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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 5: military and naval operations on the coast of South Carolina.--military operations on the line of the Potomac River. (search)
ush, mostly firemen, attacked a squad of Confederate cavalry in Virginia, opposite the Point of Rocks, killing and wounding eight men, and capturing nine prisoners and twenty horses; and on the, 12th a detachment of the Tenth New York, under Captain Kennedy, crossed the Potomac from Sandy Hook, and attacked and routed some Virginia cavalry at Lovettsville. On the 12th of September, 1861. reconnoissance was made toward Lewinsville, four or five miles from Camp Advance, at the Chain Bridge, b it not been for the timely efforts of Lieutenant-General Scott, Brigadier-General Stone, Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Frederick W. Seward, Esq., and David S. Bookstaver, of the Metropolitan Police of New York. I am, very respectfully, yours, &c., John A. Kennedy. But little more remains to be said concerning affairs at Ball's Bluff. Supposing all the troops to be on the Virginia side of the Potomac, McClellan telegraphed to Stone to intrench himself there, and to hold his position, at all hazard
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 23: siege and capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. (search)
de, and demanded the surrender in the name of humanity. He assured him of the overwhelming force of the Nationals in men and cannon, and that Gardner's dispatch to Johnston, telling of his straits and the dangers of starvation, had been intercepted, and the weakness of the post made known. but refused, hoping, like General Pemberton at Vicksburg, even while shot and shell were spreading death and destruction all around him, It appears from the diary of a captured Confederate soldier (J. A. Kennedy, of the First Alabama), that. one of Banks's heavy guns had been named by the besieged, as we have observed one of the Confederate cannon at Vicksburg was--Whistling Dick, and that it was the means of great destruction. Under date of June 9, he wrote: Whistling Dick is at work to-day, tearing our camps all to pieces. Our sick have been removed to the ravine. It is difficult to get something to eat. The Yankee artillery is playing upon us all round . . . . The Hessians burned our comm