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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 1 1 Browse Search
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 33: (search)
avy Department from the iron-clad vessels. Admiral Dupont attacks the batteries in Charleston harbor, April 7, 1863. description of the harbor of Charleston. order of Admiral Dupont previous to attacking the forts. list of iron-clads engaged in the attack. iron-clads retire before the heavy fire of the batteries. the Keokuk disabled and afterwards sunk. list of damages to the iron-clads. comparison between the guns on shore and those afloat. view of the case. Reflections on Chief Engineer Stimer's letter to the Navy Department. difficulties encountered by the monitors. misrepresentations of the attack on Charleston. General Ripley's instructions for repelling the federal attack on Charleston. correspondence between President Lincoln and Admiral Dupont, and between Mr. Secretary Welles and Admiral Dupont. Admiral Dupont retires to Port Royal. combined attack of Army and Navy on Buffington. capture of Confederate iron-clad Atlanta by the U. S. S. Weehawken. Admiral Dup
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: operations against Charleston. (search)
oat. In this affair Captain Rowan, in the Ironsides, did admirable service; one of the heaviest guns of the enemy was dismounted, and his fire, if not controlled, was much weakened. When only thirty shells remained, the anchor was weighed, firing kept up from all of the available guns, and she left unmolested, after one of the severest artillery duels ever sustained by a ship through a period of nearly three hours. Her armor was battered, but stood the battering fairly, quite disproving Mr. Stimer's assertion, previously noticed, of the superiority of five 1-inch plates over a solid plate of 41 inches in thickness. On the night of September 8th an attempt to take Sumter by a boat expedition from the squadron resulted disastrously, not in great loss of life, but in the capture of a considerable number of officers and sailors, as well as the loss of several boats. The demand for the surrender of Sumter had informed the enemy, and boats in tow of tugs from the vessels outside of th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.35 (search)
3. That on the 8th of May, 1862, when the Monitor and five other vessels were bombarding Sewell's Point, just two days before the evacuation of Norfolk, the entire squadron retired to Old Point as soon as the Virginia made her appearance near Craney Island. Going it alone. The Virginia on this last occasion was not accompanied by the small squadron that operated with her on the 8th and 9th of March, and on the 11th of April. She was alone, and had she been as vulnerable as Chief Engineer Stimer asserted, and as Assistant Secretary Fox hoped, surely there was no need for two iron-clads, two sloops-of-war and two gun-boats to retire to shelter as they did. The report of the second day's engagement, March 9th, made by Lieutenant Catesby Jones to Captain Buchanan, is very brief. Captain Buchanan's report embraced the operations of both days, March 8th and 9th. It is dated Naval Hospital, March 27th, 1862, and was forwarded to Secretary Mallory, who turned it over to Jeffer