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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , August
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , August
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , August
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861 , August
August 29.
The joint expedition, commanded by General B. F. Butler and Commodore S. H. Stringham, after two days cannonading, succeeded in capturing Forts Clark and Hatteras, at Hatteras Inlet, N. C., with the garrison of the latter fort.
Thirty pieces of cannon, one thousand stand of arms, and a quantity of provisions, fell into possession of the National forces.
Also three prize vessels--one a brig, laden with coffee and provisions, another laden with cotton, and two United States life-boats, together with large quantities of ammunition and munitions of war.
There is an inlet across the sand bar at Hatteras, made by the sea within a few years, near which there have been erected two forts of earth and sand and other materials, and mounting a considerable number of guns.
These forts were shelled by the National rifled cannon at a range of two-and-a-half miles.
Into one of them there were thrown twenty-eight shells in eight minutes. One of the works surrendered, which was
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862 , August
August 29.
The battle of Groveton, in the vicinity of Bull Run, was fought by the Union army, under Gen. Pope, and two divisions of the rebel forces, under Generals Jackson and Longstreet.
The engagement commenced early in the morning, and terminated only at night, the rebels being driven from the field with great loss.--(Doc. 104 and Supplement.)
Twelve officers of the Seventy-first regiment of Ohio volunteers having published a card, stating that they advised Colonel R. Mason, who had been cashiered for cowardice, to surrender Clarks-ville, Tenn., to the rebel forces, were, by direction of the President, dismissed from the service of the United States.
At Wilmington, Del., an enthusiastic meeting was held, at which resolutions were adopted denouncing Governor Burton as a rebel and a tool of Bayard, and appointing a committee to lay the proceedings of the meeting before the President and Secretary of War.
Resolutions were also adopted expressing a determination to
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1863 , August
August 29.
Five deserters, belonging to the Fifth corps of the army of the Potomac, were executed according to sentence.--General Wistar's cavalry returned to Yorktown, Va., from an expedition to Bottom's Bridge.
The force engaged were parts of the First New York Mounted Rifles, Colonel Onderdonk, and of the Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry, Lieut.-Colonel Lewis.
They left Williamsburgh on the twenty-sixth instant, and pushed through New Kent Court-House, directly to Bottom's Bridge.
At the latter place, they found one regiment of infantry in rifle-pits, supported by a squadron of cavalry.
A charge was immediately made, which carried the rifle-pits, and drove the enemy across the bridge, which they took up. The Union troops lost one killed, and one wounded. They captured five prisoners from the enemy, who left dead on the ground one officer, one sergeant, and two men, besides those they carried off. The bridge being rendered impassable, and the object of the expedition being enti