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Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Walker for the command. The first call to Georgia made by the government of the Confederate Sta coast, in all, some twenty-three regiments. Georgia has now to look to the shotguns and rifles inW. Avery. The following were also in camp in Georgia: The regiments of Col. T. J. Warthen, Twenty-e brigade led by the gallant A. R. Wright, of Georgia. The first colonel, Robert H. Jones, was suassigned to the department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, and throughout the latter part o September of that year, being transferred to Georgia, in the brigade commanded by its colonel and undisciplined. The large calls upon the State of Georgia have taken away nearly every trained compa special agent to Richmond on this subject. Georgia is stripped of arms. Men in abundance, if a Lynchburg, and five other armed companies of Georgia troops. This request was not acceded to by teptember, 1861, by Capt. James D. Bulloch, of Georgia, the European agent of the Confederate States[31 more...]
Pulaski, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
s, he burned some of these products and retired to Cockspur island. Commodore Tattnall's flotilla, the steamers Pocahontas, Seneca, Flag and Augusta, lay near Fort Pulaski, and as the enemy's gunboats kept well out of range, he endeavored by an attack and retreat to draw them closer. The naval skirmish continued for an hour, but was ineffective, and the Federals were too wary to give the fort an opportunity to participate. For several days afterward shells were thrown at long range toward Pulaski. During the stay of the Federal fleet at Tybee there was great excitement, and extensive preparations were made under the immediate direction of General Lee for the warm reception of the enemy. To compel the enemy to pass under the guns of Fort Pulaski in approaching the city, piles were driven in the channels which open into the river on the north and south, and other obstructions made which were for the time effective. Lieut. James H. Wilson, then topographical officer, later a famous
Ossabaw Sound (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
iment was approaching. About 2 o'clock p. m. Fort Walker became untenable, and the guns were disabled. The island of Hilton Head was abandoned, the Georgia battery losing its guns. Fort Beauregard was also evacuated, and the enemy thus gained a permanent base for naval action. Tattnall, however, brought off his mosquito fleet in safety. The Federal light-draught gunboats were soon flitting through the passages of the island-fringed coast of Georgia, and expeditions were sent through Ossabaw, Warsaw, St. Helena and Cumberland sounds, as far down as Fernandina, rapidly gaining possession of the whole coast line except the entrance to Savannah harbor. These scouting vessels did not venture to attack Fort Pulaski, but landed a force of men on Tybee island on the 24th of November, after shelling the martello tower and battery, which had been abandoned some two weeks before. Captain Read, with a detachment of his command, crossed over to the island after dark to burn the hospital,
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Cleveland (E), E. H. Shackelford (F), John T. Griffin (G), W. L. Plane (H), J. A. Barclay (I), J. T. Lofton (K). This regiment served in Virginia until after Chancellorsville, then in North Carolina; also in Florida at Olustee, again in Virginia in 1864, and in North Carolina with Joe Johnston in 1865. Colonel Colquitt was promotee (E), J. Wilcher (F), W: D. Redding (G), W. H. Delamar (H), G. A. Lee (I), H. Bussey (K). The Twenty-seventh served in Virginia most of the time until after Chancellorsville, then in North Carolina; went with the rest of Colquitt's brigade to Florida in February, 1864, helping to put an end at Olustee to Federal invasion of that hn N. Wilcox (K). The Twenty-eighth went to Virginia in time to share in the battles around Richmond; remained with the army of Northern Virginia until after Chancellorsville; went with Colquitt's brigade to North Carolina; hurried to the defense of Florida, helping to win the battle of Olustee, in the spring of 1864; returned to
Wilmington River (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
wo major-generals of cavalry appointed for the war with Spain (the other being the famous Confederate, Little Joe Wheeler), took an expedition by boat from Hilton Head about Christmas, 1861, to saw off and pull out these piles on the north of the river, and had nearly cleared a passage when detected. Tattnall then came down to the mouth of the Wright river and drove off the working party. The Federals also sought to use a channel leading up from the south, from Warsaw sound, through Wilmington river and St. Augustine creek to the Savannah just below Fort Jackson. An attack by this route had been foreseen and guarded against by the erection of a battery on a small island opposite Fort Jackson, which in honor of Dr. Cheves, who superintended its construction, was called Fort Cheves, and mounted some long 32-pounders from Norfolk navy yard. Fire rafts were also prepared. One of these, completed about Christmas, was cut loose by a traitor and floated down unlighted to Tybee beach, t
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
served under Gen. Kirby Smith in 1862, in east Tennessee, and the company from Newnan participated was with Longstreet at Chickamauga and in east Tennessee. There were many changes in the organizatthat it was engaged in the Chickamauga and east Tennessee campaigns under Longstreet in the fall of wed Longstreet through the Chickamauga and east Tennessee campaigns. Its colonel, Howell Cobb, becad Pennsylvania, also at Chickamauga and in east Tennessee. Its colonel, H. L. Benning, became briga its campaigns, also at Chickamauga and in east Tennessee under Longstreet, returning to Virginia inhickamauga. It participated in the Atlanta, Tennessee and North Carolina campaigns, surrendering w was with Longstreet at Chattanooga and in east Tennessee. Ten companies became the Ninth Georgia caand Goldsboro, N. C., and then was sent to east Tennessee to guard bridges and protect the Southern 's division. It served through the Atlanta, Tennessee and Carolina campaigns, surrendering with Jo[4 more...]
Holyhead (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
ent of the Confederate States. She was a new ship, with a speed of thirteen knots, high for that time, and was the first to run the blockade directly for the Confederate government. The passengers besides Captain Bulloch were Col. Edward C. Anderson, Messrs. Foster and Moffatt, of Charleston, and Dr. Holland, an ex-surgeon of the United States army. They sailed from Greenock, Scotland, early in October, under the British flag, and with a British captain; collided with an Austrian brig at Holyhead, but fortunately escaped injury, and arrived at Bermuda November 2d. Bulloch then explained to his English crew that his true object was to run the blockade, and that though the ship still flew the British flag, he had a bill of sale for her in his pocket. The captain and crew stood by him in this emergency, and the merchantman was at once transformed into a respectable fighting ship. Pilot Makin, taken up from the blockade-runner Nashville, at St. George, brought them safely to Savannah
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ade battalion commander. The battalion was soon heard from to the praise of the State in one of those minor encounters at the beginning of the war, which had large proportions in the minds of a people waiting in suspense for the result of the clash of arms, and were of great importance in their influence upon public sentiment. After reaching Norfolk Captain Colquitt was put in command at Sewell's point, a peninsula running up from the south toward Hampton Roads, and equidistant from Fortress Monroe and Newport News, with his company and detachments of Virginia organizations, after the incomplete fortification had been attacked by the United States steamer Monticello, and there he sustained a second attack on May 19th. The steamer, accompanied by a steam tug, fired with great accuracy, one shell bursting within an embrasure, and several others directly over the Confederate battery, while solid shot repeatedly hurled masses of earth among the gunners. But Colquitt and his men stoo
Forsyth, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
erry, Capt. John A. Houser Oglethorpe Infantry (D), Augusta, Capt. Houghton B. Adam (who succeeded J. O. Clark on the latter's election as lieutenant-colonel) Washington Rifles (E), Sandersville, Capt. S. A. H. Jones Gate City Guards (F), Atlanta, Capt. W. L. Ezzard, and later Capt. C. A. Stone Bainbridge Independents (G), Capt. John W. Evans Dahlonega Volunteers (H), Capt. Alfred Harris, who resigned and was succeeded by Thomas B. Cabaniss, elected from the ranks of the company from Forsyth Walker Light Infantry (I), Augusta, Capt. Samuel H. Crump Quitman Guards (K), Forsyth, Capt. J. S. Pinkard (these ten forming the First Georgia） First independent battalion. Independence Volunteers (A), Macon, Capt. J. E. Aderhold Ringgold Volunteers (B), Capt. H. J. Sprayberry Brown Infantry (C), Macon, Capt. G. A. Smith, and Etowah Guards (D), Capt. Peter H. Larey (these four forming the First independent battalion). When the first ten companies of this list organized as the F
Greenock (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
pplies. The Fingal was bought on the Clyde in September, 1861, by Capt. James D. Bulloch, of Georgia, the European agent of the Confederate States. She was a new ship, with a speed of thirteen knots, high for that time, and was the first to run the blockade directly for the Confederate government. The passengers besides Captain Bulloch were Col. Edward C. Anderson, Messrs. Foster and Moffatt, of Charleston, and Dr. Holland, an ex-surgeon of the United States army. They sailed from Greenock, Scotland, early in October, under the British flag, and with a British captain; collided with an Austrian brig at Holyhead, but fortunately escaped injury, and arrived at Bermuda November 2d. Bulloch then explained to his English crew that his true object was to run the blockade, and that though the ship still flew the British flag, he had a bill of sale for her in his pocket. The captain and crew stood by him in this emergency, and the merchantman was at once transformed into a respectable f
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