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Richard Taylor (search for this): chapter 8
. General Butler will report, as soon as he has his troops prepared, to Flag-Officer Stringham, and he will be ready to embark at one o'clock to-morrow. As soon as the object of the expedition is attained the detachment will return to Fortress Monroe. Captain Tallmadge, chief quartermaster, will provide a detachment of eight hundred and sixty men for the expedition to Hatteras Inlet, with a suitable quantity of water for ten days consumption, and the chief commissary of subsistence, Captain Taylor, will provide it with rations for the same length of time. These officers will report the execution of these orders by ten o'clock to-morrow if possible. By command of Major-General Wool: C. C. Churchill, First Lieutenant, Third Artillery, Act. Asst. Adjt.-Gen. Armed with the order we left Fortress Monroe at one o'clock on Monday, August 26. The last ship of our fleet but the Cumberland arrived at Hatteras about 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. We went to work landing troops tha
Bendix (search for this): chapter 8
ere the regiments were to meet, it being early dawn and the officers being very much scared, Colonel Bendix mistook the colonels and staff of the other regiment for a body of cavalry, and fired upon tktown road and attack the enemy in his rear and cut him off from Yorktown; that at the same time Bendix should march by his flank obliquely to the right and then go across a little stream easily fordahe stood up in full view, a rifle shot from the enemy killed him instantly. Meantime Duryea and Bendix were trying to pass to the left of the enemy's entrenchments to be ready to spring upon them wher in the vigor of the attack or in the loss of men. We lost quite as many men by the fire of Colonel Bendix upon Colonel Townsend's regiment of foot, mistaking it for cavalry, as we lost altogether atnt, as there were two regiments Two regiments were ordered, but three took part in the fight: Bendix, Townsend, and Duryea. to go into the fight with a brigadier-general in command. I had but one
S. Barron (search for this): chapter 8
had been hoisted. The boat soon returned, bringing the following communication from Samuel Barron, late captain in the United States Navy:-- Fort Hatteras, August 29, 1861. Flag-Officer Samuel Barron, C. S. Navy, offers to surrender Fort Hatteras, with all the arms and munitions of war; the officers to be allowed to go out with side arms and the men without arms to retire. S. Barron, Commanding Naval Defences Virginia and North Carolina. A verbal communication also was sent by Barron stating that he had 615 men in the fort and one thousand more within an hour's call, but that he was anxious to spare the effusion of blood. To both the written and verbal communications I made reply as follows, and sent it by Lieutenant Crosby:-- Benj. F. Butler, Major-General U. S. Army, commanding, in reply to the communication of Samuel Barron, commanding forces at Fort Hatteras, cannot admit the terms proposed. The terms offered are these: Full capitulation; the officers and men
Stellwagen (search for this): chapter 8
them that inasmuch as the expedition was a combined one of the army and navy, the surrender must be made on board the flag-ship to Flag-Officer Stringham as well as to myself. They went on board the Minnesota, and the capitulation was agreed to. I will mention in this connection that at the moment that my terms of capitulation were under consideration by the enemy, the transport Adelaide, crowded with troops, had grounded upon the bar; but by the active and judicious exertions of Commander Stellwagen she was got off after some delay. At the same time the Harriet Lane, in attempting to enter over the bar, had grounded and remained fast. Both were under the guns of the fort. This to me was a moment of the greatest anxiety. By these accidents a valuable ship of war, and a transport steamer, with a large portion of my troops,were within the power of the enemy. I had demanded the strongest terms, which he was then considering. He might refuse, and, seeing our disadvantage, renew
Robert C. Winthrop (search for this): chapter 8
h; Wendell Phillips said a bad one. My staff officer, Major Winthrop, insisted it was an epigram which freed the slaves. Ta personal reconnoissance of the lay of the country by Major Winthrop, I came to the conclusion to attempt to take this postbage head to undertake to do anything, except it might be Winthrop. Greble held his position an hour and a half, while the and at once concluded to retire. He did retire, leaving Winthrop near the fort in expectation of instant victory. WinthroWinthrop did not know that the order had been given for the retirement of Townsend's troops. Winthrop sprang upon a log to take a Winthrop sprang upon a log to take a view of the situation, and see how matters stood. He was supported by one private. All the rest of his support had retiredarer to it than you? No; there were some as near. But Winthrop went clear up farther than any of us, and then he. went borge Scott, who was to have a shooting iron and accompany Winthrop, and found him The contraband of War. meeting of Gen.
John A. Andrew (search for this): chapter 8
had $60,000 worth of them. That question included the slaves of loyal men. In this matter I wanted the sanction of the government. I had adopted a theory on this question for myself in Maryland, and got rapped over the knuckles for it by Governor Andrew. I had learned what manner of man Scott was, and I was desirous to take instructions from him for my action but not for my law. If Mr. Hay had stopped at the point where he was led to doubt my authorship of contraband because I had not med to do duty with me at Fortress Monroe, had not been in his seat and explained the senselessness of the clamor. But one senator from my own State voted for me, the other, the senior senator, voting against me because of my difference with Governor Andrew on the slave question. In the meantime neither horses nor artillery came. I did, however, get a very valuable reinforcement of a California regiment and a half, at the head of which was Colonel Baker, who had had some experience in Mexic
Wendell Phillips (search for this): chapter 8
ght caused to flash through my mind the plausible answer at least to the question: What will you do? I do not claim for the phrase contraband of war, used in this connection, the highest legal sanction, because it would not apply to property used or property for use in war, as would be a cargo of coal being carried to be burned on board an enemy's ship of war. To hold that contraband, as well might be done, by no means included all the coal in the country. It was a poor phrase enough; Wendell Phillips said a bad one. My staff officer, Major Winthrop, insisted it was an epigram which freed the slaves. The truth is, as a lawyer I was never very proud of it, but as an executive officer I was very much comforted with it as a means of doing my duty. The effect upon the public mind, however, was most wonderful. Everybody seemed to feel a relief on this great slavery question. Everybody thought a way had been found through it. Everybody praised its author by extolling its great use,
George B. McClellan (search for this): chapter 8
ess that the navy had anything to do with up to that time, or, indeed, the army either, except at Baltimore and Annapolis. The President shook me very warmly by the hand, and when I ventured to speak about what I had not done, he said: You have done all right, you have done all right. Come to-morrow at ten o'clock and we will have a Cabinet meeting over it. I retired, and at ten o'clock the next morning I made my report to the President in Cabinet meeting. Among those present was General McClellan, whom I then saw for the first time. I explained the whole situation, giving reasons why I had not obeyed orders and stopped up Hatteras Inlet, and also stating the necessity for holding Fort Hatteras. On the next day I had the pleasure to report to my chief, General Wool, whom I never saw as such afterwards, that the Cabinet had voted unanimously that he should hold Fort Hatteras and Hatteras Inlet. I had opened the way through Annapolis for the troops to save the capital; I had
D. H. Hill (search for this): chapter 8
which I learned the rebels intended to entrench and hold, because they expected a move towards Richmond to be made very soon. The insane cry of On to Richmond had been continually sounded by Mr. Greeley and his coadjutors. After carefully reconnoitring the position, I concluded upon an attack. A creek crossed the road close by the church known as the Bethel. The bridge over this creek was attempted to be commanded by a slight fortification some half a cannon-shot distance beyond. Col. D. H. Hill, of North Carolina, held it with five hundred men. Our negro scouts reported them two thousand in number, and they really thought there were as many as that, for a negro scout had to be a veteran in the war before he learned that two hundred men were not a thousand, and that five hundred were not two thousand. So upon the point of numbers I was satisfied; and I was further convinced that there were no more than one thousand in Yorktown, that might possibly come to Bethel, as they after
B. F. Butler (search for this): chapter 8
eneral B. F. Butler is hereby placed in command of the volunteer forces in this department, exclusive of those at Fortress Monroe. His present command at Camps Butler and Hamilton will include the First, Second, Seventh, Ninth, and Twentieth New York Regiments, the Battalion of Massachusetts Volunteers, and the Union Coast Guarn order was drawn as follows, which he signed:-- headquarters Department of Virginia, Fortress Monroe, Va., August 25, 1861. Special Order No. 13. Major-General Butler will prepare eight hundred and sixty troops for an expedition to Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina, to go with Commodore Stringham, commanding Home Squadron, any (B) of the Second Artillery from Fortress Munroe. They will be provided with ten days rations and water, and one hundred and forty rounds of ammunition. General Butler will report, as soon as he has his troops prepared, to Flag-Officer Stringham, and he will be ready to embark at one o'clock to-morrow. As soon as the object
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