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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 9 1 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 1 Browse Search
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James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
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James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Naval actions along the shore (search)
lt in his native city. After several unsuccessful and fatal attempts at Mobile and Charleston, Hunley went to the latter city to take command of his invention in person. Volunteers seemed easy to find, for he picked six men, and starting out in the harbor made several spectacular dives. She was gone overlong on one of these. It was a week before she was brought to the surface. Her inventor and all of his crew were huddled together under one of the manholes. Nothing daunted, Lieutenant George E. Dixon, a friend of the boat's inventor, got together another crew, and on the 17th of February, 1864, silently they moved out to where the fine sloop-of-war Housatonic was lying at anchor. The torpedo plunged against her side and exploded, blew her almost out of the water and she sank immediately. But the little Hunley never returned. She found a resting-place on the ocean bed beside her gigantic victim. On the 27th of October, 1864, the indomitable Lieutenant W. B. Cushing, who ha
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 14: (search)
l. Peter C. Gaillard; Fifty-first North Carolina, Col. Hector McKethan; Thirty-first North Carolina, Lieut.--Col. C. W. Knight; the companies of Capts. W. T. Tatom and Warren Adams, of the First South Carolina infantry (drilled as artillery); Captains Dixon's and Buckner's companies, Sixty-third Georgia infantry and heavy artillery; section of howitzers, De Saussure's artillery, under Capt. W. L. De Pass, and a section of howitzers under Lieut. L. D. Waties, First South Carolina artillery. Lieutn, immediately raised and restored it to its place. Lieut. J. H. Powe, of the First South Carolina artillery, so distinguished himself at his gun as to be specially and conspicuously mentioned, with Lieutenant Waties and Captains Adams, Buckner, Dixon and De Pass, for unsurpassed conduct. Lieut.-Col. D. B. Harris, chief engineer of the department, came down to the fort in the midst of the terrific cannonade. His cool and gallant bearing and well-known ability and judgment inspired confidence
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 17: (search)
nd. The Federal loss was about the same. Colquitt's brigade was immediately forwarded to Florida. On the morning of the 11th, all the harbor batteries bearing on Morris island opened a vigorous bombardment, as though preceding an attack by infantry, to make a diversion in favor of General Wise. The night of February 17th was made memorable by the destruction of the United States sloop-of-war Housatonic. This was done by the submarine torpedo boat H. L. Hunley, under command of Lieut. George E. Dixon, of Alabama. This brave officer and his associates left Battery Marshall, on Sullivan's island, that night, for their daring deed, and were never again heard from. They shared the fate of the vessel they destroyed. The usual daily round of artillery firing continued in the harbor defenses, with little activity on the part of the enemy, during the following months, when both North and South were preparing for the great struggle between the armies in Virginia and Georgia. The gun
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
s of eight men each, all but four men had been lost, but the spirit of the Confederates was not yet daunted. Lieutenant George E. Dixon, of the 21st Alabama Infantry, begged to be allowed to take out the Fish to attack the iron-clad Housatonic thaly on condition that the boat should not go under water. The conditions were accepted; the Housatonic was destroyed, but Dixon and all his brave crew went down to rise no more. When wrecks in Charleston harbor were being destroyed, after the close of the civil war, near the Housatonic lay the Fish. In it were the skeletons of Dixon and his six companions, every man at his post. In that other field of naval warfare the destruction of an enemy's commerce, Confederate genius was also resptate their example. In performing our sacred duties to-day let Alabamians rejoice that, as Alabama in the civil war gave Dixon and Semmes and thousands of other brave men to the Confederacy, so now in our war with Spain she has given Richmond Pears
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
n, O'Neal's Brigade, 14. Cuyler, Rev. Dr. T. L, 285. Darwin, Captain, killed, 11. Daves, Major, Graham, 116, 138. Davie, W. R., Jr., 109. Davis, Jefferson, President, on the fall of Fort Fisher, 167; reverenced in the South, 334; persecution of, 337. Davis, Colonel, J. Lucius, 242 Davis, Captain J. T., killed, 12. DeArmond, Hon. D A., 300. Denson, Captain C. B., 129. Dew, Thomas R., 352. Dick, Major, Charles, 349. Dismemberment of Virginia by the U. S., 39. Dixon, Lieutenant G. F, Heroic death of, 218. Dualey, Lieutenant, killed, 7. Duncan, Colonel, Blanton, 173. Eager, Rev. G. B., Prayer of, 183. Earle's Battery, 238. Eason, J. M. and T. D,, 67. Elliott, General Stephen, Jr., 233. Ellis, Governor John W., 138 Emilio's History of the 54th Mass., 77, 85, 239. Ewell's Corps, General R. E., 17, 127. Fairly, Major J. S., 140. Faith, Hope and Charity symbolized, 255. Falkner, Captain, Jefferson, 220. Falkner, Major, Address of,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Our torpedo boat. [Cleveland plain dealer, August, 1901.] (search)
as found who undertook to navigate her successfully if she were raised. Raised she was, and the new commander might have made good his promises had he not attempted to show that he could take her under a schooner and up on the other side, in which experiment she fouled the cable and suffocated another crew. A water coffin. It speaks volumes for the daring of the southern naval men that any could be found to venture upon the forlorn hope after this. Captain J. F. Carlson and Lieutenant George E. Dixon persuaded the authorities to raise the water coffin, as the David had been gloomily nicknamed, and to let them take it out with the purpose of torpedoing the Housatonic of the union fleet. Only five men could be found who were willing to take so desperate a chance. At dusk of a still evening, February 17, 1864, the man-propelled craft made her way out of the harbor. She successfully passed the lines of picket craft around the inner squadron and made for the Housatonic, the Golia
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Appendix. (search)
ut., Thomas A. Tibbs. Sec'd Lieut., F. J. Rockenbach. First Sergt., Stephen C. Perrow. Sec'd Sergt, F. J. Rockenbach. Third Sergt., J. J. Linkinhoker. Fourth Sergt., A. M. Davies. Fifth Sergt., George W. Wyatt. Corporal, William C. Mays. Corporal, J. N. Haynes. Corporal, Benj. H. Hawkins. Corporal, Alfrned D. Hickman. Privates. Brafford, Robert A. Bocock, S. R. Brown, Preston. Bryant, Lyman. Crawford, William. Campbell, W. A. Cafflin, John W. Dixon, John J. Fitzgerald, George A. Goolsby, Paul A. Grant, W. H. Hickman, Alex. Holt, George W. Howard, John C. Ballowe, W. A. Brown, Bird. Bryant, Joseph. Butts, William R. Cash, John I. Cushwell, Thomas. Dawson, Harry. Fitzgerald. Charles J. Ford, Simeon W. Grant, Paul H. Harris, A. W. Hickman, Matthew A. Hope, Robert. Isenhower, James. Isaacs, W. H. Johnson, Robert A. Kenny, James M. Lane, Edward. Maine, Isaac S. Ma
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.36 (search)
but also in Continental Europe. The names of the incomparable Pelham and the intrepid, reckless, dashing Breathed will be handed down to generations yet to come, hand in hand, as true types of Southern valor and manhood. Breathed, at the time of which I am writing, was only 22 years of age, being Major Pelham's senior by one year. After the war he returned to Hancock, Md., where his sister, Mrs. Robert Bridges, resided, and again began the practice of medicine. Being near Mason's and Dixon's line, his profession naturally took him over in Pennsylvania. Some of the stay at homes living in Pennsylvania at that time notified him that if he came over into Pennsylvania they would kill him. They did not know the temperament of the man, or they certainly would not have indulged in such idle talk. Those threats made against him virtually forced him into forbidden territory, and go he did, spurning with contempt the low bred hirelings that had tried to intimidate him, and for years—u
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
d in 1865, 119. Colston, General R. E., 111. Constitution. The Federal, 8; Washington, Madison, Hamilton and Jay on the, 9, 10. Cold Harbor Salient, final struggle at, 276. Cole, Major C. H., Desperate exploit of, 259. Cooke, Captain J. W., 208. Cromwellhave a Statue, Shall, 1. Crutchfield, Colonel S., 114. Dana, C. A., 99. Davis, President, Jefferson, to Lincoln, 92; manacled, 100; tribute to, 121,832. Dinkins, Captain, James, 185, 205. Dix, General J. A., 88. Dixon, Captain G. E., 168. Dorsey, Frank, 288; Colonel Gus W., 286. Doughoregan Manor, 220. Drayton, General T. F., 140. Du Bois, A., 279. Dunant, M. Henri, 229. DuPont, Admiral S. F. 139. Early General J. A., 105; meagre force of, in Valley, 109; his movement on Washington, 216, 250. 257, 267; at Lynchburg, 307, 372; his Indian orderly, 871. Elliott Grays, Roll and History of, 161. Elliott, Gilbert, 208. Emack, Lieutenant. 113. Embargo of 1812, The, 25. Finley. Colonel Luke W. 288