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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 1.9 (search)
el Serrell having had the top carriage altered to enable this to be done; and it was charged, by special instructions, with twenty pounds of powder, being four pounds greater than the ordinary service charge. At half-past 1 on the morning of August 22d the first shell with percussion-fuse was fired from the Swamp Angel. The noise made by bells and whistles in the middle of the night told the Union soldiers that the shell had fallen into the city. Sixteen shells were fired that early morning were of Mr. R. P. Parrott's own construction at the West Point foundry, and filled with a fluid composition, and the other four shells were filled with Short's Solidified Greek fire. General Beauregard wrote General Gillmore on the morning of August 22d, saying, Your firing a number of the most destructive missiles ever used in war into the midst of a city taken unawares and filled with sleeping women and children will give you a bad eminence in history. The general replied, and on August 23d
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Atlanta campaign. May 3d-September 8th, 1864. (search)
th Ohio, Col. William H. Gibson, Lieut.-Col. Samuel F. Gray; 15th Wis., Maj. George Wilson, Lieut.-Col. Ole C. Johnson. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. William B. Hazen, Col. Oliver H. Payne, Col. P. Sidney Post: 6th Ind., Relieved for muster-out August 22d. Lieut.-Col. Calvin D. Campbell; 5th Ky., Transferred to Fourth Division, Twentieth Corps, July 25th and August 9th, respectively. Col. William W. Berry; 6th Ky., Transferred to Fourth Division, Twentieth Corps, July 25th and August 9th, ansferred to First Brigade August llth), Lieut.-Col. Laurence H. Rousseau; 1st Tenn. (relieved for muster-out August 11th), Col. I. K. Byrd, Lieut.-Col. John Ellis. Dismounted Cavalry Brigade (assigned June 21st; transferred to cavalry division August 22d), Col. Eugene W. Crittenden: 16th Ill., Capt. Hiram S. Hanchett; 12th Ky., Lieut.-Col. James T. Bramlette, Maj. James B. Harrison. Artillery, Maj. Henry W. Wells: 15th Ind., Capt. Alonzo D. Harvey; D, 1st Ohio, Capt. Giles J. Cockerill. cava
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Land operations against Mobile. (search)
nd, April 10th, 1864, and, on June 21st, was ordered to report to General Canby.--editors. with 1800 men from New Orleans to cooperate with Admiral Farragut. On August 3d Granger landed on Dauphine Island, and the next morning, the appointed time, was in position before Fort Gaines. At once crossing the bay, now held by Farragut's fleet, Granger landed in the rear of Fort Morgan and began a siege. A siege train was sent from New Orleans, and three more regiments of infantry. On the 22d of August, twenty-five guns and sixteen mortars being in position, Manned by the 1st Indiana Heavy Artillery, 38th Iowa, Rawles's battery, 5th U. S., and a naval detachment under Lieutenant Tyson, of the Hartford. General Richard Arnold was the chief-of-artillery.--R. B. I. a general bombardment by the army and the fleet began at daylight. At 6 o'clock the next morning, the 23d, the white flag was shown, and the fort surrendered at 2:30 P. M. About five hundred prisoners were taken and about f