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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 50: Second attack on Fort Fisher. (search)
Grant presided, and it was concluded to land an Army Corps under General Cox. at Smithville, on the west bank of Cape Fear River, march on Fort Anderson by a good road, while the gun-boats attacked it by water; but this plan was changed after General Grant left, and General Schofield undertook an expedition by way of the beach, covered by some six or eight gun-boats; but it came on to blow and rain heavily and the troops had to return, when the first plan was finally adopted. On the 18th of February, the gun-boats having shifted their 100-pounder rifles for 11-inch guns, proceeded up the river towards Fort Anderson preparatory to an attack. The Army Corps under General Cox proceeded by the Smithville road to try and cut off the enemy if he attempted to escape from the works. The Monitor Montauk, Lieutenant-Commander Edward E. Stone, was anchored eight hundred yards from the fort, which immediately opened fire upon her, but her thick sides and turrets resisted this fire until the
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xxiii. The War along the Atlantic coast in 1864. (search)
the south fork of St. Mary's as soon as Henry returns. I hope he will be in this morning. Gillmore at once responded: I want your command at and beyond Baldwin concentrated at Baldwin without delay. Seymour replied, insisting that To leave the south fork of the St. Mary's will make it impossible for us to advance again ; but intimated no purpose to make such advance without orders. Gillmore thereupon returned to Hilton Head; and was very soon thunderstruck by receiving Feb. 18--dated Feb. 17. a letter from Seymour, saying that he had been compelled to remain where his men could be fed; but adding Not enough supplies could be accumulated to permit me to execute my intention of moving to the Suwanee river. But I now propose to go without supplies; and asking that an iron-clad demonstration be made up the Savannah, to prevent the dispatch of Rebel forces from Georgia to Finnegan! Gillmore at once wrote him a strong remonstrance against the madness of his proj
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 32 (search)
res, railroad bridges, two iron-clads, and some vessels in the ship-yard. Among the captured property were 200 pieces of artillery; spiked and temporarily disabled, as they could not be brought off. The Yankees occupied Charleston on the 18th of February. A scarred city, blackened by fire, with evidences of destruction and ruin wrought by the enemy at almost every step, had at last come into their possession; but not until a heroic defense, running through nearly four years, and at last onleen him and Columbia, while Cheatham's force (the remnant of Hood's army) was moving parallel with our advance still farther to the left. But, on crossing the Saluda, Feb. 17. Wheeler was found to be ahead; and our cavalry marched all day Feb. 18. parallel with Cheatham's corps, moving at times within three miles--a difficult stream forbidding an attempt to strike the enemy in flank, as he was strung along the road. Crossing the Greenville and Columbia road, Kilpatrick tore it up down t
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, Chapter 22: campaign of the Carolinas. February and March, 1866. (search)
on, I distinctly charged it to General Wade Hampton, and confess I did so pointedly, to shake the faith of his people in him, for he was in my opinion boastful, and professed to be the special champion of South Carolina. The morning sun of February 18th rose bright and clear over a ruined city. About half of it was in ashes and in smouldering heaps. Many of the people were houseless, and gathered in groups in the suburbs, or in the open parks and spaces, around their scanty piles of furnitington, North Carolina, was in possession of the Yankee troops; so that I had every reason to be satisfied that our march was fully reaping all the fruits we could possibly ask for. Charleston was, in fact, evacuated by General Hardee on the 18th of February, and was taken possession of by a brigade of General Foster's troops, commanded by General Schimmelpfennig, the same day. Hardee had availed himself of his only remaining railroad, by Florence to Cheraw; had sent there much of his ammunition
Rebellion Record: Introduction., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Introduction. (search)
ndix A. Is Secession a Constitutional right, or is it Revolution! Whether the present unnatural civil war is waged by the South, in virtue of a supposed constitutional right to leave the Union at pleasure; or whether it is an exercise of the great and ultimate right of revolution, the existence of which no one denies, seems to be left in uncertainty by the leaders of the movement. Mr. Jefferson Davis, the President of the new confederacy, in his inaugural speech delivered on the 18th of February, declares that it is an abuse of language to call it a revolution. Mr. Vice-President Stephens, on the contrary, in a speech at Savannah, on the 21st of March, pronounces it one of the greatest revolutions in the annals, of the world. The question is of great magnitude as one of constitutional and public law; as one of morality it is of very little consequence whether the country is drenched in blood, in the exercise of a right claimed under the Constitution, or the right inherent in
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 48 (search)
t severe. Company H.--Wounded, A. J. Price, right thigh, not severe; J. B. Flaniken, same. Company I.--Wounded, Theoph. Eaton, thumb shot off; Patrick McManus, not severe; Thomas Wilson, thigh shattered. Company K.--Wounded, Corporal William Mathews, thigh, slight; John H. Johnson, hand, slight. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant. J. J. Woods, Colonel Twelfth Iowa Infantry. Colonel Bausenwein's report. headquarters Fifty-Eighth Reg. O. V. I., Fort Donelson, February 18. C. P. Buckingham, Adjutant-General of Ohio: dear sir: The Fifty-eighth Ohio regiment was the first regiment on the enemy's battery; the flags presented by the ladies of Columbus the first planted on the battery; the band the first playing our national air, The Star-Spangled Banner. We took upward of two thousand prisoners, ten cannon, one twelve-pound howitzer, (the day previous, Saturday,) and one thousand boxes of ammunition. We were seven hours in the fire, guarding our advance
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 210 (search)
The Substitute System.--The following advertisements are taken from the Richmond Dispatch of February 18: A resident of Maryland who has lately run the blockade, wishes to become a substitute for any man who is willing to pay him his price. For particulars inquire at C. A. Brockmeyer's segar-store, No. 21 Main street. Wanted — A substitute for the war; one of good character, not subject to military draft. A liberal price will be paid if accepted. Apply at my office.--Edw. D. Eacho, 14th st., near Exchange Hotel. Wanted--Two persons to raise fifteen recruits each for a new volunteer company, for which they will receive lieutenancies. Address M. M. B., Norfolk, Va. Wanted — this morning, twenty substitutes. I will pay more than can be obtained by any other agent in the city for good substitutes. Apply this morning to T. B. Rees, No. 3 Tenth st., below Main. Wanted — A substitute on board Confederate States steamer Patrick Henry, as wardroom steward. Apply at th<
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), A Heroic Union girl. (search)
he family, whereupon the daughter, some seventeen years old, told them she knew where the pistol was, but they could not get it. The robbers insisted with loud, vulgar oaths, but the girl was determined, and seeing they were foiled in this, they ordered the feeble, sickly boy to mount up behind one of their clan, as they intended to take him to Camp Beauregard in place of his d — d Lincolnite father. The boy and mother in tears protested, but to no effect, and the boy was in the act of mounting, when the heroic sister stepped between her brother and the robbers, and drawing, cocking and presenting the pistol, ordered her brother back to the house, and, with eagle-piercing eye fastened on the robbers, and death-dealing determination in her countenance, dared them to hinder or touch her brother and she would lay the robber dead at her feet. Suffice it to say, the three brigands scampered off and left the family without further molestation. Neighbor. --Louisville Journal, February 18
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), Battle of Olustee. (search)
d, our army safely intrenched in Lake City, and Florida wrested from the hands of the rebels. The battle of Olustee will take rank among the bloodiest and most fruitless slaughters of the war. When General Seymour left Jacksonville, the eighteenth February, he expected to fight a battle near Lake City, the twenty-first, and not before. This impression seems to have seized his mind, and clung to it with the force of fatality. When he left Barber's early on the nineteenth, he was told that home things, but cowardice or excessive prudence should not be put into the list. Vide. Another account. on board Cosmopolitan, hospital ship, in Transit from Jacksonville, Fla., to Hilton head, S. C., February 22, 1864. On Thursday, February eighteenth, General Seymour and his staff left Jacksonville, and reached Baldwin, twenty-two miles distant, the same evening. Here he had established an important depot of supplies for the army he was leading into the field. At this point the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 96 (search)
from the Collector of the Customs, according to law, showing no violation of the conditions of the license. Any violation of said conditions will involve the forfeiture and condemnation of the vessel and cargo, and the exclusion of all parties concerned from any further privilege of entering the United States during the war for any purpose whatever. In all respects, except as herein specified, the existing blockade remains in full force and effect as hitherto established and maintained, nor is it relaxed by this proclamation, except in regard to the port to which relaxation is or has been expressly applied. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. Abraham Lincoln. By the President: Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State.
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