and is arrested conclusion. My memoirs our on the morning after my arrival, and reported for duty. They were both calm in the presence of the great disaster which had befallen them and the country. Mr. Mallory could scarcely be said now to have a portfolio, though he still had the officers, and clerks of his Department around him. It was at once arranged between him, nce of the President, and Secretary of the Navy, I sought out my old friend, Captain Sydney Smith Lee, of the Navy, the Assistant Secretary, who had accompanied Mr. Mallory, and arranged with him, and afterward with General Cooper, the Adjutant-General of the Army, the transformation of my sailors into soldiers. There were a great