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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died., Cutting, Horatio A. (search)
dria, Va., Dec. 26, 1862. Dawes, William H., Sergt.,9th Batt. Mass. L. A.,Petersburg, Va., June 18, 1864.Near Avery House, Petersburg, Va., June 21, 1864. Day, Charles,23d Mass. Inf.,Cold Harbor, Va., June, 1864.Alexandria, Va., June 26, 1864. Day, Edward L.,15th Mass. Inf.,Antietam, Md., Sept. 17, 1862.Antietam, Md., Sept. 20, 1862. Day, John,39th Mass. Inf.,– –Oct. 28, 1864. Day, John D.,37th Mass. Inf.,Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865.Philadelphia, Pa., April 29, 1865. Dean, Alvin R.,4th Mass. Inf.,– –Baton Rouge, La., July 22, 1863. Dean, John A.,1st Mass. Cav.,Reams' Station, Va., Aug. 23, 1864.Sept. 5, 1861. Dearborn, Valorus, Corp.,2d Mass. Cav.,– –Sept. 13, 1864. Decosta, William,12th Mass. Inf.,– –Alexandria, Va., Oct. 18, 1862. Decoster, Barton H.,11th Mass. Inf.,– –Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863. Deforest, Alexander,37th Mass. Inf.,Spotsylvania, Va., May 21, 1864.Port Royal, Va., May 24, 1864. Delva, James D.,24th Mass. Inf.,– –Beverly,
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 4 (search)
day it was occupied by a Union force, led by General Wool, from Fortress Monroe. One important consequence of the evacuation of Norfolk was the destruction of the Merrimac, which vessel proving to have too great a draft of water to proceed up the James to Richmond, was on the following day blown up by order of her commander, Commodore Tatnall. This at once opened the river to the advance of the Union gunboats; and immediately afterwards a fleet, composed of the Monitor, Galena, Aroostook, Port Royal, and Naugatuck, under Commodore Rodgers, ascended the James, with the view of opening the water highway to Richmond. Within twelve miles of the city, however, the vessels were arrested by the guns of Fort Darling, on Drury's Bluff, and after a four hours engagement, in which the Galena received severe damage, and the one-hundred-pounder Parrott on the Naugatuck was burst, the fleet was compelled to withdraw. It was not these events, however, that determined Mc-Clellan's line of advance
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 7 (search)
ed below to meet the threatened advance, and the purpose was abandoned. On the 3d of December, my division was sent to Port Royal, a few miles below Skenker's Neck, to prevent the crossing of the Yankees at or near that point.—General D. H. Hill: Rek. Up to the time of the battle of Fredericksburg, Longstreet's command held the heights at the town; Hill remained at Port Royal, and the rest of Jackson's corps was so disposed as to support Hill or Longstreet, as occasion might require.—Lee: Repo. H. Hill, arrived after a severe night's march from their respective encampments in the vicinity of Buckner's Neck and Port Royal—the troops of Hill being from fifteen to eighteen miles distant from the point to which they were ordered.—Jackson: Rephe plain, but had not proceeded far before he was compelled to stop and silence a battery that Stuart had posted on the Port Royal road, and which had a flank fire on his left. This done, he pushed on, his line preceded by a cloud of skirmishes, an
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac, chapter 11 (search)
ed by the confluence of the North and South Anna; and the Pamunkey in turn uniting with the Mattapony, forms the York River, emptying into Chesapeake Bay. Thus the successful passage of the Pamunkey would not only dislodge Lee from the lines of the North and South Anna, but would bring the army in communication with a new and excellent water-base. While the army was at Spottsylvania Courthouse it had used Fredericksburg as a depot; when it moved to the North Anna, the base was shifted to Port Royal on the Rappahannock. Cutting loose from this, it had White House as a depot. The Sixth Corps, preceded by two divisions of cavalry under Sheridan, had the advance on the night of the 26th; and on the morning of the 27th, after a beautifully executed march of twenty-two miles, the head of the column struck the Pamunkey at Hanovertown. Nothing was present but a small mounted force in observation: this was readily dispersed or captured. The Sixth Corps thereupon made the passage, uncove
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 6: (search)
ned from Broglie; and she then told me that she intends to receive le monde every Wednesday night, but that her friends would find her, besides, on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays. So I went this evening,—Friday,—and found about a dozen persons there: Eynard, Rossi, Lebrun, etc. It was extremely agreeable, and I stayed till the tea-table was brought in at eleven o'clock. So much for French hours! There was an extremely animated talk for some time about Arnauld, Pascal, and the writers of Port-Royal generally; and if it had continued, I dare say I should have stayed later. December 23.—. . . . I left a dinner at Colonel Thorne's somewhat early, to go to Lamartine's, who, being in rather feeble health, does not like to receive late. He is a man of fortune, and lives as such; besides which, he is eminently the fashionable intellectual man of his time in Paris. He has just been elected to the Chamber of Deputies from three different places, a distinction which has happened to no o<
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 21: (search)
watching all the ways by which he might move toward Richmond, Lee sent D. H. Hill's division, of Jackson's corps, to watch the crossing of the Rappahannock, at Port Royal, below Fredericksburg, by which a highway led toward Richmond. Ewell's division, now commanded by Early, was encamped next above D. H. Hill, while the divisionn were sent for, and A. P. Hill and Taliaferro were put in position, on Longstreet's right, on the morning of the 12th; but D. H. Hill. and Early remained near Port Royal until Burnside should more fully uncover his intentions. Barksdale's brigade of Mississippians had been charged with the duty of defending the crossings of tbeen his only effort, he would have had more of it. My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men. A Federal demonstration was made, opposite Port Royal, on the morning of the 16th, as if an attempt would be made to cross the Rappahannock at that point, far to Lee's right, and there resume the attempt to move on
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 21: (search)
ficiency and brought its strength up to nearly 134,000 soldiers, when, toward the last of April, he made ready to cross the Rappahannock and attack Lee's 63,000 veterans. Jackson held the front of Lee's right, from Hamilton's crossing down to Port Royal, with the 33,000 well-tried men of the Second corps. Of the two divisions of Longstreet that remained with Lee, McLaws held the front, from Jackson's left to opposite Banks' ford, with 8,000 men; Anderson's 8,000 extended McLaws' left well towppahannock in the afternoon of the 28th, and late on the 29th reached Germanna and Ely fords of the Rapidan. Lee had divined the purpose of this movement, for on the 23d he wrote to Jackson that he considered the Federal preparations opposite Port Royal as only a feint that it was not necessary to move troops to meet, as he was satisfied that Hooker's purpose was to attempt a passage elsewhere, and closed by writing: I will notify Generals McLaws and Anderson to be on the alert, for I think if
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 25: (search)
day, the 19th, Lee sent Ewell around Grant's right, to ascertain what he was doing. In this movement Ewell was repulsed, with a loss of 900 men, but he had detained Grant another day in front of Spottsylvania Court House and inflicted a severer loss that he himself suffered, as Grant confessed. On the afternoon of May 19th, Grant wrote: I shall make a flank movement early in the morning, and try to reach Bowling Green and Milford station, and wished his base, in that event, changed to Port Royal. At 10 p. m., of the same day, he again wrote: The enemy came out on our right, late this afternoon, and attacked, but were driven back until some time since dark. Not knowing their exact position, and the danger our trains at Fredericksburg will be in if we move, I shall not make the move designated for to-night, until their designs are fully developed. On the 20th he reported that his casualties of the previous day were 196 killed, 1,090 wounded, and 240 missing. When Grant began
John D. Billings, The history of the Tenth Massachusetts battery of light artillery in the war of the rebellion, Chapter 11: (search)
; second, that the enemy should not assail our flank on the march; and third, because of the nature of the country. Our course finally lay towards the Pamunkey. This river is formed by the confluence of the North and South Anna rivers. Further down, the Pamunkey unites with the Mattapony to form the York River. On the latter is a settlement known as White House. It had been used by McClellan as a base of supplies in the Peninsula Campaign and was selected as our next base of supplies, Port Royal on the Rappahannock, which had been serving that purpose, being now abandoned. We traversed about thirteen miles of country this day, unmolested, bivouacking at night at a place four miles south of Concord Church. Six o'clock of the next morning (Saturday, May 28) saw us again in motion, and an advance of ten miles brought us to the ferry. On May 28, at 7 A. M., the Second Corps crossed the Pamunkey at Holmes's Ferry, four miles above Hanovertown. Banes: History of the Philadelph
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: the Port Royal expedition. (search)
to maintain position. The wind was from the west and the vessels were by the wind on the port tack, that is to say, the course was toward Bull's Bay, one of the ports supposed desirable to occupy as a coaling and supply station. At 9 P. M. the Wabash tacked ship and headed southwest, the wind having changed some two points. It was apparent, then, to the commanders of such vessels as had not opened their instructions, that Bull's Bay was not the objective point, but that it was probably Port Royal, having a more central position, and was well known to be the best harbor for vessels of heavy draught along the whole coast. On the forenoon of the 3d, the flag-ship made signal for the commanding officer of the Seneca to come on board. A letter for Captain J. L. Lardner, commanding the steam frigate Susquehanna, off Charleston, was given him, as also verbal instructions that the vessels designated would not leave the blockade of the harbor until nightfall; they were then to proceed t
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