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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 33: (search)
r-General Hunter applied for a gun-boat to assist a land force in an expedition against Buffington, on May River, which town had been the Headquarters of Confederate marauders for some time. The army force numbering one thousand men, under Colonel Barton, embarked on board the gun-boat Mayflower and a transport, and were landed near Buffington under cover of the guns of the Commodore McDonough, and took possession of the town from which the Confederates had retreated. By order of Colonel BarColonel Barton the town was destroyed by fire, the church alone being spared. The enemy returned and made several charges on the Federal troops, but were driven back by the shells of the McDonough, which burst in their ranks. The burning of the town seems to have been an unnecessary act of severity, but such is the tendency of civil war. The inhabitants of a town are held responsible for the acts of lawless guerillas, and punished for aiding and abetting the enemy, when perhaps they may not have been t
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 34: (search)
been abandoned by the enemy, but found it gone. There was nothing now left but for Cushing to save his crew from the overwhelming force which he knew would soon be brought to bear upon the gun-boat. So, all: hands were called to muster and told that they could go on board the schooners and get off down the river and over the bar. He called for six volunteers to stay with him and defend the steamer until the last. The volunteers came forward at once; also two Master's Mates, Valentine and Barton. The schooners were ordered to drop down the channel out of range of any guns the enemy might mount on the bluff, and there to wait the termination of the action, and if the Ellis was destroyed to proceed to sea. Early in the morning the enemy opened fire upon the steamer with three heavy guns and one Whitworth. It was a cross-fire and very destructive. Cushing replied as well as he could, but in a short time the engine was disabled and the vessel so much cut up that the only alterna
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 55: operations of the Mississippi Squadron in the latter part of 1864 and in 1865. (search)
tenant, Henry H. Gorringe; Acting-Masters, J. F. Reed and D. P. Slattery; Acting-Ensigns, W. Zimmerman, B. C. Wheeler and J. W. Foster; Acting-Master's Mates, L. C. Ball, John Davis, Lewis Lehman, Henry Kane and A. A. King; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, C. E. Vaughn; Actin-Assistant Paymaster, F. W. Hanson; Engineers: Acting-Chief, Thomas Cook; Acting-Second-Assistants, Chas. Tistandt, Anthony Courtway and James O'Neil; Acting-Third-Assistants, S. H. Brogan, Andrew Lusk and John Link; Acting-Gunner, Wm. H. Barton; Acting-Carpenter, James Trulty. Hastings--Fourth-rate. Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant, J. S. Watson; Acting-Master, Wm. Neil; Acting-Ensigns, C. H. Reed and Jas. McDonald; Acting-Master's Mates, E. C. Urner and W. H. Gray; Assistant Surgeon, James M. Flint; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, P. J. Stone, Jr.; Engineers: Acting-First-Assistant, H. L. Juce; Acting Second-Assistants, Edwin Senior and Andrew Wilson; Acting-Third-Assistants, A. M. Wasson and Geo. W. Amsden. Forest Rose
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Discharged. (search)
Discharged. --A soldier named Wm. H. Barton, alias H. Roberts, arrested some weeks ago on the charge of forging passports and pay-rolls, was examined for the offence yesterday before C. S. Commissioner Watson and acquitted.
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Legal decision on a substitute case in North Carolina. (search)
s Court yesterday: William T. Hancock, who claims an exemption from military service on the ground that when arrested as a conscript he was over forty five years of age, was discharged after a hearing of his application. The case of Wm. H. Barton, committed to jail sometime since by order of Commissioner Watson, upon the charge of having been guilty of a misdemeanor, was next taken up, when the District Attorney refused further to prosecute the accused, on account of the evidence against him having been destroyed in the fire which consumed the old Court room some time last summer. Barton was thereupon discharged. On the petition of James R. Farrell, claiming that he is illegally detained in custody by Lt. J. T. Eubank, commanding company 1,32d Regiment N. C. troops, and praying a writ of habeas corpus, said writ was awarded him, returnable before the said Court on the 11th day of February. Security in the sum of $10,000 was required of Michael Roseberry, committed