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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)
ate brothers in the National navy. On Tuesday, the 5th, Nov., 1861. Commander John Rogers, a passenger with Dupont, on his way to his own ship, the Flag, accomparning sun a grand spectacle was speedily presented. It had been ascertained by Rogers and Wright that Fort Walker, on Hilton Head, was by far the most powerful of thr vessels were falling so thickly upon them at the enfilading point, Commander John Rogers, in a letter to a friend, said: During the action I looked carefundered. There was no one there to respond. The Union flag was hoisted by Commander Rogers, Commodore Dupont, Rogers wrote to a friend, had kindly made me his aidRogers wrote to a friend, had kindly made me his aid. I stood by him, and I did little things which I suppose gained me credit. So, when a boat was sent on shore to ask whether they had surrendered, I was sent. I car the direction of the main, and numbers of them had been shot and killed. Commander Rogers, in a letter to a friend (Nov. 9th), said: A boat which came off to the Se
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 12: operations on the coasts of the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. (search)
l called Wall's Cut, which had for several years connected Wright's and New Rivers. He reported accordingly, when Captain John Rogers made another reconnoissance at night, and so satisfied himself that gun-boats could navigate the way, that he offeineers, and two companies of Rhode Island volunteer artillery with twenty heavy guns. and the gun-boats were commanded by Rogers. Another mixed force, under General H. G. Wright Wright's troops consisted of the Fourth New Hampshire, Colonel Whipp The latter expedition found obstructions in St. Augustine Creek; but the gunboats were able to co-operate with those of Rogers in an attack Jan. 28, 1862. on the little flotilla of five gun-boats of Commodore Tatnall, which attempted to escape dowf Robert E. Lee, after his recall from Western Virginia, in the autumn of 1861. Soon after the heavy reconnaissance of Rogers and Wright, the Nationals made a lodgment on Jones's Island, and proceeded, under the immediate direction of General Viel