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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The First Marine torpedoes were made in Richmond, Va., and used in James river. (search)
made to the close the channel of the Potomac. The Monitor was ordered to be careful of herself, which she was, twice refusing the Virginian's offered battle, or to leave the protections of the guns of the fort, and the Secretary of the Navy, ignoring the first army on the planet, and a navy as powerful as any afloat, called frantically upon a civilian of New York for protection, asking him to name his own price to destory this Confederate terror, designed by Brooke and fought by Buchanan. Tatnall, Catesby Jones, Robert D. Minor, J. Taylor Wood, Hunter Davidson, Charles Sims and many another gallant Confederate. Were made here. Torpedoes as a successful weapon in actual war were introduced into the Confederate navy by Captain Mathews F. Maury, also of Fredericksburg, and first placed by him in James River. Hardly had he arrived in Richmond in April, 1861, in response to Virginia's call to her sons to come to her assistance, that his thoughts were turned to the realization of
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
, 1866-9, 5; opinion in that war would not follow secession, 76; rifle clubs, 75. South Mountain, Battle of, 32. Speer, Judge Emory 95. Spotsylvania C. H., Battle of, 283. Stage of Life, The, 170. Starke, General W. E., killed, 33. Staunton Artillery, 11. Steaman Capture of Fort, 19. Stevens, Prize Master, 54. Strother, Sergeant, Sidney, killed, 277. Success in war, what dependant on, 318. Sumter. Evacuation of Fort, 76. Sutherlin, Major W. T., 80, 886. Tatnall, Commodore J 32. Taylor, Colonel Walter H., 356; General R., his tribute to General Canby, 48. Thomas, D. A., 74; Colonel John D., 74. Torpedoes first used in C. S. Navy, 326; Federal vessels destroyed by, 331. Tracey, Major-General, 109. Trimble, H. G, 170; General J. R., 251, 866. Tucker, Commodore J. R., 141,331. Turner's Gap, 88. Upshur, Dr. J. N., address of, 173. Valley of Virginia, its loyalty, 13; devastated, 17. Virginia, Her contribution of great men, 91; a bat