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Gunpowder Creek (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
e mortar and one 24-pounder Coehorn. The following conversation took place early in 1861 between General Winfield Scott and Colonel Charles P. Stone, inspector-general of the District of Columbia: General Scott: Gosport navy-yard has been burned. Colonel Stone: Yes, General. General Scott: Harper's Ferry bridge has been burned. Yes, General. General Scott: The bridge at Point of Rocks was burned some days since. Yes, General. General Scott: The bridges over Gunpowder Creek, beyond Baltimore, have been burned. Yes, General. General Scott: They are closing their coils around us, sir. Yes, General. General Scott: Now, how long can we hold out here? Ten days, General, and within that time the North will come down to us. General Scott: How will they come? The route through Baltimore is cut off. They will come by all routes. They will come between the capes of Virginia, up through Chesapeake Bay, and by the Potomac. They will come, if n
Long Bridge (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Runyon, at the land end of the approach of Long Bridge, and Fort Corcoran, covering the approach ted the Potomac, one by the aqueduct, one by Long Bridge, and one by water to Alexandria. The smoot, south of Alexandria; then the entrance to Long Bridge; Forts Corcoran and Woodbury, defending theas well as they could at the termination of Long Bridge, on the Virginia shore, and also at the Vir Runyon, at the land end of the approach to Long Bridge, about a half a mile from the Virginia end three columns, one by the aqueduct, one by Long Bridge, and one by water to Alexandria. The nearn The stream of fugitives crowding across Long Bridge and Aqueduct Bridge after the disaster of Be soldiers stationed at the Virginia end of Long Bridge were caught by the pioneer photographer at ese, Fort Runyon, already noted as covering Long Bridge on the Virginia side, was the largest, with was commenced on the Virginia side between Long Bridge and Aqueduct Bridge but not completed, and
Fort Whipple (Arizona, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
tion is mounted, to the right and a little to the rear of each piece. The cannoneers are mounted on the limbers and caissons in the rear. To the left waves the notched guidon used by both the cavalry and light artillery. A light battery at Fort Whipple, defenses of Washington This photograph shows the flat nature of the open country about Washington. There were no natural fortifications around the city. Artificial works were necessary throughout. Fort Whipple lay to the south of Fort CFort Whipple lay to the south of Fort Corcoran, one of the three earliest forts constructed. It was built later, during one of the recurrent panics at the rumor that the Confederates were about to descend upon Washington. This battery of six guns, the one on the right hand, pointing directly out of the picture, looks quite formidable. One can imagine the burst of fire from the underbrush which surrounds it, should it open upon the foe. At present it is simply drilling. and with the aid of this battery the retreat from that point
Fort Scott (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
full bloom. eyes were directed to General McClellan, whose successes had already made him a marked man, and under the direction of that able organizer a more secure feeling immediately appeared. He directed the immediate completion of the fortifications of the city, and also bent his energy to organizing the great Army of the Potomac. Once the positions on the right bank of the Potomac were reasonably secure through the works just mentioned and such additional defenses as Fort Albany, Fort Scott, and various lines of connecting fortifications, attention was given to the Washington side of the river. In the summer and autumn the Potomac is fordable at points not far above Washington, and as the river became lower apprehension increased that the victorious foe, who still rested at Manassas, would avoid the works on the Virginia side, cross above Georgetown, and attack from the Maryland side of the city. To meet the emergency, works were hurriedly thrown up without that careful pre
Tennallytown (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
reful preliminary study of the topography which the occasion really demanded. The securing of the roads was the first consideration. The main road which followed the general line of the crest between Rock Creek and the Potomac, branched at Tennallytown, about a mile south of the District line, and entering and leaving the town were other important roads. As this was on fairly high ground it was selected as a proper point for a work, and Fort Pennsylvania (afterward Fort Reno) was placed thend Slocum, between these latter roads and the Seventh Street Road, were all simultaneously started. All these works were on the crest of a somewhat irregular ridge overlooking the valley of Sligo Branch. This carried the general project from Tennallytown, within two miles of the Potomac, around to the north and east of the capital to Anacostia Branch. The forts on the south side of the Potomac. The forts on the south side of the Potomac, grouped immediately about the Aqueduct Bridge,
Chesapeake Bay (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
eneral. General Scott: The bridges over Gunpowder Creek, beyond Baltimore, have been burned. Yes, General. General Scott: They are closing their coils around us, sir. Yes, General. General Scott: Now, how long can we hold out here? Ten days, General, and within that time the North will come down to us. General Scott: How will they come? The route through Baltimore is cut off. They will come by all routes. They will come between the capes of Virginia, up through Chesapeake Bay, and by the Potomac. They will come, if necessary, from Pennsylvania, through Maryland, directly to us, and they will come through Baltimore and Annapolis. Fort Totten. Constant drill at the guns went on in the defenses of Washington throughout the war. At its close in April, 1865, there were 68 enclosed forts and batteries, whose aggregate perimeter was thirteen miles, 807 guns and 98 mortars mounted, and emplacements for 1,120 guns, ninety-three unarmed batteries for field-gun
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ned. Yes, General. General Scott: They are closing their coils around us, sir. Yes, General. General Scott: Now, how long can we hold out here? Ten days, General, and within that time the North will come down to us. General Scott: How will they come? The route through Baltimore is cut off. They will come by all routes. They will come between the capes of Virginia, up through Chesapeake Bay, and by the Potomac. They will come, if necessary, from Pennsylvania, through Maryland, directly to us, and they will come through Baltimore and Annapolis. Fort Totten. Constant drill at the guns went on in the defenses of Washington throughout the war. At its close in April, 1865, there were 68 enclosed forts and batteries, whose aggregate perimeter was thirteen miles, 807 guns and 98 mortars mounted, and emplacements for 1,120 guns, ninety-three unarmed batteries for field-guns, 35,711 yards of rifle-trenches, and three block-houses encircling the Northern capital.
Fulton (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
evens, farther east; Fort Totten, east of Fort Stevens; Fort Lincoln, still farther south; and finally Fort C. F. Smith, to commanding the Seventh Street Road, running north, and Fort Lincoln, commanding the Baltimore turn-pike and the Baltimore aructed in the service of sea-coast-, siege-, and Fort Lincoln. Eighteen forts, four batteries of heavy artillery, antween Fort Sumner, on the Potomac above Georgetown, and Fort Lincoln, near Bladensburg, commanding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the upper Anacostia. Fort Lincoln was profusely but not heavily armed. It had two 8-inch siege-howitzers, six 3so a 100-pounder Parrott and four 20-pounder Parrotts. Fort Lincoln was a bastioned Fort of four faces. One of the 20-poun64, for the defense of Washington. The interior of Fort Lincoln Company H, third Massachusetts heavy artillery, in FoFort Lincoln field-guns of the forts, and they soon became an unrivaled body of artillerymen. Their long connection with par
Fort Lyon (Colorado, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
nts of the Government must be deposited in the vaults of the Treasury. They must not be captured and used to deceive A trip around the defenses of Washington-Fort Lyon This photograph is the first of a series illustrating the thirty-seven miles of forts and batteries which surrounded Washington. After Fort Lyon, in this serFort Lyon, in this series, one of the farthest forts to the southwest, comes Battery Rodgers, south of Alexandria; then the entrance to Long Bridge; Forts Corcoran and Woodbury, defending the Aqueduct Bridge; Fort Marcy, the farthest north across the Potomac from Washington; Fort Sumner, the farthest north on the other side of the Potomac; Fort Stevens, These mounted 807 guns and ninety-eight mortars, with emplacements for 1,120 guns more. There were also 35,711 yards of rifle-trenches and three blockhouses. Fort Lyon, above pictured, lay across Hunting Creek from Alexandria. The Parrott guns were rifled cannon of cast-iron, strengthened at the breech by shrinking a band of w
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
. General Scott: How will they come? The route through Baltimore is cut off. They will come by all routes. They will come between the capes of Virginia, up through Chesapeake Bay, and by the Potomac. They will come, if necessary, from Pennsylvania, through Maryland, directly to us, and they will come through Baltimore and Annapolis. Fort Totten. Constant drill at the guns went on in the defenses of Washington throughout the war. At its close in April, 1865, there were 68 enclosek Creek and the Potomac, branched at Tennallytown, about a mile south of the District line, and entering and leaving the town were other important roads. As this was on fairly high ground it was selected as a proper point for a work, and Fort Pennsylvania (afterward Fort Reno) was placed there. Thus was established one point of the line of works. Fort Stevens, commanding the Seventh Street Road, running north, and Fort Lincoln, commanding the Baltimore turn-pike and the Baltimore and Ohio Rai
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