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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 41: the Red River expedition, under Major-General N. P. Banks, assisted by the Navy under Rear-Admiral David D. Porter. (search)
900 for 30,000 men, who could sleep out of doors all the time much more comfortably than in tents, no man can tell. Had Banks understood the art of war, he would have ordered his trains to be parked when he saw that a battle was imminent. It was not the intention of the enemy to bring on an engagement at the time it took place, but rather to draw the Federal troops as far into the interior as possible, and away from the gun-boats, into the marshes and bayous at Wallace's Lake, between Mansfield and Shreveport. In this difficult region the troops would have been entangled in swamps, and would have had to corduroy the roads for miles to get the trains along. Had Banks been satisfied to let the cavalry go in advance, clearing the roads of outposts, and reporting the presence of the enemy's main body when they encountered it, all might have turned out well; but it appears he never gave himself much concern about the management of the Army until it was defeated. He sailed up fr
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 47: operations of South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, under Rear-admiral Dahlgren, during latter end of 1863 and in 1864. (search)
ead; Assistant Surgeon, H. C. Eckstein; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, L. C. Tripp; Acting-Master, James Ogilvie; Acting-Ensigns, L. G. Emerson, D. B. Hawes, A. Delano, Jr. and W. H. Roberts; Acting-Master's Mate, W. H. Lewis; Engineers: First-Assistant, Henry Mason; Second-Assistant, F. H. Fletcher; Third-Assistants, William A. Dripps, Joseph Hooper and C. Kenyon. Steamer Nipsic. Lieutenant-Commander, Wm. Gibson; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, W. J. Gilfillen; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, H. T. Mansfield; Acting-Master, W. L. Churchill; Acting-Ensigns, H. A. Greene, J. A. Winchester and A. B. Prince; Acting-Master's Mates, G. S. Johnson, W. K. Orcutt and W. H. Kitching, Jr.; Engineers: First-Assistant, S. L. P. Ayres; Second-Assistants, A. W. Morley and C. E. Emery; Third-Assistants, R. B. Plotts and B. R. Stevens. Steamer Chippewa. Lieutenant-Commander, T. C. Harris; Assistant Surgeon, Louis Zenzen; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, G. A. Robertson; Acting-Master, W. H. DeWolf; Acting-
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 52: operations about Charleston, 1865.--fall of Charleston, Savannah, etc. (search)
d Fairdrey, Acting-Assistant Paymaster, Wm. Sellew; Engineers: Acting-Second-Assistant, A. B. Cullins; Acting-Third-Assistants, Rufus Barton, R. G. Lewis, George Paul and John O'Keefe; Gunner, J. M. Hogg. Nipsic--Fourth-rate. Lieutenant--Commander, Edmund W. Henry; Acting-Masters, George P. Lee, J. E. Stickney and H. A. Green; Acting-Ensign, Geo. E. Thomas; Acting-Master's Mates, W. S. Howland and J. C. Butler; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, W. J. Gilfillan; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, H. T. Mansfield; Engineers: First-Assistant, S. L. P. Ayres; Second-Assistant, E. W. Koehl; Third-Assistant, C. R. Roelker; Acting-Third-Assistant, Wm. J. Dougherty. Ottawa--Fourth-rate. Lieutenant-Commander, James Stillwell; Acting-Master, Wm. H. Winslow; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, L. H. Willard; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, G. W. Huntington; Acting-Ensigns, Benj. Mitchell, C. H. Choate, W. H. McCormick and W. N. Smith; Engineers: Second-Assistants, Geo. H. White and R. B. Hine; Acting-Second Assi