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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 2 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 2 2 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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St. Augustine, 1,400 miles and more, there was nothing approaching a fortification except the works at Key West and Tortugas, and those posts, the keys to the Gulf, were held by the enemy. There were a few cannon mounted at St. Augustine, at Fort Clinch on Amelia island, at the mouth of St. John's river, at Fernandina, Cedar Keys, St. Marks, Apalachicola and Tallahassee; but there were only two guns at each of the gulf points, and St. Augustine had but eleven. At this time (May) it was estimAmelia island, at the mouth of St. John's river, at Fernandina, Cedar Keys, St. Marks, Apalachicola and Tallahassee; but there were only two guns at each of the gulf points, and St. Augustine had but eleven. At this time (May) it was estimated that Florida had 70000 men in the field at Pensacola, and nearly 2,000 more, organized under the last call of the President and equipped by the State, ready to march where ordered. On May 10th the Confederate steamer Spray captured off Cedar Keys the United States schooner William C. Atwater, with thirty-one men. The boat was taken to Apalachicola and converted into a blockade runner, but was recaptured off the same port in January following by the Federal steamer Itasca. Tampa bay was
ed in as a part of the provisional army of the Confederate States. For this latter purpose they were rendezvoused on Amelia island, except the companies from Duval and St. John's, which were on duty in their own counties. The regiment saw little aization, but a great deal of hard labor was performed by them and other volunteer troops in throwing up sand batteries on Amelia and Talbot islands, and thus strengthening the eastern part of the State. But one skirmish was had with the enemy in tharom Nassau. On March 26, 1862, a detachment made up mostly from these two companies, while on duty at the beach on Amelia island, under Captain Strain, who had succeeded Captain Girardeau in command of Company H, attacked some launches which wereerate service as field artillery and attached to the Third regiment of Florida volunteers. The company remained on Amelia island about five months. On the concentration of the enemy's gunboats in good view of the island, General Trapier deemed
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
. 135-A; 152, D10; 171 Alton, Mo. 47, 1; 135-A; 153, D5 Altoona, Pa. 136, A4 Amelia Court-House, Va. 16, 1; 74, 1; 76, 5; 93, 1; 100, 1; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 137, F6; 171 Available routes to, 1865 78, 1 Amelia Island, Fla. 135-A; 145, F11 Amelia Springs, Va. 16, 1; 74, 1; 77, 4; 93, 1; 137, F6 American Ranch, Colo. Ter. 119, 1 Amherst Court-House, Va. 74, 1; 81, 6; 100, 1; 137, F3 Amissville, Va. 22, 5, 22, 7; 23, 2, 23, 5; 100, 1 25, 6; 27, 1; 82, 3; 116, 2 Cleveland, Tenn. 135-A Defenses 111, 4 Clifton, Tenn. 24, 3; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 149, B2; 153, H14 Clifton Forge, Va. 94, 1; 137, E1 Fort Clifton, Va. 56, 1; 77, 3; 93, 1 Fort Clinch, Fla. 145, E11; 146, D2; 171 Clinch Mountain, Tenn. 118, 2; 135-A Clinch River, Tenn. 9, 2; 24, 3; 95, 3; 117, 1; 118, 2; 135-A; 142, C3, 135-A; 142, D2; 150, H12 Clinton, Ark. 47, 1; 135-A; 153, G2; 171 Clinton, Ga.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Henry Chase Whiting, Major-General C. S. Army. (search)
an opening made by the waters of the lagoon, breaking through to the gulf, thereby endangering the Fort (Pickens) by undermining. This had baffled the efforts of several engineers, who had attempted to close it, at great expense to the government. Ordered next to Fort McHenry, then under the command of Colonel Robert E. Lee, he was transferred shortly after to Fort Point, California, at San Francisco, thence to Wilmington, N. C., and from that point to Fort Pulaski, Georgia, and Fort Clinch, Florida. Upon her secession, Georgia made him Major of Engineers, and on March 29, he received the same rank in the Confederate Army. Then began the long line of services, in many capacities and at many points, to the Southern cause, much of which was devoted to North Carolina, and the closing years of his career wholly so. Sent to Charleston, S. C., to inspect the works being constructed against Fort Sumter, he recognized at once the faults of location and construction, and reported t
Fernandina, Nassau County, Florida a town of 1,390* pop., on Amelia Island and St. Mary's Bay, having a fine harbor and considerable trade. The Eastern terminus of the Florida Railroad.
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
yll Island, the Bay of St. Andrews; Cumberland Island, the Bay of St. Mary; Amelia Island, upon which stands the little town of Fernandina, terminus of the Cedar Keywhence it was to attack the inlets of St. Mary's Bay, which were defended by Fort Clinch, a work of considerable strength, built near Fernandina, at the same period ad abandoned this part of the coast, Cumberland Island, Fernandina, and even Fort Clinch, whose solid masonry could, however, have enabled its garrison of fifteen huailroad from Fernandina to Cedar Keys, after skirting for some distance, on Amelia Island, the sheet of water which separates it from the continent, crosses this shethe Federals. This easy success led to others. The signal for evacuating Fort Clinch was imitated along the whole coast of Georgia between the bays of Ossabaw an Dupont's hands Fort Marion, a permanent work of masonry formerly built like Fort Clinch by the Federal government, which the raw militia of Florida had never dreame
who, in February, had been despatched to St. Augustine, had not returned. Oglethorpe resolved himself to sustain the pretensions of Great Britain to the territory as far south as the St. John's, and the Highlanders volunteered their service. With their aid, April 18. he explored the channels south of Frederica; and on the island to which Tomo-chichi gave the name of Cumberland, he marked out a fort to be called St. Andrew's. But Oglethorpe still pressed forward to the south. Passing Amelia Island, and claiming the St. John's River as the southern boundary of the territory possessed by the Indian subjects of England at the time of the treaty at Utrecht, on the southern extremity of the island at the entrance of that stream, where myrtles and palmettoes abounded, and wild grape vines, climbing to the summit of trees, formed as beautiful Von Reck, in Urlsperger i. 848 walks as art could have designed, he planted the Fort St. George, as the defence of the British frontier. Indign
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Missouri Convention-report of the Committee on Federal Relations. (search)
ith regard to the circumstances of his burial. Accidentally, his surviving friends, and the gentlemen who have most interested themselves in the matter, discovered that Col. M. M. Payne, United States Army, was at his funeral. We conversed with Col. P. on the subject, who told us all he knew. There was not, indeed, much to tell; but every thing connected with the death of a man so well known is of interest. Col. Payne, then a Captain in the army, commanded the troops stationed on Amelia Island, opposite to Cumberland, from which it is separated, we believe, by St. Mary's Sound. The officers — he among the rest — frequently visited in the neighborhood — at Mrs. Shaw's, among other houses. He had never heard that Gen. Lee had been lying ill at Mrs. Shaw's, until one morning he received an invitation to attend his funeral that day. As the distance was ten miles, all the way by water, and as Capt. Payne had but a single small boat at his command, he could not, of course, carry o<
any necessity for her local defence. Forts Jefferson and Taylor were built with paramount reference to the commerce of the United States, and should remain in the hands of the Government which built them in the interest of its commerce.--The Key West naval coal depot and wharf, the marine hospital, the army barracks, the admiralty courts and wrecking organization, and the series of light-houses — Loggerhead, Tortugas, Key West, Sand Key, Sombrero, Carysfort, Cape Florida, Jupiter, and Cape Canaveral — will not, we take it for granted, be abandoned to the State, which has least interest in them and least capacity to hold and maintain them. Let Florida have Fort Clinch to guard the approaches to Fernandina; let her have the Pensacola Navy-Yard and the triple fortifications there; let her have what concerns only local interests; but the commercial United States cannot be justly called to surrender to uncommercial Florida what belongs to and concerns only the commerce of the nation.
Anderson to make inquiry into the cause of the vessel having been shot at, and also to request permission for his boat to proceed to the schooner; and it is reported that the boat did go to the suspicious vessel, but of this we have no certain information. It is also said that one of the officers in the boat from Fort Sumter stated that Major Anderson's batteries would probably pay their respects to those on Cumming's Point before morning.-- About six o'clock last evening the steamer Gen. Clinch, with Lieut. T. B. Huger, was sent from the city to look after the schooner and investigate her character; but, after proceeding some distance down the channel, they were unable to discover anything of her, and suppose that she had gone to sea. As the wind was blowing very strong from the northeast, she will, no doubt, take a southerly course. Other facts. The suspicious part of the whole proceeding is, that this schooner, instead of coming to and establishing her character, immediat