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South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 158
Doc. 148.-expedition to Jacksonville, Fla. Report of Colonel Rust. Hilton head, S. C., April 4. Lieut-Col. C. C. Halpine, Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the South: Colonel: I have the honor to make the following report for the information of the Major-General Commanding Department of the South: In accordance with orders received, I embarked my regiment on the steamers Delaware and General Meigs at Beaufort, March nineteenth, for Jacksonville, Florida, where I arrived on the twenty-third ult., having been delayed by rough weather. Major Heminway, with three companies on the General Meigs, had already arrived. When I reached there a rebel battery, mounted on a platform-car propelled by a locomotive, was shelling the town. The gunboat Norwich, which accompanied me, engaged it, replying vigorously, as did also a rifled Parrott thirty-two-pounder on shore. The enemy were soon driven back. He was, as I afterward learned, making a reconnoissance, which it w
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 158
n with avidity by those having these forces in charge. They came and planted the flag, as was supposed, permanently here, and commenced gathering in the advantages within reach, when it was thought proper to make a more extensive and powerful movement, and for this purpose the Sixth Connecticut and Eighth Maine came to reinforce our army. These came with ten days rations, and were evidently intended only to remain long enough to strike a blow, and then return to assist in the movement on Charleston. They were delayed some days in reaching here, and were therefore scarcely debarked when an order came for their immediate return; and not only this, but for the recall of the black troops also, and the abandonment of the place. A more fatal order for the place, the interests of the people, and the Government, could not have been made. Every body was taken by surprise, and every body was exasperated, save perhaps a few who feared the negro soldiers would achieve a reputation. Was Gen
Beaufort, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 158
h: Colonel: I have the honor to make the following report for the information of the Major-General Commanding Department of the South: In accordance with orders received, I embarked my regiment on the steamers Delaware and General Meigs at Beaufort, March nineteenth, for Jacksonville, Florida, where I arrived on the twenty-third ult., having been delayed by rough weather. Major Heminway, with three companies on the General Meigs, had already arrived. When I reached there a rebel batterust, Colonel Eighth Regiment Maine Volunteers, Comd'g Forces. A National account. Jacksonville, Fla., March 29, 1863. Three weeks since, in pursuance of authority from General Hunter to take and hold this place, the black forces from Beaufort came here and occupied Jacksonville under the most auspicious circumstances for the speedy acquisition of the entire State of Florida. There were known to be less than three thousand rebel troops in the State; and all who were conversant with t
Jacksonville (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 158
Doc. 148.-expedition to Jacksonville, Fla. Report of Colonel Rust. Hilton head, S. C., Apigs at Beaufort, March nineteenth, for Jacksonville, Florida, where I arrived on the twenty-third udrew all the United States forces from Jacksonville, Florida, on the thirty-first ult., and embarkeof Provost-Marshal during our short stay at Jacksonville. Captain Cannon, of the Delaware, and hid'g Forces. A National account. Jacksonville, Fla., March 29, 1863. Three weeks since, iforces from Beaufort came here and occupied Jacksonville under the most auspicious circumstances for such malignant vigilance by the rebels. Jacksonville was under the control of our gunboats on th now. New-York Tribune account. Jacksonville, Fla., March 28, 1863. Jacksonville is in rJacksonville is in ruins. That beautiful city, which has been for so many years a favorite resort for invalids from the, I might say through all seasons, has made Jacksonville a little Eden, has been burnt, and scorched
Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 158
came here and occupied Jacksonville under the most auspicious circumstances for the speedy acquisition of the entire State of Florida. There were known to be less than three thousand rebel troops in the State; and all who were conversant with the afccupation until we were prepared to hold it as a base of aggressive operations into the interior. It is the key to East-Florida, and its occupation by us would have immediately compelled the rebel abandonment of all the territory east of the St. Jos inflicted, and Col. Higginson was the last person from whom I expected it. If Gen. Hunter had desired to do the State of Florida and the cause of freedom and Union in the South the greatest injury — if he wished to paralyze the patriotism and dehe loyal sentiment placed at the mercy of the common enemy. Now this place — the best and most flourishing town in East-Florida, and the only place whose citizens and property-holders were generally loyal — has been irretrievably ruined, and its pe<
Hilton Head (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 158
Doc. 148.-expedition to Jacksonville, Fla. Report of Colonel Rust. Hilton head, S. C., April 4. Lieut-Col. C. C. Halpine, Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the South: Colonel: I have the honor to make the following report for the information of the Major-General Commanding Department of the South: In accordance with orders received, I embarked my regiment on the steamers Delaware and General Meigs at Beaufort, March nineteenth, for Jacksonville, Florida, where I arrived on the twenty-third ult., having been delayed by rough weather. Major Heminway, with three companies on the General Meigs, had already arrived. When I reached there a rebel battery, mounted on a platform-car propelled by a locomotive, was shelling the town. The gunboat Norwich, which accompanied me, engaged it, replying vigorously, as did also a rifled Parrott thirty-two-pounder on shore. The enemy were soon driven back. He was, as I afterward learned, making a reconnoissance, which it w
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 158
lying the torch; but the order came too late. The provost-marshal and his guard could not shoot or arrest the wind. No human power could stay its ravages. Six o'clock P. M.--Mouth of the St. John's--A fierce north-east storm is raging upon the ocean. Gunboats and transports are lying here in safety, waiting until it abates. Again we are witnessing a conflagration. Some of the soldiers have gone ashore and fired a fine steam saw-mill at May Port Mills, said to belong to a Union man in Maine. Much indignation is expressed on board. The white soldiers again are the criminals. The blacks have not been off their transports. April 1st.--We arrived in this harbor early this morning, after a splendid run of fourteen hours from the mouth of the St. John's. Below I give you a list of the families we brought with us, whose dwellings were burnt, and who are now utterly destitute. Many of them, before the war, lived in luxury and independence. Now they are subsisting upon the ratio
Palatka (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 158
l shells, but was careful to keep out of reach of our rifles. One of its shells killed privates Hoole and Goodwin, and severely wounded Willis — all of Captain McArthure's company I, Eighth Maine volunteers--who were the only persons killed or wounded after my arrival. On this occasion all the troops behaved exceedingly well. Colonel Montgomery, with about one hundred and twenty men of his regiment, accompanied by Captain Stedman of the gunboat Paul Jones, made a successful expedition to Pilatka, seventy-five miles up the river, taking prisoners a lieutenant and fourteen men with their arms. The lieutenant violated his parole of honor and escaped. A quantity of cotton, rifles, horses, and other property, amounting in value to several thousand dollars, has been captured. In accordance with special order No. 162, received from headquarters Department of the South, I withdrew all the United States forces from Jacksonville, Florida, on the thirty-first ult., and embarked them on b
Eden (search for this): chapter 158
rd, by the soldiers of the National army. Scarcely a mansion, a cottage, a negro-hut, or a warehouse remains. The long lines of magnificent oaks, green and beautiful, with the thickest foliage, the orange groves perfuming the air with their blossoms, the sycamores, the old century plants adorning every garden, the palmetto and bayonet trees, ever tropical in verdure, the rose and the jessamine — all that at this season, indeed, I might say through all seasons, has made Jacksonville a little Eden, has been burnt, and scorched, and crisped, if not entirely consumed to ashes, by the devouring flames. I am now writing on the deck of the fine transport-ship the Boston. Three gunboats — the Paul Jones, the Norwich, and the John Adams — are lying out in the river, with guns shotted, ready to fire the moment a rebel appears in sight. The transport vessels — the Boston, the Delavan, the General Meigs, the Tillie, and the Cossack — are at the wharves, filled with troops. All are on bo
John D. Rust (search for this): chapter 158
Doc. 148.-expedition to Jacksonville, Fla. Report of Colonel Rust. Hilton head, S. C., April 4. Lieut-Col. C. C. Halpine, Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the South: Colonel: I and his gentlemanly officers, deserve mention for their kind treatment of officers and men. John D. Rust, Colonel Eighth Regiment Maine Volunteers, Comd'g Forces. A National account. Jacksthe Eighth Maine--in some instances by the sanction of subordinate officers; but it is due to Colonel Rust to say that every thing he could do was done to protect the property and the people. One comIt is now abandoned to destruction, and its owners to want and suffering. Col. Montgomery and Col. Rust both did all that could be done to mitigate the evils of the occasion, and I regret that unneck upon the Sixth Connecticut. After the fires in different parts of the city had broken out, Colonel Rust ordered every man to be shot who should be found applying the torch; but the order came too l
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