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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Drainsville , skirmish at. (search)
Drainsville, skirmish at.
The loyal people of the country became impatient because the Army of the Potomac, fully 200,000 strong, at the end of 1861, was seemingly kept at bay by 60,000 Confederates—a little more than their number at Manassas.
There was a sense of relief when, on Dec. 20, Gen. E. O. C. Ord had a sharp skirmish with Confederate cavalry near Drainsville, led by Col. J. E. B. Stuart.
Ord had gone out to capture Confederate foragers, and to gather forage from the farms of Confederates.
He was attacked by Stuart, who had come up from Centreville.
A severe fight occurred, and the Confederates were beaten and fled.
The Nationals lost seven killed and sixteen wounded; the Confederates lost forty-three killed and 143 wounded. The Nationals returned to camp with sixteen wagon-loads of hay and twenty-two of corn.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman , William Tecumseh 1820 -1829 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of South Carolina , (search)
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The Confederates sank obstructions in the channel leading up to Norfolk in April, 1861.
This hint was acted upon by the national government in December following.
It sent a number of condemned merchant vessels, chiefly New England whale-ships, which had been stripped of their copper bottoms and filled with blocks of granite, to be sunk at the entrance to Charleston Harbor. Twenty-Five of them—some of 400 tons burden— arrived off Charleston Bar Dec. 20.
In their sides, below water-mark, were holes filled with wooden plugs, to be removed when they were in a proper position.
Sixteen of these were sunk on the bar at the entrance of the main ship-channel, 6 miles from Fort Sumter, at intervals, checkerwise, so as to form disturbing currents, that would perplex, but not destroy, the navigation.
It was intended as a temporary interference, but was a fail