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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 6: the Army of the Potomac.--the Trent affair.--capture of Roanoke Island. (search)
New York, and Belgier's Rhode Island battery of 106 men, 120 horses, four 10-pounder Parrott guns, and two 12-pounder field howitzers. the fleet was divided into two columns for active service, intrusted respectively to the charge of commanders S. F. Hazard and Stephen C. Rowan. the fleet consisted of thirty-one gun-boats, with an aggregate armament of ninety-four guns. These were the Brickner, commanded by J. C. Giddings; Ceres, S. A. McDermaid; Chasseur, John West; corn. Barney, R. D. Renshaw; corn. Perry, C. H. Flusser; Delaware, S. P. Quackenbush; granite, E. Boomer; granite, W. B. Avery; Gen. Putnam, W. J. Hoskiss; Huzzar, Fred. Crocker; Hunchback, E. R. Calhoun; Hetzel, H. K. Davenport; J. Nv. Seymour, F. S. Welles; Louisiana, Hooker; Lockwood, S. L. Graves; Lancer, B. Morley; Morse, Peter Hayes; Philadelphia, Silas Reynolds; pioneer, C. S. Baker; picket, T. P. Ives; rocket, James Lake; Ranger, J. B. Childs; Stars and Stripes, Reed Werden; Southfield, Behm; Shawsheen, T. S
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 13: the capture of New Orleans. (search)
ansom, 5; Wissahickon, Lieutenant A. N. Smith, 5; Pinola, Lieutenant Crosby; Kennebec, Lieutenant Russell, 5; Sciota, Lieutenant Donalson, 6; schooner Kittatinny, Lieutenant Lamson, 9; Miami, Lieutenant Harroll, 6; Clifton, 5; and Westfield, Captain Renshaw, 6. There were twenty mortar-vessels, in three divisions, the first, or Red, of six vessels, under Lieutenant Watson Smith, in the Norfolk Packet; the second, or Blue, of seven vessels, commanded by Lieutenant Queen, in the T. A. Ward; and hastened to accept the generous terms which Porter had offered. While these terms were being reduced to writing in the cabin of the Harriet Lane, The capitulation was signed on the part of the Nationals by Commanders David D. Porter and W. B Renshaw, and Lieutenant W. W. Wainright, commander of the Harriet Lane; and on the part of the Confederates by General J. K. Duncan, commander of the coast defenses, and Colonel Edwin Higgins, the commander of the forts. The writer was informed by an o
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 20: events West of the Mississippi and in Middle Tennessee. (search)
especially the city of Galveston. So early as the 17th 162 in, of May, 1862 Henry Eagle, commander of the war vessels in front of Galveston, summoned the town to surrender, under a threat of an attack from a land and larger naval force that would soon appear. When the land and naval forces appear, we shall reply, was the answer; and so matters remained until Monument of Texas Martyrs the 8th of October following, when Galveston was formally surrendered by its civil authorities to Commander Renshaw, of the National navy, the Confederate troops retiring on his approach with four steam-vessels of war. A small military force was placed in the city, and this, with the vessels, held possession until the close of the year. We have now made note of the antecedents and position of the National troops westward of the Mississippi toward the close of the year 1862, destined to co-operate with the army of General Grant against Vicksburg. We left the latter encamped between Holly Springs
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
bserved how Galveston was surrendered to Commodore Renshaw without resistance, See page 538. whemore secure, General Banks, at the request of Renshaw, sent thither from New Orleans the Forty-secophoeus, and Sachem, under the command of Commodore Renshaw, whose relations with the Confederate lehat Department. He had so high an opinion of Renshaw's courtesy and conciliatory spirit, that he wchief for the National forces was impending. Renshaw, who was in command of these forces on. land the latter the attack began. Observing this, Renshaw ordered her back. She opened upon Fort Pointfused, and time was given to communicate with Renshaw, on the Westfield. He, too, rejected the propmaturely by a drunkard, it was said, and Commodore Renshaw, Lieutenant Zimmerman, Engineer Green, agruder, in his official report, declared that Renshaw had agreed to surrender. If that be true, the conviction is forced upon us that Renshaw was a traitor, and was acting in concert with Magruder.[2 more...]