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Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 29: (search)
news from Sherman proposed movement against mouth of Cape Fear river orders to Butler and Weitzel orders to Sheridan movthe Atlantic coast. Wilmington, near the mouth of the Cape Fear river, in North Carolina, was the only important seaport nowith only partial success. The nature of the outlet of Cape Fear river is such that without possession of the land at a pointhe character and strength of the forts at the mouth of Cape Fear river. Butler of course was fully informed of the enterprisilmington, as well as Fort Fisher, at the mouth of the Cape Fear river. On the 30th of November, Grant notified Butler that gained by effecting a landing on the main land between Cape Fear river and the Atlantic, north of the north entrance to the rcooperate with the navy in the capture of the mouth of Cape Fear river. Palmer has also moved, or is supposed to have moved, reinforcements. Butler had not yet started for the Cape Fear river; and to him also on this day Grant was obliged to say:
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 30: (search)
mportant operations on the North Carolina coast, so often contemplated, and so long delayed, had at last begun. The Cape Fear river runs due south from Wilmington to the Atlantic, a distance of twenty miles, and is separated from the sea by only at. A palisade with a banquette, and loop-holed, ran along this face, at a distance of fifty feet from the fort, from Cape Fear river to the sea, and another between the right of the front and the ocean. The sea face consisted of a series of batterie extensive works on Smith's Island, thus placing in the national hands all the works erected to defend the mouth of Cape Fear river. One hundred and sixty-nine guns were captured, nearly all heavy artillery, two thousand stand of small arms, and fu Valley of Virginia, while Grant still held the principal rebel force at Richmond. At this crisis the possession of Cape Fear river opened another base for operations into the interior. It enabled the general-in-chief to look forward to supporting
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 31: (search)
ailroad, somewhere between the Santee and Cape Fear rivers. Then, he said, I would favor an attack odvance of the troops, to the mouth of the Cape Fear river, to consult with Porter and Terry, and toke the passage of rivers like the Santee and Cape Fear a difficult undertaking. Both Grant and Seld's advance arrived at the mouth of the Cape Fear river, and Cox's division of the Twenty-third cthus secured of the principal defences of Cape Fear river and Wilmington, with ten heavy guns and lntoon bridge, and threatened to cross the Cape Fear river above Wilmington, whereupon the rebels atther great impediment between him and the Cape Fear river, which he felt assured was by this time ier small escort, as soon as we are across Cape Fear river. Sherman to Grant, March 12. . . If I can at Raleigh. Hardee also had crossed the Cape Fear river in advance of Sherman, and was, thereforeossed—the Edisto, Broad, Catawba, Pedee, and Cape Fear, at either of which a comparatively small fo[2 more...]
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Index (search)
ery and Selma, 367; movements on the Mississippi, 388; ordered into Alabama, 390; slowness and disregard of orders, 408, 409; campaign against Mobile, 637. Cape Fear river, geography of, III., 307; capture of defences of, 343; Schofield's movements on, 380. Carolinas, Sherman's campaign in the, III., 421-433. Cassville taktion of, against Vicksburg, i., 125; runs by Port Hudson and communicates with Grant, 179; passes forts at entrance of Mobile bay, III., 41. Federal Point, Cape Fear river, situation of, III., 307; geography of, 311. Ferrero, General E., at Spottsylvania, II. 207. Fisher, Fort, on Cape Fear river, expedition against, III.Cape Fear river, expedition against, III., 224; position of, 226; Grant's instructions for operations against, 235; first operations against, 307-322; second operations against 325-348. Fisher's Hill, battle of, III., 31-35. Fitch, Captain, at Cumberland river, III., 239. Five Forks, importance of, III., 457, 459; rebel activity at, 459, 467; battle of, 483-495.