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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ammen , Daniel , 1820 -1898 (search)
Ammen, Daniel, 1820-1898
Naval officer; born in Brown county, O., May 15, 1820; entered the navy as a midshipman in 1836.
In 1861-62 he commanded the gunboat Seneca in the South Atlantic blockading fleet.
His bravery was conspicuous in the battle of Port Royal, Nov. 7, 1861.
Later, under Dupont's command, he took part in all the operations on the coasts of Georgia and. Florida.
In the engagements with Fort McAllister, March 3, 1863, and with Fort Sumter, April 7, 1863, he commanded the monitor Patapsco.
In the attacks on Fort Fisher, in December, 1864, and January, 1865, he commanded the Mohican.
He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1877, and was retired June 4, 1878.
Afterwards he was a member of the board to locate the new Naval Observatory, and a representative of the United States at the Interoceanic Ship Canal Congress in Paris.
He designed a cask balsa to facilitate the landing of troops and field artillery; a life-raft for steamers; and the steel ram Katahdin.
His pu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Port Royal Ferry , battle of. (search)
Port Royal Ferry, battle of.
After an expedition from Hampton Roads, under Admiral Dupont and Gen. T. W. Sherman, had taken possession of Port Royal Sound and the neighboring islands (Nov. 7, 1861), the only stand made by the Confederates in defence of the South Carolina coast islands was at Port Royal Ferry, on the Coosa, at the close of the year.
Gen. R. S. Ripley, formerly of the National army, who had joined the Confederates, was in command of that seacoast district, and had established a fortified post at the ferry.
When the Nationals landed at Beaufort it had a garrison estimated to be 8,000 strong, under Generals Gregg and Pope.
The Nationals proceeded to expel them.
For this purpose a joint land and naval force, the former commanded by Brigadier-General Stevens, and the latter by Commodore C. R. P. Rogers, proceeded to attack them.
Stevens had about 4,000 troops— of New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan; and the naval force consisted of four gunboats, an armed ferry-bo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman , Thomas West 1813 -1879 (search)
Sherman, Thomas West 1813-1879
Military officer; born in Newport, R. I., March 26, 1813; graduated at West Point in 1836; served with General Taylor in the war against Mexico, in command of a battery; and was brevetted major.
He commanded a division in the battle of Bull Run, and led the land forces in the Port Royal expedition, landing at Hilton Head Nov. 7, 1861.
In March, 1862, he was superseded by General Hunter, and joined the army under Halleck at Corinth.
He did excellent service in the region of the lower Mississippi in 1862-63; commanded a division in the siege of Port Hudson; received (March 13, 1865) the brevet of major-general, United States army, for services there and during the war; and was retired with the rank of major-general, Dec. 31, 1870.
He died in Newport, R. I., March 16, 1879.
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Trent, the
On Nov. 7, 1861, James M. Mason, of Virginia, Confederate envoy to Great Britain, and John Slidell, of Louisiana, accredited to France, embarked at Havana in the British mail steamer Trent for England.
The United States steamship San Jacinto, Captain Wilkes, was watching for the Trent in the Bahama channel, 240 miles from Havana, Captain Wilkes having decided, on his own responsibility, to seize the two Confederate envoys.
the San Jacinto met the Trent on the forenoon of Nov. 8, signalled her to stop in vain, and then fired a shot across her bow. Her captain unwillingly allowed Mason and Slidell, with their secretaries, to be taken aboard the San Jacinto. Captain Wilkes reached Boston on Nov. 19, and the two ministers were confined in Fort Warren.
This seizure was received with favor in the United States, but Great Britain demanded from the government at Washington a formal apology and the immediate release of the prisoners, Lord John Russell instructing the minister
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