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Fort Warren (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
e gutter, and received the proffered aid of one of them, which she spurned, afterward declared that she really felt grateful to the officer at the time for his politeness, and added, Order 28 [the Woman Order ] served the women right. and so did the Mayor and his accomplices in crime, when the power of their outraged Government was felt by the former, by arrest and threatened imprisonment in Fort Jackson; by Soule, the ablest of the instigators of treason in Louisiana, as a prisoner in Fort Warren; and by one of the leaders of the mob, when he stood a felon on the scaffold, in the midst of a vast number of his fellow-citizens, because of his overt act of treason in pulling down the National flag from the Government Mint. See page 343. The Mayor had made the publication of the Woman order the occasion of a most impudent and absurd letter to General Butler, saying, among other things, Your officers and soldiers are permitted by the terms of this order to place any construction
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ions, and with plans of the known works on the lower Mississippi, furnished by General Barnard, who constructedraven, 24 guns each; Richmond, Captain Alden, 26; Mississippi, Captain M. Smith, 12; Iroquois, Commander De Camrts, consisted of the following regiments: On the Mississippi, the Commanding General and the Twenty-sixth Mass, Porter had daubed the hulls of his vessels with Mississippi mud, and clothed their masts and rigging with thee Manassas, that had been terribly pounded by the Mississippi, and sent adrift in a helpless state, was seen moce above the fort, under cover of the guns of the Mississippi and Kineo. A small force was sent across the riveburned, and with it an immense armored ram called Mississippi, which was considered the most important naval stfourteen hundred troops, were on the same vessel (Mississippi) in which they left Hampton Roads sixty-five daysee by the side of Butler's Headquarters ship, the Mississippi, on board of which the commanding general spent t
Buras (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
iver, 331. bombardment of forts Jackson and St. Philip, 332. passage of the forts by War-vessels, l battle, 336. capture of forts Jackson and St. Philip, 339. excitement in New Orleans, 340. fligished by General Barnard, who constructed Fort St. Philip, one of the chief of those works, Farraguler should land his troops in the rear of Fort St. Philip, the weaker fortification, and attempt tohe principal of these were Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the former built by the Government, and thep closely to the eastern bank, and. fight Fort St. Philip. To Captain Bell was assigned the duty oe dark she suddenly found herself abreast Fort St. Philip, and very close to it. She was in a posituarantine Station, a short distance above Fort St. Philip. On the west bank of the river opposite Sable Island, twelve miles in the rear of Fort St. Philip, and from that point the troops made theixplosion occurred when she was abreast of Fort St. Philip, when a flying fragment from her killed o[7 more...]
Sable Island (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
e up to New Orleans, while Porter, with his mortar-fleet, was still below them, and they were yet firmly held by the Confederates. The time for Butler to act had arrived. Half an hour after Farragut had reached the Quarantine, he sent Captain Boggs in a small boat, through shallow bayous in the rear of Fort St. Philip with dispatches for Butler and Porter. The former had already procured the light-draft steamer Miami from Porter, and had hastened to his transports. These were taken to Sable Island, twelve miles in the rear of Fort St. Philip, and from that point the troops made their way in small boats through the narrow and shallow bayous with the greatest fatigue, under the general pilotage of Lieutenant Weitzel. Sometimes the boats were dragged by men waist deep in cold and muddy water; but the work was soon and well accomplished, and on the night of the 27th Butler was at the Quarantine, ready to begin the meditated assault on Fort St. Philip the next day. His troops were land
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
as Military Governor of New Orleans, who at once organized an efficient police force and made the city a model of quiet and good order. This vigor was followed by the arrest of William B. Mumford, his trial and conviction by a military court, and his execution as a traitor in the presence of a vast multitude, who quietly dispersed to their homes, with the salutary reflection that the Government had indeed repossessed its property, and was exercising its rightful authority in the city of New Orleans. Mumford was a professional gambler, and consequently an enemy of society. He was about forty-two years of age. He was in the crowd in front of the St. Charles on the occasion of the General's conference with the Mayor and his friends, already alluded to, boasting of his exploit with the flag, inciting them to riot, and daring the National officers to arrest him. He continued his attitude of defiance, and became so dangerous to good order, as a leader of the turbulent spirits of New O
Ship Island (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
sions to the people, 348. benevolent and Sanitary measures the rebellious spirit of citizens, 349. Butler's famous woman order its effects, 350. a traitor hung Butler's administration, 351. effect of the capture of New Orleans, 352. Ship Island was the place of rendezvous for the naval as well as the land portion of the forces destined for the capture of New Orleans. The naval force was placed under the command of Captain David G. Farragut, a loyal Tennesseean, who sailed from Hampton Roads in the National armed steamer Hartford, on the 2d of February, 1862, and arrived in the harbor of Ship Island on the 20th of the same month, having been detained by sickness at Key West. He had been instructed by the Secretary of the Navy Jan. 20, 1862. to proceed with all possible dispatch to the Gulf of Mexico, with orders for Flag-officer McKean, on duty there, to transfer to the former the command of the Western Gulf squadron. He was informed that a fleet of bomb-vessels, under
Iroquois, Wyoming (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
, Captain Craven, 24 guns each; Richmond, Captain Alden, 26; Mississippi, Captain M. Smith, 12; Iroquois, Commander De Camp; and Oneida, Commander S. P. Lee, 9 each; sailing sloop-of-war Portsmouth, 1on; but it was quietly stopped in its career by some men in a small boat that went out from the Iroquois, who seized it With grappling irons, towed it to the shore, and there let it burn out in perfecd blowing fiercely from the north, Commander Bell, with the Pinola and Itaska, supported by the Iroquois, Kennebec, and Winona, ran up to the boom. The Pinola ran to the hulk under the guns of Fort Jate fleet above the forts. He was to keep in the channel of the river with the Sciota, Winona, Iroquois, Pinola, Itaska, and Kennebec, and push right on to his assigned work without regard to the forside, lost her tow and drifted down the river. Captain Bell was less fortunate. The Sciota, Iroquois, and Pinola, passed the forts, but the Itasca was disabled by a storm of shot, one of which pie
Gulf of Mexico (search for this): chapter 14
ary, 1862, and arrived in the harbor of Ship Island on the 20th of the same month, having been detained by sickness at Key West. He had been instructed by the Secretary of the Navy Jan. 20, 1862. to proceed with all possible dispatch to the Gulf of Mexico, with orders for Flag-officer McKean, on duty there, to transfer to the former the command of the Western Gulf squadron. He was informed that a fleet of bomb-vessels, under Commander David D. Porter (with whose father Farragut had cruised int trade of any city in the world. Lovell's special efforts for defense were put forth on the banks of the Mississippi, between the city and its passes or mouths. The principal passes by which the waters of the Mississippi flow into the Gulf of Mexico, through vast morasses, are five in number, and named respectively, the Southwest, South, Southeast, and East Pass, and Pass à l'outre. The seaward edge of these passes lies almost directly upon the arc of a circle with a radius of fifteen m
Algiers (Algeria) (search for this): chapter 14
den with cotton, and as many magnificent steamboats, with unfinished gunboats and other vessels, were soon wrapped in flames and sent floating down the river, the Confederates hoping they might destroy the approaching vessels. The shipyard at Algiers, opposite New Orleans, was burned, and with it an immense armored ram called Mississippi, which was considered the most important naval structure which the Confederates had yet undertaken. But the latter all escaped, and at about one o'clock in one; and held the commanders of regiments and companies responsible for the execution of the orders. At four o'clock in the afternoon May 1. the debarkation of a part of the troops at the city commenced, while others were sent over to occupy Algiers, opposite New Orleans. A company of the Thirty-first Massachusetts was the first to land. These were followed by the remainder of the regiment; also by the Fourth Wisconsin, Colonel Paine; and Everett's battery of heavy field-guns. These form
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 14
ing the war of 1812), would be attached to his squadron, and these were to rendezvous at Key West. He was directed to proceed up the Mississippi so soon as the mortar-vessels were ready, with such others as might be spared from the blockade, reduce the defenses which guarded the approaches to New Orleans, and, taking possession of that city under the guns of his-squadron, hoist the American flag in it, and hold possession until troops could be sent to him. If the Mississippi expedition from Cairo should then not have descended the river, he was to take advantage of the panic which his seizure of New Orleans would produce, and push a strong force up the stream, to take all their defenses in the rear. Destroy the armed barriers which these deluded people have raised up against the power of the United States Government, said the Secretary, and shoot down those who war against the Union; but cultivate with cordiality the first returning reason, which is sure to follow your success. Wit
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