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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 120 (search)
with only partial effect. The nature of the outlet of Cape Fear river was such that it required watching for so great a distgained by effecting a landing on the main land between Cape Fear river and the Atlantic, north of the north entrance to the r little delay as possible to the naval fleet lying off Cape Fear river, and report the arrival of yourself and command to Admg, the navy ought to run a portion of their fleet into Cape Fear river, while the balance of it operates on the outside. Lanby us. This gave us entire control of the mouth of the Cape Fear river. At my request, Major-General B. F. Butler was reliAdmiral Porter, moving his forces up both sides of the Cape Fear river. Fort Anderson, the enemy's main defence on the west bom each place, as well as to supply General Sherman by Cape Fear river, toward Fayetteville, if it became necessary. The colning up communication with General Schofield by way of Cape Fear river. On the fifteenth he resumed his march on Goldsboroa.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 122 (search)
isher and the rebel forts at the mouth of Cape Fear river, giving me an additional point of securiteating army, which, as usual, had crossed Cape Fear river, burning the bridge. During the march frille two pontoon bridges were laid across Cape Fear river, one opposite the town, the other three mding to order, the columns moved out from Cape Fear river on Wednesday, the fifteenth of March. I ad halted in the narrow, swampy neck between Cape Fear and South rivers, in hopes to hold me, to saMonroe, and went with him to the mouth of Cape Fear river to consult with Rear-Admiral Porter and Mneral J. D. Cox, and reached the mouth of Cape Fear river on the ninth of February, and landed uponear-Admiral Porter, occupied positions in Cape Fear river and off the coast, covering the flanks ofderson, running across the peninsula from Cape Fear river to Masonboro sound. His position was impgained possession of the main defences of Cape Fear river and of Wilmington, with ten pieces of hea[2 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 54. the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
ccupation of Fort Caswell, and the other works at the mouth of Cape Fear river. On the second instant I received from the Lieutenant-Generto throw a strong defensive line across the peninsula from the Cape Fear river to the sea, facing Wilmington, so as to protect our rear from in our hands all the works erected to defend the mouth of the Cape Fear river. In all the works were found one hundred and sixty-nine pieicinity. Fort Fisher is situated on the peninsula between the Cape Fear river and the Atlantic ocean, about a mile and a half north-east of uary twelve, and Paine's division was at once pushed across to Cape Fear river, with instructions to take up a line to be held against any atd-Front.--This front consists of a half bastion on the left or Cape Fear river side, connected by a curtain with a bastion on the ocean side.fifty feet in front of the foot of the exterior slope from the Cape Fear river to the ocean, with a position for a gun on the left of the fro
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 154 (search)
l batteries had been silenced. These are up the shore some two or three miles above Fort Fisher. Admiral Porter was quite sanguine that he had silenced the guns of Fort Fisher. He was then urged, if that were so, to run by the fort into Cape Fear river, and then the troops could land and hold the beach without liability of being shelled by the enemy's gunboats (the Tallahassee being seen in the river). It is to be remarked that Admiral Farragut, even, had never taken a fort except by ruvery high relief, say fifteen feet, surrounded by a wet ditch some fifteen feet wide. I was protected from being enveloped by an assaulting force by a stockade which extended from the fort to the sea on the one side, and from the marshes of Cape Fear river to the salient on the other. No material damage to the fort, as a defensive work, had been done. Seventeen heavy guns bore up the beach, protected from the fire of the navy by traverses eight or ten feet high, which were undoubtedly bo
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 194 (search)
Doc. 105. Cushing's reconnoissance. Beaufort, N. C., June 29, 1864. One of the most daring reconnoissances made during the war has just been successfully achieved by Captain Cushing, of the gunboat Monticello. On the night of the twenty-fourth instant the captain took a first cutter, with fifteen men and two officers (Acting Ensign Jones and Acting Master's Mate Howard), and succeeded in passing the forts of the west bar at Wilmington, and started up the Cape Fear river. After a narrow escape of being run over by one of the rebel steamers plying the river, he passed the second line of batteries and continued his course until Old Brunswick was reached, where the rebels have a heavy battery, when he was halted and fired upon, but succeeded in passing unscathed, by feigning to pass down the river and crossing to the friendly cover of the oppsite bank. He then continued his course up the river. By this artifice the rebels were deceived, and signalized to the forts to interc
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 196 (search)
tenant Commander Truxtun, sent us a relief-crew after the gale. Both vessels furnished us a boat. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. C. Rhind, Commander, U. S. N. Rear-Admiral D. D. Porter. Commanding North Atlantic Squadron. Report of Lieutenant-Commander W. G. Temple. United States steamer Pontoosuc, off New Inlet, December 28, 1864 sir — I have to submit the following report of the operations of this vessel in the attack upon the rebel works at the mouth of Cape Fear river, from December twenty-fourth to twenty-seventh, inclusively. At eleven A. M. of the twenty-fourth, after some previous manoeuvring, we got under way in company with the fleet, and stood in (with everything ready for action) in the wake of the four ironclads until Fort Fisher bore southwest by south, when we opened fire at 1:06 P. M. with the hundred-pounder Parrott rifles, at long range, and gradually closed in toward the position occupied by the sternmost monitor, from whence the ni
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 199 (search)
manding, was ordered to keep up a show of pursuit to the Company's shops, in Alamance county; Major-General O. O. Howard to turn to the left by Hackney's cross-roads, Pittsboroa, St. Lawrence and Ashboroa; Major-General H. W. Slocum to cross Cape Fear river at Aven's ferry, and move rapidly by Carthage, Caledonia, and Cox's Mills; Major-General J. M. Schofield was to hold Raleigh and the road back, and with his spare force to follow an intermediate route. By the fifteenth, though the rains were incessant and the roads almost impracticable, Major-General Slocum had the Fourteenth corps, Brevet Major-General Davis commanding, near Martha's Vineyard, with a pontoon bridge laid across Cape Fear river at Aven's ferry, with the Twentieth corps, Major-General Mower commanding, in support. and Major General Howard had the Fifteenth and Seventeenth corps stretched out on the roads toward Pittsboroa, while General Kilpatrick held Durham's Station and Chapel Hill University. Johnston's a