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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 44: battle of Mobile Bay. (search)
communication to Admiral Farragut offering to surrender, and requesting that he be given the best conditions. General Granger was sent for by the Admiral to meet Colonel Anderson and Major Brown on board the flag-ship, where an agreement was signed, by which Fort Gaines was surrendered unconditionally. All private property (except arms) was to be respected, and the inmates of the fort were to remain prisoners-of-war. On August 8th, Fleet-Captain Drayton, on the part of the Navy, and Colonel Myer, on the part of the Army, proceeded to the fort to carry out the stipulations of the agreement, and at 9:45 A. M. they received its surrender. and hoisted the Union flag amid the prolonged cheers of the sailors of the fleet. No cheers were ever given with more ardor, for this victory was seen to be another of the severe death-blows given to an enemy whose end was very near. This was the close of the battle on the water. Fort Morgan was still to be reduced, but any one could see that
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
command of the brigade, the regiment losing there 26 killed, 104 wounded, and 9 missing. At Gettysburg the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth was in Alex. Hays's (3d) Division, Second Corps; and it fought under Hays again at Bristoe Station, an action in which the regiment particularly distinguished itself by its dash and intrepid bearing in a critical situation. In 1864, it was transferred to Barlow's (1st) Division, and took a prominent part in the bloody fighting about Spotsylvania. Lieutenant-Colonel Myer fell mortally wounded at the battle of the Wilderness. The casualties in the regiment at the Wilderness were 6 killed, 17 wounded, and 5 missing; at Po River and Spotsylvania, 10 killed, 74 wounded, and 6 missing; at North Anna and Totopotomoy, 5 killed and 6 wounded. It commenced the final campaign of 1865 with 12 officers and 219 men present for duty, although the names of 547 men were still carried on the rolls. One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth New York Infantry. Willard's B
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), Surrender of Fort Powell. (search)
ons. I immediately sent for General Granger, and in the evening had Colonel Anderson and Major Browne on board, and the agreement was signed by all parties. At seven A. M., August eighth, Fleet Captain Drayton, on the part of the navy, and Colonel Myer, on the part of the army, proceeded to the Fort to carry out the stipulations of the agreement, and at forty-five minutes past nine, the Fort surrendered, and the Stars and Stripes were hoisted on the staff amid the cheers of the fleet. Inclowhich is in conformity with the custom of the most civilized nations toward prisoners of war. Third. Private property, with the exception of arms, will be respected. This communication will be handed you by Fleet Captain P. Drayton, and Colonel Myer of the U. S. army, who fully understand the views of General Granger and myself. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, D. G. Farragut, Rear-Admiral. G. Granger, Major-General U. S. Army. Colonel C. D. Anderson, Commanding Fort Gaines.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 6 (search)
raid into Pennsylvania. I now transmit you such details as I have been able to learn by personal presence and inquiry on the spot. I chanced to be at the headquarters of General McClellan, near Knoxville, on Sunday forenoon, at the time heavy firing was heard down the river, in the direction of Point of Rocks and the mouth of the Monocacy. The cannonading was first heard briskly about nine A. M., and it continued, though with slackening rapidity, for two or three hours. Learning from Major Myer, chief of the signal corps, that the most eligible point for intelligence would be Point of Rocks, I started immediately on horseback for that place, six miles distant, reaching it in the course of an hour. On my arrival I found the entire population of this little railroad village in a state of intense panic. An infinity of alarming stories were brought up by persons arriving from down the river. Though differing in every other respect, all agreed that Stuart's cavalry were endeavori
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 7 (search)
unexpected, and leaves me with only time to send you a hurried letter. I may have to inform you in my next of the capture of an entire Georgia regiment and many guerrillas, who still remain, we suppose, on the south side of the river, and cannot cross, as our gunboats command every ferry, and have destroyed all the boats, excepting those we require ourselves. The rebels were commanded by Finegan, of Fernandina, owner of considerable property there, and very jealous of the more prosperous town of Jacksonville. It is thought by the people of Jacksonville that he got up the batteries and made show of fighting in order to provoke the destruction of the town, and thus increase the value of his own village lots. Such patriotism is the growth of rebellion. Signal-Officers G. H. Hill and F. E. Town accompanied Gen. Brannan, and the usefulness of Myer's admirable system of telegraphing was again demonstrated by prompt communication between the naval and military commandants. X. L. T.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 41 (search)
battery, which are herewith transmitted. I cannot close this report without noticing the distinguished services rendered, unworthy as the tribute may be, by my field officers, Colonels Tyler, Smith, Rudler, and Jones, Lieutenant-Colonels Smith, Myer, and Frazier, and Majors Wall, Kendrick, Shye, and Thornton; to each of whom is due the highest meed of praise. It would be invidious to make distinctions when each has played his part so well. Colonels Rudler and Smith and Major Caswell were paof the Twentieth Tennessee on Major Shye; the Thirty-seventh Georgia on Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, and battalion of sharpshooters on Lieutenant Towers, each of whom did his duty gallantly and nobly throughout the conflict. Colonel Tyler, Lieutenant Colonels Myer and Frazier, Majors Wall, Kendrick, and Thornton, were wounded, from which they suffered considerably (the last named officer prostrated by the explosion of a shell), but still remained at the post of duty, bearing themselves with distin
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
por conferred greater gravity upon the air, so that the weight of the carbureted air forced itself to the burner and dispensed with a blowing apparatus. He also used a caloric engine to produce a motive-power to generate a blast of air, and the escaping heated air was carbureted. Boynton, 1865, dispensed with moving machinery in the chamber, by making a plain metallic box with a fibrous material inside, through which air was forced. He also mixed the benzoles of gas-tar and petroleum. Myer, 1865, washed the carbureted air, to remove extraneous matters. Pease's carburetor. Pease, 1865, injected air at the lower portion of the carburetor, causing it to ascend through fluid in contact with the lower surfaces of a series of inclined planes with flanged edges and ends, passing from one incline to another in a zigzag upward course into the chamber, from whence it is withdrawn for use. After this the inventions became very numerous, having reference mainly to detail: to regu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
nt Robeson, with Lieutenant Howard, having been selected for the purpose from four officers of the regiment by examination, was detached for signal duty, and ordered to the signal camp at Georgetown, D. C. He wrote home on September 14th:— Since I wrote to you I have been detached from my regiment for signal duty. There have been two officers taken from each regiment in our division (or rather from those regiments that had officers of enough education for the purpose). We are under Major Myer of the Regular Army. I do not know how I shall like it yet, but that will not make much difference, as I cannot help myself. We have to go through a pretty severe examination before we are admitted. There were four officers examined from our regiment, and Howard and myself were admitted. The examination was mainly in spelling and etymology, neither of which are particularly my forte, as you know, but somehow or other I slipped in. Every one says it is a good thing for us; and then, if
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Biographical Index. (search)
, S. W., II. 229. Morgan, E. D., Gov., I. 11, 91;. Morgan, J., II. 241. Morris, Josephine M., I. 90. Morse, C. F., Lieut.-Col., II. 273, 274;. Mosby, J. S., Col. (Rebel service), 1.291,300, 303; II. 302. 329, 359. Motley, J. L., I. 6, 7;. Mott, G., Maj.-Gen., I. 430. Mudge, Caroline A., II. 142. Mudge, C. R., Lieut.-Col., Memoir, II. 142-152. Also, II. 83, 106;,122, 251,258. Mudge, E. R., II. 142. Mulligan, J. A., Col., I. 160. Murphy, Private, II. 427. Myer, Maj., II. 252. N. Nelson, Col., I. 67. Newcomb, E. M. Lieut., Memoir, II. 153-157. Also, II. 7. Newcomb, J. J., II. 153. Newcomb, Mary S., II. 153. Nichols, J., Dr. . I. 409. Nightingale, C., Rev., I. 42. Nutt, William, Maj., II. 381. O. Olmstead, F. L., I. 225, 226;. Osborne, F. A., Col., I. 376. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, I. 72, 86;. Otis, H. G., I. 110. P. Page, Private, II. 87. Paine, C. C., II. 453. Paine, C. J., Maj.-Gen., I. 68, 69;.
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
, and, while thus employed, attracted the attention of John Muller, the historian, who said of Thiersch and Dissen, who were then not twenty-five years old, that if the art of studying the Greek classics was lost, these two young men had knowledge enough to restore it. . . . . In the evening he took us to the house of a friend, Mr. Von Couta, a councillor of state; where we met a daughter of Herder, a cousin of Klopstock; Prof. Hand, the editor of Lucretius, a young man of thirty-five; and Myer, the archaeologist, now Goethe's intimate friend, an old man of sixty or seventy, short and fat, with very odd manners, but lively and amusing in conversation. October 28.—Prof. Riemer, who is second librarian of the Public Library, called on us and amused us above an hour, by describing Goethe's mode of living, peculiarities, etc.,—facts one cannot get in books, or from any source but the knowledge of an intimate acquaintance. Prof. Riemer lived nine years in Goethe's house, and knew him
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