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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The First attack on Fort Fisher (search)
iar with the facts on the Confederate side. Wilmington, on the Cape Fear river, almost thirty milesclosed the port of Mobile, in August, 1864. Wilmington was then the only refuge for blockade-runnert Masonboroa Inlet and marched directly upon Wilmington. At the same time a strong cavalry force shly from Newbern, tear up the railway between Wilmington and Goldsboroa, and, if possible, destroy tht was known that no formidable defenses near Wilmington would oppose a force coming over from the seArmy of the Potomac. The expedition against Wilmington was abandoned, and its capture was postponedional forces) and strike the railway between Wilmington and Goldsboroa with destructive energy, whiltion of the Confederate troops at and around Wilmington, to oppose General Sherman's march from Atla navy could enter the river, and the port of Wilmington would be sealed. General Butler was furtherufficient measures to meet and frustrate it. Wilmington was denuded of troops, and the army was wait[10 more...]
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Recollections of Grant. (search)
tudied his maps in the fire-light, or heard the reports from the other columns for the day. He was last in bed at night, and first in the saddle in the morning. Dinner consisted of a light lunch at twelve; all dismounted at the roadside, and an hour's rest brought us again to the saddle. So the days passed, and the enemy was continually pushed or beaten back from each and every chosen position. At Fayetteville a tugboat met us in answer to a message sent by one of Sherman's scouts to Wilmington. The general seized the opportunity to report his progress to the Secretary of War, at Washington, and to General Grant, then with his army before Richmond. At the breakfast-table that Sunday morning he announced his intentions, and I was to be the lucky one to go. That night a few of us ran down the Cape Fear river to the sea, and a ship bore me around Cape Hatteras, across to Fortress Monroe, and up the James to Grant. I found him in a little board cabin of two rooms. He stood talkin
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The Union men of Maryland. (search)
ptu mass meeting assembled in Monument Square; the Mayor was called out; the Governor, who had been in the city for several days, was sent for, and appeared; a Maryland flag was hoisted over his head, and his views clamorously demanded. He responded, by declaring that he would suffer his right arm to be torn from his body before he would raise it to strike a sister State. That night, so it is charged, the Governor agreed to an order for the destruction of the bridges on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, and the Northern Central Railroads, in order to prevent the passage of any more troops through Maryland to Washington. It is but justice to Governor Hicks to state, that he always denied that he had authorized any such proceeding. However, the bridges were destroyed. On Thursday, the 18th day of April, I went from Annapolis to Baltimore. I had expected to find some excitement among the Baltimore people in consequence of the assault upon Fort Sumter and its surrender,