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Barre's Landing (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ber he left the vicinity of Opelousas with the remainder of his little army, and camped on the banks of Carrion Crow Bayou, which the road to Vermilionville crosses at an equal distance—say about fourteen miles—from these two towns. At a little distance before reaching it this road crosses another stream parallel with the first, called Bayou Bourbeux. The rearguard was formed of Burbridge's brigade, detached from the Fourth division of the Thirteenth corps; it came from the village of Barre's Landing, at the confluence of the Teche and Bayou Courtableau, and halted on the north bank of Bayou Bourbeux. On the following day the Nineteenth corps halted at Vermilionville; the Third division of the Thirteenth corps, commanded by General McGinnis, and Burbridge's brigade, did not break their camps. In spite of a few musket-shots exchanged with some Confederate skirmishers, it was not thought that the enemy were strong in the vicinity: it was an open country; rideaux of green oaks, bor
Suwanee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
of January to destroy a hostile schooner. The operations of the Eastern Gulf squadron may be expressed in a few lines. Still more than elsewhere the Federals sought to destroy the salt-works so numerous on the coast of Florida: in June they destroyed those on Alligator Bay; in July, those on Marsh Island, near to the Ocklockonnee River; finally, in December they destroyed the most important ones on the Bay of St. Andrew. The capture, without fighting, of two blockade-runners on the Suwanee River on the 20th and the 24th of December closes this enumeration, as short as it is insignificant. The purely naval operations of the other Gulf squadron shall detain us still less, although this squadron had an immense stretch of coast to watch, from the Bay of Pensacola in Florida down to the boundary of Mexico at the mouth of the Rio Grande. But, on the one hand, Farragut, with some of his best ships, remained on the Mississippi after the capture of Port Hudson; and, on the other hand
Apalachee River (United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ng to the brig Perry that had relieved the Ward, Dahlgren despatched several vessels to Murrell's Inlet, and one of them, the Nipsic, effected a landing on the 1st day of January to destroy a hostile schooner. The operations of the Eastern Gulf squadron may be expressed in a few lines. Still more than elsewhere the Federals sought to destroy the salt-works so numerous on the coast of Florida: in June they destroyed those on Alligator Bay; in July, those on Marsh Island, near to the Ocklockonnee River; finally, in December they destroyed the most important ones on the Bay of St. Andrew. The capture, without fighting, of two blockade-runners on the Suwanee River on the 20th and the 24th of December closes this enumeration, as short as it is insignificant. The purely naval operations of the other Gulf squadron shall detain us still less, although this squadron had an immense stretch of coast to watch, from the Bay of Pensacola in Florida down to the boundary of Mexico at the mouth
Suffolk, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
hapter. Nevertheless, not to omit any fact, we will resume the division adopted in the third chapter of the first book in the third volume, of which this is a sequel, and we shall speak in succession of the four naval divisions which blockaded the Southern States under the name of squadrons—viz. the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic, the East Gulf, and the West Gulf. The first, which is always under the orders of Admiral Lee, confines itself, since the Confederates raised the siege of Suffolk, to blockading the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina. Unimportant expeditions up the rivers that cut these coasts, and the destruction of some blockade-runners at the entrance to Wilmington, the only important port that the Federal ships have to watch, break the monotony of the blockade along these inhospitable shores. The official reports mention three large steamers surprised by the blockading fleet at the moment when, with rich cargoes, they were going to enter Wilmington. All t
Granite City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
hed Atchafalaya Bay, and immediately resumed its sailing, escorted by four gunboats, the Clifton, Sachem, Arizona, and Granite City, which were to protect it during the voyage and prepare the landing. Each of these vessels carried several guns of ls close to the western shore of Sabine Pass and the Confederate works. At a certain distance in rear of her comes the Granite City, escorting the transports that have been able to pass the bar. These vessels are, at a given signal, to land on this st capture it all; and the more easily as a part of the transports have stranded near the shore, and the captain of the Granite City hastened to repair to the high seas with his ship. Fortunately, the Confederates, busy with the capture they have just made, allow night to come upon them, and the transports, protected by the Granite City, which has at last returned, recross the bar, followed by the Arizona, again released. The failure of the expedition was complete. The capture of the Sachem an
Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
elp to him. The garrison at Charleston had dwindled to 2462 infantry, 2839 artillery, and 560 cavalry—say, adding the officers, about six thousand men. It is true that it could be promptly reinforced by two or three thousand from the garrison at Savannah. It was, withal, full of ardor and commanded by eminent leaders. Beauregard, on account of his science and inventive genius, was better able than anybody else to direct the great operations about to commence with an enemy provided with iron-cged to reinforce the garrison on James Island, and could not send to Morris Island the troops that might have foiled the debarkation of Strong's brigade. Another demonstration ordered by Gillmore to prevent Beauregard from drawing troops from Savannah did not succeed so well. Colonel Higginson embarked on the same date with a negro regiment, the First South Carolina, on transports to ascend by the South Edisto River and the Pawpaw River as far as Jacksonboroa, where he was to cut the Savanna
Catskill (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
n that direction, while his artillerymen responded as best they could to the artillery of the Federals. But the latter soon received a powerful reinforcement. As early as four o'clock in the morning Admiral Dahlgren, hoisting his flag on the Catskill, passed over the Charleston bar with four monitors; he approached Lighthouse Inlet, and when abreast of the hostile batteries, getting his ships to bear broadside on, he soon covered them with shells. Two hours have thus elapsed; it is nearly ed yards from Fort Wagner, the depth of the water not allowing them to draw any nearer, exchanged all day long with that fort a lively cannonade. More than five hundred projectiles were fired by the fleet without producing any serious harm. The Catskill, on the other hand, attracting by the admiral's flag the fire of the enemy, received upward of sixty shots, without, however, sustaining any heavy damage. Encouraged by his success, Gillmore wished to avail himself of the opportunity to carry
Bagdad, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
ing efficient protection to troops posted near any of the passes formed in the banks. Banks' plan, well conceived this time, was to take possession of these passes successively, commencing at the south. On the 2d of November he lands a few troops on the shore of Brazos Island, and establishes himself there without interference on the part of the enemy; he thus commands the channel of Boca Chica. On the following day a disembarkation is effected at the mouth of the Rio Grande in front of Bagdad. The Confederates, who have entirely disarmed Southern Texas to protect Galveston and the eastern part of the State, cannot even make a show of resistance. But, the bar not permitting the large transports to penetrate into the river, the landing is effected by means of boats—a long and difficult operation which costs the life of several sailors. On being master of this point, Banks ascends the river with a portion of his troops, and on the 6th takes possession of Brownsville, in front of
Sioux City (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
e, the South, and the West. We have now, to terminate. this long review, but a few words to say concerning the attacks directed against the Federal posts of the North-west by the Indian tribes, unconscious allies of the Confederates. The great Sioux nation, to use the usual term, comprising the numerous tribes driven by the whites to the west of Minnesota on the banks of the Missouri, had, in 1862, undertaken against the latter an offensive return. Availing themselves of the absence of the and by forced marches he had at last reached them July 24th on the centre of the high plateau called by the old Canadian hunters Missouri Hill. The savage warriors were numerous—more than two thousand, it is said; they belonged to the principal Sioux tribes. Not expecting the invasion of their territory whilst they were meditating that of Minnesota, they had established their camps near the frontier. Encumbered by the train they were dragging after them, they had not been able to cope in sp
Fort Moultrie (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 4
nge of the fleet he had the choice of three points of attack: He could land, to the northward of the bar, upon the sandy beach of Sullivan's Island and besiege Fort Moultrie. This operation presented great difficulties, because there was no easy landing-place, and it would have been necessary to transport to Sullivan's Island all guns were firing upon the south-west angle of the shelter in which the entire garrison had taken refuge. While the monitors were dividing their shots between Fort Moultrie and the works on Morris Island, the armored frigate New Ironsides, which had a broadside of eight pieces, kept up a ricochet fire on the fort with great precisments higher than they had expected. Those that followed these, instead of landing to support them, began to fire on friends and foes alike. Projectiles from Fort Moultrie, falling in the midst of the launches, put the finishing-touch to the confusion among the assailants, and Captain Stevens very promptly gave the signal, and ev
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