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4th (search for this): chapter 4
of the Albemarle. We shall leave the North Atlantic squadron, which has lost one vessel only, the Sumter—foundered accidentally on the 24th of June—to pass on to the squadron blockading Charleston, and of which Admiral Dahlgren, arrived on the 4th, has just taken the command on the 6th of July. Henceforth it shall not have to fight alone against the formidable works which defend the approaches to Charleston. The Washington Government, taught by experience, has decided to undertake a regulion opposite the burnt bridge behind which Marmaduke was waiting for the Federals. While he thus engaged the enemy, Davidson, taking a very circuitous route, was pushing his reconnoitring, via Austin, close up to the Arkansas. He returned on the 4th, having discovered that to follow this route the army would have to perform a long flank march, which would be very dangerous and would expose its base of operations. It was necessary either to retire or to reach the enemy without delay by his
April (search for this): chapter 4
he circumstances were particularly favorable to the operations that Gillmore and Dahlgren were going to undertake. When DuPont attacked Charleston in the month of April, Beauregard, who commanded the forces on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, had more than thirty thousand men under his orders: the garrison at Ch Government, which had perhaps lost the opportunity of taking Charleston by a naval dash, having allowed DuPont to pass in the most absolute inaction the months of April, May, and June, so well employed by the defenders of Charleston, did not seem to have suspected the numerical weakness of the latter, who were presenting it a fair auxiliary part of the monitors in the operations to follow was indicated. Admiral DuPont, who had not wished to leave his ships within the bar after the month of April, had scattered them among the different stations in his command; Dahlgren's first care had been, on the contrary, to recall them in front of Charleston, and when h
October 21st (search for this): chapter 4
coasts, and the destruction of some blockade-runners at the entrance to Wilmington, the only important port that the Federal ships have to watch, break the monotony of the blockade along these inhospitable shores. The official reports mention three large steamers surprised by the blockading fleet at the moment when, with rich cargoes, they were going to enter Wilmington. All three of them ran aground —the Kate on the 12th of July, the Hebe on the 18th of August, and the Venus on the 21st of October. The first, after having been cannonaded by the Federals, was taken off by their adversaries on July 30th, but at the instant when the latter were going to take it into friendly waters the fleet intervened and seized the steamer. The Hebe brought ill-luck to the Federals. These, seeing the vessel abandoned by the crew, who had reached the shore in spite of the heavy weather, wished to seize it, so as to make sure of its destruction, but their boats capsized, leaving some fifteen men
2nd (search for this): chapter 4
use succeeded beyond the wishes of the Union general, for Longstreet, thus pressed, is going to take several days in advance of the troops intended to pursue him. Only one road remains open to him. While ascending the Holston he will find a country capable of supporting him, will cover a very vulnerable portion of Virginia, and will be Able at the decisive time to bring back to Lee the soldiers who were taken away after the events at Gettysburg. The preparations for departure were made on the 2d, but Longstreet does not hurry, because in order to save Bragg it is necessary to draw Sherman beyond the Little Tennessee. The trains are put in motion on the 3d; the care of them is entrusted to Law's and Robertson's brigades, which, being recalled from their positions on the southwest of Knoxville, leave open the road taken by Long. This column follows the railway, and will ascend the right bank of the Holston to pass on the left at Strawberry Plains. The rest of the army begins to march
October 17th (search for this): chapter 4
oitring on the St. John's River in Florida, captured two hostile signal-stations with all the personnel. On the 22d of September the crew of the gunboat Seneca destroyed considerable saltworks in the vicinity of Darien, in Georgia. On the 17th of October the sailing schooner Ward, that was watching the entrance to the little bay of Murrell's Inlet to the northward of Georgetown in South Carolina, seized without fighting a hostile craft of the same strength; but three days later a part of the moving southward, following a parallel direction, both closely followed by Federal detachments. In spite of all his diligence, he could not succeed in intercepting them. The two Confederate columns arrived before him at Humansville on the 17th of October. He reached the town of Stockton, in Cedar county, a few hours after the Confederates had departed, leaving there their last gun, and, having gathered around him all the forces in pursuit of them, he drove them into Arkansas. After a prett
October 30th (search for this): chapter 4
ounds the Arkansas Valley on the north. On the evening of the 24th he at last overtook the bulk of Shelby's column, but the latter escaped him during the night, and, though he pursued him very closely, he could not prevent him from recrossing the Arkansas on the 27th in the vicinity of Clarksville. A large portion of the Confederate forces had dispersed during this hasty retreat. Not being able to follow the track of the others, McNeil moved toward Fort Smith, which he reached on the 30th of October with about six hundred men. The remainder of his troops returned to Missouri, where his presence was required to keep down the partisans whose boldness had been revived by Shelby's daring raid. One of their chiefs, Colonel Love, had already signalized himself on the 3d of November by capturing a small post near Waynesville, when the return of some Federal soldiers happened to interrupt his plans and compelled his band to disperse. Quantrell, on his part, had availed himself of the r
1301 AD (search for this): chapter 4
nd by impassable sloughs. The waters which bounded it on the east were deep enough to enable the monitors to come near it within good cannon-range, since the main channel lay along the island at a distance varying from 2167 yards at the bar up to 1301 at Fort Wagner. Once established on the southern extremity of the island, the Federals might then advance toward this fort in full security, protected on one side by the sloughs against an offensive return on the part of the enemy, and assured thed together 552,683 pounds. Out of this number, 4147 are said to have hit the work. Beauregard, counting all the shots fired against Sumter by the land-batteries and the fleet, reaches the the total figure of 5643, of which 4342 hit the fort and 1301 struck wide of the mark. All of Sumter's cannon were dismantled in succession; the garrison, which had taken refuge in the portions still intact of the casemates, gave up serving the guns from the second day. The work itself was completely ruined
October 26th (search for this): chapter 4
to allow the fleet to pass without having to fear their fire. Gillmore, who had availed himself of this time to repair Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg, and who had armed them with the most powerful among his Parrott guns, opened fire on the 26th of October. The monitors joined themselves to the land-batteries to cannonade the silent ruins against which the Federals had been working for a long time. Other sections of wall tumbled down, other vaults were laid bare; the large fifteen-inch howite Bayou Teche, near Brashear City. It was, in fact, necessary that they should be ready to embark at this point if Banks, who accompanied Dana's expedition, summoned them to the coast of Texas. The latter was at last able to sail on the 26th of October. Franklin, notified beforehand, had recalled the detachments sent in the direction of Alexandria, and by the 27th he had sent Lawler's division on to New Iberia. On the 1st of November he left the vicinity of Opelousas with the remainder o
October 25th (search for this): chapter 4
of October proceeded by a rapid march toward Pine Bluff; hoping to surprise Colonel Clayton, who was in garrison there with the Fifth Kansas. But the latter had been reinforced by the First Indiana cavalry, which had its force increased to six hundred combatants and kept on its guard; bales of cotton piled up barricaded the streets of the village; the courthouse was turned into a redoubt hastily fortified and defended by nine guns. Marmaduke, advancing in three columns on the morning of October 25th, met with an unexpected resistance. His four pieces of artillery covered the houses with projectiles; he carried several barricades, which he set on fire; penetrated as far as the courthouse, to which the garrison had retired; but he could not force this redoubt, and, giving up the attack, soon retreated. He acknowledged a loss of forty men, and the Federals that of fifty-seven. At the end of the year 1863 we have penetrated into the East, the centre, the South, and the West. We hav
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