Browsing named entities in Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore). You can also browse the collection for Pendergrast or search for Pendergrast in all documents.

Your search returned 5 results in 2 document sections:

Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 82.-fight in Hampton roads, Va., March 8th and 9th, 1862. (search)
merican flag flying at the peak. I am, sir, etc., Geo. M. Morris, Lieut. and Executive Officer. Report of Lieutenant Pendergrast. Lieut. Pendergrast states that, owing to the death of the late commanding officer, Joseph B. Smith, it becomeLieut. Pendergrast states that, owing to the death of the late commanding officer, Joseph B. Smith, it becomes my painful duty to make a report to you of the part which the United States frigate Congress took in the efforts of our vessels at Newport News to repel the attack of the rebel flotilla on the eighth instant. The report says that when the Merrimac away. The men were knocked away from them with great rapidity and slaughter by the terrible fire of the enemy. Lieut. Pendergrast first learned of the death of Lieut. Smith at half-past 4 o'clock. The death happened ten minutes previous. Seeingr having fired several shells into us, she left us, and engaged the Minnesota and the shore-batteries, after which, Lieut. Pendergrast states, the wounded were taken ashore in small boats, the ship having been on fire from the beginning of the action
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 152 (search)
y to destroy the property that must otherwise fall into the hands of the public enemy, take the Cumberland to a place of safety and useful service, and report the Pawnee at Washington as quickly as I could? I determined to destroy the property and return to Washington. My mind has dwelt upon it since, and I have always arrived at the conclusion that I had obeyed my orders and discharged my duty in the best manner for the good of the country. I conferred with Commodores McCauley and Pendergrast as far as any conference could answer any useful purpose. What information could they convey to me to control my action in regard to the public property, having just destroyed the ships they virtually confessed they could not defend? All necessary orders were given, and in every thing relating to this service I claim to have performed my duty as a naval officer with the judgment and intelligence the occasion called for, and have had every reason to suppose that my whole course of proc