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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 20: (search)
Society at New-Orleans showed little sensitiveness to the great struggle in which we were engaged. Festivity was the order of the day; balls, parties, theatres, operas, and the like, continued as if we were not in the midst of a furious war, with our beloved sons, brothers, and relatives bleeding and dying on distant battle-fields. We felt too secure. We considered it impossible for any force to capture the place. Jackson, with a handful of men, and a few cotton-bales, had defeated Packenham in 1812, many said; and as we considered the enemy much inferior to the British in all respects, and our present defences vastly superior to those of former times, all were confident of victory in case of attack. None doubted the loyalty of our people, our generals, or the Government. Shipwrights were busy in preparing new rams and floating batteries; foundries and steam-hammers were in full blast, night and day, preparing boilers, machinery, and iron plates; and several mammoth rams an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ship-building. (search)
the summer of 1844. She registered 498 tons and carried two 8-inch guns and four 32-pounder carronades. It was now Great Britain's turn to remonstrate. All immediate necessity for increasing her navy had disappeared, and so her minister, Mr. Packenham, conveyed to Secretary Calhoun his conviction that it was by all means desirable that the convention of 1817 should be fulfilled to the letter by both contracting parties. Mr. Calhoun's reply merely refers to an enclosed note of the Secretary of the Navy, to whom he had referred Mr Packenham's communication. The reasons given by Mr. Mason. Secretary of the Navy, for our violation of the agreement were that Great Britain was violating the agreement, and that the methods of naval construction had greatly changed since 1817. On the latter point he wisely said: It is worthy of remark that at the date of the agreement between the two governments steamers were in use to a very limited extent as passenger vessels, and perhaps not at all
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Life, services and character of Jefferson Davis. (search)
he country through it, and at New Orleans Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, achieved its culminating victory. It is a Northern scholar (Theodore Roosevelt) who says: Throughout all the Northwest, where Ohio was the State most threatened, the troops of Kentucky formed the bulk of the American army, and it was a charge of their mounted riflemen which at a blow won the battle of the Thames. Again, on the famous January morning, when it seemed as if the fair Creole city was already in Packenham's grasp, it was the wild soldiery of Tennessee who, laying behind their mud breastworks, peered out through the lifting fog at the scarlet array of the English veterans as the latter, fresh from their victories over the best troops of Europe, advanced for the first time to meet defeat. In 1836 Samuel Houston, sprung from the soil of that very county which now holds the ashes of Lee and Jackson, won the battle of San Jacinto, and achieved Texan independence. In 1845, under James K. Pol
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Present: (search)
cond war for Independence caused by English arrogance, and was urged by the South against the protest of the East. In that contest, which was mainly naval, there were notable victories won under Northern leaders, but the greatest injury to British shipping was done by privateers, chiefly sent from Baltimore, which captured nearly three hundred ships and many thousand prisoners. Wingfield Scott made himself and his regiments famous at Chippewa and Lundy's Lane, while Andrew Jackson whipped Packenham at New Orleans with men from Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky and Tennessee. Next the Mexican war, preceded by the adventurous help for Texas rendered by Lamar, Houston, Fannin, Crockett and other like spirits from Tennessee and Georgia, when the blood of the South crimsoned the Alamo, and afterward freely flowed in all battles from Palo Alto to the ancient city of the Montezumas, and in which the troops of the American Union were led to victory by such men as Pierce, Butler, Zachary Tay
The Daily Dispatch: may 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], A New Kine. (search)
emy. During the whole of the war of 1812, Southern territory remained untrod by hostile foot, except in hasty raids extending a few miles from the shore. The occupation of a narrow portion of Maryland between the Bay and the Potomac was but for a few weeks, when the enemy found it proper to disembark. The hasty descent upon Washington city and the march across Maryland ending in discomfiture, is the only semblance of invasion which the South suffered during the war. The brief career of Packenham in Louisiana, ending in his signal catastrophe at New Orleans, was but a disastrous attempt at invasion. During the Revolution the case was very little different. Owing to the meagerness of our population, the British got possession of Charleston, and made successful raids into Virginia under Arnold and others, while her troops were fighting in the Carolinas and up-holding Washington at the North; but these were but rapid plunder excursions, attended by none of the results of success
The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten Dollars reward. (search)
r powder dry, let each man look well to his musket or rifle, preserve it in good order both inside and without, the sabre well burnished, keen of edge and sharply pointed. These precautions are good, wise, even necessary, when we have to contend with the Vandalic hosts of Lincoln. Even now they are hovering above us, from Cairo, like as gathering storm menacing the earth with thunder. But let them come!--we will give them a similar hospitality to that which our people of old extended to Packenham and his British plunderers. Their blood will ensanguine our plans, and their bodies fold an easy grave in the yawning depths of the Mississippi. We have soldiers as brave as any of ancient or modern times, valiant as Leonidas do fending the pass against the Persons, as Horatius Cocles impeding above the advance of the enemy, or as Mucius Scaevola, who, for having missed his aim at the tyrant, thrust his right arm into the fire, Already one glorious name adorns our Confederate escutcheon,
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway--fifty dollars reward. (search)
ities commenced, yet its success has fallen still further short of those apprehensions. We feared, yet expected, and were prepared to bear up against, an invasion into the very heart of the South. We knew that each step of advance, on their part, would weaken their force and increase our means of defence. Had the "Grand Army" fought at Culpeper Court-House instead of Manassa, the "Grand Army" would now have been a thing of the past. The fate of Braddock, Burgoyne, Cornwallis, Ross, and Packenham had taught us to believe that any serious invasion of the South would be attended with utter destruction to the invaders. But, instead of invading us, our enemy has been exhausting his resources, both in men and money, in defending Washington. They now boast that it is impregnable as Gibraltar. We do not believe that, but on the contrary think that with immense loss of life on our part, we might take it; yet it is certainly their strongest point, defended as it is by the broad Potom
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the great number of bays, inlets, creeks, and rivers; nor down the inferior, because of mountain ridges, impassable roads, sparse population, and scarcity of provisions. The Mississippi is narrow, long, tedious, and easily defended, and its valley is subject to overflow. No invading army will attempt a serious invasion in that direction. It is our true policy to decoy the enemy into the interior, and then to cut them off as were Braddock, and Burgoyne, and Cornwallis, and Ross, and Packenham, and our own troops in the everglades of Florida. When we have defeated and captured their armies, exhausted their treasury, and cowed their spirits by defensive warfare, it will be time for us to begin to act on the offensive, and to invade their territory. The Northwest is as level a country as Northern Europe, teems with provisions, and abounds with towns and villages Its population is a spiritless rabble, who have few arms and know little of their use, and who are endowed with no sen
The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
g and tyranny, and up with the star of a free people and a free Government." All through the war of the Revolution its voice resounded with those of our fathers in their shouts of battle and of victory. At the close of the Revolutionary war it was taken to New Orleans and kept there until the second war with Great Britain, when it took an active part under Gen. Jackson in the great battle of New Orleans, and helped to shout for victory there for freedom, and shriek defeat into the cars of Packenham. It rested until the commencement of the Texan war, when it was carried, by a regiment of volunteers from New Orleans to assist the Texans in gaining their independence from Mexico. In March, 1836, it was present and took part in the bloody siege and fight of Alamo, and would have heard, had it cars, the death of the brave David Crockett, James Bowie, and a host of kindred spirits whose blood was freely offered up for their country's cause, and whom fame has crowned with never-failin