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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 204 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 167 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) 165 1 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 111 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 76 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 75 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 65 3 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 57 1 Browse Search
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 57 1 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 48 0 Browse Search
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Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 26: (search)
h Carolina planters, and their indifference. Gillmore prepares to bombard and destroy Charleston. rible slaughter back to our entrenchments. Gillmore had selected the time of twilight for the stoe sensibilities of the world. But happily Gen. Gillmore was not able to do what he threatened, andccessful assault of the 18th July, induced Gen. Gillmore to modify his plan of operations, and whilhing guns in position. On the 18th August, Gillmore opened heavily against the east face cf Fort t seriously injured. On the 24th August Gen. Gillmore reported to Washington the practical demold vainly endeavoured to carry by assault. Gen. Gillmore must, at all hazard, overcome this obstaclwhich, at leisure, might ascend the harbour. Gillmore himself insisted that he had done his part ofnge of the immediate defences of the city. Gillmore claimed that he had reduced Fort Sumter; but ptember, Admiral Dahlgren, determined to test Gillmore's assertion that Sumter was a harmless mass o[15 more...]
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 31: (search)
th side of James River, Richmond being your objective point. To the force you already have will be added about ten thousand men from South Carolina, under Maj.-Gen. Gillmore, who will command them in person. Maj.-Gen. W. F. Smith is ordered to report to you, to command the troops sent into the field from your own Department. Gen. Gillmore will be ordered to report to you at Fortress Monroe, with all the troops on transports, by the 18th instant, or as soon thereafter as practicable. Should you not receive notice by that time to move, you will make such disposition of them and your other forces as you may deem best calculated to deceive the enemy as n the Tennessee Railroad, doing as much damage as he could. Gen. Butler moved his main force up the James River, in pursuance of instructions, on the 4th May, Gillmore having joined him with the Tenth Corps. On the 5th he occupied, without opposition, both City Point and Bermuda Hundred. On the 6th he was in position with his
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 32: (search)
urg had both to be guarded, not only against the Army of the Potomac, but also that of Butler, who had come up the river in heavy force to co-operate with Grant; while an important detachment of Confederate force, as we shall see, had to be ready to move towards Lynchburg to meet the advance of a third army in that direction. It had been the expectation of Grant to make an easy capture of Petersburg, which Butler had previously failed to take, laying the blame of defeat on his subordinate, Gillmore. But he found that Lee had anticipated him in this new plan of operations; that Petersburg was well able to withstand a siege; that additional fortifications had been promptly erected around it and on the banks of the Appomattox, while Drewry's Bluff, also, afforded a good and strong point of defence. Battles of Petersburg. Grant found it now necessary to hammer at Petersburg, which, properly regarded, was then a mere outpost of the Confederate capital, for even if he took the first