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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 14 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 7 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) 6 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 5 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 2 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
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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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, February (search)
Nashville, from Southampton, England, commanded by R. P. Pegram, of the confederate navy, ran the blockade of Beaufort, North-Carolina, and reached the town this morning in safety.--(Doc. 68.) The United States transport steamer Mississippi, having on board Major-General B. F. Butler and fourteen hundred troops, ran aground on Frying-pan Shoals, off Wilmington, N. C., while on her way from Boston, Mass., to Ship Island, in the Gulf of Mexico. Her situation being discovered by Commander O. S. Glisson, U. S.N., he immediately went to her assistance with the steamer Mount Vernon; and after laboring in vain for many hours, during which about three hundred troops were transported to the Mount Vernon, the Mississippi was finally got off at about seven o'clock in the evening. The troops were then transferred back to the Mississippi, and every man saved.--(Doc. 69.) Charlestown, Va., situated on the line of the Winchester and Potomac Railroad, eight miles southwest of Harper's F
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, June (search)
t, South-Carolina, from whom information was obtained that two schooners were preparing to run the blockade, laden with cotton and turpentine, and that the cargo was already in the warehouse, near the wharf, ready for shipment. This evening Captain Glisson ordered an expedition to be fitted out, to consist of an armed boat from each vessel, and ordered Lieutenant Braine, of the Monticello, to proceed to the Inlet with the boats and send the expedition in. The duty was ably performed by Lieu wharf, and were not considered worth the trouble of bringing away. They found at the wharf and in warehouses two hundred barrels of turpentine, sixty bales of cotton, and fifty-three barrels rosin, the whole of which was destroyed by fire.--Capt. Glisson's Report. General Butler ordered, that all the property in New Orleans belonging to General D. E. Twiggs, and of his minor son, the income of which he has received, and under the charge of his agent, H. W. Palfrey, Esq., consisting of re
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces at Fort Fisher, N. C.: January 13-15, 1865. (search)
Com. J. C. Beaumont. Maratanza, Lieut.-Com. G. W. Young. Osceola, Com. J. M. B. Clitz. Pawtuxet, Com. J. H. Spotts. Pontoosuc, Lieut.-Com. Wm. G. Temple. Sassacus, Lieut.-Com. J. L. Davis. Tacony, Lieut.-Com. W. T. Truxtun. Miscellaneous vessels. Fort Jackson, Capt. B. F. Sands. Monticello, Act. V.-Lieut. D. A. Campbell (1st attack); Lieut. W. B. Cushing (2d attack). Nereus, Com. J. C. Howell. Quaker City, Com. W. F. Spicer. Rhode Island, Com. S. D. Trenchard. Santiago de Cuba, Capt. O. S. Glisson. Vanderbilt, Capt. C. W. Pickering. Powder vessel. Louisiana, Com. A. C. Rhind (1st attack; blown up). Reserve. A. D. Vance, Lieut.-Com. J. H. Upshur. Alabama, Act. V. Lieut. Frank Smith (1st attack); Act. V. Lieut. A. R. Langthorne (2d attack). Britannia, Act. V. Lieut. Samuel Huse (1st attack); Act. V. Lieut. W. A. Sheldon (2d attack). Cherokee, Act. V. Lieut. W. E. Denison. Emma, Act. V. Lieut. T. C. Dunn (1st attack); Act. V. Lieut. J. M. Williams (2d attack). Gettysbu
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 12: operations on the coasts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. (search)
st, and vexatious delay at Port Royal; The captain of the Mississippi appears to have been utterly incompetent. On the night after leaving Hampton Roads, he ran his vessel on a shoal off Hatteras Inlet, and barely escaped wrecking. On the following day it struck a sunken rock, five miles from land, off the mouth of the Cape Fear, and an hour later, while leaking badly, it was hard fast on the Fryingpan Shoals, and partly submerged, when relief came in the gun-boat Mount Vernon, Commander O. S. Glisson, of the blockading squadron off Wilmington. The Mississippi was taken to Port Royal and repaired, and was again run aground while passing out of that harbor, when her commander was deposed. and it was thirty days after he left the capes of Virginia before he debarked at Ship Island. March 25. There was no house upon that desolate sand-bar, and some charred boards were all the materials that could be had for the erection of a shanty for the accommodation of Mrs. Butler. The furnit
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 34: (search)
S. Rockefeller and G. W. Shank; Acting-Master's Mates, G. R. Durand, J. M. C. Reville and J. B. Swett. Steamer Louisiana. Lieutenant-Commander, Alex. Murray, and Acting-Lieutenant, R. T. Renshaw [commanding at different times]; Lieutenant-Commander, Alfred Hopkins; Acting-Master Edward Hooker; Assistant Surgeon, Michael Bradley; Assistant Paymaster, W. W. Williams; Assistant Engineers, J. M. Lay, D. P. McCartney, J. H. Huxley and T. J. McK. Daniels. Steamer Mt. Vernon. Commanders, O. S. Glisson and A. G. Clary [commanding at different times]. Acting-Masters, J. W. Simmons and E. W. White; Acting-Assistant Surgeons, S. B. Hoppin and Joseph McKnight; Acting-Ensign, O. L. S. Roberts; Acting Assistant Engineers, J. H. Hosford and John Lardner; Acting-Master's Mates, G. C. Kellogg and Lloyd Rogers. Steamer Mahaska. Lieutenant, N. H. Farquhar; Acting-Master, C. L. Moses; Assistant Surgeon, J. C. Spear; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, Chas. Fairchild; Midshipman, E. C. V. Blak
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 49: first attack on Fort Fisher.--destruction of the confederate ram Albemarle, etc. (search)
em, if possible, under the heavy fire of the ships. The Admiral dispatched seventeen gun-boats, under command of Captain O. S. Glisson, to cover the troops and assist with their boats in landing the soldiers. Finding the smaller vessels kept too fcally done throughout the day, and there was some beautiful practice. The army commenced landing about 2 o'clock. Captain Glisson, in the Santiago de Cuba, having shelled Flag-Pond battery to insure a safe landing, and they commenced to re-embark seventy men, a captain and lieutenant, were captured. The Santiago de Cuba and Nereus sent boats, and, by order of Captain Glisson, the prisoners were transferred to the Santiago de Cuba. Respectfully, Admiral, Your obedient servant, J. C. HoCommander J. C. Howell: Vanderbilt, Captain C. W. Pickering; Fort Jackson, Captain B. F. Sands; Santiago de Cuba, Captain O. S. Glisson; Tacony, Lieutenant-Commander W. T. Truxtun; Osceola, Commander J. M. B. Clitz; Chippewa, Lieutenant-Commander A.
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 50: Second attack on Fort Fisher. (search)
der J. C. Beaumont; Tuscarora, Commander J. M. Frailey. Line No. 3, Santiago de Cuba, Captain O. S. Glisson leading, consisted of the Fort Jackson, Captain B. F. Sands; Osceola, Commander J. M. B.and fought gallantly. I recommend them to the favorable notice of the department. To Captain O. S. Glisson, commanding the Santiago de Cuba, I am particularly indebted for his zeal in covering the troops, landing guns, Captain (now Rear-Admiral) O. S. Glisson, commanding the U. S. S. Santiago de Cuba. and taking his division into action; and to Captain B. F. Sands, commanding the Fort Jackent duties he was called on to perform. I recommend them both for promotion. I refer to Captain Glisson's report in relation to the commanding officers in his division. I also recommend to thepe; Carpenter, J. E. Cox; Sailmaker, G. T. Lozier. *Santiago-de-cuba--Second-rate. Captain, O. S. Glisson; Lieutenant, N. H. Farquhar; Passed-Assistant Surgeon, A. S. Oberly; Assistant Surgeon,
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., V. New Orleans and the Gulf. (search)
st in sight was strongly held by the enemy, whose horse patrol could be descried from the ship; and any Confederate cruiser, darting out from Cape Fear river, would have found the steamship and all on board an easy prey. An ordinary squall would very soon have broken up the vessel and strewed her wreck along the sands. Toward noon, a steamer hove in sight, which, cautiously approaching, roved to be the U. S. gunboat Mount Vernon, of the squadron blockading Wilmington. Her commander, O. S. Glisson, came on board, and placed his vessel at the service of Gen. Butler. A hawser from the Mount Vernon was attached to the Mississippi, and many fruitless attempts made to drag her off. Three hundred of the soldiers were transferred to the Mount Vernon; shells were thrown overboard; and every device known to nautical experience tried to move the imperiled ship — all in vain. As the sun went down, the wind rose, and the waves swelled, till the huge ship began to roll and beat upon the rock
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 255 (search)
Doc. 243. the destruction of a lightship on the North Carolina Coast. Commander Glisson's report. United States steamer Mount Vernon, off Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 31, 1861. sir: I have to report to you that, having observed that the rebels made use of a light-ship, which was formerly on the Frying-Pan Shoals, as a beacon for guiding vessels in and out of the harbor, and for the purpose of annoying us by hoisting lights at night, I determined to take advantage of a hazy night, with e vessel burn to the water's edge, and at this time not a vestige of her is to be seen. It gives me pleasure to state that every officer and man in this ship was a volunteer for this expedition. Much credit is due to the officers and men of this expedition, for the able manner in which they discharged this hazardous duty. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, O. S. Glisson, Commanding U. S. N. To Flag-officer L. M. Goldsborough, Commanding the Atlantic blockading squadron.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 71 (search)
Doc. 69.-accident to the Mississippi. Commander Glisson's report, United States steamer Mount Vernon, off Wilmington, N. C., March 1, 1862. sir: I have to report to you that yesterday I discovered a vessel to the southward and eastward at eleven A. M. I got under weigh and stood for her, and soon discovered her to be a vessel on shore, on the Frying-Pan shoals. On a nearer approach she proved to be a large steamer with her American ensign down. We were soon boarded by a boat conrumental in saving the noble ship, with her large number of passengers. It also affords me much gratification to have to inform you that every officer and man under my command exerted himself to his utmost abilities in this noble cause. The damage and loss sustained by this vessel is trivial, when compared with the saving of the lives of fourteen hundred persons who were on board the Mississippi. Your obedient servant, O. S. Glisson, Commander U. S. Navy. Flag-Officer L. M. Goldsborough.
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