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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 146 (search)
titution — the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, the proclaiming of martial law, the increase of the army and navy, and the existing war; and then he. asks, Why all this? The answer must be apparent to all. But first, let me supply a chronological table of events on the other side: December 27. The revenue cutter William Aiken surrendered by her commander, and taken possession of by South Carolina. December 28. Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney, at Charleston, seized. December 30. The United States arsenal at Charleston seized. January 2. Fort Macon and the United States arsenal at Fayetteville seized by North Carolina. January 3. Forts Pulaski and Jackson, and the United States arsenal at Savannah, seized by Georgia troops. January 4. Fort Morgan and the United States arsenal at Mobile seized by Alabama. January 8. Forts Johnson and Caswell, at Smithville, seized by North Carolina; restored by order of Gov. Ellis. January 9. The Star of the West,
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 246 (search)
rs were obliged to remain over night, and come in the following (Sunday) morning. No order as to regularity of marching could be maintained, each getting along as best he could. My captain, myself, and several others were amongst the first to get to camp-how glad were we to get there. We found hot coffee and warm fires. So, drinking the coffee and toasting our feet, we retired for the night. We got to camp about eleven P. M. R., Eighteenth Virginia Regiment. --Richmond Dispatch, Dec. 30. Another account. camp Centreville, December 27, 1861. Editors Dispatch: Several communications have been published in your columns recently, describing the battle at Dranesville, but none of these contributors have been explicit enough to describe the positions and conduct of the South Carolinians in that engagement. We do not wish to claim for the Sixth South Carolina regiment any unmerited honor, but desire simply to place her position and conduct fairly before the public, an
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 254 (search)
several shell or shot at the battery on Craney Island, and received a prompt reply from that direction. We are pleased to record the fact, that the boys at our batteries took deliberate aim with each gun they fired, and handled their irons with a masterly skill, taking their time in each case. It has been reported, though with what truth we are unable to say, that the Sea Bird struck the Express and set her on fire, and that she was afterward put out without injury.--Norfolk Day Book, Dec. 30. Commodore Lynch's report. The following is an extract from the report of Capt. Lynch to the Navy Department: The water being too low in the Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal for this vessel (the Sea Bird) to proceed to Roanoke Island, we last evening steamed down and anchored in the bight of Craney Island. This morning, a little before daylight, we weighed anchor and stood across to Newport News. About half past 7 A. M. an enemy's steamer passed out of James River, with a schooner
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
ticable points, it would prove too costly, and accordingly resolved to look elsewhere for a point below Haines's Bluff, or Blake's plantation. That night I conferred wit]l Admiral Porter, who undertook to cover the landing; and the next day (December 30th) the boats were all selected, but so alarmed were the captains and pilots, that we had to place sentinels with loaded muskets to insure their remaining at their posts. Under cover of night, Steele's division, and one brigade of Stuart's, were drawn out of line, and quietly embarked on steamboats in the Yazoo River. The night of December 30th was ap pointed for this force, under the command of General Fred Steele, to proceed up the Yazoo just below Haines's Bluff, there to disembark about daylight, and make a dash for the hills. Meantime we had strengthened our positions near Chickasaw Bayou, had all our guns in good position with parapets, and had every thing ready to renew our attack as soon as we heard the sound of battle abov
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 29 (search)
ve the honor to report to you the part taken by my brigade on the thirtieth and thirty-first of December, in the battle of Stone River. The t engagements before Murfreesboro. On the evening of the thirtieth of December, the regiment, which was then in double column in reserve, valry in the late battle in the front of Murfreesboro: On the thirtieth December, the Fourth U. S. cavalry left camp at Stewart's Creek, leavi soon after dark. At or near ten o'clock, Tuesday morning, December thirtieth, the regiment was moved forward in double column at half-dist canister. Made another short stand at the first position of December thirtieth, and fired canister from my howitzers and six-pound smooth-bosigned a position as a reserve of the Third division on the thirtieth of December, and took no part in the engagement on our left on that dayt from the enemy but from fellow-soldiers. On the night of December thirtieth, General Rosecrans found his army, about forty thousand stron
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 56 (search)
tring party under command of Major Gratz, of the Sixth Kentucky cavalry, with instructions to press upon the enemy, cut off and capture his pickets, if possible, fire into his camp, and retire, after ascertaining whether he had changed position. This order was executed, and Major Gratz returned with the report that the enemy had advanced two miles in our direction. I have omitted to state that my chosen position for action was on the Springfield road, and I had, on the evening of the thirtieth December, selected a position for one section of the battery, which was placed and masked, supported by company A, Sixteenth Kentucky. The position chosen was in the angle formed by the Springfield road and Cartwright's Creek. This position commanded the Springfield road for a mile and a half, and was strengthened by a precipitous bluff on the right flank. At this point, I felt we must meet the enemy; for if they were permitted to pass it, and gain possession of a copse of timber and the com
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 103 (search)
rrival of their comrades. They were, in all, about three hundred men; not enough to establish pickets. They relied entirely on the vicinity of the gunboats for their safety and protection. The Saxon, which had brought them, still lay in the harbor, outside the bar, in shoal-water, with Commodore Rensaw's flag-ship West-field, the gunboats Clifton and Owasco, in addition to the Harriet Lane, keeping watch and ward over the silent city. Such was the condition of Galveston up to the thirtieth of December. I append a brief list of the armament of the vessels, in order to complete this part of the subject. Flag-ship Westfield, Commodore Renshaw--two nine-inch guns, four sixty-eight pounders, two rifled guns. The Harriet Lane, Captain Wainwright--three nine-inch guns, one thirty-pound rifled gun, four twenty-pounders. The Clifton, Captain Law--two nine-inch guns, four thirty-two pounders, one pivot rifled gun. The Owasco, Captain Wilson--one eleven-inch gun, one thirty-poun
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 110 (search)
Colonel J. I)e Courcy, commanding--Sixteenth Ohio, Twenty-second Kentucky, Forty-second Ohio, Fifty-fourth Indiana, infantry. Artillery--First Wisconsin, Capt. Foster, Seventh Michigan, Captain Lamphere. Having, as already mentioned, assumed command of these forces on the fourth instant, after they had retired from the neighborhood of Vicksburgh, I sailed with them, the same day, in execution of a purpose, the importance of which I had suggested to Gen. Gorman, at Helena, on the thirtieth December ultimo, on my way down the river. That purpose was the reduction of Fort Hindman, which had been laboriously and skilfully enlarged and strengthened, since the commencement of the rebellion; which formed the key to Little Rock, the capital of the State of Arkansas, and the extensive and valuable country drained by the Arkansas River, and from which hostile detachments were constantly sent forth to obstruct the navigation of the Mississippi River and thereby our communications. A Go
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 42 (search)
rve the movements of the enemy in that direction. Walker reached Stewartsboro, from the Nolensville pike about dark. December 30. A cavalry force of the enemy, something over four hundred strong, with two pieces of artillery, attacked Starkweatarly on the afternoon of the thirtieth. My division was in reserve on the twenty-ninth. On the following morning, December thirtieth, General Sheridan's division was ordered to advance in line of battle, covering the Wilkinson pike, while General Dructed two bridges over Stewart's Creek, between the hours of four P. M. and four o'clock A. M., twenty-ninth and thirtieth of December, arriving at the battle-field on the thirtieth. On the morning of the thirty-first of December, the brigade waurfreesboro. Our troops were placed in line of battle as they came up, the artillery remaining with their divisions. December 30. About nine A. M., the enemy opened fire upon Captain Cox's Tenth Indiana battery (which was between the pike and t
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 2.13, chapter 2.24 (search)
eight trucks, crumpled up into a pitiful wreck, just ahead of us, within about fifty yards of a levelled wall, and I then saw that our engine and van were lying on their side. Our escape was a narrow one, for our coupe compartment came next to the van. Fortunately, there was no loss of life. I regret that space does not allow me to quote Stanley's descriptions of persons and places during his half-year in Australia. I give one or two personal passages from his Journal. Auckland, December 30th. Sir George Grey called on us in the afternoon, and took us out to show us the Public Library. There we saw valuable old Missals, with wonderful paintings of scroll-work and impossible leafage. In another room, he showed us private letters from Livingstone, received by him when Governor of Cape Colony. There were also some from Speke. Livingstone's letters are marked Private. He must have recognised a kind of cousinship in Sir George, to have delivered himself so frankly. He wro
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