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Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.1
stroyed in war, by electrical torpedoes, were by the torpedo department operating under my immediate command, and I may add the only ones, that I am aware of. Those who are not well acquainted with the history of our civil war will find ample proof of my statements on file in the Navy Department at Washington, as also by reference to Admirals Porter and S. P. Lee, and Commander W. B. Cushing, United States Navy, for the fact that an efficient system of torpedo defences did exist on the James river, during the war, and to the Hon. S. R. Mallory; Captain J. M. Brooke, inventor of the Merrimac, the Brooke Gun, and the deep-sea sounding apparatus; and also to Captain Wm. H. Parker, formerly Superintendent of the Confederate Naval School, that I organized and commanded these defences, and was the first to make them successful. There are volumes of evidence to this effect that can be produced when necessary. I hold letters from the three last named gentlemen, and from the late Gene
South America (search for this): chapter 1.1
Electrical torpedoes as a system of defence. By Hunter Davidson, Confederate States Navy. New York Hotel, New York, May, 1874. I have but recently returned from South America, and had an opportunity of reading two works on torpedoes, or submarine mines; one by Major R. H. Stotherd, R. E., and the other by Commander Fisher, R. N. It is now nine years since the close of our civil war, and considering how rapidly things change in this fast age, and that we too must soon pass away, it is about time at least to commence to vindicate the truth of history; for much of the history of that conflict exists only in the memory of the actors therein, and if they die without recording their experiences the truth is lost. At this day I think that my letter may be fairly read and considered, and that the impartial historian will give to my statements their due weight, the object being to establish my claim to having made the first successful application of electrical torpedoes or subm
Europe (search for this): chapter 1.1
ederate side, originated I believe with the Hon. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, and he directed the distinguished Captain M. F. Maury, Ll. D., to make experiments with a view to their general employment if practicable. I was selected as his immediate assistant. His work commenced in the spring of 1862, and continued for a few months only with electrical torpedoes. He had arrived at no definite conclusion from his experiments, in any particular when he left the Confederacy for Europe, and I was ordered to take charge, subject to orders from the Navy Department only, and remained so until near the closing scenes of the war, when I was relieved in command by Captain J. Pembroke Jones. The means used in my electrical torpedo defences differed in every essential particular from those used by Captain Maury in his experiments. The peculiar construction of the mines, the methods of fixing them in position and connecting them with the cables and batteries; the determination
1860 AD (search for this): chapter 1.2
strength of all the Confederate armies seems to have haunted the Federal commanders from the beginning of the war to its close. According to their estimates, there were few occasions on which they were not outnumbered, and this hallucination seems to have beset General McClellan with peculiar vividness during his whole military career. The absurdity of the Federal estimates of our strength, at various times, will be apparent from the following statistics taken from the official census of 1860, as published by the United States Government: In the fourteen States from which came any part of the armies of the Confederate States, including Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, there was a white population of only 7,946,111, of which an aggregate of 2,498,891 was in the said States of Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, leaving only 5,447,220 in the remainder of the Southern States, while there was a white population of 19,011,360 in the States and Territories indisputably under the control of
August (search for this): chapter 1.2
ates of the writer of the letter are given in lieu of the returns — which estimates are put in brackets in the letter itself. This is especially the case in regard to the estimates for the months of June and August, 1862, and for the month of June, 1863. The reason that no returns exist for those months is to be found in the fact that, at the end of June, 1862, and for some days into July, General Lee's army was engaged in battle with, or in pursuit of, McClellan's army; that at the end of August of the same year his army was engaged with Pope's army, and immediately thereafter moved into Maryland; and that at the end of June, 1863, his army was in Pennsylvania, where it engaged Meade's army at Gettysburg on the 1st, 2d and 3d of July. This condition of things at the end of those months prevented the regular monthly returns from being made; and the writer of the letter has taken advantage of the fact to greatly magnify General Lee's forces. The greatest force which the latter ever
May (search for this): chapter 1.2
ddle department and the department of Washington was called forward to the front. Taking advantage of this state of affairs, in the absence of General Hunter's command, the enemy made a large detachment from their army at Richmond, which, under General Early, moved down the Shenandoah Valley, threatening Baltimore and Washington. The reinforcements from Washington and Baltimore actually reached Grant at Spotsylvania Courthouse, where, he says: The 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th (of May) were consumed in manoeuvring and awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from Washington; and this was before General Lee had been reinforced by a solitary man. In addition to these reinforcements, Mr. Stanton says, on page 46, near the conclusion of his report, that the Governors of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, tendered 85,000 hundred days men on the 21st of April, 1864, to be raised in twenty days, which were accepted, and the greater part of which were raised, and that they
July (search for this): chapter 1.2
bruaryJ. E. Johnston47,61756,39684,225  MayJ. E. Johnston[67,000]    JuneR. E. Lee[100,000]    JulyR. E. Lee69,55994,686137,030  AugustR. E. Lee[95,000]    SeptemberR. E. Lee52,60962,713139,143  MarchR. E. Lee60,29873,578109,839  MayR. E. Lee68,35288,756133,679  JuneR. E. Lee[100,000]    JulyR. E. Lee41,13553,611117,602  AugustR. E. Lee56,32771,964133,264  SeptemberR. E. Lee44,36755,221 E. Lee39,40746,15179,202  *AprilR. E. Lee52,62661,21897,576  JuneR. E. Lee51,86362,57192,685  JulyR. E. Lee57,09768,844135,805  AugustR. E. Lee44,24758,984146,838  OctoberR. E. Lee62,87582,53517or those months is to be found in the fact that, at the end of June, 1862, and for some days into July, General Lee's army was engaged in battle with, or in pursuit of, McClellan's army; that at the eJanuaryJ. Longstreet18,667 1864.FebruaryJ. Longstreet19,010 1864.MarchJ. Longstreet18,387 1864.JulyS. B. Buckner14,907 Now is it not apparent that this return for March, 1864,
1865 AD (search for this): chapter 1.2
e, is not to be wondered at, but when the report of Mr. Edwin M. Stanton, the United States Secretary of War, made at the opening session of Congress for the years 1865-6, is critically examined, it will be regarded as most surprising that General Badeau should have committed such gross blunders in regard to the strength of Grant'imate which I had made of his force, in a published letter written from Havana in December, 1865, and in my published account of my own operations for the years 1864-5--which was 50,000--exceeded the actual efficient strength of his army. The returns of the Army of Northern Virginia, which are in what is called the Archive offic44135,805  AugustR. E. Lee44,24758,984146,838  OctoberR. E. Lee62,87582,535177,103  NovemberR. E. Lee69,29087,860181,826  DecemberR. E. Lee66,53379,318155,772 1865--JanuaryR. E. Lee53,44569,673441,627  FebruaryR. E. Lee59,09473,349160,411 This table, which must be understood as giving the returns at the close of the mon
February (search for this): chapter 1.2
bruary 28, 1862--February 28, 1865. date.Commander.for duty.present.present and absent. 1862--FebruaryJ. E. Johnston47,61756,39684,225  MayJ. E. Johnston[67,000]    JuneR. E. Lee[100,000]    July,583153,790  DecemberR. E. Lee79,07291,094152,853 1863--JanuaryR. E. Lee72,22693,297144,605  FebruaryR. E. Lee58,55974,435114,175  MarchR. E. Lee60,29873,578109,839  MayR. E. Lee68,35288,756133,6756,08896,576  DecemberR. E. Lee43,55854,71591,253 1864--JanuaryR. E. Lee35,84945,13979,602  FebruaryR. E. Lee33,81139,56268,435  MarchR. E. Lee39,40746,15179,202  *AprilR. E. Lee52,62661,21897,5,860181,826  DecemberR. E. Lee66,53379,318155,772 1865--JanuaryR. E. Lee53,44569,673441,627  FebruaryR. E. Lee59,09473,349160,411 This table, which must be understood as giving the returns at  NovemberSam. Jones10,546  DecemberJ. Longstreet15,342 1864.JanuaryJ. Longstreet18,667 1864.FebruaryJ. Longstreet19,010 1864.MarchJ. Longstreet18,387 1864.JulyS. B. Buckner14,907
1862 AD (search for this): chapter 1.2
my statements; and, if I appear a little prolix and tedious, I beg you to be patient, as I desire to show to you and your readers how officers of the United States army manufacture history. In the first column of the letter to the Tribune you will find a table of monthly returns for the Department of Northern Virginia, which is in the following words and figures: Department of Northern Virginia. February 28, 1862--February 28, 1865. date.Commander.for duty.present.present and absent. 1862--FebruaryJ. E. Johnston47,61756,39684,225  MayJ. E. Johnston[67,000]    JuneR. E. Lee[100,000]    JulyR. E. Lee69,55994,686137,030  AugustR. E. Lee[95,000]    SeptemberR. E. Lee52,60962,713139,143  OctoberR. E. Lee67,80579,395153,778  NovemberR. E. Lee73,55486,583153,790  DecemberR. E. Lee79,07291,094152,853 1863--JanuaryR. E. Lee72,22693,297144,605  FebruaryR. E. Lee58,55974,435114,175  MarchR. E. Lee60,29873,578109,839  MayR. E. Lee68,35288,756133,679  JuneR. E. Lee[
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