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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 7 : military operations in Missouri , New Mexico , and Eastern Kentucky --capture of Fort Henry . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Foote , Andrew Hull 1806 - (search)
Foote, Andrew Hull 1806-
Naval officer; born in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 12, 1806; entered the navy as midshipman in 1822; was flag-lieutenant of the Mediterranean
Andrew Hull Foote. squadron in 1833; and in 1838, as first lieutenant of the shiAndrew Hull Foote. squadron in 1833; and in 1838, as first lieutenant of the ship John Adams, under Commodore Read, he circumnavigated the globe, and took part in an attack on the pirates of Sumatra.
He was one of the first to introduce (1841) the principle of total abstinence from intoxicating drinks into the United States na de on the coast of Africa in 1849-52.
In command of the China station in 1856, when the Chinese and English were at war, Foote exerted himself to protect American property, and was fired upon by the Celestials.
His demand for an apology was refu less of forty men. The Chinese garrison of 5,000 men lost 400 of their number killed and wounded.
In the summer of 1861 Foote was made captain, and in September was appointed flag-officer of a flotilla of gunboats fitted out chiefly at Cairo, and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoppins , James Mason 1820 - (search)
Hoppins, James Mason 1820-
Educator; born in Providence, R. I., Jan. 17, 1820; graduated at Yale College in 1840, the Harvard Law School in 1842, the Union Theological Seminary in 1845, and at Andover Seminary.
He also studied for two years at the University of Berlin; was ordained in 1850; pastor of a Congregational Church in Salem, Mass., in 1850-59; Professor of Homiletics in Yale in 1861-79; and pastor of the College Church in 1861-63.
His numerous publications inelude Life of rear-admiral Andrew Hull Foote.
Memphis, capture of
After the capture of Island Number10, Commodore Foote went down the Mississippi with his flotilla, and transports bearing Pope's army, to attempt the capture of Memphis, but was confronted at Chickasaw Bluffs, 80 miles above that city, by a Confederate flotilla under Capt. J. S. Hollins and 3,000 troops und . M. Thompson, who occupied a military work on the bluffs, called Fort Pillow, then in command of General Villepigue, an accomplished engineer.
On April 14, 1862, Foote began a siege of Fort Pillow with his mortar-boats, and soon drove Hollins to the shelter of that work.
Pope, whose troops had landed on the Arkansas shore, was unable to co-operate, because the country was flooded, and being soon called by Halleck to Shiloh, Foote was. left to operate alone.
He was finally compelled to turn over the command to Capt. C. H. Davis on account of the painfulness of a wound he had received at Fort Donelson. On May 10 Hollins attacked Davis, but was repulsed, n