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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 24 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 17 1 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 12 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 8 0 Browse Search
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 6 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 4 0 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 4 0 Browse Search
Historic leaves, volume 7, April, 1908 - January, 1909 4 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 23: siege and capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. (search)
had covered Banks's march from Alexandria, had arrived.and made the investment of the fort complete, for Admiral Farragut, with the Hartford, Albatross, and one or, two other gunboats above Port Hudson, and the Monongahela, Richmond, Essex, and Genesee, with mortar-boats under Commander C. H. B. Caldwell, below, held the river, and were shelling the Confederate works at intervals, day and night. Banks was informed that the Confederates were withdrawing from the post, and on the 26th was tolght, made a vigorous attack, but it was long past noon before Auger in the center, and Sherman on the left, were fairly at work. The navy was fully up to time, and from the Hartford and Albatross above, and the Monongahela, Richmond, Essex, and Genesee below, and the mortar-boats, Farragut poured a continuous stream of shells upon the garrison (which was still in full force) with marked effect. Already his shells had driven them from their first battery on the river below, and now, by taking
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 59: (search)
Steamer Southern Merchant 3,000 00 481 30 2,518 70 do Oct. 2, 1865 Diana.   Shoes, 498 pairs $80.13 1/2 paid as salvage to Samuel Butler. Prize list of Genesee waiting. 273 90 $80.13 1/2 paid as salvage to Samuel Butler. Prize list of Genesee waiting.80 13 1/2 80 131/<*> do   Genesee. 113 63 Schooner Segur Genesee waiting.80 13 1/2 80 131/<*> do   Genesee. 113 63 Schooner Segur $1,321.07 1/2 paid to James Taylor for raising and repairing vessel — Decreed to West Gulf squadron informal. 3,150 00 $1,321.07 1/2 paid to James Taylor for raising and repairing vessel — Decreed to West Gulf squadron informal.1,321 07 1/2 1,321 07 1/2 do   Gulf squadron. 507 85   Sundries, 12 boxes 816 03 196 98 619 05 Genesee. 113 63 Schooner Segur $1,321.07 1/2 paid to James Taylor for raising and repairing vessel — Decreed to West Gulf squadron informal. 3,150 00 $1,321.07 1/2 paid to James Taylor for raising and repairing vessel — Decreed to West Gulf squadron informal.1,321 07 1/2 1,321 07 1/2 do   Gulf squadron. 507 85   Sundries, 12 boxes 816 03 196 98 619 05 Key West Mar. 29, 1864 Brooklyn. Schooner Stingray 33,988 04 2,968 16 31,019 88 New Orleans June 7, 1864 Penobscot. Schooner Sylphide 3,050 69 769 95 2,280 74 do June 17, 1864 Virginia. Steamer Scotia 76,448 52 3,009 02 73,439 50 Boston July 19, 1864 Connecticut. Schooner Sophia 1,212 60 359 26 853 34 New York N
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 15 (search)
and supporting each other, by merely hurling masses of men against them. Intended, of course, to be simultaneous in every quarter, it failed to be so. Our batteries opened early in the morning; and, after a vigorous bombardment, Gens. Weitzel, Grover, and Paine, on our right, assaulted with vigor at 10 A. M., while Gen. Augur, in our center, and Gen. T. W. Sherman, on our left, did not attack in earnest till 2 P M. Meantime, the Hartford and Albatross above, and the Monongahela, Richmond, Genesee, and Essex below the Rebel river batteries, under the direction of Admiral Farragut, rained shot and shell upon the besieged, who had already been compelled by our fleet to abandon their southernmost battery; spiking its guns. In this day's fight, the fleet probably did the greater execution on the Rebels, whose attention was mainly absorbed by the land attack: its fire dismounting several of their heavy guns, and taking in reverse their landward defenses. Never was fighting more heroic
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 13: aggregate of deaths in the Union Armies by States--total enlistment by States--percentages of military population furnished, and percentages of loss — strength of the Army at various dates casualties in the Navy. (search)
sser Blackwater 2 11 -- 13 Dec. 27 Benton Gwin Drumgold's Bluff 2 8 -- 10 1863.               Jan. 1 Fleet Renshaw Galveston -- -- -- 150 Jan. 10 Louisville Owen Arkansas Post 6 25 -- 31 Jan. 10 De Kalb Walker Arkansas Post Jan. 11 Hatteras Blake Alabama 2 5 -- 7 Jan. 30 Isaac Smith Conover John's Island 8 17 -- 25 Feb. 24 Indianola Brown New Carthage 1 1 7 9 Mch. 14 Hartford Palmer Port Hudson 1 2 1 4 Mch. 14 Richmond Alden Port Hudson 3 12 -- 15 Mch. 14 Genesee Macomb Port Hudson Mch. 14 Monongahela McKinstry Port Hudson 6 21 -- 27 Mch. 14 Mississippi Smith Port Hudson 25 39 -- Includes some missing ones; the vessel was blown up.64 Mch. 19 Hartford Palmer Grand Gulf 2 6 -- 8 Mch. 19 Albatross Hart Grand Gulf Mch. 11 Chillicothe Foster Fort Pemberton 2 11 -- 13 Mch. 16 Chillicothe Foster Fort Pemberton 4 16 -- 20 Mch. 16 De Kalb Walker Fort Pemberton 3 3 -- 6 April 16 Fleet Porter Vicksburg -- 13 -- 13 April 29
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 211 (search)
was idle. On the contrary, the gallant Admiral was at work with the entire squadron, both above and below. The bummers moved their position much nearer the enemy's works, and kept up a continuous fire of thirteen-inch shell. The Hartford and Albatross engaged the upper batteries, and when General Weitzel captured the six-gun battery before referred to, they moved further down and supported him by attacking the next below. Admiral Farragut, in the Monnongahela, followed by the Richmond, Genesee, and Essex, engaged the lower works, and in a most effective manner. The Monongahela was worked to the admiration of every one. The fire of the enemy upon the ships was comparatively light — they directed it principally at the Monongahela, but failed to hit her. The Richmond was equally fortunate, and there was not a casualty to record in the fleet up to six o'clock last evening. The fleet was engaged in the morning, and again in the afternoon, and succeeded in dismounting five of the en
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), On the Mississippi and adjacent waters (search)
arly carried ashore by the five-mile current. The Hartford actually did touch ground under the guns of one of the batteries, but with the assistance of the Albatross backed off and passed safely above the line of fire. Not so fortunate was the Genesee, the fastest boat of the squadron. She was lashed to the Richmond, the slowest boat, and just as they had reached the last battery a plunging shot penetrated to the engine-room of the Richmond and so damaged her safety-valves that her engines became useless. Not even with the aid of the Genesee could the Richmond longer stem the current, and the two had to proceed downstream again past the gauntlet of the Confederate batteries for the second time. Disaster overtook all the other vessels of the squadron, and the Mississippi grounded and blew up. venture, and having prepared his vessel with extra planking and chain cables, and taking alongside a barge loaded with baled hay, started on the night of April 4th to pass the batteries.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bridges. (search)
6, 1886; completed at a cost of $450,000, June 13, 1888. Wooden bridge, over the Connecticut at Hanover, with a single arch of 236 feet; erected in 1796. Potomac Run Bridge, a famous trestle-work 400 feet long and 80 feet high; built in nine days by soldiers of the Army of the Potomac under the supervision of Gen. Herman Haupt. It contained more than 2,000,000 feet of lumber, chiefly round sticks, fresh cut from the neighboring woods; erected May, 1862. Portage Bridge, over the Genesee River, on the line of the Erie Railroad at Portage, N. Y. An iron truss bridge on iron trestles, built in 1875, to replace the original wooden trestle bridge; completed Aug. 14, 1852, and burned down, May 6, 1875; total length, 800 feet, comprising one span of 180 feet, two of 100 feet, and seven of 50 feet; height, 130 feet above the river; contract let. May 10, 1875; opened for traffic July 31, 1875. Wrought-iron girder bridge, at Cincinnati, over the Ohio River, with a span of 519 feet;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cornplanter, or Garyan-Wah-Gah (search)
Cornplanter, or Garyan-Wah-Gah A Seneca Indian chief; born in Conewaugus, on the Genesee River, N. Y., in 1732; was a half-breed, the son of an Indian trader named John O'Bail. He led Indian allies with the French against the English; was in the sharp battle of Monongahela in 1755; and, joining the British in the war of the Revolution, led destroyers of the settlements in New York and northern Pennsylvania. An inveterate foe of the Americans during the war, he was their firm friend afterwards. He was an earnest promoter of temperance among his people. He died at the Seneca reservation, Pennsylvania, Feb. 17, 1836.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield, James Abram 1831-1881 (search)
Closed with three cheers. Drank several pails of grog. Supped and retired in good order. Three days afterwards General Cleaveland held a council with Paqua, chief of the Massasagas, whose village was at Conneaut Creek. The friendship of these Indians was purchased by a few trinkets and $25 worth of whiskey. A cabin was erected on the bank of Conneaut Creek; and, in honor of the commissary of the expedition, was called Stow Castle. At this time the white inhabitants west of the Genesee River and along the coasts of the lakes were as follows: the garrison at Niagara, two families at Lewiston, one at Buffalo, one at Cleveland, and one at Sandusky. There were no other families east of Detroit; :and, with the exception of a few adventurers at the Salt Springs of the Mahoning, the interior of New Connecticut was an unbroken wilderness. The work of surveying was commenced at once. One party went southward on the Pennsylvania line to find the 41st parallel, and began the surve
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Holland land Company. (search)
hia, for 8d. an acre, who resold it to Sir William Pulteney. Phelps and Gorham, being unable to fulfil their contract in full with Massachusetts, compromised and surrendered that portion of the land to which the Indian title was unextinguished, in consideration of which the State relinquished two-thirds of the contract price. In 1796 Robert Morris purchased from the State this portion also, extinguished the Indian title, sold off several large tracts upon the east side of and along the Genesee River, and mortgaged the residue to Wilhelm Willink, of Amsterdam, and eleven associates, called the Holland Land Company. This company, by the foreclosure of the mortgage, acquired full title to the land, surveyed it, and opened their first land office in Batavia, N. Y., in 1801. It was in this land speculation that Robert Morris was involved in financial ruin, and compelled to endure the privations of a debtor's prison for a long time. The Holland Land Company having sold the larger part
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