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1865 AD (search for this): chapter 58
Chapter 55: operations of the Mississippi Squadron in the latter part of 1864 and in 1865. Acting Rear-Admiral S. P. Lee takes command. loss of the tin-clad Undine. burning of the gun-boats Towah, Key West and Elfin. operations of the Army under General Thomas against General Hood. the effective work performed by the Squadron in conjunction with the Army. destroying the Confederate batteries on the Tennessee River. General George H. Thomas compliments the Navy. General Hood's . the Confederate ram Webb. gallantry of Lieutenant-Commander Fitch and his men. end of the Confederate Navy in the Mississippi region. surrender of Confederate property at Shreveport. list of vessels and officers of the Mississippi Squadron, 1865. Acting-rear-admiral. S. P. Lee, who followed Rear-Admiral Porter in October, 1864, in the command of the Mississippi Squadron, was not fortunate on his arrival in the West. On the 4th of November, Admiral Lee reports the loss of the tin-cla
January, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 58
Federal armies, yet they received a sufficient number of checks to convince them that the subjugation of the whole country was merely a question of time. It is a fact, which has been little commented on, that at least three hundred and fifty thousand soldiers from the slave States fought on the side of the Union, and, had Texas and Western Louisiana been securely held, there would have been a number of recruits in that quarter obtained for the Federal Army. Mississippi Squadron, January, 1865. Acting Rear-Admiral Samuel P. Lee, Commanding. Staff Lieutenant-Commander C. A. Babcock, Acting-Fleet-Captain; Lieutenant F. J. Naile, Flag-Lieutenant; Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant, William G. Saltonstall; Fleet-Surgeon, Ninian Pinkney; Fleet-Paymaster, Elisha W. Dunn; Fleet-Engineer, Samuel Bickerstaff; Acting-Master, C. R. Knowles; Acting Ensigns, Wm. R. Cooper And C. C. Cushing. Essex--Fourth-rate. Commander, Andrew Bryson; Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant, J. C. Parker;
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junction with the Army. destroying the Confederate batteries on the Tennessee River. General George H. Thomas compliments the Navy. General Hood's retreat and losses. the Confederate ram Webb. gallantry of Lieutenant-Commander Fitch and his men. end of the Confederate Navy in the Mississippi region. surrender of Confederate property at Shreveport. list of vessels and officers of the Mississippi Squadron, 1865. Acting-rear-admiral. S. P. Lee, who followed Rear-Admiral Porter in October, 1864, in the command of the Mississippi Squadron, was not fortunate on his arrival in the West. On the 4th of November, Admiral Lee reports the loss of the tin-clad gun-boat Undine in an engagement with the Confederates on the Tennessee. The enemy had seven pieces of artillery against the gun-boat's four. On the 4th of November the light-draft gun-boats Towah, Key West and Elfin had a severe engagement with the enemy, lasting several hours, when Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant E. M. King,
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