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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1864, April (search)
April 8. Last night, a scouting-party of one hundred men of the Second Missouri volunteers, from New Madrid, was surprised in camp and in bed by guerrillas, at a point sixteen miles northwest of Osceola, in Arkansas. A member of the attacked band gives the following detailed account of the expedition and surprise. He says: The rebels demanded a surrender, firing on our men in their beds, before they could get up, and as they sprang up, the assailants fired a dreadful volley from double-barreled shot-guns. Lieutenant Phillips, springing up, and calling to his men to rally, discharged one shot with revolver, and was struck in the left temple by a ball, and killed instantly. Major Rabb called to the men to rally, but they were so tightly pressed for the moment, that they fell back to a house at which was company K. The combatants were so close, that it was dangerous to our own men for those at the house to fire. The firing on our part was thus much curtailed for the moment.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
. The naval fleet had then been gone about thirty-six hours. This was the most formidable naval armament ever put afloat. It consisted of the following vessels: Malvern (a river or bay steamer), the flag-ship; New Ironsides, Brooklyn, Mohican, Tacony, Kansas, Unadilla, Huron, Pequot, Yantic, Maumee, Pawtuxet, Pontoosuc, Nyack. Ticonderoga, Shenandoah, Juniata, Powhatan, Susquehanna, Wabash, Colorado, Minnesota, Vanderbilt, Mackinaw, Tuscarora, Vicksburg, St. Jago de Cuba, Fort Jackson, Osceola, Sassacus, Chippewa, Maratanza, R. R. Cuyler, Rhode Island, Monticello, Alabama, Montgomery, Keystone State, Queen City, Iosco, Aries, Howquah, Wilderness, Cherokee, A. D. Vance, Moccasin, Eolus, Gettysburg, Emma, Lillian, Nansemond, Tristram Shandy, Britannia, Governor Buckingham, Saugus, Monadnock, Canonicus, Mahopac. Total, 58. The last four were monitors. On the evening of the 15th, the transports, with the troops, arrived at the prescribed rendezvous, about twenty-five miles at se
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
eir batteries into play, but one or two guns of the enemy were fired, this feu d'enfer driving them all to their bomb-proofs. The small gunboats Kansas, Unadilla, Pequot, Seneca, Pontoosuc, Yantic, and Huron took positions to the northward and eastward of the monitors, and enfilading the works. The Shenandoah, Ticonderoga, Mackinaw, Tacony, and Vanderbilt took effective positions as marked on the chart, and added their fire to that already begun. The Santiago de Cuba, Fort Jackson, Osceola, Chippewa, Sassacus, Rhode Island, Monticello, Quaker City, and Iosco dropped into position according to order, and the battle became general. In one hour and fifteen minutes after the first shot was fired, not a shot came from the fort. Two magazines had been blown up by our shells, and the fort set on fire in several places; and such a torrent of missiles were falling into and bursting over it that it was impossible for anything human to stand it. Finding that the batteries were silence
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Imperialism. (search)
ent in the mean time governing the Territory twenty years, the State being admitted on March 3, 1845. During the territorial period the army was needed there most of the time to suppress disorders in which the Indians were almost always mixed; and in 1835 the war with the Seminoles began. Andrew Jackson was President during the first two years of this war; it continued all through Van Buren's term, and extended a year or more into that of Harrison and Tyler. To suppress this rebellion of Osceola and his allies, the army, consisting of regulars, militia, and volunteers, was employed seven years. President McKinley is doing in the Philippines just what was done by President Jackson and his successors in Florida, and he is doing it more humanely. Were they imperialists? As to matters of government, Americanism means American rule in American territory. Americans govern by majorities—majorities of those who, by previous constitutional and statutory provisions, are authorized to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
Alice356TugW.250S.a2 Apache650TugW.550S.a3 Chickasaw100TugI.....S.a1 Choctaw350TugI.188S.a3 Fortune450TugI.340S... Hercules198TugI.....S.a3 Iroquois702TugS.1,000S.a3 Iwana192TugS.300S... Leyden450TugI.340S... Massasoit202TugS.....S.a1 Modoc241TugI.....S... Ships of the Navy in 1901.—Continued. Name.Displacement (Tons).Type.Hull.Indicated Horse-Power.Propulsion.Guns (Main Battery） Mohawk420TugS.400S... Narkeeta192TugS.300S... Nezinscot156TugI.400S.a2 Nina357TugI.388S... Osceola571TugS.S......a2 Pawnee275TugW.250S... Pawtucket225TugS.450S... Penacook225TugS.450S... Piscataqua631TugS.1,600S.a4 Pontiac401Tug..425S.a3 Potomac667TugS.2,000S.a4 Powhatan194TugS.397S.a2 Rapido100TugI.70S.a1 Samoset225TugS.450S... Sebago190TugS.....S.a1 Sioux155Tug..290S.a2 Standish450TugI.340S.a1 Tecumseh214TugS.500S.a2 Traffic280TugW....S... Triton212TugS.300S... Unadilla345TugS.500S... Uncas441TugS.750S.a2 Vigilant300Tug..450S.a5 Waban150TugI.......a1 Wahneta192TugS.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Seminole Indians (search)
that general to put the chief in irons, and in prison, for a day. Osceola's wounded pride called for vengeance, and it was fearfully wroughtes officer. The first blow was struck in the December of 1835. Osceola, with all the cunning of a Tecumseh and the heroism of a Philip, bl Thomson and five of his friends were dining, and murdered them. Osceola killed and scalped the general with his own hands, and so he enjoyn two or three of his soldiers rushed forward and seized and bound Osceola with strong cords. He made no resistance, but several of his exci arms of Jesup's troops, and were dismissed without their leader. Osceola was sent to Charleston and confined in Fort Moultrie, where he dietion was that it was the only way to stop the distressing war, for Osceola, could not be held by the most solemn obligations of a treaty. Thncient nation from their rightful soil. Although the capture of Osceola was a severe blow to the Seminoles, they continued to fight for th
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 27 (search)
ne man killed last night. J. B. Villepigue, Brig.-Genl. Comdg. Corinth, Miss., May 5th, 1862. Brig.-Genl. J. B. Villepigue, Fort Pillow, Tenn.: You will judge when it is necessary to retire from Fort Pillow, via Covington and Somerville, or Ripley, Brownsville, Jackson, and Grand Junction, to this place. The enemy have no land force to fear. G. T. Beauregard. Corinth, Miss., May 13th, 1862. Genl. S. Cooper, A. and I. Genl., Richmond, Va.: General Villepigue reports, Scouts from Osceola say enemy's gunboats Mound City and Carondelet run aground to prevent sinking; another injured; one pilot and seventeen men killed. He thinks the report reliable. No firing from the enemy since this morning. Their mortar-boats have all been towed out of range. The River Defence men are greatly elated, and feel great confidence in their boats. G. T. Beauregard. Appendix to Chapter XXIV. Telegram. Corinth, April 8th, 1862. Genl. S. Cooper, A. and I. Genl., Richmond, Va.: W
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Arkansas, 1864 (search)
2d Light Arty. Union loss, 4 killed, 7 wounded. Total, 11.  : Skirmish, Piney MountainARKANSAS--2d Cavalry. April 6-7: Skirmishes in Swamps of Little River near OsceolaMISSOURI--1st Cavalry (Cos. "G," "K" and "M"). Loss, 3 wounded. April 6-7: Skirmishes near Prairie Grove and on Arkansas RiverARKANSAS--1st Cavalry. Loss, 9 killern ArkansasILLINOIS--15th Cavalry (Co. "E"). MINNESOTA--6th Infantry. MISSOURI--35th Infantry. UNITED STATES--Battery "E," 2d Colored Light Arty. Aug. 2: Action, OsceolaMISSOURI--1st and 6th Cavalry; 2d and 3d State Militia Cavalry. Aug. 2: Skirmish, HelenaUNITED STATES--64th Colored Infantry. Aug. 4: Skirmish, OsceolaMISSOURI--OsceolaMISSOURI--6th Cavalry. Aug. 5: Skirmish, West PointMISSOURI--11th State Militia Cavalry. Aug. 5: Skirmish, Lake BluffMICHIGAN--3d Cavalry. Aug. 5: Skirmish, Remount CampMICHIGAN--3d Cavalry. Union loss, 2 wounded, 1 captured. Total, 3. Aug. 6: Skirmish, Bull CreekWISCONSIN--3d Cavalry. Aug. 6-16: Expedition from Little Rock to Little Re
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Missouri, 1864 (search)
March 19-22: Scout from LexingtonMISSOURI--1st State Militia Cavalry. March 20-30: Scouts in Jackson and LaFayette Counties and skirmishesMISSOURI--1st State Militia Cavalry (Detachments). March 27: Affair, Deep Water TownshipMISSOURI--1st State Militia Cavalry (Detachments). March 30: Affair near GreentonMISSOURI--1st State Militia Cavalry (Co. "F"). April 1: Affair near BloomfieldMISSOURI--2d State Militia Cavalry (Detachment). April 5-9: Exp. from New Madrid to Little River near Osceola, Ark.,, and skirmishes in Swamps of Little River and on Pemiscot Bayou, Ark.MISSOURI--1st Cavalry (Co's "G," "K," "M"); Batteries "B," "I" and "K" 2d Light Arty. April 11: Affair, Chariton CountyMISSOURI--9th State Militia Cavalry (Detachment). April 18: Affair, HunnewellMISSOURI--Citizens. April 19-20: Skirmishes near CharlestonMISSOURI--State Militia Cavalry (Detachment). April 23: Skirmish, IndependenceMISSOURI--5th State Militia Cavalry. April 26: Skirmish, Wayne CountyMISSOURI--3d Sta
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Kansas Volunteers. (search)
s August 28-29. Fort Scott September 1. Drywood Creek, Fort Scott, September 2. Fort Scott September 3. Papinsville September 5. Morristown September 17. Moved to West Point, Mo., September 17; thence with 3rd and 4th Kansas to Osceola. Actions with Price at Osceola September 20, 21 and 22. Butler October 1. West Point October 5. Moved to Kansas City, Mo., thence to Springfield, Mo., and join Fremont. Little Santa Fe November 6. Moved to Fort Scott, OssawatomeeOsceola September 20, 21 and 22. Butler October 1. West Point October 5. Moved to Kansas City, Mo., thence to Springfield, Mo., and join Fremont. Little Santa Fe November 6. Moved to Fort Scott, Ossawatomee, and Fort Lincoln, Kansas, and duty at Camp Denver, near Barnesville, till February, 1862. Camp near Fort Scott till March 17. March to Carthage, Mo., March 17-19. Duty there till April 10. Moved to Springfield, Mo., April 10-12. Turnback Creek April 26. Moved to Houston May 25-27, thence to Rolla, Mo. March to join Curtis June 17. Eminence June 17. March to Helena, Ark., June 17-July 12. (Cos. A, D and K escort train June 25-July 14.) Salem July 6. Jacksonp
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