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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)
bern, N. C.: The Commanding General has the satisfaction of announcing another expedition against the enemy, in which both the military and naval forces of North-Carolina took part, sharing the honors equally. On the twenty-fifth of March, Colonel J. Jourdan, commander of the sub-district of Beaufort, with two hundred men of the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth New York volunteer infantry, embarked on board the United States gunboat Britannia, Lieutenant Huse commanding, and steamed for Bogue and Bear Inlets, for the purpose of capturing two of the enemy's vessels engaged in contraband trade, and also a body of cavalry reported to be at Swansboro. Nearing the inlets, a portion of the command was transferred to small boats, and an effort made to effect a landing and move on Swansboro. All night long, in the breakers and storm, these little boats, with their patient crews, were tossed about. Several craft, in the violence of the gale, were dashed to pieces; but, through the ener
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 8 (search)
t it. The importance of the point cannot be overrated. When the channel is buoyed out, any vessel may carry fifteen feet water over it with ease. Once inside, there is a safe harbor and anchorage in all weathers. From there the whole coast of Virginia and North Carolina, from Norfolk to Cape Lookout, is within our reach, by light draft vessels, which cannot possibly live at sea during the winter months. From it offensive operations may be made upon the whole coast of North Carolina to Bogue Inlet, extending many miles inland to Washington, Newbern, and Beaufort. In the language of the chief engineer of the rebels, Colonel Thompson, in an official report, it is the key of the Albemarle. In my judgment it is a station second in importance only to Fortress Monroe on this coast. As a depot for coaling and supplies for the blockading squadron, it is invaluable. As a harbor for our coasting trade, or inlet from the winter storm, or from pirates, it is of the first importance. By ho
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 194 (search)
roops — proceeded through Core Sound to Beaufort, where they were joined by the others, who had come down by rail. Thursday was passed in providing the vessels with coal and water, and on Friday the expedition proceeded on its route. The Union, together with the Wilson and the launches of the marine artillery, went by way of Bogue Sound, while the other transports, accompanied by the gunboat Ellis, Lieutenant Porter, pushed out past Fort Macon into the ocean, and followed the coast to Bogue Inlet. The wind, which was light at daybreak, blew hard by afternoon, and it was with some difficulty that the vessels passed through the narrow, winding inlet, among the breakers. Within was still water, and a broad creek with meadow-lands on either side. The boats anchored at its mouth, and waited for the arrival of the Union and the Wilson. Swansboro was seen in the distance, and very soon after their arrival a large white flag was seen to wave from a high brick building. A launch of
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
hese sounds, with their navigable rivers extending far into the interior, would control more than one-third of the State and threaten the main line of railroad between Richmond and the seacoast portion of the Confederacy..... These sounds of North Carolina were no less important to that State than Hampton Roads was to Virginia. Scharf's History of the Confederate States Navy. The long sandbank outside of these sounds and separating them from the ocean, reached from near Cape Henry to Bogue inlet, two-thirds of the entire coast line. Here and there this bulwark of sand is broken by inlets, a few of which allow safe passage from the Atlantic, always dangerous off this coast, to the smooth waters of the sound. The necessity of seizing and holding these inlets, controlling as they did such extensive and important territory, was at once seen by the State authorities. So, immediately after the ordinance of secession was passed, Governor Ellis ordered the seizure of Fort Caswell, nea
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
heroic Shaw was left on Roanoke island with two regiments, to oppose, as best he might, Burnside with nearly 15,000 men. At New Bern the gifted Branch, having only seven regiments and most of them but newly organized, was called upon to make an effort to hold a long line of intrenchments against this same force, aided by numerous gunboats. As a result of this disparity in numbers, Roanoke island, New Bern, and Fort Macon soon fell into Federal hands, and all eastern North Carolina above Bogue inlet went with these fortified points. Nothing more strongly marks North Carolina's subordination of her own interests to the welfare of her country than that her authorities consented at this crisis in her history, when her sons were being captured by regiments and her territory subjugated by the square mile, to the retention in Virginia of so large a number of her troops. The disasters to the State began in February of 1862; for, commencing in October, 1861, another combined army and n
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter VIII Hatteras Inlet—Roanoke Island. (search)
s: The importance of the point cannot be overrated. When the channel is buoyed out any vessel may carry fifteen feet of water over it with ease. Once inside, there is a safe harbor and anchorage in all weathers. From there the whole coast of Virginia and North Carolina, from Norfolk to Cape Lookout, is within our reach by light-draught vessels, which cannot possibly live at sea during the winter months. From it offensive operations may be made upon the whole coast of North Carolina to Bogue Inlet, extending many miles inland to Washington, Newbern, and Beaufort. In the language of the chief-engineer of the rebels, Colonel Thompson, in an official report, it is the key of the Albemarle. In my judgment, it is a station second in importance only to Fortress Monroe on this coast. As a depot for coaling and supplies for the blockading squadron it is invaluable. As a harbor for our coasting trade, or inlet from the winter storms or from pirates, it is of the first importance. Futur
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)
-A; 137, F2 Blue Springs, Tenn. 30, 2; 34, 4 Blue Stone River, W. Va. 141, F11 Bluff Springs, Fla. 147, D6 Bluffton, S. C. 70, 2; 101, 21; 117, 1; 118, 1; 120, 2; 135-A Blythe's Ferry, Tenn. 97, 1; 149, B11 Board Loop-Hole, Sketch of, on picket-line 24th Corps 67, 6 Bobo's Cross-Roads, Tenn. 34, 4 Bob's Creek, Mo. 152, D8 Boca Chica, Tex. 65, 10 Boggy Depot, Indian Territory 159, C4 Bogue Chitto River, Miss. 36, 1 Bogue Inlet, N. C. 40, 4; 135-A; 138, H9; 139, A12 Bogue Sound, N. C. 40, 4; 67, 3; 138, H10; 139, A13 Boiling Fork, Tenn. 35, 1 Boiling Spring, Tenn. 24, 3; 118, 1; 150, G11 Boise River, Idaho Ter. 134, 1 Bolivar, Ala. 24, 3; 97, 1; 117, 1; 118, 1; 149, D9 Bolivar, Miss. 135-A Bolivar, Mo. 47, 1; 135-A; 152, H1; 160, A13; 171 Bolivar, Tenn. 117, 1; 135-A; 154, A13; 171 Bolivar Heights, W. Va. 29, 1; 42, 1; 82, 1 Bolivar Peninsula, Tex. 65,
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
these water-courses are the Bogue River, at the mouth of which stands the village of Swansboroa, and farther west the New River, which must be ascended for a considerable distance before reaching the village of Jacksonboro or Onslow Court-house. On the 21st of August five or six vessels loaded with troops entered the estuary of the Bogue River; starting from Beaufort, some had steered between the downs and the mainland, while the others had taken the open sea, so as to re-enter by way of Bogue Inlet. Immense salt-pits, an earthwork and some barracks recently occupied were destroyed, and then the expedition returned to Beaufort after having ascertained that the Confederates were not in force in that direction. The abandonment of the James River by the army of the Potomac and Lee's victory at Manassas again emboldened the Confederates in North Carolina. The small regiments which alone had remained in the State received a large addition of volunteers, who, believing the Federal cause
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern financial affairs. (search)
rom the coast of North Carolina. From the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal, of the 24th, we gather the following interesting intelligence: We had the pleasure to meet yesterday Lt. Smith, of the Scotland Neck Mounted Rifles, who had just returned from Swansboro', having been detailed, in pursuance of the orders of General Anderson, with a detachment of ten men from that troop, to examine into the circumstances connected with the landing of certain Federal forces in the neighborhood of Bogue inlet, opposite the mouth of the White Oak river, and about twenty miles south of Fort Macon. Lieut. Smith left Camp Winslow, some six miles from Wilmington, on Thursday, the 17th inst., and got to Swansboro' on Saturday, the 19th. On Sunday morning, the 20th, he visited the banks where the reported landing took place. Soon after getting over to the banks he discovered the dead body of a man who appeared to have been a U. S. marine, judging from his dress. On the body were a navy revo
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Trains Delayed. (search)
Wrecked. --The full-rigged ship York, Capt. P. Wheeler, on her way in ballast from Valencia in Spain, to Lewistown, Del., went ashore on the 5th inst., on the North Carolina coast, near Bogue's Inlet. Her officers and crew, numbering twenty-one in all, were saved, but the vessel was a total loss.--Norfolk Day Book, 14th.