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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 14.53 (search)
s; the possession of the best sea entrance to the inland waters of Rear-Admiral Silas H. Stringham. From a photograph. North Carolina; and the stoppage of a favorite channel through which many supplies had been carried for the use of the Confederate forces. The vessels detailed were the Minnesota (flagship), Captain G. J. Van Brunt; Wabash, Captain Samuel Mercer; Susquehanna, Captain I. S. Chauncey; Pawnee, Commander S. C. Rowan; Monticello, Commander J. P. Gillis; Harriet Lane, Captain John Faunce; and the Cumberland (sailing-ship), Captain John Marston,--carrying in all 143 guns. For the transportation of troops there were the chartered steamers Adelaide, Commander H. S. Stellwagen, and George Peabody, Lieutenant R. B. Lowry, and the tug Fanny, Lieutenant Pierce Crosby. Upon these were embarked detachments of infantry from the 9th and 20th New York Volunteers, the Union Coast Guard, and a company of the 2d U. S. Artillery,--in all numbering about 880 men. Both the forts
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
ruits, in the steamer Baltic, Captain Fletcher.--The entire relief squadron consisted of that vessel, the United States ships Powhatan, Pawnee, Pocahontas, and Harriet Lane, and the tugs Yankee, Uncle Ben, and Freeborn; and all of them were ordered to rendezvous off Charleston. The frigate Powhatan, Captain Mercer, left New York on the 6th of April. The Pawnee, Commodore Rowan, left Norfolk on the 9th, and the Pocahontas, Captain Gillis, on the 10th. The revenue cutter Harriet Lane, Captain Faunce, left the harbor of New York on the 8th, in company with the tug Yankee. The Freeborn and Uncle Ben left on the previous day. The Yankee was fitted to throw hot water. The frigate Powhatan bore the senior naval officer of the expedition, and men sufficient to man the boats for the relief party. Soon after leaving New York, the expedition encountered a heavy storm. One of the tugs (the Freeborn) was driven back; a second (Uncle Ben) put into Wilmington, North Carolina, and was captur
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 21: beginning of the War in Southeastern Virginia. (search)
ke possession of and hold the important strategic point of Newport-Newce at that time. In order to ascertain the strength of the Pig Point Battery, he sent Captain John Faunce, with the United States armed steamer Harriet Lane, to attack it. June 5, 1861. The water was so shallow that Faunce was compelled to open fire at the distFaunce was compelled to open fire at the distance of eighteen hundred yards. In the course of forty-five minutes he threw thirty shot and shell at the redoubt, most of which fell short. With guns of longer range, and more effective, the commander of the battery returned the fire. The Harriet Lane was struck twice, and five of her men were wounded. Satisfied that the battery was a dangerous one, her commander withdrew. Report of Captain Faunce to flag-officer J. G. Pendergrast, in command of the Cumberland, June 5, 1861. On the day after Colonel Phelps's departure, Colonel Abraham Duryee, commander of a well-disciplined regiment of Zouaves, composing the Fifth New York Volunteers, arrived at
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 4: military operations in Western Virginia, and on the sea-coast (search)
he purpose, on which were to be borne nine hundred land troops. Butler volunteered to command these troops. His offer was accepted, and on Monday, the 26th of August, 1861. at one o'clock P. M., the expedition departed, the squadron being under the command of Commodore Silas H. Stringham. The vessels composing the squadron were the Minnesota, Captain G. A. Van Brune; Wabash, Captain Samuel Mercer; Monticello, Commander John P. Gillis; Pawnee, Commander S. C. Rowan; Harriet Lane, Captain John Faunce; chartered steamer Adelaide, Commander H. S. Stellwagen; George Peabody, Lieutenant R. P. Lowry; and tug Fanny, Lieutenant Pierce Crosby. The Minnesota was the flag-ship. The transport, Service, was in charge of Commander Stellwagen, who had made the preparations. General Butler took passage in the flag-ship (the Minnesota), and his troops were on the transports George Peabody and Adelaide. These troops consisted of 500 of the Twentieth New York, Colonel Weber; 220 of the Ninth N
, and its flag was also struck. Supposing this to be a signal of surrender, Col. Weber advanced his troops, already landed, upon the beach. The Harriet Lane, Capt. Faunce, by my direction, tried to cross the bar to get in the smooth water of the inlet, when fire was opened upon the Monticello (which had proceeded in advance of ut presence of mind with which he took the troops from their peril, when the Adelaide touched on the bar, is a rare quality in an officer in danger. Although Capt. Faunce, of the Pawnee service, now in command of the Harriet Lane, was unfortunate enough to get his vessel on one of the numerous sand bars about the inlet, it happeving in company the United States steamers Wabash, Captain Samuel Mercer; Monticello, Commander John P. Gillis; Pawnee, Commander S. C. Rowan; Harriet Lane, Captain John Faunce; United States chartered steamers Adelaide, Commander Henry S. Stellwagen; George Peabody, Lieutenant R. B. Lowry; and tug Fanny, Lieutenant Pierce Crosby,
. . . . . . It is now three o'clock in the morning, and I have not yet retired, which is rather late for a person who has not had his clothes off for the last eighteen days and nights . . . . . Yours, affectionately, Davis. Letter to Captain Faunce. U. S. Gunboat Stevens, Hampton roads, May 19. my dear Captain: We arrived here yesterday from Norfolk, having brought down the killed and part of the wounded in our last action and left them at the hospital there. The squadron to w therefore offered the Flag-Officer to return as I am, as Commodore Rodgers told me when I left him at City Point that the vessel, even in her present condition, could be of great service to him. . . . Sincerely yours, D. C. Constable. Captain John Faunce. Rebel official report. Drury's Bluff, May 15, 1862. Hon. S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy: sir: The enemy came up the river at half-past 6 A. M., the Galena ahead, the Monitor and a small iron steamer, a side-wheel and a s
ril, 1861; the Pawnee, Commander Rowan, on the ninth; the Pocahontas, Captain Gillis, on the tenth; the Harriet Lane, Captain Faunce, on the eighth; the tug Uncle Ben on the seventh; the tug Yankee on the eighth; and the Baltic, Captain Fletcher, drothat he was not going in there to inaugurate civil war. I then stood in toward the bar, followed by the Harriet Lane, Captain Faunce, who cheerfully accompanied me. As we neared the land, heavy guns were heard, and the smoke and shells from the ba I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. Navy Department, April 5, 1861. Captain Faunce, Commander of United States Revenue Steamer Harriet Lane, New-York: sir: The revenue steamer Harriet Lane having b Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy. Navy Department, April 5, 1861. Captain John Faunce, Commander of Steamer Harriet Lane: sir: The Harriet Lane, under your command, having been detached from the co
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), First expeditions of the Federal Navy (search)
tes that more than a thousand shot had been discharged within range, he had no damage to report, which was, as he wrote, truly remarkable, and later in the war, when gunnery practice had improved, it would have been impossible. Again, on the 2d of June, the Pawnee attacked the batteries, and though struck a number of times, had no casualties to report. On the 5th, the steamer Harriet Lane, of historic memory, attacked the Confederate batteries at Pig Point, near Hampton Roads, and Captain John Faunce, while bearing testimony to the gallant conduct of the officers and men under his command, regretfully announced that he had five casualties on board his little vessel. On the 27th of June, the navy lost its first officer and it was no other than the gallant Commander Ward, of the Freeborn, who was shot and mortally wounded while in the act of sighting the bow gun. A party had been landed in order to clear the ground at Mathias Point, and this had been surprised On the Freeborn
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter VIII Hatteras InletRoanoke Island. (search)
iment N. Y. Volunteers, Colonel Weber; 220 of the Ninth N. Y. Volunteers, Colonel Hawkins; 100 of the Union Coast Guard, Captain Nixon, and 60 of the 2d U. S. Artillery, Lieutenant Larned. With commendable alacrity they left the same day (26th of August) with the flag-ship of Stringham, the steam frigate Minnesota, Captain G. I. Van Brunt; steam frigate Wabash, Captain Samuel Mercer; Monticello, Commander John P. Gillis; Pawnee, Commander S. C. Rowan, and Revenue Cutter Harriet Lane, Captain John Faunce. The army tug Fanny, under the command of Lieutenant Peirce Crosby, of the navy, also accompanied the expedition. The transports towed two schooners, having large, unwieldy iron surf-boats on board. The same afternoon this force rounded Cape Hatteras and anchored off shore near the proposed point of debarkation, which was some three miles east of Hatteras Inlet. Surfboats were hoisted out, and preparations made to facilitate debarkation early in the morning. At daylight on t
, Captain, of Fort Beauregard, 27 Elliott, Captain, of Seventy-ninth Highlanders, 44 et seq. Ellis, the, 184, 194 et seq., 198 Emerson, Captain S., 119 Empire City, U. S. transport, 49 Eolus, the, 229 Ericsson, Captain, John, 110 et seq., 114 Escort, the, 197 Evans, Ensign, 237 F. Fagan, Lieutenant, 233 Fairfax, Commander D. M., 92, 125, 128, 162 (note) Fanny, the, U. S tug, 165, 169, 172, 184, et seq. Farragut, Rear-Admiral, 215 et seq. Faunce, Captain, John, 165 Febiger, Commander, 204, 209 (note) Fellows, Colonel, 63 Fernandina, Fla., 48 et seq. Fingal, the, 120 Fisher, Signal Officer, 178 Fisher, Fort, see Fort Fisher. Flag, the, U. S. steamer, 81 Flusser, Lieutenant-Commanding C. W., 177, 184 189, 194, 199 et seq. Foote, Admiral, 122 Forrest, the, Confederate steamer, 185 Fort Beauregard, 22, 27; abandoned, 28 et seq., 101 Fort Clinch, desertion of, 50 et seq. Fort Donelson, the, 229 Fort