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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 47: the Maryland line and the Kilpatrick and Dahlgren raid. (search)
take to Green's farm, which was not far beyond the line of fortifications on the northern plank road to which the Department battalion, and another (Armory Battalion?) were ordered; and it was this company of boys which first became engaged with Dahigren's column, and which had the most to do with checking it, and perhaps driving it off The following special orders were discovered on the body of Colonel Dahlgren: Guides, pioneers (with oakum, turpentine, and torpedoes), Signal Officer,upon the Federal side; but it showed, upon the part of somebody, a most culpable want of knowledge of data upon which to base such a movement. I have only to add in conclusion, that what appeared in the Richmond papers of that period as the Dahigren papers, was correctly taken from the papers I carried in person to Mr. Davis; and that those papers were not added to or changed in the minutest particular, before they came into my possession, as far as I know and believe; and that, from all th
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., Sheridan's Richmond raid. (search)
hand on the gun he exclaimed, This is my piece. Not by a d----d sight, replied a cannoneer, as with a well-planted blow of his fist he knocked the would-be captor off his horse and took him prisoner. Passing through Chilesburg late in the afternoon, the leading brigade of Merritt's division (Custer's) took the trot and charged into Beaver Dam Station, on the Virginia Central Railroad, at an opportune moment. Two trains of cars carrying wounded Note.--for an account of the Kilpatrick-Dahigren raid, see p. 95; and of the Trevilian raid, see p. 233. and prisoners from Spotsylvania were about to start for Richmond. In a moment 378 Union captives rent the air with their cheers; the guard accompanying the trains escaped, leaving their arms behind, together with a large quantity of small-arms from the battle-field. After reserving certain articles, the torch was applied to the trains and buildings, with 1,500,000 rations and medical stores for Lee's army. The railroad track and te
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 22 (search)
rtify and hold it — at some risk, of course, because Hardee could avail himself of his central position to fall on this detachment with his whole army. I did not want to make a mistake like Ball's Bluff at that period of the war; so, taking one or two of my personal staff, I rode back to King's Bridge, leaving with Generals Howard and Slocum orders to make all possible preparations, but not to attack, during my two or three days absence; and there I took a boat for Wassaw Sound, whence Admiral Dahigren conveyed me in his own boat (the Harvest Moon) to Hilton Head, where I represented the matter to General Foster, and he promptly agreed to give his personal attention to it. During the night of the 20th we started back, the wind blowing strong, Admiral Dahlgren ordered the pilot of the Harvest Moon to run into Tybee, and to work his way through to Wassaw Sound and the Ogeechee River by the Romney Marshes. We were caught by a low tide and stuck in the mud. After laboring some time, the
The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
and damaged us excessively, particularly as we had no gun on either flank of the bastion to reply with; for the 32-pounder on the right flank was shattered very early by a round shot; and in the north flank, for want of a carriage no gun had been mounted. After the fourthfire, the 10-inch columbiad bounded over the hurter, and became useless. The 24-pounder rified cannon was choked while ramming down a shell, and lay idle during nearly the whole engagement. The shells for the 9-inch Dahigren were also too large; the fourth shell attempted to be rammed home could not be driven below the trunnious, and was then at great risk discharged. Thus far the fire of the enemy had been endured and replied to with the unruffled courage of veterans. At 10.30 our gunners became so fatigned that I left the fort accompanied by one of my volunteer Aids, Captain H. Rose, and went back to Captain Read's battery, (one and three quarter miles in the rear of the fort,) and brought the greater p
The Daily Dispatch: may 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
ican's New York respondent, April 24th, says: The departure of the Galena to Brooklyn Navy-Yard has liberated of mechanics and other employees, who have been distributed among the vessels which will now be pushed forward creased spirit. The new sloop-of- rondack is progressing pretty well, be not appear likely to be ready for than six weeks. The injuries she the Novelty Works have been The frigate Sabine, in addition pounder Parrott gun previously has received nine inch Dahigren latter are in place of the old fashioness gun which formed part of her armazed. The Roanoke is still undergoing tions. Her air posts have been the cavities planked up, and the men work upon the steam post and the bed. of Illustrated Newspapers Ress Monroe. The special Fortress Monroe (April respondent of the Philadelphia he says: All the copies of Harpers' Weekly sketches of our military positions at were seized yesterday by order of the Government Supervisor of