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Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
t on breaking up Foote's mortar-boat parties. The General Bragg, under command of William H. H. Leonard, steaming far in advance of her consorts, surprised the Cincinnati before the rest of the Federal fleet could come to her assistance. In the attack the General Bragg received a full broadside from the Cincinnati, which disableCincinnati, which disabled her and put her out of the action, but not until she had rammed the Federal gunboat, tearing a great hole in her side and flooding her shell-room. She was towed to the shore and sank in eleven feet of water. The career of this Confederate river-defense flotilla was brief, however, for on the 6th of June, when Charles Ellet's rvell at New Orleans, January 15, 1862. Converted into a war-boat, she took a bold part in the engagement near Fort Pillow, which resulted in the sinking of the Cincinnati. She arrived on the scene just as the General Bragg was disabled and boldly rammed the Federal gunboat for the second time, when a shot from the Carondelet dis
Alabama (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
nted his State, Florida, and before he joined the Confederate Cabinet the navy-yard in his home town, Pensacola, had been seized, January 10, 1861, by Florida and Alabama State troops. The Federal navy-yards in the South were neither so active nor so well equipped as those at the North. But Norfolk Navy-yard, one of the oldest anning of the Confederate navy--ruins of the Norfolk navy-yard, 1862 and its dearth of even the nucleus of any naval force. The secession of Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana in quick succession made for a sure commencement of hostilities. In February, 1861, delegates from the seceding States met at Montgomery,n. The ladies of Georgia had presented to the Confederate States a floating battery that was partially finished at the end of the first year of the war. The State of Alabama had turned over an iron-clad ram as a gift to the Confederate service. Most of the ships that had been completed at the close of the first year of the war
Lovell (search for this): chapter 4
issuing of this order the crew of the captured privateer Savannah was tried The General Price --a Confederate war-boat that changed hands This was one of the fourteen river-steamers condemned and seized for the Confederate Government by General Lovell at New Orleans, January 15, 1862. Converted into a war-boat, she took a bold part in the engagement near Fort Pillow, which resulted in the sinking of the Cincinnati. She arrived on the scene just as the General Bragg was disabled and boldlHollins, C. S. N. General Polk and the whole Mississippi delegation had urged upon the Confederate Congress the fitting out of this independent flotilla, which cost more than the million and a half dollars appropriated for it. The Confederate General Lovell at New Orleans had no faith in its efficiency because of his belief that the fleet was not properly officered. He stated emphatically that fourteen Mississippi captains and pilots would never agree about anything after they once got under wa
William H. Parker (search for this): chapter 4
received $2550; first lieutenants on duty at sea received $1500 a year, and the same when on other duty. When on leave or awaiting orders they received $1200 a year. Second lieutenants when on duty at sea received $1200 a year, and when on leave or on other duty received $1000. Surgeons on duty at sea received $2200 and when on other duty $2000 a year. At Richmond, very early in the struggle, a naval school was established by Secretary Mallory and placed under the command of Lieutenant William H. Parker, a former officer of the United States navy, who, at the outbreak of the war, had already seen twenty years of service. In July, 1863, the steamship Patrick Henry, then at Richmond, was converted into a school-ship. She was ordered to remain at anchor off Drewry's Bluff in the James River to lend assistance, if necessary, to the defense of the capital. In the fall of the year the Confederate States Naval Academy was formally opened with an efficient corps of professors. Th
Bragg (search for this): chapter 4
An early defender of the Mississippi the Confederate gunboat General Bragg Early in the war, at the suggestion of two Mississippi Rivehinery. They were organized into the river-defense fleet. The General Bragg, side-wheel steamer, with seven others of these vessels, was sthe river, bent on breaking up Foote's mortar-boat parties. The General Bragg, under command of William H. H. Leonard, steaming far in advanc Federal fleet could come to her assistance. In the attack the General Bragg received a full broadside from the Cincinnati, which disabled hnfederate fleet was put out of commission. This picture of the General Bragg was taken after she had been raised and refitted by the Federalinking of the Cincinnati. She arrived on the scene just as the General Bragg was disabled and boldly rammed the Federal gunboat for the secot with the Ellet rams off Memphis, she met the same fate as the General Bragg and the other vessels. She and the General Beauregard, while m
James D. Bulloch (search for this): chapter 4
icient power Confederate ships. The Atlanta was bought in September, 1861, by Captain James D. Bulloch, secret-service agent of the Confederate States in Europe. She was a new Clyde-built sartridges, percussion caps, and various sorts of arms and ammunition. No single ship, says Captain Bulloch, ever took into the Confederacy a cargo so entirely composed of military and naval suppliesthat would be adequate to maintain the defenses of the waterways of the South, commissioned James D. Bulloch to go to England and attempt to have some suitable ships constructed there, informing him aof the neutrality agreement, and might be taken possession of by the British Government. Captain Bulloch, a graduate of Annapolis, was well suited to the task, and he at once entered into negotiat were later equipped at other ports from ships that had carried out their arms and ammunition. Bulloch remained in Europe during the greater part of the war, and was a valuable assistant to the Secr
William A. Webb (search for this): chapter 4
ore the war-cloud had broken over the Nation, The Teaser's 32-Pounder: the guns of the saucy Teaser, one of the first Confederate gunboats Before the completion of the ironclad Virginia, ( Merrimac, )the Confederate navy had but five small steamers in the James River to oppose eight of the largest Federal vessels at Hampton Roads. The Teaser was a river-tug mounting but one gun at the time, yet in the engagement in which the Virginia first appeared the Teaser, under command of Lieutenant W. A. Webb, C. S. N., boldly used her one gun against the Federal shore battery of sixty. In the upper picture this gun appears, a 12-pounder rifle. Its exposed position is evidence of the courage that was necessary to man it. In the lower picture is seen the 32-pounder that was added to the Teaser's armament later. With only these two guns she encountered both the Maratanza and the Monitor, near Haxall's, on the James River, July 4, 1862, and replied valiantly to their fire. The third of t
Raphael Semmes (search for this): chapter 4
her capture by the Maratanza The Maratanza : after her exploit One of the first Southern naval men to resign from the Federal Naval Department was Commander Raphael Semmes, who at once went South to enter the service of the new Government. He was sent to the North to secure what arms and ammunition he could, to contract foor contracted for, but no vessels could be found that would be in the least adapted to service on the high seas, and with this portion of his mission unfulfilled, Semmes returned to Montgomery, twelve days before the firing on Fort Sumter. Meanwhile, other agents of the Government had been attempting to find suitable ships in the Southern harbors that might be bought. All of these were reported as unsuitable for service as naval vessels, but Commander Semmes, after learning the qualifications of one of them, asked the Secretary of the Navy to secure her, have her altered, give him command, and then allow him to go to sea. The secretary acceded to this
Benjamin F. Butler (search for this): chapter 4
ilt the Virginia no. 2 for the defense of the James River. She was commanded by Commodore R. B. Pegram, C. S. N., and was the flagship of Commodore John K. Mitchell, C. S. N., who with two other gunboats opposed the Federal fleet that was attempting to work its way up to Richmond. The pierced and battered smokestack of the Virginia shows how bravely she stood up to the fire of the Federal monitors and the Howlett's house batteries. The Virginia and her consorts were active in shelling General Butler's Dutch Gap canal. On October 22, 1864, the Virginia discovered a new Federal masked battery nearly two miles below Chaffin's Bluff. With her consorts she stood up for two hours against the fire of the 100-pounder Parrott rifles on the shore, at a range of 500 yards. On the night of January 23, 1865, Commodore Mitchell of the Virginia and his fleet attempted to pass below the Federal obstructions in the river, but both the Virginia and the Richmond grounded and were exposed all the nex
Lincoln (search for this): chapter 4
rchant marine. Others were used to guard the mouths of the rivers of the Confederacy, while several of them moved on the offensive in the rivers. The George Page (renamed the Richmond), a small steamer, lightly equipped, soon became well known to the Federals for its continual menacing of the forts on the Occoquan River and Quantico Creek, often advancing close and firing shells into them. Soon after the commencement of the war, the Confederate privateers became such a menace that President Lincoln issued a proclamation that all the privateers would be regarded as pirates, and that their crews and officers would be subjected to punishment as such. Six months after the issuing of this order the crew of the captured privateer Savannah was tried The General Price --a Confederate war-boat that changed hands This was one of the fourteen river-steamers condemned and seized for the Confederate Government by General Lovell at New Orleans, January 15, 1862. Converted into a war-bo
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