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Norfleet (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e tributary streams, until then deemed impassable, and connected various works which had been erected in front of the enemy. These works were also speedily fortified, and the main battery of the Confederates, constructed at the extreme point of Norfleet Otherwise known as Norfleet's farm.—Ed. for the purpose of covering their passage, was so vigorously cannonaded that it was soon reduced to silence. Lamson took advantage of this on the morrow to go up the river, where the presence of his vNorfleet's farm.—Ed. for the purpose of covering their passage, was so vigorously cannonaded that it was soon reduced to silence. Lamson took advantage of this on the morrow to go up the river, where the presence of his vessels afforded much encouragement to the landtroops. The latter had been constantly pressed by the skirmishers of the enemy, who were endeavoring to find put the weak point of the Federal line, but without attacking it seriously. Longstreet, in fact, had changed his tactics. He was gathering his forces below Suffolk, fully convinced that by multiplying his batteries along the river he would finally obtain complete command of its course, and might then effect a passage which he did not dare t
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
tant forces along the coast to the detriment of Lee's army, in whose ranks ten thousand men more or less could exercise a decisive influence on the day of battle. The Federals on this occasion were gathering the fruits of McClellan's campaign against Richmond, which were not entirely lost at the time of the evacuation of Harrison's Landing. They had then preserved the important positions of Williamsburg and Yorktown on the Virginia peninsula, of Norfolk and Suffolk on the right bank of the James. These were points whence an army, speedily transported by sea, could always debouch for the purpose of operating either against the city of Richmond itself or against the lines of railways running south from that town. The Fourth army corps, commanded by General Keyes, had charge of these positions. It occupied Fortress Monroe, Yorktown, and Fort Magruder near Williamsburg with one division; the other, under General Peck, was located at Norfolk and Suffolk. The latter town, situated on
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
of Williamsburg and Yorktown on the Virginia peninsula, of Norfolk and Suffolk on the right bank of the James. These were pone division; the other, under General Peck, was located at Norfolk and Suffolk. The latter town, situated on the Nansemond RCarolina. Suffolk thus commands an isthmus which connects Norfolk with the mainland. Hence the importance of this position,t against Suffolk, the fall of which would involve that of Norfolk. Once masters of this fine port and its arsenal, they wouter took the cars that were to convey them from Suffolk to Norfolk: just as the first train was about to start, Peck receivedls from reaching the Upper Nansemond. Between Suffolk and Norfolk the river, narrow and tortuous, bordered by dense forests, miles of rails for railroads. Once master of this point, Norfolk with its arsenal, so indispensable to the fleet which blo swamp on this side, would have enabled the enemy to reach Norfolk by turning his position. The Federal navy was represent
Tappahannock (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
able number of prisoners in sight of the city; then, leaving the enemy astounded at so much audacity, he crossed the Chickahominy near Meadow Bridge, destroyed the railway-bridge, quickly gained the banks of the Pamunkey at Hanovertown, and, being ferried over, succeeded at last in placing that river between himself and the enemy, who was pressing him closely. On the morning of the 5th, starting again for the north, he crossed the Mattapony, and reached the Rappahannock at the village of Tappahannock. From thence, in order to throw the detachments that had been pursuing him all the way from Richmond on the wrong scent, he suddenly turned once more southward; picked up on the way a squadron of the Twelfth Illinois; and finally, on the 7th, reached the strong place of Gloucester Point, at the entrance of York River, which was occupied by the Federals. Here he found Colonel Davis, who had arrived the day before. The latter had started at the same time as himself, and had followed, m
Alleghany Mountains (United States) (search for this): chapter 2
urmountable obstable in the mud of Virginia. The Confederate cavalry, scattered among the counties that are watered by the Rapidan, and as far as the foot of the Alleghanies, for the purpose of gathering the forage of which they stood in need and to enforce the application of the conscription laws before the Federals should come th of March. They finally returned to the charge at the end of April, while one detachment tried in vain, on the 28th, to force the defile of Greenland Gap in the Alleghanies. Jones, passing through Beverly and Philippi at the head of a large brigade of cavalry, levied contributions upon the whole flat country and forced his way a on the Virginia side of the Ohio, the whole valley of Monongahela, where McClellan made his debut, and the sources of the upper tributaries of the Potomac in the Alleghanies; General Kelley occupies this last region between Romney and Moorefield. The Confederate forces, very much scattered, are, for the most part, commanded by Ge
Jacksonville (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
is now occupying our attention. It was shown in the first volume that the Federals, after having occupied the town of Jacksonville in Florida, had evacuated it, thus subjecting those inhabitants who had compromised themselves through their sympathy y to swell the ranks of the new regiments composed of colored men. Saxton determined to send two of these regiments to Jacksonville. They went up St. John's River upon transports, and on the 10th of March they occupied this point without striking a ter rivalries between the immediate leaders of the white forces and the organizers of the colored troops. The town of Jacksonville and its inhabitants were the victims. General Hunter, believing that the forces detached from that side would be req March. The incidents which marked this third evacuation rendered it particularly unfortunate for the Federal cause. Jacksonville, celebrated for the mildness of its climate, was, before the war, the rendezvous of numerous families who came there t
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
parole a number of Federal officers and soldiers, an accident to his machinery rendered him for some time utterly powerless. But a bolder project, and one more worthy of the military flag which he flew so boldly when in pursuit of inoffensive merchantmen, soon called him into other waters. General Banks was then enlisting troops in Massachusetts, destined, it was said, to land at Galveston for the purpose of invading Texas. In reality, they were to assist the fleet in conquering the Lower Mississippi, and we have seen that only two regiments were despatched in the direction of Galveston. But the newspapers positively announced that a whole army was to land on the 10th of January on the coast of Texas. Semmes conceived the idea of falling suddenly upon the fleet of transports which conveyed this army while it was being landed. In order to conceal his whereabouts he hid himself during the period of one month among the small islands of the Yucatan coast; then, on the 11th of Januar
Bowling Green (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
eaching the Massaponax, one branch of which, called the Bowling Green Road, pursues likewise a southerly direction; finally, art in pursuit by way of the Telegraph Road and that of Bowling Green. The part assigned to this wing therefore consisted invain. In this case his chief objective point was to be Bowling Green. From the tenor of the instructions given to Couch aerious attack, such demonstration to be confined to the Bowling Green road. This last recommendation, upon which Hooker laidim to cross the river and to pursue the enemy along the Bowling Green road. Sedgwick had naturally made all his forces cross, and had pushed his troops forward in the direction of Bowling Green, according to the last advices from his chief, when, atof the bridges erected at the Franklin Crossing, on the Bowling Green Road, in front of the enemy's skirmishers, whom it had rch, and Early, believing the enemy to be moving on the Bowling Green Road, was making useless preparations to dispute it to
Quaker City (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
usta, and two others The Stettin and the Ottawa.—Ed. formed the northern division; the Mercedita and the Keystone State, the one of eight hundred and the other of fourteen hundred tons, were in front of the southern bar; the Memphis and the Quaker City more in the rear. On the evening of the 30th of January the whole fleet, as usual, was under steam, moored to anchor-buoys, ready to slip their cables and fall upon any blockade-runners that might happen to heave in sight. It had made an impchance for the Keystone State, for at this moment the Memphis comes to her assistance, and in spite of the enemy's projectiles succeeds in taking her in tow before the Chicora, whose movements are very slow, has been able to get up to her. The Quaker City has come in her turn to exchange shots with the Confederate rams, without allowing them to come too close to her. It is six o'clock; the day has dawned. The Augusta, having witnessed the fight from a distance, comes up at last, followed by th
Pungo (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
d destroyed some large depots of grain; on the 30th of the same month a Federal gunboat With fifty men of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts on board.—Ed. entered the waters of the Perquimans River, which runs from the Dismal Swamp into Albemarle Sound, reached the town of Hertford, and destroyed the bridge of a road through which the Confederates drew their supplies from the neighboring districts. In short, on the 4th of March a naval expedition dispersed some partisan bands in the bay of Pungo on the Pamlico River. The role imposed upon the navy was a difficult and dangerous one: it was required to put to sea in all kinds of weather, to navigate along a difficult coast, destitute of lighthouses, frequently occupied by the enemy, and to chase blockade-runners at the risk of striking against sunken reefs. The vessels, for the most part old merchant-ships, were often commanded by improvised officers. On the 14th of January the steamer Columbia was wrecked near Masonboroa Inlet o
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