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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc . 7 . engagement on four-mile Creek, Va. (search)
Doc. 7. engagement on four-mile Creek, Va.
Commander E. T. Nichol's report.
United States steamer Mendota, James river, July 3, 1864. Acting Rear-Admiral S. P. Lee, commanding N. A. B. Squadron, James River:
Admiral: I have the honor to make report of the following proceedings in and about Four-Mile Creek within the past few days: At about seven o'clock A. M., on the thirty-first ultimo, the enemy opened fire on the United States steamer Hunchback, Lieutenant Fyffe commanding, with a battery of five guns, located on Four-Mile Creek, about two thousand yards from the river.
Lieutenant Fyffe immediately returned the fire, and kept it up for some time, when the battery was apparently silenced.
During the engagement the Hunchback was struck once in port wheel-house, but no damage done.
About noon the monitor Saugus, Commander Calhoun, came down and took position and opened fire.
The battery fired only two or three shots at the Saugus, but opened rapidly and spitefully whe
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 38 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 39 (search)
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15. visit of Messrs. Gilmore and Jaquess to Richmond, Va.
On the sixteenth of July, 1864, J. R. Gilmore, a well-known author, and Colonel James F. Jaquess, of the Seventy-third Illinois volunteers, obtained a pass through the rebel lines, and visited Jefferson Davis at Richmond.
This visit, in many respects, was one of the most extraordinary incidents of the war. With no safe conduct, and no official authority, these gentlemen passed the lines of two hostile armies, gained access to ll make no difference.
What we did there.
The next morning, after breakfast, which we took in our room with Mr. Javins, we indited a note — of which the following is a copy — to the Confederate Secretary of State:
Spotswood House, Richmond, Va., July 17, 1864. Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State, etc.:
dear sir: The undersigned respectfully solicit an interview with President Davis.
They visit Richmond only as private citizens, and have no official character or authority;
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 104 (search)
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27. Secretary Benjamin's circular.
Department of State, Richmond, Va., Aug. 25, 1864.
Sir: Numerous publications which have recently appeared in the journals of the United States on the subject of informal overtures for peace between two Federations of States now at war on this Continent render it desirable that you should be fully advised of the views and policy of this Government on a matter of such paramount importance.
It is likewise proper that you should be accurately informed of what has occurred on the several occasions mentioned in the published statements.
See page 79 Ante.
You have heretofore been furnished with copies of the manifesto issued by the Congress of the Confederate States, with the approval of the President, on the fourteenth of June last, and have, doubtless, acted in conformity with the resolution which requested that copies of this manifesto should be laid before foreign Governments.
The principles, sentiments, and purposes, by which
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 106 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Present position of the question. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 120 (search)
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 123 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 125 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc . 54 . the capture of Fort Fisher . (search)