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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 4 (search)
ate. See Vol. I., p. 411. This work stands on an island, or rather ocean sand-bank, whence it looks off on the broad Atlantic, and commands the entrance to the Newport river. It is approached from the land with much difficulty, but was soon invested, and a regular siege commenced, April 11. its pickets driven in, and a good position for siege-guns obtained within fair distance, while the fleet menaced it on the side of the ocean. All being at length in readiness, fire was opened April 25. from a breaching battery at 1,100 feet distance, with flanking mortars behind sand-banks at 1,400 yards; the fleet also, consisting of three gunboats and a bark, steamed around in a circle, after the fashion inaugurated by Dupont at Port Royal, and fired as they severally came opposite the fort, until the roughness of the sea compelled them to desist. The land batteries were kept at work until late in the afternoon; when, 7 of the garrison being killed, 18 wounded, and most of the availab
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xix. Missouri and Arkansas in 1863. (search)
f April, with Price's 1st corps of the trans-Mississippi department, reported (doubtless, with exaggeration) as 10,000 strong, he moved north-eastward into Missouri; April 20. marching up the St. Francis to Frederickton, April 22. thence striking south-eastward at Cape Girardeau, a large depot of Union army stores, on the Mississippi, whither Gen. John McNeil had repaired from Bloomfield, with 1,200 men and 6 guns; reaching it, by hard marching, two days before Marmaduke's arrival. April 25. McNeil found here 500 men, mainly of the 1st Nebraska, Lt.-Col. Baumer, with 4 more guns, behind four very rude and simple earthworks. As a measure of prudence, he sent away most of the stores on steamboats, and was then ready for the fight with which Marmaduke, with four brigades, soon accommodated him: the place being first formally summoned by order of Maj.-Gen. Sterling Price (who was not within 100 miles)--30 minutes being allowed for an answer; but only one was taken. The enemy nex
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 24 (search)
eries at Marksville, on the Red river, when he fell back to Fort de Russy and strengthened that post. Banks, upon reaching Alexandria from above, had found April 25. there Gen. Hunter, with reiterated orders from Grant to bring his Shreveport campaign to a close without delay. Banks sent Hunter back April 30. with dispating for the night 6 miles farther on its way; making, by great exertion, 22 miles next day; having to corduroy the road much of the distance. Next morning, April 25. while with difficulty making its way through a swamp four miles long, its advance was attacked, as it debouched at Marks's Mill, by Gen. Fagan's Rebel division,226 against it. State officers, three members of Congress, a Legislature, and local officers, were at the same time elected. The Legislature met, and elected April 25. U. S. Senators. The Unionists had fondly supposed every thing restored that should be, so far as their State was concerned; until Steele's reverses in and retr