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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 4: military operations in Western Virginia, and on the sea-coast (search)
ed his services when he abandoned his flag, in May, 1861, soon learned to their cost. Hollins startled the public with a telegraphic dispatch to his employers at Richmond, boasting of a successful attack on the National blockading fleet at the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi. He claimed to have driven all the vessels aground on the bar there, sinking one of them and peppering well the others. The following is a copy of the dispatch, dated at Fort Jackson, below New Orleans, October 12th, 1861: Last night I attacked the blockaders with my little fleet. I succeeded, after a very short struggle, in driving them all aground on the Southwest Pass bar, except the Preble, which I sunk. I captured a prize from them, and after they were fast in sand I peppered them well. There were no casualties on our side. It was a complete success. --Hollins. The official account of this affair showed the following facts: J. S. Hollins was placed in command of a peculiarly shaped ir
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Orleans. (search)
leans under Gen. Mansfield Lovell. One of the New Orleans journals said, in a boastful manner. Our only fear is that the Northern invaders may not appear. We have made such extensive preparations to receive them, that it were vexatious if their invincible armada escapes the fate we have in store for it. On April 28 the fleets of Farragut and Porter were within the Mississippi River, the former in chief command of the naval forces; and General Butler, with about 9,000 troops, was at the Southwest Pass. The fleets comprised forty-seven armed vessels, and these, with the transports, went up the river, Porter's mortar-boats leading. When they approached the forts their hulls were besmeared with mud, and the rigging was covered with branches of trees. So disguised, they were enabled to take a position near the forts unsuspected. The Mississippi was full to the brim, and a boom and other obstructions near Fort Jackson had been swept away by the flood. On April 18 a battle between F
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 22: spring of 1864. (search)
e deeper solemnity, inasmuch as the people felt that they were on the verge of tremendous battles. Most of us, said a chaplain in General Lee's army, have made up our minds that the spring campaign here will open with the most desperate clash of arms that freedom ever cost on this continent. The chaplain's words were true. In front of General Lee the Federals were gathering in immense strength. At Dalton, Ga., they massed their finest Western army against Gen. Johnston. In the far Southwest General Banks had a heavy force, but he was met and driven back by the Confederates under General Kirby Smith. And now from the soldiers standing in the very front of death there came a solemn warning against the frivolities in which many engaged in our afflicted land. From the Christian Association of the First regiment of Virginia artillery an appeal was sent forth against the gayety and pleasure-seeking of the times. These faithful soldiers of Christ and of their country said:
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
Time had cast it all far back: that Pemigewasset, with its meadows and border trees; that little village whitening in the margin of its intervale; and that one house which we could distinguish, where the mother that watched over and endured our wayward childhood totters at fourscore! To the south stretched a broken, swelling upland country, but champaign from the top of North Hill, patched all over with grain-fields and green wood-lots, the roofs of the farm-houses shining in the sun. Southwest, the Cardigan Mountain showed its bald forehead among the smokes of a thousand fires, kindled in the woods in the long drought. Westward, Moosehillock heaved up its long back, black as a whale; and turning the eye on northward, glancing down the while on the Baker's River valley, dotted over with human dwellings like shingle-bunches for size, you behold the great Franconia Range, its Notch and its Haystacks, the Elephant Mountain on the left, and Lafayette (Great Haystack) on the right,
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
of which she now levies an annual tax of at least a million and a half of dollars? Although the non-slaveholding portion of the State outnumbers the slaveholding, in white population, and would consequently pay, but for the slaves of the latter, more than a half of the annual taxation, it pays less than a third; for the figures paid by each division of a the State are as follows: Tide-Water$1,132,342 Piedmont972,044 Eastern Virginia$2,104,386 Valley$523,086 Northwest404,195 Southwest289,618 $1,216,899 These are the taxes locally levied; besides which are revenues to the amount of about three-quarters of a million, which are paid, in much the larger part, by the East; so that, at least two out of every three dollars of the four millions of annual revenues raised by the Commonwealth, are paid by the slaveholding districts of the State. It would be a moderate estimate to say that, of the labor annually performed in the Commonwealth, at least one-half is performed b
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1860., [Electronic resource], Depth of Northern waters. (search)
Depth of Northern waters. --Capt. McClintock, of the British Navy, who has just returned from a survey of the Northern Ocean, reports that Southwest of Iceland, where he expected to find a depth of 2,000 fathoms, he only found 748 fathoms, and in 1,200 fathoms he brought up a living starfish
The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal accident. (search)
en while she was in the hands of the rebel crew not to disturb her cargo. If she reaches any Southern port in safety, she will prove a rich prize to the rebels, as her value, ship and cargo, is estimated to be worth $75,000. A number of the subsequent captures alleged to have been made by the bold privateer are described by the Herald, a portion of which we copy: On Sunday afternoon, July 7, when about two hundred miles Southeast of Nantucket, a schooner was discovered standing Southwest. Sail was made for her, and when within a quarter of a mile, the rebel vessel hoisted the French flag, and fired a gun across her bows. She immediately have to, and proved to be the schooner S. J. Waring, Capt. Smith, from New York to Montevideo, with a general cargo. When within complete range of the brig's guns, the rebel flag was hoisted, and Lieut. Pastille, with nine men and the Captain of Marines, boarded her in a small boat. The schooner submitted — the captain seeing that resis
The Daily Dispatch: October 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
-The Governor issued orders to-day to enforce the militia law drill every evening. Persons refusing for evading it will be recorded on the black list as suspicious characters and enemies to in South. No Home Guards are allowed, unless they are foreigners or over age. Full authority is given to compel discipline. Officers will court marshaled for disobedience of orders. The men are to bring such arms as they have; and the Governor officially recommends the banks and insurance companies to close their places at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Others of business are to be closed at 3 o'clock, so that every person can be in attendance at drill. The fortifications and other military preparations are progressing vigorously. New Orleans, Sept. 29.--This morning the Niagara and a stoop were off Pass L Outrebar. A sloop was also off Southwest Pass, a mile above the Pilot station. The sloop-of-war Vincennes and the steam gun-boat Water Witch were anchored outside Southwest bar.
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted.--supplies for the army. (search)
obnoxious, and to frustrate the completion of his well-laid, patriotic schemes for the restoration of the integrity of the Republic. Return of the steamer Brooklyn. The Philadelphia papers announce the return of the U. S. steam sloop-of-war Brooklyn, after a boisterous passage from the mouth of the Mississippi. She is declared unseaworthy, and will be overhauled. She left at the mouth of the Mississippi the U. S. sloops-of-war Richmond, Vincennes, and Savannah, steering for the Southwest Pass. Bennett's Impudence. They are about to capture Washington, says Bennett, in an attempted sarcasm in the Herald, of the 28th, on the movements of the rebel forces, and adds; "They are about to capture Washington." That is very true, and they have been "about" it for some time. But imagine, as they do, the thing done. What has become of McClellan and his army? Will Old Abe once more don his "Scotch cap and long military cloak," and retrace his steps, via Harrisburg, t
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Kicked by a horse. (search)
started down the river, making the best speed of which they were capable. They defended their retreat with every gun they could bring to bear upon their pursuers, but their aim was wild and showed that the gunners were terribly alarmed. The McRae, Ivy, and Tuscarora led our fleet, and were the boats that kept up the fire on the retreating vessels, and drove them down stream. The other vessels of our fleet followed on down as well as they could. The enemy's vessels took the Southwest Pass for their avenue of escape, but some of them got aground on the bar there. The boats of our fleet then came up with them, about 9 o'clock A. M., and firing now commenced in earnest. It being daylight, they discovered the weakness of our fleet, and they managed their guns in a far abler manner. For over an hour the duel was kept up, but at the end of that time Commodore Hollins signalled our boats to withdraw from so unequal a contest, in which nothing more was to be gained. At
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