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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 30 : the Confederacy afloat. (search)
Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., The firing under the white flag, in Hampton Roads . (search)
The firing under the white flag, in Hampton Roads.
Reference has been made in these pages, to the peculiar circumstances of the wounding of Flag-Lieutenant Robert D. Minor, in the Merrimac fight on the 8th March, 1862.
The official report of Fleet-Captain Franklin Buchanan distinctly states the facts and formulates the charge, accepted by the author.
From that lengthy and detailed official document is reproduced verbatim this
Extract from report of flag-officer Buchanan. Naval Hospital, Norfolk, March 27, 1862. To Hon. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy:
While the Virginia was thus engaged in getting her position, for attacking the Congress, the prisoners state it was believed on board that ship that we had hauled off; the men left their guns and gave three cheers.
They were soon sadly undeceived, for a few minutes after we opened upon her again, she having run on shore in shoal water.
The carnage, havoc and dismay, caused by our fire, compelled them to haul down thei
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 13 (search)
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, chapter 15 (search)
XIV.
may, 1862
Disloyalists entrapped.
Norfolk abandoned.
Merrimac blown up.
army falling back.
Mrs. Davis leaves Richmond
preparing to burn the tobacco.
Secretary of War trembles for Richmond.
Richmond to be defended.
the tobacco.
Winking and blinking.
Johnston's great battle.
wounded himself.
the wounded.
the hospitals.
May 1
The ladies shower loaves of bread and slices of ham on the passing troops.
May 2
An iniquitous-looking prisoner was brought in to-day from Orange C. H., by the name of Robert Stewart.
The evidence against him is as follows: He is a Pennsylvanian, though a resident of Virginia for a number of years, and owns a farm in Orange County.
Since the series of disasters, and the seeming downward progress of our affairs, Stewart has cooled his ardor for independence.
He has slunk from enrollment in the militia, and under the Conscription Act. And since the occupation of Fredericksburg by the enemy he has made use of such equivocal
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 7 : Seven Pines , or Fair Oaks . (search)
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 20 . (search)
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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 21 . (search)