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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 17 (search)
Atlantic Blockading squadron, off Newport News, Va., April 23, 1864--1 P. M. Sir: The Navy Department, by telegraphic despatch of this date, directs me to send you to assume command in the sounds of North Carolina, for the purpose of attacking, at all hazards, the rebel ram there, in the best manner to insure its destruction, by running it down with the double-enders, or in any other manner which my judgment or yours may suggest. The Miami (Commander Renshaw) and the Tacony (Lieutenant-Commander Truxton) are now in the sounds. The Sassacus (Lieutenant-Commander Roe) was sent there last night. You will take the Mattabesett (Commander Febiger) and the Wyalusing (Lieutenant-Commander Queen) with you, and leave with all practicable despatch, availing yourself of the present high tides to enter the sounds. I send with you two (2) officers who have served in the sounds, and whose local knowledge will be useful to you. Enclose a copy of my instructions of the twenty-first instant
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: Fort Fisher (search)
over the outer bar as fast as possible, and as there is a shoaler one within, similar to the bulkhead at Hatteras Inlet, it was only on the forenoon of the 20th that all of the gunboats assigned for operations were within the river proper. Commander Truxton, of the Tacony, reported as follows: In Fort Lamb was a galvanic battery in good working order, connecting with copper wires, which I this morning [19th of January caused to be under-run, and which I found led directly across the river to agazine the morning after the battle seeking plunder, and caused its explosion, which resulted in the death and wounding of nearly two hundred brave men. Colonel Lamb seemed at the time to be either indifferent to or ignorant of the report of Truxton. The existence of the insulated wire and galvanic battery could hardly be unknown to him, and would seem a more reasonable explanation of the cause of the explosion of the magazine than drunken sailors, in relation to whom we have no other acco
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
tnall, Commodore, Josiah, 19; his defence of Fort Walker, 22 et seq., 47 Taylor, Captain, Wm. Rogers, 77, 81 Terry, General A. H., 129 et seq., 160, 228, 231 et seq., 236 et seq., 241 et seq. Thompson, Colonel, 171 Ticonderoga, the, 222, 228 Toombs, Engineer, 141 Torpedoes, sketch of, 140; success of, 148; facts about, 157 et seq. Toucey, Isaac, ex-Secretary of Navy, 3 Trapier, General, 52, 57 Tristam Shandy, the, 229 Trumpeter, the, U. S. transport, 205 Truxton, Commander, 239 et seq. Turner, Commander, Thomas, 91 et seq., 99 Tuscarora, the, 228 U. Unadilla, the, U. S. gunboat, 21, 26, 33, 37, 67, 74, 81, 218, 228, 242 Uncas, the, U. S. vessel, 71 Underwriter, the, 177 et seq., 181, 183 et seq., 189 Union, the, U. S. transport, 18, 33 United States, Second Artillery of, 165 United States Navy, position of ships at opening of war, 6; compared with that of Confederacy, 9; demonstration in Wassaw Sound, 46 et seq.; force i
The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Missouri. (search)
Cur Navy. We have now the beginning of a Navy, which, small as it is, is not much beneath the dimensions of the old Continental, which, under Paul Jones, Truxton, Hinman and others, covered the infant flag of America with glory. We have, in the first place, officers who were the very flower of the old Federal Navy, accomplished seamen, and high-toned and chivalrous gentlemen. If we have not at present many ships, we have the most unlimited materials for building and for arming and equipping vessels of war. Magnificent forests of live oak abound in the Southern States; tar, home, pine, and every article of naval stores can be found in unlimited abundance in the Southern Confederacy, and in no other part of the old Union. We can easily command seamen enough for any present exigency, and there can be no better school for their training than our privateersmen, which will soon be afloat on every wave. In the Norfolk Navy-Yard, so fortunately wrested from Federal hands, we have th
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Negro Hiring for 1862. (search)
to be subjugated by any government under heaven, could it ever consent to be subjugated by such "servants of servants and slaves of the devil," as the Lincoln dynasty! These donkeys, spring the king of beasts, and trying to scare us with their terrific bray, are they to be our masters? Have we survived two conflicts with the genuine lion, defeat and even destruction by whom would have been no dishonor, to be kicked to death by an ass in a lion's skin? It is enough to make Paul Jones, Truxton, Hinman, Hull, Perry, and McDonough, rise from their graves; to call from the depths of the sea, the bones of those bold seatings, whose keels the ocean was once proud to bear, to witness such degradation.--Not one of them was capable of such an outrage as that upon the Trent; but, if it had been committed, the man among them who had not thrown up his commission if his Government had refused, in the language of the London Times, to "fight his way out of the difficulty," would have been a sh
The Daily Dispatch: January 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Northern news items. (search)
The news from Kentucky is very important. The rebels, under Generals Johnston and Buckner, have destroyed a large portion of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad beyond Green river, burhing all the material of which it was constructed that could be thus con At last advices they were engaged in blowing up the tunnel, which is some three hundred feet in length. There is nothing of particular interest reported by the arrival of the transports Roanoke and Cahawba from Port Royal. Com. Truxton, of the sloop-of-war Dale, is rapidly becoming acquainted with the rebel positions in the country around him, their strength, &c. Reconnoissances are being made, with some success, in the neighborhood of the Edisto river. The military movements are unimportant. A new naval expedition is said to be on the tapis. A rebel privateer succeeded in running the blockade off Charleston harbor on the night of December 29, having previously made several ineffectual attempts. Newspaper Opini