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Aquia Creek (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 8
severance of the Yankees. A correspondent of the New York Times gives an account of the rebuilding of the Richmonds Fredericksburg and Potomac railroad from Aquia Creek, and the wharf there. He says: On Monday of this week the first troops were landed, consisting of several companies of the Engineer brigade. On Tuesdayr railroad construction was loaned to other parties who were without material to work upon. With the first supply of lumber several small cars were sent to Aquia Creek, and on-Thursday morning a party of track-layers and bridge-carpenters, with an escort of about 50 engineer soldiers, taking with them tents, rations, tools, anas been done in less than three days, in the midst of a soaking rain all the time, and a fog so thick that boats could only run at intervals. The grounds about Aquia Creek present an expanse of liquid mud. Neither officers or men have any shelter except tents, and only an insufficient supply of them. A repair shop for cars and en
Ship Island (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): article 8
tever, and this simply because they did not ask for them. Well may Mr. Stanton have said in the House, "that there are a good deal of rumors and speculations and misapprehensions as to the true state of facts in regard to this matter." 2. Secretary Floyd, under suspicious circumstances on the 22d December, 1860, and but a few days before he left the Department, had, without the knowledge of the President, ordered 113 columbiads and 11 32 po nders to be transported from Pittsburg to Ship island and Galveston, in Mississippi and Texas. This fact was brought to the knowledge of the President by a communication from Pittsburg; and Secretary Holt immediately thereafter countermanded the order of his predecessor, and the cannon were never sent. The promptitude with which we acted elicited a vote of thanks, dated the 4th of January, 1861, from the Select and Common Councils of that city "to the President the Attorney General, and the Acting Secretary of War. " (Mr. Holt) After
Potomac Run (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 8
ed, having just arrived on foot with two or three little cars to beg a few sticks from Mr. Wright to finish off. Mr. Smeed reports also that a party is at work at Potomac Run Bridge, but that the damage there is more serious than was previously represented. At the present time a great length of wharf has been reconstructed — possibly 800 feet--and to morrow it is reported that the track will reach the extreme end, when engine and cars will be landed and transportation commenced as far as Potomac Run. All this work has been done in less than three days, in the midst of a soaking rain all the time, and a fog so thick that boats could only run at intervals. The grounds about Aquia Creek present an expanse of liquid mud. Neither officers or men have any shelter except tents, and only an insufficient supply of them. A repair shop for cars and engines is being extemporized by erecting shafting for driving lathes and other tools with a portable engine, while as yet there is no roof o
Moscow, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): article 8
thereby bag an army — an achievement often attempted in this war, but seldom realized — Probably the entire defending force would pass into our hands, and the best portion of all the Confederate troops be thus put, on the instant, hors de combat The capture of Richmond at all must be fatal to the rebellion; but the fate would be the more immediate if with it we can destroy the army that defends it. Let us, then, strike with our utmost force upon the rebel capital, as Napoleon did upon Moscow, and the Allies upon Paris, Not a soldier should be moved in a different direction until the numbers here are mighty enough to put this supreme, this vital success, beyond all contingency. This third attempt will, in all human probability, be the last one. At least the foreign Powers will consider it the sovereign test. Wo to the Republic if it fails, and a triple wo to the Administration through whose short-coming such failure can alone come, if it come at all. The Perseverance of t
Galveston (Texas, United States) (search for this): article 8
simply because they did not ask for them. Well may Mr. Stanton have said in the House, "that there are a good deal of rumors and speculations and misapprehensions as to the true state of facts in regard to this matter." 2. Secretary Floyd, under suspicious circumstances on the 22d December, 1860, and but a few days before he left the Department, had, without the knowledge of the President, ordered 113 columbiads and 11 32 po nders to be transported from Pittsburg to Ship island and Galveston, in Mississippi and Texas. This fact was brought to the knowledge of the President by a communication from Pittsburg; and Secretary Holt immediately thereafter countermanded the order of his predecessor, and the cannon were never sent. The promptitude with which we acted elicited a vote of thanks, dated the 4th of January, 1861, from the Select and Common Councils of that city "to the President the Attorney General, and the Acting Secretary of War. " (Mr. Holt) After this statement
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): article 8
port of the Committee-on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives, now before me, made by Mr. Stanton, of Ohio, their Chairman, on the 18th of February, 1861, and to be found in the second volume of the Reports of Committees of the House for the session of 1860-61. This report, and the testimony before the Committee, establish: 1. That the Southern States received in 1860 less instead of more than the quota of arms to which they were entitled by law; and that three of them--N. Carolina Mississippi, and Kentucky--received no arms whatever, and this simply because they did not ask for them. Well may Mr. Stanton have said in the House, "that there are a good deal of rumors and speculations and misapprehensions as to the true state of facts in regard to this matter." 2. Secretary Floyd, under suspicious circumstances on the 22d December, 1860, and but a few days before he left the Department, had, without the knowledge of the President, ordered 113 columbiads and 11
Lincoln (search for this): article 8
00) to be sent from the Springfield armory where they had been accumulated, to five Southern arsenals, "in proportion to their respective means of proper storage." This order carried into effect by the Ordnance Bureau, in the usual course of administration, and without reference to the President. It is but justice to say that from the testimony before the Committee, there is no reason to suspect that Secretary Floyd issued this order from any sinister motive its date was months before Mr. Lincoln's nomination for the Presidency, and nearly a year before his election, and while the Secretary was still an avowed opponent of secession. Indeed the testimony of Col. Craig and Capt. Mayna of the Ordnance, before the Committee, is wholly inconsistent with any evil intention on his part. And yet these "condemned muskets," with a few thousand ancient rifles of a calibre than no longer used, are transformed by Gen. Scott into "115,000 extra muskets and rifles, with all their impleme
Burnside (search for this): article 8
Richmond is beset with armies of a magnitude that should make its quick surrender sure. Concentration upon Richmond should be our order of the day. The rebels have already made it theirs. They full well understand its tremendous importance to themselves. Their armies, with all the rapidity possible, are gathering for the protection of their capital. A hundred and fifty thousand of the best bayonets of the Confederacy will be bristling in that defence before December opens. Who knows if Burnside has an equal force? Even if he has, can our Government intend to set him against the enemy on equal terms? Is our immense superiority in military numbers to be henceforth profitless, as it has been heretofore? Must we, the invaders, still meet the enemy in their chosen positions with only half our proper strength? We say, concentrate. Reinforce. Be not content with simply pitting an upper against a nother millstone — The rebellion cannot be so crushed. It is the preponderance of the a
William W. Wright (search for this): article 8
s of assorted lumber that had been provided by Gen. Haupt in anticipation of such an emergency, long before the change of base had been determined upon. On Wednesday the work of reconstruction was commenced under the immediate supervision of Wm. W. Wright, Esq., Superintendent and Engineer of railroad construction, and Capts Pitkins and, Hall, of the Quartermaster's department. So far from any neglect having been exhibited on the part of the railroad department, as has been charge!, a considegged carried, and rolled by the men, and the bridge is this evening (Friday) ready for the track timbers; the Superintendent of Bridge Construction, R. C. Smeed, having just arrived on foot with two or three little cars to beg a few sticks from Mr. Wright to finish off. Mr. Smeed reports also that a party is at work at Potomac Run Bridge, but that the damage there is more serious than was previously represented. At the present time a great length of wharf has been reconstructed — possibly 800 f
Paris (search for this): article 8
hievement often attempted in this war, but seldom realized — Probably the entire defending force would pass into our hands, and the best portion of all the Confederate troops be thus put, on the instant, hors de combat The capture of Richmond at all must be fatal to the rebellion; but the fate would be the more immediate if with it we can destroy the army that defends it. Let us, then, strike with our utmost force upon the rebel capital, as Napoleon did upon Moscow, and the Allies upon Paris, Not a soldier should be moved in a different direction until the numbers here are mighty enough to put this supreme, this vital success, beyond all contingency. This third attempt will, in all human probability, be the last one. At least the foreign Powers will consider it the sovereign test. Wo to the Republic if it fails, and a triple wo to the Administration through whose short-coming such failure can alone come, if it come at all. The Perseverance of the Yankees. A correspon
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