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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
ble to the blockade-runners. Port Royal then became the centre of occupation, and the headquarters of the fleet. The principal centre of blockade in the South Atlantic was Charleston. An attempt was made early in the war to close the entrance by placing obstructions in the channel. A number of vessels, most of them old whalers, were bought for the purpose by the Navy Department at a cost of $160,--000. They were loaded with stone and sunk in rows on the bar, under the direction of Captain Davis. The plan proved a failure, not through any want of skill in carrying it out, but from the operation of natural causes. The vessels soon buried themselves in the sand, or were gradually moved out of position by the action of the water, and blockade-runners passed in as freely as if no obstructions existed. The experiment was tried at other points with the same result, and the attempt was finally given up. The bar at Charleston extends several miles out to sea, and the main ship cha
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
full speed down the Southwest Pass until she overtook the retreating blockaders. When she came up with them, the Richmond was making a general signal to cross the bar. Winslow ranged up alongside and earnestly represented the necessity of returning immediately up the river, but Pope, deeming the position of the squadron unsafe, overruled the suggestion and ordered the Water Witch to the assistance of the sailing vessels. This order was carried out. The Preble was piloted across the bar by Davis, the executive of the Water Witch, and the gunboat went herself to assist the Vincennes; but before Winslow could reach her, the sloop grounded. A moment later the Richmond also ran ashore. In this position the vessels of the squadron found themselves when Hollins came down the Pass with his flotilla. It was now about eight o'clock. The enemy's attack was not maintained with any great spirit, and though the cannonade lasted for a couple of hours, no advantage was gained by either side.
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
he ocean warfare during the conflict falls naturally into a recital of the doings of Southern cruisers. The policy of systematic operations against the merchant fleet of the United States was adopted at the outset. As early as April 17, 1861, Davis published his famous proclamation, announcing his purpose of issuing lettersof-marque. At this time, the practice of privateering had been somewhat discredited by the general concurrence of European States in the Declaration of the Congress of Posed to amend the rules by the addition of a new article, exempting private property at sea from capture. No action was taken on the proposal, and the negotiations were suspended until President Lincoln's accession to office. About a week after Davis's proclamation was issued, the Department of State instructed the Minister of the United States at London to reopen negotiations, and offered to accede unconditionally to the Declaration. This proposal seemed to point too strongly to an effort t
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
ls of his work himself, and as he had not at command a previously-trained body of staff-officers, he made judicious use of the material at his disposal by the creation of temporary boards. One board was organized, composed of Captains Dupont and Davis, Major Barnard of the Engineers, and Professor Bache, to report on the coast of the enemy, its points of access and its defences. Here the exceptional character of the war led to the selection of exceptional persons to give the information necesalso our own, no one could be better informed about its accessibility and defences than the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, and the engineer who had built the forts. Similarly another board, composed of Commodores Smith and Paulding, and Captain Davis again, was appointed to examine plans for ironclad vessels. The board modestly stated in its report that it approached the subject with diffidence, having no experience and but scanty knowledge in this branch of naval architecture. It was c
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
Chapter 4: President Davis sends siege guns Blair and Lyon prepare to take the camp and the guns Frost surrenders Home Guards fire on the crowd the legislature acts prompt-ly reign of terror in St. Louis the legis-lature provides a military fund Sterling Price commander of the State Guard the Price-Harney agreement Harney supplant-ed by Lyon the Planter's house conference. The mission upon which Capt. Basil W. Duke and Capt. Colton Greene had been sent to Montgomery was successful, and in due time two 12-pound howitzers and two 32-pound siege guns, with a supply of ammunition, reached St. Louis and were turned over to Major Shaler, of Frost's brigade, and taken to Camp Jackson. Though an effort was made to keep the arrival of the guns secret, Blair and Lyon knew all about it. In fact, the day after their arrival Lyon visited the camp in disguise, and professed to recognize the guns as United States property taken from the arsenal at Baton Rouge. This was as
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
t was found to be held by the enemy. Thus the army was hemmed in between two rivers and two armies—a river and an army before, and a river and an army behind it—and there was no other known avenue of escape. When the crossing of the Hatchie at Davis' bridge was reached, Phifer's and Martin's brigades, of Van Dorn's corps, charged and forced a passage, but before they could form on the other side were charged by the Federals and driven back upon the river, where some were shot, some drowned ain place of Colonel Cockrell, commanding brigade. The battle of Corinth ended the fighting, as far as the Mississippi troops were concerned, for the year 1862. The day before Christmas they, with other troops, were reviewed at Grenada by President Davis, Generals Johnston, Price, Pemberton and Loring, and the Missourians were highly complimented by the President on their soldierly qualities. Early in the new year General Price announced to his troops that he had solicited and obtained orde
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
s of the night, and nursed back to life and health and strength many a stricken hero. The noble devotion of the women of the South to the cause of suffering humanity makes the brightest page of the history of the war. After the surrender President Davis telegraphed to General Pemberton his thanks to the soldiers of the Missouri division for their gallantry during the siege, their prompt obedience to orders at all times, and especially for their service as reserves in strengthening every weamp at Demopolis, as if they had been that many recruits. On the 16th of October the brigade won a premium for the greatest proficiency in tactics in a grand division drill held by General Johnston, and not long afterward it was reviewed by President Davis, who complimented it highly on its soldierly appearance, the machine-like perfection of its movements and the splendid record it had made. About the first of the new year, 1864, the brigade was ordered to Mobile, because of a supposed mut
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, Somerville Directory (search)
. Danforth, Willard, brickmaker, h. Broadway. Danforth. David, grocer, h. Milk. Darling, B. F., b. jeweller, h. Tufts. Darling, Thomas, h. Chestnut. Davis, David C., h. Church. Davis, Merrill, brickmaker, h. Cambridge. Davidson, John, carpenter, h. Beech. Davis, B. H., McLean Asylum. Delay, William, laborDavis, Merrill, brickmaker, h. Cambridge. Davidson, John, carpenter, h. Beech. Davis, B. H., McLean Asylum. Delay, William, laborer, h. Vine. Delano, Thomas I., jeweller, h. Myrtle. Demmon, Reuben E., b. provision dealer, h. Elm. Denton, Jonathan, carpenter, h. Church. Denton, William H., h. Church. Devenny, John, teamster, h. Mt. Benedict. Denaho, Patrick, blacksmith, h. Milk. Dickson, Shadrach, carpenter, h. Church. Dingey, Peter, Davis, B. H., McLean Asylum. Delay, William, laborer, h. Vine. Delano, Thomas I., jeweller, h. Myrtle. Demmon, Reuben E., b. provision dealer, h. Elm. Denton, Jonathan, carpenter, h. Church. Denton, William H., h. Church. Devenny, John, teamster, h. Mt. Benedict. Denaho, Patrick, blacksmith, h. Milk. Dickson, Shadrach, carpenter, h. Church. Dingey, Peter, blacksmith, Broadway. Dodge, Charles H., b. trader, h. Prospect. Dodge, Seward, h. Cambridge. Donnell, Samuel T., ship-master, Bow. Dorety, Charles, yeoman, h. Medford. Dow, Lorenzo W., yeoman, h. Broadway. Draper, Martin, Jr., teacher, h. Broadway. Draper, Lucius D., Cherry. Driscoll, Daniel, laborer, h. ne
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Tales and Sketches (search)
ood and warmth for her children, she had no leisure for the indulgence of self-congratulation. Like the woman of Scripture, she had only done what she could, in the terrible exigency that had broken the dreary monotony of her life. It so chanced, however, that a gentleman from Buffalo, E. P. Dorr, who had, in his early days, commanded a vessel on the lake, found himself, shortly after, at a small port on the Canada shore, not far from Long Point Island. Here he met an old shipmate, Captain Davis, whose vessel had gone ashore at a more favorable point, and who related to him the circumstances of the wreck of the Conductor. Struck by the account, Captain Dorr procured a sleigh and drove across the frozen bay to the shanty of Abigail Becker. He found her with her six children, all thinly clad and barefooted in the bitter cold. She stood there six feet or more of substantial womanhood,—not in her stockings, for she had none,—a veritable daughter of Anak, broad-bosomed, large-limb
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
land, its habitual policy of relying on England for protection, secured to the royal agents in that province a less unfavorable reception. Plymouth, Morton and Davis 310 &c. and 417. &c. the weakest colony of all, stood firm for its independence; although the commissioners, flattering the long-cherished hopes of the inhabitantsmp. Hist. Coll. II. 5, &c.; Gookin, in l. Mass. Hist. Coll. i. 148, &c.; Massachusetts Records and Files. Add Callender's Century Sermon; the important notes of Davis on Morton. He had kept his men Chap XII.} 1675 about him in arms, and had welcomed every stranger; and now, against his judgment and his will, he was involved in that had been cherished as an only child, and the future sachem of their tribes, the last of the family of Massasoit, was sold into bondage, to toil as a slave Davis, in Morton, 453. &c. under the suns of Bermuda. Chap XII.} 1676 Of the once prosperous Narragansetts, of old the chief tribe of New England, hardly one hundred me
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