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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 7.51 (search)
ith which the forts could be captured if a few thousand troops could be obtained to cooperate with his fleet. He knew that the Confederates were bending all their energies to the construction of three or more powerful rams, to meet which he had until late in the summer nothing but wooden vessels. Every day was strengthening the Confederate situation and making his own position more perilous. With the necessary cooperation he would run inside the bay, prevent any iron-clads from crossing Dog River bar (over which they had to be floated with camels ), put a stop to the planting of torpedoes, effectually prevent blockade-running, and easily capture the garrisons of the forts. But, much to his regret, the army under General Banks started up the Red River, and he was left alone with his little fleet to watch the operations he could not prevent. At last, about May 20th, the great ram Tennessee made her appearance in the lower bay. Just before she arrived, and when it was known that A
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The ram Tennessee at Mobile Bay. (search)
While this tedious work was progressing, the machinery and guns were placed in position, and about the 1st of April, 1864, the vessel was ready to receive her crew. As executive officer of the station under the admiral, I had superintended the completion of the vessel, and by his request I was now selected for the command, being immediately afterward promoted to the grade of commander. But as the draught of the vessel was over thirteen feet, and there were only nine feet of water on Dog River bar, at the mouth of the Mobile River, it became a serious problem to solve as to the means of floating her over this bar. Naval Constructor Thomas Porter conceived the idea of building heavy camels or floats, to be made fast to the sides of the ram; the surfaces in contact with the ram to conform to the model of the hull; and the camels were to contain a sufficient weight of water to counterbalance in part the weight of the vessel. This plan was immediately adopted, but the timber for th
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 44: battle of Mobile Bay. (search)
undertake the attack, supposing the iron-clad ram Tennessee would be over the Dog River bar by the time he was ready to advance with his fleet. Farragut's idea wa Farragut was fully aware of what would be the result if Buchanan crossed the Dog River bar with the Tennessee, Tuscaloosa, Huntsville and Nashville. (The three latus reports came from Mobile that the ram Tennessee was preparing to cross the Dog River bar by means of camels, and that Buchanan, with his wellknown energy, was pusr to destroy the Tennessee while she had the camels under her in crossing the Dog River bar. From all accounts Buchanan was working energetically to bring the Tenls, and no superiors; and that, if he did succeed in getting his vessels over Dog River bar, he would come out with the intention of conquering or being destroyed, tng great exertions to get camels large enough to float the ram Tennessee over Dog River bar. No one doubted but that Buchanan would be successful if any one could
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), Surrender of Fort Powell. (search)
rifle. Respectfully yours, etc., William D. Urann, Acting Volunteer Lieutenant and Executive Officer. To Lieut. Com. C. H. Green. Report of Lieutenant Commander W. P. McCann. U. S. S. Kennebec, Mobile Bay, Aug. 6, 1864. sir: I have the honor to submit the inclosed reports of casualties, injuries sustained, and of ammunition expended on board of this vessel during the action with Forts Morgan and Gaines and the rebel flotilla, and while pursuing the rebel gunboat Morgan toward Dog River Bar. The officers and crew of the Kennebec performed their duties gallantly under the enemy's fire. When lashed alongside the Monongahela, I sent Acting Ensign J. D. Ellis in charge of a gun's crew, to work a gun there, under the observation of Captain Strong, where he acted nobly. I beg leave to call your attention to the good conduct of Acting Ensign H. E. Tinkham, who, when seriously wounded by the explosion of a shell from the rebel ram Tennessee, and when the vessel was suppose
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The defence of Mobile in 1865. (search)
r knew why; and until General Andrews told us in this chapter why General Steele's column moved from Pensacola up to Pollard, we had been at a loss to account for that movement. He says it was to prevent us from escaping Canby's army on the eastern shore and making our way to Montgomery I Such a route of escape had never been contemplated by us. We always feared lest he might intercept us on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, by which we ultimately moved away unmolested. Had Canby landed on Dog river, west of Mobile, and invested the city, he would have found his work shorter and easier, and might have captured my whole army. The city was level and exposed throughout the whole extent to fire from any direction. There were near 40,00 non-combatants within its lines of defence, whose sufferings under a seige would soon have paralyzed the defence by a garrison so small as ours was; and the early evacuation would have been inevitable, while it would have been exceedingly difficult of acc
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
ey were found by French explorers toward the end of the seventeenth century. In April, 1682, La Salle took possession of the mouth of the Mississippi river, and the French Canadians were active about this time in founding settlements along that river and upon the Gulf coast. In 1699 the Spaniards made a settlement at Pensacola and also laid claim to Mobile bay. Lords Bienville and Iberville founded the town of Natchez, and in 1702 they built Fort Louis (de la Louisiana) at the mouth of Dog river. The French found large numbers of human bones on Dauphin island and for many years it was called the Island of Massacre. Treaties of peace were made with the Muscogees and Alabama Indians, but these treaties did not secure to the settlers any long-continued freedom from strife; and the early occupancy by the French of South Alabama was constantly disturbed by conflicts with the Indians of greater or less severity. The hostility of the Indians to the French was intensified by the intrig
The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further Northern News. (search)
more disastrously than the entire control of the Mississippi could effect it. The reported means of repelling an attack on Mobile would be hardly credited, were it not that in the engagement below New Orleans their contrivances for defence were found to be quite as and as ugly as they had boasted them to be. It is quite as well, now, to pay some attention to such representations. It is certain they have had seventeen months in which to get ready. They say they have made a stand at Dog River Bar on the west side of Mobile Bay, six miles below the city, where they have sunk obstructions in the channel, driven in piles thickly on the outside of the same, and anchored a line of submarine torpedos still further out. That inside the obstructions they have heavily armed boats while on the shore are tier upon tier of earthworks, with batteries of rifled cannon. That they have one or two iron-clad gunboats, and a powerful side which ocean steamer armed, and plated on her bowlder "r
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
s sunk in it. The rebels possess, however, a peculiar invention in the shape of an 'infernal' arrangement, worked by clock work, which is set off against a vessel at a distance of a mile. Fort Gaines, on Dauphin Island mounts twenty-two guns; Fort Morgan, on the main land, one hundred and twenty guns; Fort Grant, at Grant's Pass, on the northwest side of Dauphin Island, three guns; while at the mouth of Spanish river a heavy iron-clad battery, mounting 10 inch and 11 inch guns, and at Dog river a formidable sand battery commands the channel. On the east side of the Spanish river the ship Danube, mounting six guns and heavily iron clad, is anchored. She is officered from the army. These is no scarcity of iron for mailing vessels, as the rebels are converting railroad iron, taken from the abandoned railroads, into iron for the vessels. The stock of cotton in Mobile is quite large but there is but very little trade. Prices of provisions range quite high. Rice flour sells
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
grand result in the regular way, by the sweat of the face. Raising the "siege" of Mobile. The siege of Mobile by Farragut's iron-clads is definitely announced to have been raised. The following is the distribution of the fleet, recently employed there: The gunboats and mortar vessels have been withdrawn and are now at Pensacola. The Cowslip and Metacomet are blockading in the Sound. The rebels are building docks around the Tennessee for the purpose of lightening her over Dog River Bar. The Nashville is nearly completed. She will not be such a formidable appearing monster as the Tennessee. On Sunday, March 29, a picket boat belonging to the enemy, was captured by the Jackson. In it were five men and an officer, (master's mate.)--The boat, officer and men belonged to the rebel gunboat Selma. A letter thus explains the withdrawal: Although Admiral Farragut remained with his fleet after it was known that Sherman had returned to Vicksburg, engaging Fort
The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Exchange of Confderate officers — Scene at the exchange. (search)
From Mobile. Mobile, August 6. --A special to the Advertiser says one of the enemy's gunboats, with wounded, left for Pensacola. We communicated with her.--Admiral Buchanan's wound was doing well. He may be saved. On the Tennessee, two were killed and night wounded; on the Selma, eight were killed, including Lieutenant Comstock, and seven wounded; on the Morgan, one was slightly wounded. The garrison at Fort Morgan are in fine spirits. Their loss is slight. The enemy is firing wildly. A gunboat came up last night; also the crew of the Gaines. The enemy lost monitor and one gunboat. In Mobile business is generally suspended. The city is a military camp. Three gunboats came within a few miles of Dog River bar yesterday evening and went back. The enemy have merely carried our outposts.
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