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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 19: (search)
he city. Additional guns were brought up from Mobile, from Richmond, from Columbus and elsewhere, and put in battery, preparatory for a grand trial of artillery with the enemy's fleet. The attacking force of the enemy was at first confined to Porter's mortar fleet, and Farragut's gunboats, with their attendant array in transports, which had ascended the river from New Orleans. The evacuation of Fort Pillow, and the fall of Memphis, opened the new danger of a combination between the upper anamid intricate and formidable combinations of the enemy. In the country west of the Alleghany the Federal Government had prepared an extensive programme of operations. In the south, Gen. Butler occupied New Orleans, whilst Admirals Farragut and Porter guarded the Lower Mississippi, and bombarded Vicksburg. Commanding the Army of Tennessee, in the neighbourhood of Corinth, with his advance as far south as Holly Springs and his right at Memphis, was Gen. Grant, with Gens. Sherman, Rosecrans, an
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 21: (search)
enever disappointed in the accomplishment of military results. While Grant was thus operating against Vicksburg, an attempt was made by the lower Federal fleet, under Farragut, to pass the batteries at Port Hudson, so as to co-operate with Admiral Porter's fleet on the upper waters. On the night of the 14th March, the Hartford, Farragut's flagship, steamed slowly up the river, passing the first of the line of batteries, followed by the Richmond, Mississippi, Monongahela, Genesee, Albatross, ut fifty miles from its mouth. The position had been fortified by the Confederates, and was held by Gen. Churchill with about thirty-three hundred effective men. On the 11th January, a combined attack was arranged between Gen. McClernand and Admiral Porter. Before the final assault was made, the garrison, finding themselves unable to reply to the fire of the gunboats, and overwhelmed by superiour numbers, hoisted a white flag, and surrendered. the importance of this capture by the enemy was,
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 23: (search)
ersistency was worth. his New scheme of attack. two parts of the enterprise. Porter's gunboats run the batteries. Grant's march from Milliken's Bend. blindness ove attempts upon Richmond had failed. Three at tempts upon Vicksburg — that of Porter's fleet; that of Sherman's army; and that of Grant, which may be designated as rs from all communication with the east. One part of the enterprise was to run Porter's gunboats and a number of transports past the works at Vicksburg; while a landast of April, Grant, having marched down the west bank of the river, and joined Porter's gunboats at Carthage, was ready to execute the next step in his scheme of attall his forces from different posts, leaving only enough in Vicksburg to answer Porter's chronic bombardment, Gen. Pemberton could have concentrated nearly 40,000 troe Grant had been reinforced to eighty thousand men, besides the co-operation of Porter's fleet. He had also entrenched himself on every side with a difficult river b
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 40: (search)
Fort Fisher, had failed of success. For this expedition there had been assembled in Hampton Roads, under command of Admiral Porter, what Gen. Grant designated as the most formidable armada ever collected for concentration upon one given point. Thenemy's guns, and were never enlightened as to the object of the explosion until informed of it by Northern newspapers. Porter's fleet had already commenced a bombardment of the fort; and on the 25th December, under cover of this fire, a landing was Grant's experiment with the mine at Petersburg. The fleet did not follow Butler's transports, and the persistence of Porter encouraged Grant to make another attempt to take Fort Fisher and secure Wilmington. He selected Gen. Terry to command th. Fort Anderson, the main defence on the rest bank of the river, was evacuated on the 19th February, on the appearance of Porter's fleet before it, in conjunction with a land force under Schofield moving up both sides of the river. Wilmington was o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Index of names of persons. (search)
475 Poole, E. R., 542 Poole, H. F., 542 Poole, Henry, 406 Poole, J. F., 110 Poor, C. W., 406 Poor, J. M., 406 Poor, W. H., 475 Pope, A. R., 542, 546 Pope, G. W., 475 Pope, H. T., 475 Pope, John, 59, 68, 69, 70, 71, 196, 208, 214, 234, 250, 256 Pope, Roger, 406 Pope, W. F., 406 Porcher, Leon, 515, 542 Poree, F. C., 65 Porter, Burr, 162, 168, 272 Porter, Calvin, 406 Porter, D. D., 42, 43, 44, 46, 61, 133 Porter, Edward, 406 Porter, F. A., 407 Porter, F. E., 318 Porter, Fitz-John, 51, 54, 228 Porter, G. W., 407 Porter, Josiah, 50, 180 Porter, R. B., 107 Porter, Richard, 407 Porter, T. F., 475 Porter, W. R., 70, 407 Posey, John, 407 Postings, G. H., 543 Pott, A. C., 407 Potter, Andrew, 260 Potter, E. E., 89, 90 Potter, E. H., 407 Potter, F. B., 475 Potter, J. A., 407 Potter, James, 475 Potter, L. W., 407 Potter, R. B., 118, 125 Potter, W. A., 407 Powell, Henry, 407 Powell, J. H., 125 Powers, D., 543 Powers, J. G., 475 Powers, J. M., 543 P
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
ear all opposition from his path, sent forward Porter's corps to Hanover Junction, where he had a showed a determination to force the passage, General Porter called up the remainder of his corps, cons resolved to withdraw his right wing under General Porter from its position at Beaver Dam, where it He resolved, therefore, to engage Jackson with Porter's corps, re-enforced by whatever troops might as yet in its infancy, and the ground on which Porter disposed his force—a position that in two hourave sufficed to entail any great disaster; and Porter was withdrawing his infantry under cover of thft, who had not yet emerged from the woods. Porter: Report of Gaines' Mill. This charge, executedr are given either by General McClellan or General Porter. Jackson states his loss at three thousan. Couch's division was placed on the right of Porter; next came Kearney and Hooker; next, Sedgwick der, Colonel Hunt. The attacks fell mainly on Porter on the left, and on Couch; and the success of [16 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, V. Pope's campaign in Northern Virginia. August, 1862. (search)
lroad; while he ordered Hooker and Kearney and Porter to advance northward from Bristoe Station uponl the lines of approach by which the column of Porter might advance towards Gainesville. Upon findin dispute,—McDowell asserting that he ordered Porter to move against the enemy, and Porter claimingn, which belonged to his own corps, from under Porter, and, uniting it with Rickett's division (alsoeton, where he arrived late in the afternoon. Porter held his command for the rest of the day in thI do not constitute myself the champion of General Porter, nor of any other officer; but having becoand again try the issue of battle. To utilize Porter's corps, he drew it over from the isolated posolonel G. K. Warren, who then commanded one of Porter's brigades, seeing the imminence of the dangery fire, and so destructive was its effect that Porter's troops finally were compelled to withdraw. nd against a fearful loss till all the rest of Porter's troops had been retired, and only withdrew w[32 more...]
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 6 (search)
General Franklin, embraced the divisions of Smith (W. F.), Slocum, and Couch. Porter's did not leave Washington until the 12th of September, and rejoined the army ahaken the enemy, the centre and left were to carry the bridges in their front. Porter's corps was posted on the left of the turnpike, opposite Bridge No. 2; Burnsideto lose all offensive energy; so that noon found them simply holding their own. Porter with his small reserve corps, numbering some fifteen thousand men, held the cenlry division and the horse batteries, to whose support most of Sykes' division (Porter's corps) in the afternoon crossed the Antietam Now, between twelve and one o'clhe of the bridge on the extreme left, and threatened the Confederate right; and Porter's corps was fresh—having been in reserve the day previous. If these consideratetreat of Lee, a not very judicious pursuit into Virginia was made by a part of Porter's corps, but the pursuing column was soon driven back across the Potomac with c
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
one of the swamps of the Chickahominy, which widened as the line neared the enemy's intrenchments. This separated his command; but the troops, at a fearful sacrifice, advanced close up to the works. Some for a moment entered them. Colonel McMahon, with a part of his regiment, separated by the swamp from the rest of his brigade, reached the parapet, planted on it his colors, but fell covered with many wounds, and expired in the enemy's hands, losing his colors with honor. The gallant Colonels Porter, Morris, McKeen, and Haskell were killed, and General Tyler was wounded. Yet Gibbon's troops, too, clung tenaciously to the ground gained; and some remained so close to the hostile works, that the men could only be reached by covered ways. In less than an hour Hancock's loss was above three thousand. The story of the advance of the Sixth Corps on the right of Hancock, and that of Smith on the right of the Sixth, is of a like tenor. Every assault was immediately repulsed most disas
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, Index. (search)
McClellan's attention on south bank of Chickahominy, 151; Porter overwhelmed, and the retreat commenced, 152; French and Meagher cover Porter's retreat, 153; Porter's corps crosses to McClellan at night, 153; estimate of casualties, 153. GarnetPorter's corps crosses to McClellan at night, 153; estimate of casualties, 153. Garnett, General, Confederate commander in West Virginia, 35. Gettysburg campaign, the, 308; theory of the Confederate invasiond never rejoins his old command, 547. Hanover Junction, Porter's defeat of Branch at, 124. Harper's Ferry, United Stat; advance south of Fredericksburg, 124; advance cleared by Porter's corps of the Potomac army, 124; ordered to the Shenandoang back, 188; McDowell ordered on Warrenton turnpike, 189; Porter's assault on Warrenton turnpike, 190; Porter repulsed fromPorter repulsed from Warrenton turnpike, 190. Manassas Gap, General French's feeble attack, 374 Marmont on discrimination of the soldier, n at, and battle, 181; Jackson escapes from Manassas, 181; Porter's advance to Gainsville stopped by Lee's arrival, 183; arr
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