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Knoxville (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
cClellan to bear. By this order he kindly relieved that officer of a part of the burden. Major-General McClellan, said the order, having personally taken the field at the head of the Army of the Potomac, until otherwise ordered, he is relieved from the command of the other Military Departments, he retaining the command of the Department of the Potomac. To General Halleck was assigned the command of the National troops in the Valley of the Mississippi, and westward of the longitude of Knoxville in Tennessee; and a Mountain Department, consisting of the region between the commands of Halleck and McClellan, was created and placed under the command of General Fremont. The commanders of Departments were ordered to report directly to the Secretary of War. The notable events in Hampton Roads, that modified McClellan's plans for marching on Richmond, occurred at this juncture. It was known that the Confederates were fashioning into a formidable iron-clad ram the fine steam-frigate
Michigan (Michigan, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
ent agreed upon in council at Fairfax Court House had been conditionally sanctioned by the President, and he was ordered to place the bulk of his force at Manassas Junction and vicinity, and to repair the Manassas Gap Railway, so as to have a rapid and direct communication with the Shenandoah Valley. Accordingly, on the retirement of Jackson up the valley, he put the first division of his corps in motion for Centreville, under General Williams, leaving only the division of Shields and some Michigan cavalry in Winchester. Spies informed Jackson of the weakening of Banks's army in the Valley, and he immediately moved down to attack him at Winchester. General Shields, who was in immediate command there, had a force of about six thousand infantry, seven hundred and fifty cavalry, and twenty-four guns, well posted on a ridge, so as to cover the roads entering Winchester from the south. This position was about half a mile north of the village of Kernstown, and two and a half south of W
Kentucky (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
c credit; of the delicate condition of our foreign relations; the critical situation of National affairs in Missouri and Kentucky since Fremont left the Western Department; the lack of co-operation between Generals Halleck and Buell, and the illness ffect as to what he intended doing with his army, and where he intended doing, McClellan answered, that the movements in Kentucky were to precede any from Washington. McDowell's Notes. This part of the plan of the General-in-Chief (the movements igun-boats and mortars, had captured Forts Henry and Donelson, Nashville and Columbus; had driven the Confederates out of Kentucky; had seized the Gibraltar of the Mississippi (Island Number10); and had penetrated to Northern Alabama, and fought the. around Fortress Monroe, the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Western Virginia, the army near Mumfordsville [Buell's] in Kentucky, the army and flotilla [Grant's and Foote's] at Cairo, and a naval force in the Gulf of Mexico [Farragut's and Porter's]
Long Island City (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
spoils of the Norfolk Navy Yard she was completely equipped, and her commander was Captain Franklin Buchanan, an experienced officer of the National navy (who had been forty-five years in the service), assisted by Catesby Ap R. Jones, another traitor to his flag. This terrible battery was completed at the beginning of March, and its appearance in Hampton Roads was then daily expected. Meanwhile another engine of destruction, of novel form and aspect, had been prepared at Green Point, Long Island, a short distance from New York, under the direction of its inventor, Captain John Ericsson, Franklin Buchanan. a scientific Swede, who had been a resident of the United States for twenty years. This vessel, almost a dwarf in appearance by the side of the Merrimack, presented to the eye, when afloat, a simple platform, sharp at both ends, and bearing a round revolving iron Martello tower, twenty feet in diameter and ten feet high, and forming a bomb-proof fort, in which two 11-inch Dah
Cumberland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
wport-Newce. The Congress carried fifty guns, and the Cumberland twenty-four guns of heavy caliber. Toward these the Merrpushed right on in the face of the storm, and struck the Cumberland such a tremendous blow with her beak, under her starboared her ports and delivered a most destructive fire. The Cumberland fought desperately in this death-grasp with the monster,rward, in fifty-four feet of water. The top-mast of the Cumberland remained a little above the water, with her flag flying ford, March 9, 1862. There were 3876 souls on board the Cumberland when she went into action. Of these, 117 were lost and derate troops. While the Merrimack was destroying the Cumberland, her assistant gun-boats were assailing the Congress. That vessel fought her foes right gallantly until the Cumberland went down, when, with the help of the Zouave, she was run agrton had quickly responded to the signal for aid from the Cumberland and Congress. His own ship was disabled in its machinery
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
of the army and navy of the Republic, issued an order on the 27th of January, 1862. known as General War Order No. 1, in which he directed the 22d of February following to be the day for a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces. He specially ordered the army at and around Fortress Monroe, the Army of the Potomac, the Army of Western Virginia, the army near Mumfordsville [Buell's] in Kentucky, the army and flotilla [Grant's and Foote'sion, of novel form and aspect, had been prepared at Green Point, Long Island, a short distance from New York, under the direction of its inventor, Captain John Ericsson, Franklin Buchanan. a scientific Swede, who had been a resident of the United States for twenty years. This vessel, almost a dwarf in appearance by the side of the Merrimack, presented to the eye, when afloat, a simple platform, sharp at both ends, and bearing a round revolving iron Martello tower, twenty feet in diameter and
York (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
, and across land to the terminus of the railroad on the York River; mine to move directly to a point on the railway southweand men on the Virginia Peninsula, between the James and York rivers, with his Headquarters at Yorktown, which he had fortifiof Howard's and Young's Mills, and at Ship Point, on the York River. But when he perceived the strong force gathered at For in the reduction of the Confederate water-batteries on the York and James rivers, and Flag-officer Goldsborough had offeredn River, an arm of Chesapeake Bay, near the mouth of the York River. His first parallel was opened at about a mile from Yor were established along a curved line extending from the York River on the right to the head of the Warwick River on the left in idleness about a fortnight on the transports in the York River, because, as McClellan alleged, his preparations for thenston considered the Peninsula, with the probability of the York and James rivers on each flank being opened to the National
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
destruction of the latter, 362. the Monitor in Hampton Roads, 363. Battla between the Monitor and Merrimack,eated, and was about to manifest its strength in Hampton Roads. The Monitor, whose exploits we shall consider o the Secretary of War. The notable events in Hampton Roads, that modified McClellan's plans for marching onat the beginning of March, and its appearance in Hampton Roads was then daily expected. Meanwhile another engiaptain Marston, the commander of the squadron in Hampton Roads, informed the authorities at Washington that the was seen coming down the Elizabeth River toward Hampton Roads, accompanied by two ordinary gun-boats. At the iety to the loyal men on the northern borders of Hampton Roads. It was expected the savage Merrimack would bean Battle between the Monitor and Merrimack, in Hampton Roads. so doing she grounded, when Van Brunt again bro-operation of the remnant of the naval force in Hampton Roads in the reduction of the Confederate water-batter
St. Augustine (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
was overruled; and it was determined to hold the Peninsula, if possible, until Huger might dismantle the fortifications at Norfolk, destroy the naval establishment there, and evacuate the seaboard. Battle-fields of the South, by an English Combatant, page 169. Mr. Swinton says (Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, page 103) that this exposition of the views and wishes of the Confederate commander was given to him by Johnston himself. At that time the whole sea-coast below Norfolk to St. Augustine, excepting at Charleston and its immediate vicinity, was in possession of the National forces. For the purpose of holding the Peninsula temporarily, re-enforcements were sent down from Richmond when it was known that McClellan was intrenching, General Magruder, in his report, declared that he expected an attack immediately after the arrival of McClellan, and his troops slept in the trenches; but, he said, to my utter surprise, he permitted day after day to elapse without an assault I
Island Number Ten (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
the plan of the General-in-Chief (the movements in the West) was soon gloriously carried out, as we have already observed; and before the Army of the Potomac had fairly inaugurated its campaign, in the spring of 1862, the active little army under Grant, and the forces of Buell and Pope, in connection with Foote's gun-boats and mortars, had captured Forts Henry and Donelson, Nashville and Columbus; had driven the Confederates out of Kentucky; had seized the Gibraltar of the Mississippi (Island Number10); and had penetrated to Northern Alabama, and fought the. great battles and won a victory at Shiloh. See Chapters VII., VIII., IX., and X. At that conference, McClellan expressed his unwillingness to develop his plans, always believing, he said, that in military matters the fewer persons knowing them the better. He would tell them if he was ordered to do so. The President then asked him if he counted upon any particular time; he did not ask what time that was, but had he in his
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