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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 158 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 105 3 Browse Search
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 76 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 68 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 62 4 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 58 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 48 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 40 2 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 40 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 36 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.). You can also browse the collection for Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) or search for Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) in all documents.

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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—secession. (search)
ore than set fire to the vessels, which the Confederates might otherwise have easily raised again; some were completely consumed, others, like the Merrimac, foundered before they had been destroyed by the fire. There only remained afloat the Cumberland and the Pawnee, which had brought Paulding over; this officer, having no longer the means to maintain himself at Norfolk, did what he could, on the morning of the 21st, to destroy the arsenal buildings, and then retired into the harbor of Hampton Roads. The Confederates found abundant resources in artillery and materiel of every description in Norfolk; the fire was soon extinguished, the docks repaired, and they succeeded in raising the Merrimac, which we shall see at work the following year. Fort Monroe had just been occupied by a small Federal garrison. Its loss would have been even more disastrous to the Federal cause than that of the Norfolk navy-yard and arsenal, because the Confederates, instead of having to cover Richmond,
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
the Federals to baffle them, and the principal incidents which marked the operations of the blockade until the end of the year 1861. On the 5th of October a boat belonging to the Federal vessel Louisiana penetrated into one of the large lagoons on the Virginia coast by the pass called Chincoteague Inlet, and destroyed a schooner which the Confederates were fitting out for a cruise. This affair cost them a few wounded. On the 9th one of the large Federal transport-ships anchored in Hampton Roads, having been driven upon the enemy's beach in Lynn Haven Bay, fell under the fire of one of the Confederate batteries at Sewall's Point; she was about to be captured, when the little steamer Daylight went to her assistance, and after a brisk cannonade succeeded in silencing the guns of her adversaries. On the 12th of October the Confederates tried, for the first time, to force the blockade. The Federal division which guarded the entrances of the Mississippi was attacked and nearly di
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book V:—the first winter. (search)
the land forces and their materiel. The fleet, after descending the Chesapeake, sailed from Hampton Roads on the 12th of January. It was a great risk to send such a fleet to sail along those inhospderable results, his protracted absence was a fatal and inexcusable error. Chapter 4: Hampton roads. BURNSIDE's expedition was but an episode quite secondary as compared with the great strureater sensation than a bloody battle. We allude to the naval combat of which the harbor of Hampton Roads was the theatre on the 8th and 9th of March, 1862, and which marks the greatest and most sude latter vessel, had, by a second chance, not less strange, just reached the battle-field of Hampton Roads at the moment when her presence alone could change the aspect of the fight. It was not fotor, which was an easy matter, with an engine as powerful as hers, might she not reappear in Hampton Roads, and, taking no notice of the adversary whose attack had probably occupied her too exclusive