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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, November (search)
November 3. A fight took place in Bayou Teche, fourteen miles from Brashear City, La., between five Union gunboats and a large rebel force, supported by the rebel gunboat Cotten, resulting in a retreat of the rebels and the escape of the gunboat.--(Doc. 27.) Tampa, Florida, was bombarded by the National forces.--Major Reid Sanders, of the rebel army, was captured in the Chesapeake this morning by Captain Dungan of the gunboat Hercules, while endeavoring to embark for Europe. A force of rebel guerrillas, numbering about three hundred men, under Quantrel, attacked near Harrisonville, Mo., a wagon train, with an escort of twenty-two men of the Sixth Missouri cavalry, under the command of Lieutenant New-by, killing eight of the escort, six teamsters, wounding four, and taking five prisoners, including Lieutenant Newby, and burning the entire train of thirteen wagons. Three or four hours thereafter, the rebels were overtaken by detachments of the Fifth and Sixth regiments,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
naced city.—24. General Rosecrans succeeded General Buell in command of the army in Kentucky. Skirmish at Morgantown, Ky.—27. Confederates attacked and defeated at Putnam's Ferry, Mo.—28. Battle near Fayetteville, Ark., where the Confederates were defeated and chased to the Boston Mountains. Skirmish at Snicker's Gap, Va.—Nov. 1. Artillery fight at Philomont, Va., lasting five hours. The Confederates pursued towards Bloomfield, where another skirmish ensued, lasting four hours.—4. Maj. Reid Sanders, a Confederate agent, captured on the coast of Virginia while endeavoring to escape with Confederate despatches. National troops destroy saltworks at Kingsbury, Ga.—5. The Confederates attacked Nashville and were repulsed. General Burnside superseded General McClellan in command of the Army of the Potomac.—9. Town of St. Mary, Ga., shelled and destroyed by Union gunboats.—10. Great Union demonstration in Memphis.—15. Army of the Potomac began its march from Warrenton tow
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Craney Island, operations at (search)
llation, thirty-eight guns, and a flotilla of gunboats; on the land were Forts Norfolk and Nelson (one on each side of the Elizabeth The Block-House on Craney Island, 1813. River), and Forts Tar and Barbour, and the fortifications on Craney Island, 5 miles below the city. Towards midnight of June 19 Captain Tarbell, by order of Commodore Cassin, commanding the station, went down the Elizabeth River with fifteen gunboats, to attempt the capture of the frigate Junon, thirty-eight guns, Captain Sanders, which lay about 3 miles from the rest of the British fleet. Fifteen sharp-shooters from Craney Island were added to the crews of the boats. At half-past 3 in the morning the flotilla approached the Junon, and, under cover of the darkness and a thick fog, the American vessels approached her to within easy range without being discovered. She was taken by surprise. After a conflict of half an hour, and when victory seemed within the grasp of the Americans, a wind sprung up from the n
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Capture of Major Reid Sanders. (search)
Capture of Major Reid Sanders. --The Baltimore Sun announces the capture of Major Reid Sanders, son of George N. Sanders, Esq. on the 3d instant, on one of the creeks which empties into the Chesapeake. The Sun says at the time of the capture he was waiting for an English vessel to convey him to Europe with Confederate dispatches. Capture of Major Reid Sanders. --The Baltimore Sun announces the capture of Major Reid Sanders, son of George N. Sanders, Esq. on the 3d instant, on one of the creeks which empties into the Chesapeake. The Sun says at the time of the capture he was waiting for an English vessel to convey him to Europe with Confederate dispatches.
The Daily Dispatch: May 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
d it won't taste a bit worse than the rest. The Betrayal of Reid Sanders. The New York Tribune has a notice of the "eminent services" f Arnold Harris, who acted as a spy in Richmond, and betrayed Major Reid Sanders into the hands of the enemy when he sailed with his dispatchesays that Harris, while in that city and before his departure with Sanders, was suspected of being a spy. The Tribune says: The departmedocuments necessary to the carrying out of his schemes.--His son (R. Sanders) and Harris were to accompany him. The aim of the latter was to sis friends, should proceed by way of Matamoras to Halifax, while Reid Sanders and he, with the documents and dispatches to be taken, were to r speedily detected, and subjected to a cannonade, which frightened Sanders out of his wits, and made him eager to surrender — The mail bag, hidence of course, to be an exact counterpart. The capture of Reid Sanders will be remembered. Harris is at present in Buffalo on a visit