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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1, Chapter 19: the battle of Antietam; I succeed Sedgwick in command of a division (search)
it reached higher ground; the upper fork led to Rohrersville and the other ran south into the Harper's Ferry road. A few miles above the regular crossing was a zigzag country road --sometimes named the diagonal. It intersected the Antietam at Newkirk and passed from pike to pike. As the Antietam River, from Newkirk to its mouth, had steep banks and scarcely any practicable fords, it was to Lee just the obstacle he needed to cover his front. He located D. H. Hill and Longstreet on the rNewkirk to its mouth, had steep banks and scarcely any practicable fords, it was to Lee just the obstacle he needed to cover his front. He located D. H. Hill and Longstreet on the right and left of the main pike, while he sent off Hood's division to the left. The convenient curves of the Potomac would protect his flanks as soon as he had men enough to fill the space. At first he did not have more than 25,000 men on the ground; but with considerable artillery he was able to so arrange his batteries as to defend the bridges and cover all approaches from the Antietam to Sharpsburg. In fact, he had a surplus of cannon and so sent an artillery reserve across the Potomac to
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 8: (search)
er. In spite of the fact that General Peck reported his force as having inflicted a loss of from 75 to 200, the Confederate casualties were 2 wounded. General Foster with 5,oco men left Washington, N. C., for Williamston, on the 2d of November. At Little creek and at Rawls' mill, spirited resistance to his advance was offered by the Confederates, and Foster lost 6 killed and 8 wounded. The Confederates, however, were not in force enough to do more than retard Foster's movements. Captain Newkirk, of the cavalry, and Captain Adams, commanding a section of artillery, attacked and destroyed the gunboat Ellis on the New river. According to General Whiting's report, this affair was very creditable to the officers and men engaged. On December 10th, Lieut.-Col. John C. Lamb, with some companies from the Seventeenth regiment, a squadron of cavalry under Colonel Evans, and Moore's battery, captured for a time the town of Plymouth, N. C. Colonel Galloway gives the following account o
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Fatal Accident--thirteen of the enemy captured. (search)
Fatal Accident--thirteen of the enemy captured. On Wednesday last a schooner and a brig were run ashore near Moore's Inlet, N. C. The brig was the Fanny Lowis, belonging to John Frazer & Co., of Charleston, S. C. She grounded on the reef at New Inlet, and Captain Gardner, his mate, and eight of his crew, were drowned in trying to reach the shore. The brig lies out of the range of the blockaders. Only two of the crew of the brig were saved. They were brought off by Midshipman Moses and a picked crew with the largest garrison boat from Fort Fisher. All the assistance that can be rendered will be sent down to try and save the vessel and cargo. The weather was very unfavorable and the chances were bad. The schooner was burned by a boat's crew of thirteen men sent for that purpose from one of the blockaders. The boat's crew was captured by Captain Newkirk, with a portion of his cavalry, to whom information had been given by the crew of the schooner, who escaped.
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Mobile to be Defended to the last Extremity. (search)
A Federal gunboat captured Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 28. --A Federal gunboat was captured in New river, Onslow county, N. C., on the 26th, by Captain Newkirk's cavalry. The crew escaped after setting the steamer on fire, but considerable property has been saved. She had been at Jacksonville, where they broke open the Court-House and Post-Office, and carried off all the papers and records they could find. No allusion to their burning the town is made by the courier or letters.
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], Capture of Yankees. (search)
Another Federal gunboat captured. Raleigh Nov. 29. --The State Journal has the following, dated Kingston, 28th: "I have just been informed that Lieutenant Whitford, of Capt. John N. Whitford's Partisan Rangers, captured a Yankee gunboat yesterday, on Bay river, in Craven county, burning the boat and taking the crew prisoners. The crew consisted of 23 white men and 20 negroes. All quiet below Kingston. [This is apparently not a repetition of the account of the capture of a Yankee gunboat, telegraphed from Wilmington, Friday night. That boat was captured on the 26th, in Onslow county, Capt. Newkirk's cavalry, and the crew escaped.]
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Capture of gunboats in North Carolina--interesting description of the affair. (search)
re inhabited by bold and determined men. Two cases have occurred in North Carolina. In one, Capt. Newkirk's cavalry, with a place of artillery, captured an iron steamer in New river, N. C, and in th was duly noticed and promptly reported by Capt. Ward's pickets to the proper authority, when Capt Newkirk, with a detachment of the Rebel Rangers, together with Lieut. Latham with one piece of the Keit had been she stuck fast on a board bar, and could neither get over nor back away from it--Capt. Newkirk, the officer in command, immediately dispatched a courier to the artillery camp for one moren, and next morning, an hour before day, all parties were ordered to their respective places Capt. Newkirk superintended the movements. Everything was now ready, and there ensued for a few moments at as a shell from the artillery made an entrance into the cabin, a light was discovered, and Capt. Newkirk proclaimed the day ours. Very soon the wood work of the steamer was in a light blaze, a