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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Book notices. (search)
e United States Navy, from April, 1861, to may, 1864. 10. Manual of military surgeons. By Dr. John Ordronaux. 11. The war in the United States. By Ferdinand Lecomte, Lieutenant-Colonel Swiss Confederation. 12. Our naval school and naval officers. Meade. 13. How to become a successful engineer. By Bernard Stuart. 14. The hand-book of artillery. By Major Joseph Roberts, United States Artillery. 15. Company drill and bayonet Fencing. By Colonel J. Monroe, United States Army. 16. General Todleben's History of the defence of Sebastopol. We regret that our space will not allow us at present to review each one of these books, which make a most valuable addition to a military library. General Barnard's books are very valuable for a study of the campaigns of which they treat — albeit there are many things in them on which we would take issue with him. General McClellan's report is invaluable to the student of his campaigns, and (though full of most exaggerated estimates of th
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 17: Fort Fisher. (search)
s in command of the fort on the occasion of both attacks, and who largely superintended the construction of the fort, on which he was engaged for years. He had been in command of Fort Fisher since the 4th of July, 1862, and with the aid of General Whiting, who was a very accomplished engineer when he left our army to join the Confederacy, had constructed the work at enormous labor and expense for the purpose of enabling it to sustain a very heavy artillery fire. The works were of sand. Todleben, the Russian engineer who built the Malakoff at the Crimea, first taught military engineers that sand was the best material of which to construct a fort to resist a heavy artillery fire, and Whiting, having plenty of that material at hand, used it in the construction of Fort Fisher. Colonel Lamb describes the fort as follows in the Century War books :-- The outer slopes were twenty feet high from the bearme to the top of the parapet, at an angle of forty-five degrees, and were sodded wit
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
phen, appointment of, 303; expedition into Louisiana, 496. Thompson, Captain, appointed to command Sixth Maine Battery, 305; disperses a mob at New Orleans, 376-377. Thomas, General, reference to, 655-714. Thompson, Brig.-Gen., Jeff., testimony regarding woman order, 419; at Pontchatoula, 489. Thorpe, Col. T. B., superintends cleaning New Orleans, 404; tribute to, 407. Times urges General Wool's appointment, 279; proposes George Law for dictator,576; government agent, 939. Todleben, reference to, 812-813. Totten, General, chief of engineers, 466. Townsend, Colonel, at Big Bethel, 270, 275. Trent's Reach, navy unable to go above, 744; enemy's gunboats came through, 751. Trent affair, 316, 324. Tribune concedes right of secession, 141-142; abuse from, 142; letter to Andrew printed in, 216; news extract regarding contrabands, 263; on to Richmond, 267-289; article reflecting upon Hancock published, 700, 715; correspondent of arrested, 700; a government age
The Daily Dispatch: November 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
General Todleben is at Sebastopol, the fortifications of which on the north side are undergoing repairs. The workshops of the Grand Gulf and Fort Gibson (Ga.) Railroad, at Fort Gibson, were burnt on the 30th ult. Loss $10,000. Capt. J. P. Armstrong, for 30 years prominent in the steamboat interest at Mobile, Ala, died on the 5th inst.
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gen. Scott. (search)
and Feathers" managed to scramble off with a vast share of glory from the Mexican war, and became Lieutenant-General, which never consoled him, however, for the election of Taylor to the Presidency, or for his own defeat when running for that office! Of late years, it has been fashionable with the Lieutenant-General, whom his devotees describe as the great General of the age, compared with whom Napoleon and Washington were small potatoes, and Marshal Pelissier, old General Hess and Count Todleben, mere farthing rushlights, to play the part of the Great Pacificator. He has been solicitous to have it understood that Mars is capable of being pacific and beneficent; that terrific and annihilating as Wingfield is, when fairly roused, yet the very consciousness of his awful powers of destructiveness makes him most reluctant to put them in exercise. Consequently, on various occasions, he has gone about the country, now to Maine and now to California, like an amiable lion, with an oliv
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
sink deeper, their soldiers are the bravest, their business men the fastest, their cities the grandest, and their rural population the most virtuous in the world. Their Congressional orators throw Pitt, Fox, and Barke into the shade; their pulpit lights completely eclipse Massillon, Taylor, Hall, Summerfield; their General, old Scott, was "the great soldier of the age," an age in which Napoleon, Wellington, and a thousand other brilliant European Generals had lived, and in which Pellister, Todleben, and the other distinguished names of the Crimes and of Italy, still lingered upon the stage. It was, also, the "manifest destiny" of Ametion to absurd all the rest of this Continent, and when it would not consent to be absorbed of its own volition, it was to be filibustered in by a process nearly skin in its moral features to highway robbery. Even Canada, Central America, and Cuba have each in turn felt in their pockets the affectionate fingers of a people who pronounced them sulveat
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], Meeting of the next Congress. (search)
. And now it acknowledges. itself beaten, and honestly confesses that Charleston, if taken at all, cannot be taken by sea. And to whom belongs the credit of the most successful and magnificent defence of fortifications against ships that history records? Who, for six months, with limited means and resources, has set the whole power of the United States at defiance, and beaten back the most powerful naval armament that the world has ever seen? Who is it that has rivalled the fame of Todleben, and made the defence of Charleston as wonderful as that of Sebastopol? And why is it that Congress does not utter that name, and give it formally the thanks which every man in the nation speaks, and which such exalted genius and devotion deserve? We know not why. But if Congress would atone for its many absurdities and short-comings, if it would cleanse and purify those lips which have discoursed so much faction and folly, let it utter with its dying breath — Beauregard! During the