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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
ity from the Confederates in the capacity of a destitute stranger. They do not in anyway receive him officially, and it does not suit the policy of either party to be identified with one another. He told the generals that if Grant was severely beaten in Mississippi by Johnston, he did not think the war could be continued on its present great scale. --Three Months in the Southern States, page 137. Disappointed and disgusted, he soon left their society, escaped from Wilmington, and sailed to Nassau in a blockaderunner, and finally found his way to Canada, where he enjoyed congenial society among his refugee friends from the Confederate States, with whom he was in sympathy. Meanwhile, the Democratic Convention of Ohio had nominated him for Governor. The arrest of Vallandigham produced intense excitement throughout the country, and its wisdom and lawfulness were questioned by a few of the friends of the Government. When the news of his conviction and sentence was proclaimed througho
Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army., Example of a battle of the offensive defense: battle of Austerlitz, December 2, 1805. (search)
e measures to be taken for the 18th: Wellington was to keep his position to the last, and Blucher was to arrive and join him in the course of the battle. Before proceeding further, we must say a few words concerning the strength of the armies, and the configuration of the ground on which the battle took place. Strength of the armies. Army of Wellington.   Battal's. Squad's. Batt's. Men. Anglo-Hanoverians 74 81 21 61,325 Netherlands 38 28 8 28,865 Brunswick 8 5 2 6,658 Nassau 3     2,900    1231143199,748 From these troops, Wellington detached about 19,000 men to Halle, to cover his right flank on the road from Halle to Brussels. Some smaller detachments, besides the Movements of the 3 armies preceding the battle of Waterloo. loss sustained at Quatre-Bras, reduced the army present at the battle to about 70,000 men. Army of Napoleon.  Battal's.Squad's.Guns.Men. Guard24329618,400 Army corps:--   1st. Count Erlon32214620,564   2d. Count Rei
H. Wager Halleck , A. M. , Lieut. of Engineers, U. S. Army ., Elements of Military Art and Science; or, Course of Instruction in Strategy, Fortification, Tactis of Battles &c., Embracing the Duties of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers. Adapted to the Use of Volunteers and Militia., Chapter 11: army organization.—Artillery.—Its history and organization, with a brief Notice of the different kinds of Ordnance, the Manufacture of Projectiles, &c. (search)
rvice des officiers d'artillerie dans les forges. Manuel historique de la technologie des armes à feu, (traduit de l'allemand par M. Rieffel.) Meyer. Formules relatives aux effets du tir sur affut. Poisson. Manuel de l'artificer. Vergnaud. Etat actuel de l'artillerie de campagne de toutes les puissances de l'europe, (traduit par Maze; 1re partie, Artillcrie Anglaise.) Jacobi. (Six other parts have been published in German, containing de-scriptions of the French, Belgian, Hessian, Wirtemburg, Nassau, and Swedish systems.) Introduction à l‘étude de l'artillerie. Madelaine. Cours sur le service des officers d'artillerie dans les fonderies. Description de la fabrication des bouches à feu à la fonderie royale de Liege. Huguenin. Poudre à canon. Timmerhans. Procedes de fabrication dans les forges, (extrait du cours sur le service des officiers dans les forges.) Renseignements sur le materiel de l'artillerie navale de la Grande Bretagne. Zeni et des Hays. Theorie des affuts et des voitures
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 10: naval engagement at South-West pass.--the Gulf blockading squadron in November, 1861. (search)
harbor in the Gulf of Mexico, belonging to the United States. It had a good navy yard, with the ordinary facilities for fitting out and repairing ships, and water enough on the bar to admit of the passage of all but five or six of the heaviest ships of the Navy. It was just the point wanted by our naval commanders from which to carry on operations against New Orleans and the coast of Louisiana and Texas, and from which to intercept blockade runners bound for Southern ports from Havana and Nassau. Before even Fort Sumter was fired on President Lincoln saw the importance of our holding Fort Pickens, and at the same time that Secretary Welles sent his expedition to reinforce Sumter, the President and Secretary Seward sent one to reinforce Fort. Pickens and prevent it from falling into the hands of the insurgents. This is an important part of the history of the war, and as it had an important bearing on naval matters in the Gulf of Mexico, and exhibited a great want of decision o
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 35: operations of the North Atlantic Squadron, 1863. (search)
rilliant service, but it was a useful one. Without it the Confederates would have seriously harassed the important Army posts, and driven in the smaller ones. They dreaded those frail vessels, with their heavy guns and fearless seamen, and a gun-boat was often worth more to the Army than two or three stout regiments. The last act chronicled in the records of the North Atlantic squadron for this year is the destruction of the blockade-runner Venus. on October 21st. The Venus was from Nassau, bound to Wilmington, and, while attempting to run the blockade, was chased by the steamer Nansemond, Lieutenant Lamson, and overtaken. As the chase did not comply with his orders to heave-to, Lieutenant Lamson opened fire upon her. One shot struck her foremast, another exploded in her ward-room, a third passed through the funnel and killed one man, and a fourth, striking an iron plate near the water line, caused her to leak so badly that it was necessary to run her on shore, where (as it w
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 37: operations of the East Gulf Squadron to October, 1863. (search)
votion to his country's service. The limits of this command extended along the Florida Peninsula from Cape Canaveral on the east, to Pensacola on the west. Up to December, 1863, the little squadron under Bailey had exercised the greatest watchfulness along the coast, had captured many prizes, and had apparently broken up the illicit traffic by which the Confederates had been supplied with munitions of war. Lying adjacent to Cuba, and at no great distance from the English possessions of Nassau and Bermuda, the coast of Florida presented many available points for the introduction of all kinds of material by means of small vessels that could enter the shallow harbors, streams and inlets with which this State abounds. But notwithstanding the advantages these small craft possessed for eluding the blockaders, they could not carry on their trade with impunity. From the time that Bailey took command, up to the end of the year, more than 100 vessels were captured or destroyed by the s
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., chapter 48 (search)
d Navy. Semmes in England. takes passage for Nassau. receives Captain's commission. ordered to cst blockade-runner Melita, which landed him at Nassau, N. P., on the 13th of June, 1862. On the sams were wrapped up in that beautiful staple. Nassau, originally an insignificant town, sought only as mail-packets, returning again and again to Nassau with heavy loads of cotton, which were there ta cruiser. At this moment she was detained at Nassau by the Attorney-General of the colony for a vis with J. B. Lafitte, the Confederate agent at Nassau, to meet him at Grand Key, where the guns weret the sailors had been indulging too freely at Nassau, and there laid in the germs of fever, which wa, from the time the Florida first appeared in Nassau up to the time of her leaving Havana, that it of the squadron, of the Florida's having left Nassau; but no news of her having reached Cardenas hames: He had been kept several anxious weeks at Nassau waiting for an opportunity to return to Europe[2 more...]
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 49: first attack on Fort Fisher.--destruction of the confederate ram Albemarle, etc. (search)
ar. With the slow vessels, there was often not much chance of catching one of these swift blockade-runners, but they were sometimes intercepted and driven back to Nassau or Bermuda to make a fresh attempt. Eight times in ten they succeeded in eluding the closest blockade of a coast ever maintained. The profits of a successful vog divisions — who shared in these prizes — were well pleased to see them coming into port. The blockade-runners themselves were quite astonished and crowded into Nassau to concoct new plans to circumvent the Federal cruisers; but from that time the business grew more and more unprofitable, for in thirty-seven days some six millioed up everything in the shape of provisions for the support of an army, and the enemy at Richmond depended in a great measure on what supplies they could get from Nassau for the maintenance of 300,000 men. By an order of the Confederate Government, one-third of the space in every vessel running the blockade was devoted to carrying
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 53: operations of the West Gulf Squadron in the latter part of 1864, and in 1865.--joint operations in Mobile Bay by Rear-Admiral Thatcher and General Canby. (search)
officers were put upon their mettle, and hence resulted a number of small but gallant affairs which, in justice to the officers concerned in them, should not be omitted. They are the small links that make up the chain of history, and were as important in the eves of the performers as more prominent affairs. On the 26th of December, 1864, a large schooner, named the Golden Belle, was lying in Galveston harbor, watching a chance to evade the blockaders outside, and make a run to Havana or Nassau. Acting-Ensign N. A. Blume, of the Virginia, asked and received permission from his commanding officer, Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant Charles H. Brown, to go in and cut out the schooner. Obtaining volunteers from the crew for the expedition, he left with the third cutter about 8:30 P. M. Having five miles to pull against a heavy head sea, Mr. Blume did not reach Boliver Point and get in sight of the schooner until 1 A. M. of the 27th. She was lying about a quarter of a mile from Fort Jackso
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 56: commerce-destroyers.-their inception, remarkable career, and ending. (search)
eeded in destroying three small vessels. He then put into Nassau, where, it will be remembered, the Florida, formerly the Od another vessel in the harbor. When the ship returned to Nassau in July, under the name of the Florida, her appearance at nce did not seriously influence the British authorities at Nassau. Maffitt had entered a bona fide Confederate port, and now that he was again in Nassau, with a regular commission, a good crew, and the Confederate flag at his peak, he received an iser to reach one of the ports of the Confederacy. From Nassau the Florida proceeded to Barbadoes, where she received on was released in England, but was subsequently libelled at Nassau, where the courts, having learned something from the case she sailed, the steamer Laurel cleared from Liverpool for Nassau, with several Confederate naval officers and a cargo of cao Charleston; but, failing in his attempt, he proceeded to Nassau, landed his cargo, and the vessel was taken to Liverpool a
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