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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 15: operations of the Army of the James around Richmond and Petersburg. (search)
ted a lookout in the neighborhood of two hundred feet high. It was composed of trestle work, and the illustration will save a further description. It stood on Cobb's Hill just at the left and near the Appomatox end of my fortifications. It was a great annoyance to the enemy and of exceeding usefulness to me. There was a nine-foot square space on the top to Lookout and signal Station, Cobb's Hill, Butler's front, Army of the James. which two observers could be drawn up in a large basket by means of a windlass. Once at the top of this lookout, a large portion of the peninsula, with all the works of the enemy, and my own lines of pickets and fortificationually making maps before he made his assaults. I sent him word again to go in with Hancock and he had the mendacity to send me the following despatch:-- Cobb's Hill signal Station, 12 P. M. June 15, 1864. General Butler: It is impossible for me to go further to-night, but unless I misapprehend the topography, I hold the
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
ration shown his family by Butler, 425; letter to Lovell regarding Vicksburg, 457; abandons his command, 458, 464, 470; reference to, 477, 646, 657; attacks Bermuda Hundred, 665-666; sends men to Lee, 663; attempts to destroy signal station at Cobb's Hill, 681-682; despatch from Lee to, 691; telegram announcing Lee's arrival at Petersburg, 703; references to position of forces at Petersburg, 704; maligned by Bragg, 879. Bee, New Orleans, editorial extracted from, 395. Cabinet Resolutions prol, 55-56. Cleveland, Grover, nominated at Chicago National Convention, 982. Cliff House, Cal., wrecked by powder explosion, 776. Clifford, Judge, reference to, 995 Clipper, Baltimore, extract from, 231; order published in, 233. Cobb's Hill, Confederates attempt to destroy signal station at, 681-683. Cochrane, John, letter from regarding Buchanan, 156. Cold Harbor, battle of, 669-710; Grant reinforced by Butler's troops at, 856, 862. Colfax, Hon., Schuyler, elected Speak
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), Preface 1: Photographing the Civil War (search)
eft bank. He placed cameras in position and got his men to work, but suddenly found himself The camera with the army in retreat and advance The plucky Brady-Gardner operatives stuck to the Union army in the East, whether good fortune or ill betided it. Above, two of them are busy with their primitive apparatus near Bull Run, while Pope's army was in retreat, just before the second battle on that fateful ground. Below is a photographer's portable dark-room, two years later, at Cobb's Hill on the Appomattox. Near here Grant's army had joined Butler's, and before them Lee's veterans were making their last stand within the entrenchments at Petersburg. Photographers at Bull Run before the Second fight Photographers at Butler's Signaling Tower 1864 taking a part very different from that of a non-combatant. In the bright sunshine his bulky cameras gleamed like guns, and the Confederate marksmen thought that a battery was being placed in position. They promptly ope
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), The Signal Corps (search)
n While an occasional high tree was used for a perch, yet the country was so heavily timbered that signal towers were necessary. There were nearly a dozen lines of communication and a hundred separate stations. The most notable towers were Cobb's Hill, one hundred and twenty-five feet; Crow's Nest, one hundred and twenty-six feet, and Peebles Farm, one hundred and forty-five feet, which commanded views of Petersburg, its approaches, railways, the camps and fortifications. Cobb's Hill, on tCobb's Hill, on the Appomattox, was particularly irritating and caused the construction of an advance Confederate earthwork a mile distant, from which fully two hundred and fifty shot and shell were fired against the tower in a single—day with slight damage, however. Similar futile efforts were made to destroy Crow's Nest. At General Meade's headquarters a signal party had a unique experience—fortunately not fatal though thrilling in the extreme. A signal platform was built in a tree where, from a height o
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, Maps, sketches, etc., Pertaining to the several volumes. (search)
New Berne, N. C. 67, 131 Petersburg, Va. 64, 65, 77, 78, 104, 105, 107 Redoubt Anderson, Va. 125 Redoubt Dutton, Va. 125 Redoubt Wead, Va. 125 Richmond, Va. 77, 89, 135 Volume XLI. Army of Missouri 47 Big Blue, Mo. 66 Campaign against Sterling Price 66 Charlot, Mo. 66 Newtonia, Mo. 66 Osage or Mine Crash, Kans. 66 Texas Coast 65 Westport, Mo. 66 Volume XLII. Bermuda Hundred, Va. 77 Broadway, Va. 124 Cobb's Hill, Va. 68 Deep Bottom, Va. 67 Dutch Gap Canal, Va. 65, 124 Federal Point, N. C. 67 Five Forks, Va. 77 Fort Brady to Fort Burnham, Va. 68 Fort Fisher, N. C. 67 Harrison's Landing, Va. 67 Petersburg, Va. 67, 77, 93 Redoubt McConihe, Va. 125 Richmond, Va. 77, 135 Weldon Railroad, Va. 67 Wilmington, N. C. 76 Volume XLIII. Army of the Shenandoah 69 Army of the Valley 83-85 Belle Grove, Va. 82 Berryville, Va. 82, 84 Bri
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)
rters, Chief of Ambulance, VII., 281, 307; VIII., 16; field forge at, VIII., 41; building winter quarters at, VIII., 41; weighing bread for the Union army, VIII., 49; government oven on wheels, VIII., 49; Sixth Vermont at, VIII., 65, 73, 103, 135, 136; O. B> Wilcox's headquarters, VIII., 243; New York Thirteenth Artillery at, VIII., 243, 252; bomb proofs at, VIII., 253; fall of, VIII., 254; church built by New York Fiftieth Engineers, VIII., 257; hanging of Confederate spy at, VIII., 303; Cobb's Hill Tower, VIII., 310; Peeble's Farm Signal Tower, VIII., 331; Signal Tower, New York Fourteenth Heavy Artillery, VIII., 331, 336; fall of, VIII., 338, 351; telegraph battery wagon, VIII., 353; headquarters field telegraph, VIII., 355; telegraph operators at, VIII., 357; telegraph office in trenches before, VIII., 365, 367, 368; siege of, IX., 155; crater, IX., 175; capture of, IX., 191; bullets found after battle, IX., 203; captured, IX., 243; ruins in, IX., 308, 352. Petersburg and City