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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 74 6 Browse Search
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James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 14.53 (search)
Susquehanna, Captain I. S. Chauncey; Pawnee, Commander S. C. Rowan; Monticello, Commander J. P. Gillis; Harriet away with the prisoners, leaving the Pawnee, Captain S. C. Rowan, the Monticello, Lieutenant D. L. Braine, ander, and it was difficult to train the guns. ... Commodore Rowan's steamers did not reply to our fire until quit At 8 o'clock on the morning of February 10th Commander Rowan came up with the Union fleet, and the rebels opFebruary an expedition of eight gun-boats under Commander Rowan, and a land force of which I had charge, startebefore embarking in an enterprise second Vice-Admiral S. C. Rowan. only in importance to the capture of Roand via the Dismal Swamp Canal and Roanoke River. Commander Rowan and I were equally anxious to protect the past When I was left in charge of Roanoke Island, Commander Rowan assigned to the command of the naval division irely in my hands. Accordingly, by appointment, Commodore Rowan and I met some two hundred and fifty Union men;
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., Early operations on the Potomac River. (search)
object in view, the Freeborn, under Commander as far Ward, on the 31st of May, attacked the works at Aquia Creek. The attack, which may be called the first naval engagement of the war, was ineffectual, the light guns of the Freeborn producing little impression. On the other hand, the necessity of economizing ammunition led the Confederates to reserve their fire. On the next day, June 1st, the attack was repeated by the Freeborn, which had meantime been joined by the Pawnee, under Commander S. C. Rowan. The bombardment was continued for five hours, but no casualties occurred on either side. The railroad pier and its buildings were set on fire and blown up by the Confederate forces, and both the batteries and the vessels received several shot, but no material injury was inflicted, On the 27th of June, the Freeborn made an attack upon Mathias Point, where a considerable force of Confederates was posted, although no batteries had as yet been erected. In this attack Commander War
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The army before Charleston in 1863. (search)
ency it was determined, as well to hasten the final result as to revive the flagging spirits of the men, to carry on simultaneously against Battery Wagner two distinct kinds of attack: First, to silence the work by an overpowering bombardment with siege and Coehorn mortars, so that our sappers would have only the James Island batteries to annoy them; and, second, to breach the bomb-proof shelter with our heavy rifles, and thus force a surrender. During the day-time the New Ironsides, Captain S. C. Rowan, was to cooperate with her eight-gun broadsides. These operations were actively begun at break of day on the 5th of September. Seventeen siege and Coehorn mortars dropped their shells unceasingly into the work over the heads of our sappers; ten light siege-rifles covered and swept the approach to the work from the rear; fourteen heavy Parrotts thundered away at the great bomb-proof shelter; while, during the daylight, the New Ironsides, with the most admirable regularity and preci
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
some previous preparations) within the space of forty-eight hours. He sailed on the morning of the 9th, with two hundred recruits, in the steamer Baltic, Captain Fletcher.--The entire relief squadron consisted of that vessel, the United States ships Powhatan, Pawnee, Pocahontas, and Harriet Lane, and the tugs Yankee, Uncle Ben, and Freeborn; and all of them were ordered to rendezvous off Charleston. The frigate Powhatan, Captain Mercer, left New York on the 6th of April. The Pawnee, Commodore Rowan, left Norfolk on the 9th, and the Pocahontas, Captain Gillis, on the 10th. The revenue cutter Harriet Lane, Captain Faunce, left the harbor of New York on the 8th, in company with the tug Yankee. The Freeborn and Uncle Ben left on the previous day. The Yankee was fitted to throw hot water. The frigate Powhatan bore the senior naval officer of the expedition, and men sufficient to man the boats for the relief party. Soon after leaving New York, the expedition encountered a heavy sto
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 20: commencement of civil War. (search)
e flotilla like hail, but only wounding one man. Unable to reply at that distance with effect, Ward withdrew his vessels, but resumed the conflict on the following day, June 1, 1861. in company with the sloop-of-war Pawnee, of eight guns, Captain S. C. Rowan. For more than five hours, a continuous storm of shot and shell assaulted the works on shore. This cannonade and bombardment were briskly responded to by the insurgents, who seemed to have an ample supply of munitions of war. Twice their shots in all struck her; and yet, neither on board of this vessel nor of those of Ward's flotilla was a single person killed or seriously injured. report of Commander Ward to the Secretary of the Navy, May 31 and June 1, 1861. report of Commander Rowan to Secretary Welles, June 2, 1861. during the engagement, the large passenger and freight House near the landing was destroyed by fire. at about this time, another aggressive movement was made by the United States forces. It was importan
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 22: the War on the Potomac and in Western Virginia. (search)
id to pray for the President of the United States or for Jefferson Davis. When the war broke out, took the safe course of praying for the Governor of Virginia. The Church is now (1865) a ruin, made so by the National troops, who took out all of its wood-work for timber and fuel, and had commenced taking the brick walls for chimneys to huts. The latter depredation was immediately checked. He determined to drive them off, and on the evening of the 26th of June, 1861. he requested Commander Rowan, of the Pawnee, then lying near Acquia Creek, to send to him, during the night, two boatloads of marines, well equipped, with a competent leader. They were accordingly sent in charge of Lieutenant Chaplin Ward's plan was to land, drive off the insurgents, and denude the Point of trees, so that there might be no shelter for the aggressors from the observation of cruisers on the river. On the morning of the 27th, June, 1861. the Freeborn, with the boats from the Pawnee, went up to Ma
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 4: military operations in Western Virginia, and on the sea-coast (search)
etly prepared for following up the victory at Hatteras, by seizing and holding the whole coast of North Carolina washed by the waters of Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds, and threatening Norfolk, still held by the Confederates, in the rear. See page 897, volume I. The first object was to close the passages to these Sounds from the sea. Accordingly, a little naval force was sent Sept. 17, 1861. to break up a Confederate post at Ocracoke Inlet, few miles down the coast from Hatteras. Commodore Rowan sent Lieutenant J. T. Maxwell to perform this service. He went in the tug Fanny, with a detachment of mariners and soldiers of the Naval Brigade which had been organized in Hampton Roads. The tug towed a launch, and the Susquehanna accompanied them. An earthwork, little inferior to Fort Hatteras, was found on Operations near Cape Hatteras. Beacon Island, commanding the Inlet; but this, called Fort Ocracoke, and older Fort Morgan near, were abandoned. They were disabled by Max
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 4: death of Ellsworth.--capture of Alexandria, Va.--Potomac flotilla. (search)
c flotilla. Conjectures and uncertainties. Secessionists and the Potomac. Secessionists erect batteries in sight of the capital. the Potomac flotilla established. Landing of Ellsworth Zouaves at Alexandria. death of Ellsworth. Commander Rowan demands the evacuation of Alexandria. Alexandria evacuated by the Secessionists. batteries at Aquia Creek. arduous duties of the Potomac flotilla. engaging the batteries at Aquia Creek. the batteries silenced. the Freeborn, Anacostia a them. Some damage was done the flotilla, and the Freeborn was obliged in consequence to go to Washington for repairs; there was no loss of life, nor were there any wounded on this occasion. The flotilla had been increased by the Pawnee, Commander Rowan, who had reported on the previous evening. More than a thousand shot were fired by the enemy, but though a number struck the hulls of the vessels, there was no irreparable damage done. This little affair may be said to have opened the ball
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 5: capture of the works at Hatteras Inlet by Flag officer Stringham.--destruction of the privateer Judah. (search)
rthworks to protect the most important smuggling route then in operation; for, although Charleston and Mobile were considered important ports for smuggling supplies to the South, Hatteras Inlet was none the less so. For the purpose of capturing the defences of Hatteras Inlet a squadron under command of Commodore Stringham was fitted out. It consisted of the Minnesota, Captain Van Brunt, Wabash, Captain Mercer, Monticello, Commander J. P. Gillis, Susquehanna, Captain Chauncey, Pawnee, Commander Rowan, Cumberland, Captain Marston, and the Revenue Steamer Harriet Lane, Captain Faunce. Three transports accompanied the squadron The Adelaide, Commander Stellwagen, George Peabody, Lieut.-Commanding Lowry, and the Fanny, Lieut.-Commanding Crosby. They carried about 900 troops under command of Major-General B. F. Butler. On the 27th of August, 1861, the day after leaving Hampton Roads, the squadron The sounds of North Carolina. anchored off Hatteras Island, on the extreme southwest
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 11: Goldsborough's expedition to the sounds of North Carolina. (search)
te fleet. casualties among naval forces Commander Rowan pursues Confederate fleet. destruction ohe distance. On the fact being signalled to Com. Rowan he gave chase to them with several of his vesels were all placed under the command of Commander Rowan, who was to take the lead and open the waery. The naval vessels, under the lead of Com. Rowan, made the attack on the works and vessels atlf a mile above. The naval division under Com. Rowan was arranged in three columns, commanded resght, ten miles distant from Fort Cobb. Commander Rowan knew very little about the condition of af their position. The little steamers under Rowan's command were certainly the frailest vessels ined to win, no matter what the risks. Commander Rowan's plan was to avoid a protracted combat, But there was no hesitation on the part of Com. Rowan or his officers. As soon as the Federal vesut the affair. After the battle was over, Com. Rowan sent some of the steamers up to Elizabeth Ci[4 more...]
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