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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., V. New Orleans and the Gulf. (search)
the Gulf. Gen. B. F. Butler concentrates 15,000 men on Ship Island Capt. Farragut at the mouths of the Mississippi assails and paraised, and part of them dispatched, under Gen. J. W. Phelps, to Ship Island, he was stopped for a season by the lowering aspects of our relas, on his remonstrance, annulled before it had been acted on. Ship Island is one of quite a number of inconsiderable sand-bars which barelregate to nearly 18,000. It in fact amounted, when collected at Ship Island, to 13,700. Gen. Butler set out from Hampton Roads, Feb. 2 days in the port; and seven more brought her safely in sight of Ship Island; where so heavy a gale was blowing that landing troops was for tand early warned of his danger by the gathering of our forces on Ship Island, seems to have exerted himself to the utmost. He had fortified assured, Commander Porter, with a part of our fleet, returned to Ship Island; a part was stationed near New Orleans to assist in its defense;
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)
, well up the Atchafalaya, and Fort Bisland, at Pattersonville, on the Teche, were intended to bar ingress by our gunboats from Red river or by our land forces from New Orleans. Fort Bisland was flanked by Grand Lake on the right, and by impassable swamps on the left; a Rebel force, estimated [too high] by Gen. Banks at over 12,000 men, held these strong works and the adjacent country; while to hold New Orleans securely, with its many protecting forts and approaches, Key West, Pensacola, Ship Island, &c., with all Texas backing the zealous and active Rebel partisans in Louisiana, who were promptly apprised by their spies of any weak spot in our defenses — to say nothing of the danger of hostile attacks from the side of Alabama and Mississippi--required the larger part of his corps; so that Banks found his disposable force reduced by inevitable details to less than 14,000 men; while the Rebel array in and around Port Hudson was reported by his spies at 18,000; rendering a siege withou
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., Appended notes. (search)
enjamin F., 73; expedition of, against New Orleans, 81 to 106; raises volunteers in New England, 81; expedition of, at Ship Island, 82-3; narrow escape of, from shipwreck, 83; arrives at the mouth of the Mississippi, 85; occupies New Orleans, 97; adf, 142 to 147. Farnsworth, Gen., killed at Gettysburg, 388. Farragut, Admiral D. G., bombards vicksburg, 578; at Ship Island, 83; at months of the Mississippi, 84-85; 86; his attack on and passage of defenses below New Orleans, 88 to 94; his f. Pettigrew, Brig.-Gen., wounded at Gettysburg, 389; killed at Falling Waters, 393. Phelps, Gen. J. W., occupies Ship Island, 81; issues proclamation in regard to Slavery, 82; on negro soldiership, 517. Philadelphia, East Tenn., fight at, 4wn, 115; joins McDowell at Fredericksburg, 136; ordered back to the Valley, 1:;36; fails to intercept Jackson, 137. Ship Island, occupied by Gen. Phelps, 82. Shreveport, La., held by 25,000 men under Price, 538. Sibley, Gen., his Indian cam