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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1863., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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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)
uld have been all-sufficient to crush the ram by a simultaneous attack. The experience of the Confederate commander had assured him of this fact, which was probably the chief reason why he did not again venture out. Under these circumstances, Lieutenant W. B. Cushing was offered a further opportunity to distinguish himself — an offer he at once accepted. He was sent to New York, to superintend the fitting out of three torpedo steam-launches, arranged according to the plans of Chief Engineer W. W. W. Wood and Assistant-Engineer G. W. Lay, which proved to be all that were claimed for them. About the middle of October, 1864, the launches were ready, and Cushing got away with them from the New York Navy Yard. Cushing was not so well adapted for the command of a flotilla, even of steam-launches, as he was of a single vessel. One of his torpedo-launches sank soon after he started, and another was run ashore and surrendered to the Confederates in Chesapeake Bay, while Cushing, steam
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Regimental sutlers. (search)
Ex-Gov. Brown, of Miss. Atlanta, August 18th. --Col. W. W. W. Wood, of Natchez, denies that Ex. Gov. Brown, of Miss., has taken the oath of allegiance to the Lincoln Government. He is now removing his family and property to Georgia. His heart and soul are with the cause of the South.