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Catfish Point (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
. The way was thus opened for the fleet, and after clearing the channels of torpedoes, with which the bay was filled, and which caused in the end the destruction of two ironclads, one tin-clad, a wooden gunboat, and several tugs, with a loss of over fifty men, the fleet moved up to the city, and General Granger was sent to take possession. On the afternoon and night of April 11th he moved with two divisions of his corps to Starke's Landing where the forces embarked the next morning for Catfish Point, five miles below Mobile. The city was finally in Federal hands by noon of the 12th. General Maury evacuated the lines and retreated northward. As soon as all concerned learned that Lee and Johnston had surrendered, the Confederate forces throughout Alabama, Mississippi, and eastern Louisiana gave up their arms on May 4th. At the same time Commodore Farrand agreed to surrender his fleet to Admiral Thatcher, and the terms were carried out on the 10th, when the vessels were turned ove
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
garrison and as a notification to General Butler that he could bring in the transports with the troops. The landing and attack took place on Christmas Day. The fire from the ships was slow and methodical, as at target practice. Great holes were dug in the parapets by the gigantic Fort McAllister. In this picture of December, 1864, the Federal vessels lie peaceful before the Fort so impregnable to their attacks early the preceding year. The shore appearing below was lined with Georgia sharpshooters by Captain George W. Anderson, Jr., commander of the Fort when the monitor Montauk and four gunboats advanced to the attack of Feb. 1, 1863. The Montauk, under Commander John Lorimer Worden, hero of the original Monitor, was the first Federal ironclad to arrive in Ossabaw Sound. Early on January 27th, it furiously attacked the fort. On this occasion the Federal vessels did not attempt to cross the line of piles and torpedoes. The Confederates were confident that in the sec
Atlanta (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
Tybee Island, and by the end of February, 1862, other batteries were erected in the rear of the fort, completely enfilading it. On the 10th of April, 1862, thirty-six heavy rifled cannon and mortars began the bombardment, and after two days of uninterrupted firing, although the Fort was gallantly defended, it was so badly battered that it was forced to surrender. But Fort McAllister, at the mouth of the Ogeechee, did not fall until W. T. Sherman had arrived at the end of his march from Atlanta and General Hazen's troops carried the battery by assault. Fort Pulaski. These three pictures speak eloquently of the ruin wrought by the combined efforts of the army and navy to gain possession of Fort Pulaski. At the left an 8-inch smooth-bore points upward as the Confederates swung it for use as a mortar against the Federal batteries. Beside it lies one of the mortars, dismounted and rendered useless by the fire from the Federal batteries, while in the lower picture the huge bre
Fort Caswell (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
e war-ships and the heavy artillery of the army was kept up. Charleston's defense was something for her citizens to look back upon with pride. It was neither the Federal army nor navy that caused her downfall, but, as a contemporaneous writer has put it, General Sherman took the city by turning his back on it. The harbor of Wilmington, North Carolina, had two entrances available for vessels of not more than twelve feet draft, and therefore two blockading squadrons were maintained. Fort Caswell guarded the southern entrance to the Cape Fear River, and Fort Fisher the northern. The Navy Department of the Federal Government had been anxious from the opening of the war to reduce these defenses, but this could only be done by a combined army and navy attack, and up to the time of the assumption of command of the Union armies by Grant, it was not deemed expedient to spare the troops. Admiral Farragut, on September 5, 1864, was appointed to the command of a naval force to cooperat
Fort Morgan (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ord as she steamed in line to the attack of Fort Morgan at Mobile Bay on the morning of August 5, 1 fought Farragut shot for shot: interior of Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, in 1864 From these walls thas built on the site of the little redoubt (Fort Bowyer) that had repelled the British fleet in 181the army and navy did the brave garrison of Fort Morgan surrender after a gallant defense of twelve Fort Morgan. The battered walls of Fort Morgan, in 1864, tell of a terrific smashing by th felt there had been enough bloodshed. Fort Morgan--a bombardment bravely answered Fort MorgFort Morgan--a bombardment bravely answered to their astonished gaze a new and what appeared to them a more and water fronts. On the eastern side lay Fort Morgan, at Mobile Point, and on the western side Flames. The Morgan sought the protection of Fort Morgan, and during the night steamed ahead to the bay, landing at Navy Cove, four miles from Fort Morgan, on the bay side of Mobile Point. Each suc[6 more...]
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
les below Mobile. The city was finally in Federal hands by noon of the 12th. General Maury evacuated the lines and retreated northward. As soon as all concerned learned that Lee and Johnston had surrendered, the Confederate forces throughout Alabama, Mississippi, and eastern Louisiana gave up their arms on May 4th. At the same time Commodore Farrand agreed to surrender his fleet to Admiral Thatcher, and the terms were carried out on the 10th, when the vessels were turned over to Fleet-Capt to Admiral Thatcher, and the terms were carried out on the 10th, when the vessels were turned over to Fleet-Captain Simpson at Nanna Hubba Bluff on the Tombigbee River, Alabama. Captain Simpson received four vessels, one hundred and twelve officers and three hundred and thirty men. The surrender of the Trans-Mississippi army and navy took place on the 26th of May, the last ships of the Confederate Navy being turned over to Admirals Thatcher and Lee of the West Gulf and Mississippi squadrons.
Oneida (N. Y.) (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
age of the forts below New Orleans. There Farragut had done what was pronounced impossible, but at Mobile he had fought his way through dangers ten times more formidable. Here, with the modesty which ever characterized him, he sits within the captured Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, discussing with General Gordon Granger plans for the combined attack by which Fort Morgan was taken on August 22, 1864. It was to Granger that Mobile finally surrendered. passed between them, and made for the Oneida, which was not under steerageway. It was at this exciting moment that the monitors drew up, and the Winnebago, forging ahead, took her position between the ram and her seemingly helpless prey. The Federal vessels had been hampered, in a measure, by being lashed side by side in couples, in the way that Farragut had run the batteries at Port Hudson, but now having passed the forts they began to cast off their lashings. Enabled, in the broader water, to maneuver and use their broadsides, t
Mound City (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ninjured. The Hartford came bearing down upon her now; the ships met almost bows Fort Fisher. In the top picture appear six of the gun positions within Fort Fisher, from which the Confederates so long defied the blockading fleet covering the approach and departure of blockade-runners to and from Wilmington, N. C. Only after two powerful expeditions had been sent against it did the Federals finally gain possession of this well-constructed work. In the centre is seen a portion of the Mound, an artificial eminence used as a lookout. It was on this that the light for the guidance of blockade-runners was established early in the war. The Confederates had destroyed all other aids to navigation along the coast, but it was of the utmost importance that vessels with cargoes for Wilmington should be able to make port and discharge their precious ballast in the form of munitions of war. In the view of the bomb-proof at the bottom of the page is evident the pains that have been taken t
Montauk (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
rly the preceding year. The shore appearing below was lined with Georgia sharpshooters by Captain George W. Anderson, Jr., commander of the Fort when the monitor Montauk and four gunboats advanced to the attack of Feb. 1, 1863. The Montauk, under Commander John Lorimer Worden, hero of the original Monitor, was the first Federal iMontauk, under Commander John Lorimer Worden, hero of the original Monitor, was the first Federal ironclad to arrive in Ossabaw Sound. Early on January 27th, it furiously attacked the fort. On this occasion the Federal vessels did not attempt to cross the line of piles and torpedoes. The Confederates were confident that in the second attack attempts would be made to land boat-parties to assault the works, and the sharpshooterrals kept up a terrible fire, it failed to do more damage to the Fort than could be repaired at night. The Confederate guns responded vigorously in kind, and the Montauk was struck forty-six times. View from Fort McAllister-Union vessels in the Roadstead In front of the parapet--Fort McAllister The Hartford This
Fort McAllister (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ted firing, although the Fort was gallantly defended, it was so badly battered that it was forced to surrender. But Fort McAllister, at the mouth of the Ogeechee, did not fall until W. T. Sherman had arrived at the end of his march from Atlanta ande ships was slow and methodical, as at target practice. Great holes were dug in the parapets by the gigantic Fort McAllister. In this picture of December, 1864, the Federal vessels lie peaceful before the Fort so impregnable to their attackight. The Confederate guns responded vigorously in kind, and the Montauk was struck forty-six times. View from Fort McAllister-Union vessels in the Roadstead In front of the parapet--Fort McAllister The Hartford This vivid photogrFort McAllister The Hartford This vivid photograph, taken in Mobile Bay by a war-time photographer from New Orleans, was presented by Captain Drayton of the Hartford to T. W. Eastman, U. S. N., whose family has courteously allowed its reproduction here. Never was exhibited a more superb morale
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