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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
ose parties were hurriedly organized; one under Commander Alden to prepare the storehouses and workshops; another under Commander Sands for the ship-houses; a third to distribute combustibles among the sinking vessels; and a fourth, under Commander John Rodgers, assisted by Captain Wright, to blow up the dry-dock. An attempt was made to disable the guns that had been spiked, by knocking off the trunnions; but this was unsuccessful. Shortly before two in the morning, the reports came from thethe firing parties on shore, the other for that which was to destroy the ships. At 4.20 a rocket was fired as a signal, and in a few minutes ship-houses, shops, and vessels were in a blaze. The people on shore were brought safely off, except Rodgers and his party, who had far to go, and who were cut off from the wharf by the burning buildings. They passed out into the town, and obtained a boat; but the river was now lighted by the conflagration, and they had not gone far before they were o
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
alone, and two monitors were despatched to Wassaw, the Weehawken, under Captain John Rodgers, and the Nahant, under Commander Downes. The Weehawken had already won was doomed to end in disappointment. As soon as the Atlanta came in sight, Rodgers beat to quarters and cleared the ship for action. Ten minutes later he slippe With the deliberateness which characterized him in the most trying moments, Rodgers delivered the fire of his two heavy guns, the Xi-inch and the Xv-inch. He fir hundred yards, were matters that they had no wish to investigate further. As Rodgers drily remarked in commenting upon the action, the first shot took away their din the age to which he belongs. As Broke was the model captain of his day, so Rodgers is of his. The Shannon was always ready for any kind of service, her disciplins her surpassing excellence in the same qualities; for no man knew better than Rodgers how to get good work and ready service from his men. But the captain of 1813 i
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
d, 85 Powhattan, the, 11, 114, 121 et seq. Preble, the, 128 et seq. Privateers, the, 168 et seq. Quaker City, the, 111 Raleigh, the, 77 Rams, at commencement of war 3, 48, 61, 63 et seq., 97 et se 109 et seq., 221 Rappahannock, the, 213 et seq. Renshaw, Commander W. B. commands expedition to Galveston, 143 et seq., 149; killed, 150 Resolute, the, 86 Rhode Island, the, 79 Richmond, the, 11, 128 et seq. Roanoke, the, 60, 62, 65 et seq., 66 (note) Rodgers, Commander, John, 117 et seq. Rowan, Commander, 91 Sabine River, its importance to blockade-runners, 142 et seq. St. Lawrence, the, 62, 66 et seq., 89, 172 St Louis, the, 122 San Jacinto, the, 177, 194 Sassacus, the, 99 Savannah, Ga., blockaded, 35, 85, 87 et seq., 107, 109 Selfridge, Lieutenant, 51 Semmes, Captain, commands the Sumter, 173 et seq.; commands the Alabama, 192 et seq., 209 et seq., 222 et seq. Shenandoah, the, bought, 218; cruise of, 219 et seq., 220 S