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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 1: organization of the Navy Department.--blockade-runners, etc. (search)
and take charge, under the Secretary, of all professional matters. The vast operations of the Department during the war were divided into two great branches, one belonging to matters pertaining particularly to the Navy, the other embracing civil transactions, together with the whole business machinery and operations of the Department. Mr. G. V. Fox, who had formerly been an officer of the Navy, was placed at the head of the first named branch of the Department; while the Chief Clerk,Mr. Faxon, was placed at the head of the Civil Corps; he was really the representative of the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Gideon Welles. This organization was found necessary, owing to the defective system then existing, which exists now, and which will be found defective again if we should ever be involved in a war of any magnitude. It was rather remarkable that the Government, after the war, should have fallen back upon the old bureau system without any professional head, when its defects wer
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 32: Navy Department.--energies displayed.--building of iron-clads (search)
able of setting at defiance even France or England. While Mr. Fox, the Assistant Secretary, was bending all his energies to devise the class of vessels best suited for the purposes of our war, and to meet the necessities of the occasion, and Mr. Faxon, the chief clerk, was giving his undivided attention to the civil branch of the Department, Mr. Welles was presiding over all and giving to each his moral support. Mr. Welles was the responsible head; it was his judgment that decided almost pted to assume more than his rightful authority — in this way making a unit of the department. Mr. Fox was the able assistant, in charge of the general naval duties that had in years gone by pertained to the Board of Naval Commissioners, while Mr. Faxon was the chief clerk in charge of the Civil Department and the records. Secretary Welles was the judicial, financial, and political head, under whose direction everything was done; all plans were submitted to him, and no movement was made wit
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 19. the siege of Suffolk, Virginia. (search)
ork and Eighth Connecticut were taken over on the Stepping Stones. Five pieces of artillery were captured, nine (9) officers, and one hundred and twenty (120) soldiers. It was well conceived, ably conducted, and reflects great honor on the combined arms. Lieutenant Samson suggested the enterprise, landed with four of his howitzers, and played a most brilliant part. Captain Stevens was conspicuous for his gallant conduct in this affair, and deserves mention; also Lieutenants McKechine and Faxon, Aides of General betty. Twentieth.--Major Stratton visited Elizabeth City, North Carolina, and found it abandoned by our troops. He found General Longstreet's pickets in the vicinity of Sandy Cross. Twenty-first.--The command was highly honored by a visit from Major-General Halleck, Commander-in-Chief, accompanied by Major-General Dix. Twenty-second.--A heavy rain storm commenced, suspending all fatigue labors; but adding materially to the strength of the swamp on the left flank.
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Monuments. (search)
, thine is that holy trust. Spotless and pure, from God thy spirit came; Spotless it has returned, a brighter flame. Thy last, soft prayer was heard-No more to roam; Leverett. Hicks. Consecration Dell. Wetmore. Savage. Story. Faxon. Thou art, ('t was all thy wish,) thou art gone home. The last words, uttered but a few moments before her death, were, “I want to go home.” Ours are the loss, and agonizing grief, The slow, dead hours, the sighs without relief, The lingerst Pond, another of the most charming of those ornaments which it would seem nature had provided with express reference to the present use of these grounds, will be noticed a simple Egyptian pedestal, surmounted by a short obelisk, erected by Mr. Faxon; and beyond this a monument, the taste of which is attributable to Professor Webster, whose name it shows, together with the following records:-- John R. Webster, obt. 1820, aged 18 months. Harriet W. Webster, obt. 1833, aged 10 years.
The Daily Dispatch: November 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
y, called to do battle for the freedom of their follow-citizens of the great State of New York. Our advice to the Democracy is to arm and organize. The Governor may soon require their services. We are on the eve of a revolution," &c., &c. Everything points to a riot, if the Democrats only have pluck. A telegram from Washington, dated the 4th, gives the following about election matters there: "Governor Dennison, Postmaster-General, has gone to Ohio to vote; Secretary Welles and Chief Clerk Faxon left to-night for Connecticut, and Secretary Seward and Assistant Secretary Frederick Seward left for New York. Not less than thirty thousand soldiers, clerks and employees of different kinds, have gone home to vote, and there is not left enough clerical force to run any bureau or department here. Colonel Thomas R. Scott, of the Pennsylvania railroad, led of in arrangements to carry home voters at a quarter of a cent per mile, gaining Mr. Lincoln twenty thousand votes, thus enabling