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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
ormidable of these piratical vessels fitted out in Great Britain and afloat in 1864, were the Alabama and Florida, already noticed, commanded respectively by Captains Semmes and Maffit. See page 569, volume II. The former was in command of the Sumter, whose career suddenly ended early in 1862. See page 568, volume II. The latter, as we have observed, went out from Mobile in the Oreto, afterward Fire-ball. this is a representation of a fire-ball taken from on board one of the Anglo-Con gigantic task of conquering a free people. Then he tried to assure the Congress with. the old story, which nobody believed, that the Government would soon be exhausted of men and money. Not the fall of Richmond, he said, nor Wilmington, nor Charleston, nor Savannah, nor Mobile, nor all combined, can save the enemy from the constant and exhaustive drain of blood and treasure which must continue until he shall discover that no peace is attainable unless. based on the recognition of our indefe
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
named, and from that point seriously menaced Charleston. The left wing, under Slocum, accompanied bracted the foe with doubt whether Augusta or Charleston was Sherman's chief objective, that his forcanother column from Bull's Bay, northward of Charleston, menaced the Northwestern railway. These n, warned Hardee hat he must instantly leave Charleston by the only railway now left open for his usundred and fifty dead bodies were Ruins of Charleston. this was the appearance of a portion of ght, the last of Hardee's troops left ruined Charleston. They had made the destruction of property ew York), was appointed military governor of Charleston, and by kind, firm, and judicious managementand on the anniversary of the evacuation of Fort Sumter, four years before, April 14, 1861. the id, and, by the Northeastern railroad, reached Charleston that evening, at twilight. The latter portiis sons, who was in the Confederate army, at Charleston, I visited every place of interest in and ar[45 more...]
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 18: capture of Fort Fisher, Wilmington, and Goldsboroa.--Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--Stoneman's last raid. (search)
ring capital of South Carolina, on the 18th of February, See page 461. and Charleston in possession of the National troops. See page 464. There was no unnecessao Hanging Rock, Feb. 26. 1865. over a region made memorable by the exploits of Sumter in the old war for Independence. There he waited for Davis's (Fourteenth) corpsboroa they found many refugees from Nashville, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Savannah, Charleston, and, later, Columbia, who never expected a Yankee army would come there. Nohere it was expected Hardee, who was holding the post with his fugitives from Charleston, would make a stand. But he did not. He retreated across the Pedee, burning ing as spoils for his pursuers, twenty-five cannon, which he had brought from Charleston, and considerable ammunition. Sherman caused the bridges and trestle-work ofl Joseph E. Johnston. It was composed of the combined forces of Hardee, from Charleston; Beauregard, from Columbia; Cheatham, with Hood's men, and the garrison at Au
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
er of general and staff officers would be speedily reduced, and all military restrictions on trade and commerce be removed forthwith. This virtual proclamation of the end of the war went over the land on the anniversary of the evacuation of Fort Sumter, April 14. while General Anderson was replacing the old flag over the ruins of that fortress. See page 465. Preparations for a National thanksgiving were a-making, and the atmosphere of the Republic, so to speak, was radiant with sunlight,lt of military operations at Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh and all along the Mississippi River, especially at Vicksburg, Port. Hudson, and New Orleans; what at Mobile, Pensacola, Key West, along the Florida sea-board, the sea-coast Islands, Charleston, and the borders of North Carolina, and even in holding Fortress Monroe and Norfolk? The energy displayed by the Navy Department, under the chief management of Gustavus Vasa Fox, See page 308, volume I. the Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
trocities of war; but this is a thing which the temper of the country cannot endure. Our Government has issued an order as to the treatment of revolted negroes when captured. Certain captured negroes, under that order, have been imprisoned at Charleston to await the disposition of the State Government. The practical application of Davis's inhuman order, here referred to, was met by a letter from the Secretary of War to the Secretary of the Navy, which made the Conspirators pause, for it shoel Government, in relation to our poor captured soldiers, had not been fully carried out. For obvious reasons, the revolting details of the cruelties practiced upon the Union prisoners at Richmond, Andersonville, Danville, Salisbury, Millen, Charleston, and other places, and the results of those cruelties, are not put upon record here. General statements are considered quite sufficient for the purpose already avowed; and the reader may consult, for a knowledge of those details, the report of
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
125, 127; raises the United States flag on Fort Sumter, 1.130; his action in relation to the Star 06; details of his defense and surrender of Fort Sumter, 1.310-1.334; movements ordered by in Kentu Anderson, Mrs., her journey to and from Fort Sumter, i, 132-135. Andersonville, cruelties inegard, Gen. G. T., demands the surrender of Fort Sumter, 1.317; opens fire on Fort Sumter, 1.320; i2.320; operations of against the defenses of Charleston, 3.192-3.197. Dutch Gap, Confederate nava Hart, Peter, accompanies Mrs. Anderson to Fort Sumter, 1.138. Hartsville, b<*>e of, 2.541; repnces in, 1.344; how the news of the fall of Fort Sumter was received in, 1.345; expedition planned 1. Semmes, Capt., Raphael, commander of the Sumter, 2.568, and of the Alabama, 2.569. Senatorssembled at Columbia, 1.100, and adjourned to Charleston, 1.101; ordinance of secession of, 1.103; coilliam Aikin, revenue cutter, surrendered to Charleston insurgents, 1.138. Williamsburg, battle o[31 more...]
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