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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 140 (search)
after the reduction of New-Madrid, this subject engaged my attention. The roads along the river, in the direction of Point Pleasant, followed a narrow strip of dry land between the swamps and the river, and were very miry and difficult. With much l the shore, between the batteries. On his return up the river, Captain Walke silenced the enemy's battery opposite Point Pleasant, and a small infantry force, under Capt. L. H. Marshall, landed and spiked the guns. On the night of the sixth, at m send another gunboat, and requested that I should go down the river, and destroy the remaining rebel batteries above Point Pleasant. At dawn the following morning, and after a given signal, he informed me he would land his army, and attack that of her instructions from Gen. Pope, and covered their disembarkation on the Tennessee shore, at the captured fort, above Point Pleasant. At evening, we steamed down to our camp, opposite the enemy's fort, at this place, headed the gunboats for the en
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), New Madrid--Island no.10--New Orleans (search)
had made good, and the next morning lay ready to support the army after having achieved one of the greatest feats in the record of the inland navy. On April 6th, her elated and plucky crew captured and spiked the guns of the battery opposite Point Pleasant, an event which convinced the Confederates that Island No.10 must be evacuated. That very night, encouraged by the success of the Carondelet, Commander Thompson, with the Pittsburgh, ran by the disheartened gunners on Island No.10 and joinedshore, held also by the Confederates and protected by heavy guns behind breastworks. On the west bank of the river, General John Pope commanded a Federal army of twenty thousand men. His object was to capture New Madrid. First he occupied Point Pleasant, twelve miles below, erected batteries and cut off supplies from New Madrid. He then slowly approached the town and meantime sent to Cairo for siege-guns. They arrived on the 12th of March, and all through the next day the cannonading was i
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
he United States ought to co-operate with any States which may adopt a gradual abolition of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary indemnity.—8. Fort Clinch, St. Mary, Ga., and Fernandina, Fla., taken by Dupont's expedition.—10. Confederate troops from Texas occupy Santa Fe, N. M.—11. General McClellan relieved of the supreme command of the army, and made commander of the Army of the Potomac. Resolution recommending gradual emancipation adopted by the House of Representatives. —13. Point Pleasant, Mo., captured by Pope.—18. Name of Fort Calhoun, at the Rip Raps, Hampton Roads, changed to Fort Wool.—21. Washington, N. C., occupied by Union troops. Departments of the Gulf and South created.—26. Skirmish near Denver City, Col., and fifty Confederate cavalry captured.—31. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reopened, after being closed nearly a year. Confederate camp at Union City, Tenn., captured, with a large amount of spoils.—April 1. General Banks drove the Confederates from
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Missouri, 1862 (search)
OURI--4th Cavalry (Co. "F"). March 5: Action, New MadridILLINOIS--47th Infantry. March 6: Action, New MadridILLINOIS--26th Infantry. INDIANA--34th, 43d, 46th and 59th Infantry. IOWA--5th Infantry. MICHIGAN--3d Cavalry. March 7: Engagement, Point PleasantILLINOIS--26th and 47th Infantry. MICHIGAN--2d and 3d Cavalry. MISSOURI--Battery "M" 1st Light Arty.; 11th Infantry. March 7: Skirmish, Bob's CreekMISSOURI--1st Battalion State Militia Cavalry. March 7: Skirmish, Fox CreekMISSOURI--4th Caval5: Skirmish near MarshallMISSOURI--Detachment of Recruits. March 16: Skirmish near MarshallMISSOURI--Booneville Battalion State Militia Cavalry (Co. "A"). March 17: Action, Riddell's PointINDIANA--34th and 43d Infantry. March 18: Skirmish, Point PleasantILLINOIS--7th Cavalry. March 18-30: Operations in Johnson, St. Clair and Henry CountiesIOWA--1st Cavalry. March 19: Skirmish, LeesvilleIOWA--1st Cavalry. Union loss, 4 wounded. March 19-20: Expedition to CarthageKANSAS--5th Cavalry. March
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 9: (search)
husiasm he would be able to rally the people of this region to the support of the State. He established his headquarters at Charleston, and succeeded in raising a brigade of twenty-five hundred infantry, seven hundred cavalry and three batteries of artillery. With subsequent reinforcements his command amounted to four thousand men. It was obvious enough that with this small force, his situation was extremely critical. The enemy had already landed considerable forces at Parkersburg and Point Pleasant on the Ohio River, and was rapidly using his superiour facilities for raising troops in the populous States of Ohio and Indiana, and his ample means of transportation by railroad through those States and by the navigation of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, to concentrate a large force in the lower part of the Kanawha Valley. After some desultory movements, and a brilliant affair on Scary Creek, in Putnam County, where Col. Patton with a small force repulsed three Federal regiments, Gen.
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
quested Pillow to abandon New Madrid and join Hardee in aggressive operations in Missouri. But on August 26th, Polk directed Hardee to retire to the river at Point Pleasant, and said he would advise abandoning the line altogether if it were not for the saltpeter mines on White river. Hardee approved this and declared that, in this forces to Pitman's Ferry. On September 17th he notified General Polk that he had ordered Colonel Cleburne to move with his regiment and repair the road to Point Pleasant. His morning report that day showed 900 sick out of 4,529 present, not including 1,100 at Pocahontas. On September 24th, Hardee dispatched to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston: The last detachment of my command will start to-morrow for Point Pleasant, on the Mississippi, which place I hope my entire command will reach in nine days from that date. Crossing the Mississippi, he led his Arkansas troops to join the Central army of Kentucky, in which Hindman, Cleburne and Shaver soon became bri
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 11: (search)
companies. The Seventh transferred with the loss of 17 men only, who refused to enlist as Confederate troops. Capts. C. C. Straughan, of Company G, and James F. Archer, of Company H, retired, and Captain Warner succeeded the former, Captain Blackburn the latter, in command of these companies, respectively. The regiment was ordered to Pitman's Ferry, where it was drilled and disciplined by General Hardee in person until, about the last of August, General Hardee marched it by land to Point Pleasant, Mo., on the Missouri river, and thence transported it by boat to Columbus, Ky. From Columbus it was ordered to Bowling Green, Ky., in October, where it was assigned to the division commanded by Gen. S. B. Buckner. Under General Hardee, as division commander, it was part of the Third Arkansas brigade, made up of the Seventh (Shaver's), Eighth (Kelly's), a battalion of the Ninth Arkansas (Bradley's), and the Nineteenth Tennessee (Allison's), commanded by Col. R. G. Shaver. The brigade rem
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
1865 116, 3 Pocotaligo, S. C. 76, 2; 79, 3; 91, 4; 101, 21; 117, 1; 120, 2; 135-A; 139, H1; 143, H11; 144, D11 Pohick Run, Va. 7, 1 Poindexter House, Va. 19, 1; 20, 1; 22, 1; 26, 4; 91, 1; 92, 1; 100, 2 Point Isabel, Tex. 43, 8; 54, 1; 65, 10 Point Lookout, Md. 16, 1; 135-A; 137, C10 Point of Rocks, Md. 81, 4; 100, 1; 116, 2; 135-A; 171 Point of Rocks, Va. 17, 1; 27, 1; 56, 1; 65, 1; 77, 3; 93, 1; 100, 1 Point Pleasant, La. 155, A5 Point Pleasant, Mo. 10, 1 Point Pleasant, W. Va. 140, G6; 141, B8; 171 Polecat Creek, Va. 23, 3; 45, 1; 81, 2 Pollard, Ala. 110, 1; 147, C6; 171 Pollocksville, N. C. 91, 3; 135-A; 138, G9 Pomeroy, Ohio 135-A; 140, F6; 141, A8 Ponchatoula, La. 135-A; 156, C9 Pond Creek, Ky. 150, A3; 151, G3, 151, H3 Pontchartrain Lake, La. 90, 1; 135-A; 156, D9; 171 Pontoon Boats, bridges, etc.: Illustrations 106, 1; 124, 7; 125, 11 James River, Va., Jun
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 13: (search)
n, of Tennessee, was with Admiral Buchanan on the ram Tennessee, and rendered valuable and conspicuous service. When Fort Pillow was evacuated by the Confederate forces, the gunboat Pontchartrain, commanded by Lieut. John W. Dunnington, which constituted a part of the fleet commanded by Capt. Geo. N. Hollins, provided for the defense of the Mississippi river, was run up White river. At an earlier date, Lieutenant Dunnington had participated in the operations against Pope's army at Point Pleasant, Mo., and was active in resisting the crossing of the river. At the surrender of the Confederate forces near Tiptonville, the Ponchartrain was ordered to Fort Pillow. On the 16th of June, 1862, Lieutenant Dunnington arrived at St. Charles on White river, with the men necessary to work the 32-pounder cannon, which he had previously placed in battery. He was hardly in position before the approach of the Federal gunboats was announced. After dark, Capt. Joseph Fry, commanding the naval f
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), P (search)
Church, Va., I., 354. Pohle, C. R. M., VIII., 109. Poindexter, J. A., I., 320. Poinsett, J. R., Poinsett Tactics, IV., 60. Pointe Coupee, La., IX., 19. Point Lookout Prison, Md.: II., 350 seq.; VII., 44, 56 seq., 63 seq.; staff at, VII, 63, 70, 124; Confederate prisoners at, VII., 125; IX., 25. Point of Rocks, Md.: I., 350; IV., 76, 77; V., 80; VI., 89, 265; signal station at, VIII., 319; signal offices at, VIII., 319; signal tower, VIII., 331. Point Pleasant, Mo., I., 217, 220. Poison Springs, Ark., II., 352. Policy of arbitrary arrests Vii., 198. Polignac, C. J., X., 317. Political influences: as affecting military operations, I., 118. Political prisoners Viii., 270. Polk, J. K., tomb of, IX., 285. Polk, L.: L, 196, 200, 208, 218, 360; II., 170, 276, 278 seq., 348; III., 108, 111, 112, 115, 118, 320; V., 48; VII., 100; VIII., 110, 115; X., 143, 247, 264. Polk, L. E., X., 257. Pond, G. E.,
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