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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 71 (search)
Doc. 71.-opening of Nansemond River, Va. Captain Hyner's report. Fortress Monroe, V., June 15, 1862. Col. D. T. Van Buren, Assistant Adjutant-General: Colonel: According to instructions, I proceeded on the eleventh inst. on board the steam-tug C. P. Smith, Capt. H. C. Fuller. Got, at six P. M., the armaments of two rifled three-inch Parrot guns and one mountain-howitzer on board, and started at once for Fort Wool, to take Capt. Lee, Ninety-ninth New-York volunteers, and his command on board. As part of the men and stores were at Sewell's Point barracks, the tug was made fast for the night, it being not thought advisable to venture further in the darkness. On the twelfth, at four A. M., we got under way; arrived at five P. M. at Sewell's Point, got the men and stores on board, and had to return to Fortress Monroe to take an additional quantity of coal, also some shells for the rifled guns. At ten P. M. we got under way for the mouth of the Nansemond; passed Pig Point b
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 147 (search)
e command wheeled out of the west gate of the Park, and filed down Broadway to Cortlandt street to the ferry. The officers were mounted on splendid chargers, and the general appearance of the regiment elicited considerable praise from the spectators. At the depot a train was in readiness to take the troops to Philadelphia. Field Officers.--Colonel, George W. Pratt; Lieutenant Colonel, Hiram Schoonmaker; Major, Theodore B. Yates. Staff Officers.--Adjutant, J. B. Hardenburgh; Engineer, D. T. Van Buren; Hospital Surgeon, (assigned to duty in the brigade,) A. Crispell; Surgeon, C. Leonard Ingersoll; Assistant Surgeon, Robert Longham; Quartermaster, John S. Giffin; Paymaster, P. T. Overbaugh; Commissary, W. Sonnsby; Chaplain, Rev. H. H. Reynolds. Non-commissioned Staff.--Quartermaster Sergeant, P. F. Hasbrouck; Sergeant of Infantry, W. Webster Shaffer; Drum-Major, Geo. Myers; Fife-Major, A. Goller. Line Officers.--Company A, of Cairo, Greene county, First Lieutenant, A. G. Ba
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 19. the siege of Suffolk, Virginia. (search)
Doc. 19. the siege of Suffolk, Virginia. General John J. Peck's report. headquarters U. S. Forces, Suffolk, Va., May 5, 1863. Colonel D. T. Van Buren, Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of Virginia: On the twenty-second September, 1862, I was ordered to Suffolk, with about nine thousand men, to repel the advance of Generals Pettigrew and French from the Blackwater, with fifteen thousand men. No artificial defences were found, nor had any plan been prepared. Situated at the head of the Nansemond River, with the railway to Petersburg arid Weldon, Suffolk is the key to all the approaches to the mouth of the James River on the north of the Dismal Swamp. Regarding the James as second only in importance to the Mississippi for the Confederates, and believing that sooner or later they would withdraw their armies from the barren wastes of Northern Virginia to the line of the James, and attempt the recovery of Portsmouth and Norfolk, as ports for their iron-clads and con
The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
had no authority, legally, to provide the half starving widow and five children of a noble Delaware soldier, who fell in the defence of the Union and flag at Antietam, unless he paid there for from his private funds; and still Abolition missionaries come down here, endeavor to kindle dissatisfaction among the contrabands, and when remonstrated with go to New York, and in Abolition journals abuse Capt. Liebenau and other officers here, as also the Adjutant General of Gen. Dix's staff, Col. D. T. Van Buren, of treating them uncivilly. The cost of maintaining the contrabands at Craney Island alone is $180 per day. What must it be elsewhere? Capture of vessels running the blockade. The New York Herald of Monday, says: Three rebel schooners, attempting to run the blockade into Wilmington, N. C., on Wednesday last, were captured by the United States steamers Cambridge and Mount Vernon. They were from Nassau. One of them was the Emma Tuttle, another the Brilliant, and the
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
The President of the United States having disapproved of that portion of Department General Order, No. 97, current series, which instructs all military commanders on the frontier, in certain cases therein specified, to cross the boundary line between the United States and Canada, and directs pursuit into neutral territory, the said instruction is hereby revoked. In case, therefore, of any future marauding expeditions into our territory from Canada, military commanders of the frontier will report to these headquarters for orders before crossing the boundary line in pursuit of the guilty parties. By command of Major-General Dix. D. T. Van Buren, Colonel and Assistant Adjutant-General A Montreal telegram, dated the 17th, says: Porterfield, the agent of the Confederate Government, and now custodian of the money taken by the St. Albans raiders, is to be examined, and it is probable the money taken by the raiders will be given up to the proper authorities.