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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
e at, 3.151. Bridges, railway, destruction of, in Maryland, 1.417. bright, John, champion of the Republic in England, 2.159. Bristow Station, battle of, 3.105. Brown, Col. H., takes command at Fort Pickens, 1.369. Brownlow, Rev. W. G., imprisoned at Knoxville, 2.38; permitted to leave the Confederacy, 2.39; house of visited by the author, in 1866, 3.284. Brownsville, Texas, capture of by Gen. Banks, 3.223. Bruinburg, Grant crosses the Mississippi at, 2.603. Buchanan, Commodore, McKean, death of, at the battle of the Bayou Teche, 2.597. Buchanan, President, James, conspirators in the cabinet of, 1.43; his message of Dec. 30, 1860, 1.64; his indecision, 1. 73, 283; distrusted by the Southern conspirators, 1.143; painful position of, 1.146; changes in his cabinet, 1.146; his message of Jan. 8, 1861, 1.218; disruption of his cabinet, 2.527. Buckner, Gen. Simon B., left in command of Fort Donelson by Floyd and Pillow, 2.219; terms of surrender offered to by Gr
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 12: fight between the Merrimac and Monitor, March 8, 1862. (search)
and Cumberland, and when she was within three-quarters of a mile the latter vessel opened on her with heavy pivot guns, closely followed by the Congress. Paymaster McKean Buchanan, a brother of the Confederate commander, was an officer of the Congress, and the Merrimac passing that vessel steered direct for the Cumberland, the Confst of the crew undertook to escape to the shore in small boats, or by swimming. leaving the ship with the white flag still flying at her mainmast head. Flag-Officer Buchanan claimed that he was unable to take possession of his prize owing to the fire from the shore, for which reason he ordered hot shot to be fired into the Congress until she was set on fire. Buchanan and his flag-lieutenant, Lieut. Minor, personally directed this matter, and while doing so both were severely wounded. The command of the Merrimac then devolved on Lieut. Jones. Notwithstanding the heavy armor of the Merrimac, her loss in killed and wounded was twenty-one, showing the
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 15 (search)
rting Jan. 11, 1863. from Thibodeaux, Gen. Weitzel embarked his infantry next day at Brashear, on the gunboats Calhoun, Diana, Kinsman, and Estrella, Com. McKean Buchanan, who moved slowly up the bayou to Pattersonville; the artillery and cavalry going by land. Encountering formidable obstructions at a place known as Carney's Bridge, a few miles above, Com. Buchanan, after reconnoitering, dropped down a short distance for the night; returning next morning Jan. 14. to attack; while the 8th Vermont was sent around to flank the defenses on the north. The obstructions were found vexatious rather than formidable: consisting of a steamboat filled with bg her stern into the air, but not crippling her; when she fell back to avoid another just ahead, whereof a negro fugitive from the Cotton gave timely warning. Com. Buchanan, on the Calhoun, either not hearing or despising the caution, at once took the advance, standing on the bow of his vessel, spy-glass in hand, in the midst of a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 384 (search)
Paymaster McKean Buchanan, who was on board the United States frigate Congress at the time of the disaster, in making a report to the Department, says: Just before the sanguinary engagement, I volunteered my services to Lieut. Commanding Jos. B. Smith for duty on either of the upper decks, although the rebel steamer Merrimac was commanded by my own brother, [Franklin Buchanan, late of Washington navy-yard,] when I received an order to take charge of the berth-deck division, which order I promptly obeyed, and, thank God, I did some service to my beloved country.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brashear City, military operations near. (search)
Banks, in command of the Department of the Gulf, determined to expel the armed Confederates from Brashear City and its vicinity. An expedition for that purpose was led by Gen. Godfrey Weitzel, accompanied by a squadron of gunboats, under Com. McKean Buchanan, brother of the commander of the Merrimac (q.v.). They penetrated to Brashear City, and then proceeded (Jan. 11, 1863) to attack the works near Pattersonville. Weitzel's infantry were placed in the gunboats, and his cavalry and artillery nboats, and his cavalry and artillery proceeded by land. They encountered formidable river obstructions — torpedoes, an armored steamboat, and batteries well manned by 1,100 men, on each side of the bayou. These were attacked on the 15th, and in that engagement Buchanan was killed by a rifle-ball that passed through his head. The Confederates were driven from their works, and their monster steamer was abandoned and burned. In this affair the Nationals lost thirty-four men killed and wounde
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Breckinridge, John Cabell, -1875 (search)
Breckinridge, John Cabell, -1875 Statesman; born near Lexington, Ky., Jan. 21, John Cabell Breckinridge. 1821. Studying law at the Transylvania Institute, he began its practice at Lexington. He served as major in the war with Mexico; was a member of his State legislature; and from 1851 to 1855 was in Congress. President Pierce tendered him the mission to Spain, which he declined. In March, 1857, he became Vice-President, under Buchanan, and succeeded John J. Crittenden in the Senate of the United States in 1861. He was then a defeated candidate for the Presidency. His friendship for the Confederates caused his expulsion from the Senate in December, 1861, when he joined the Confederate army and was made a major-general, Aug. 5, 1862. He was active at various points during the remainder of the war. Breckinridge was Secretary of War of the Confederacy when it fell (1865), and soon afterwards departed for Europe, returning to his native State in a short time. He was the youn
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brown, Aaron Vail, -1859 (search)
Brown, Aaron Vail, -1859 Born in Virginia, Aug. 15. 1795; moved to North Carolina in 1815: was member of the State legislature for some years, and elected to Congress in 1839. and governor of the State in 1845. He was Postmaster-General in Buchanan's cabinet. He died in Washington, March 8. 1859.
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