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Little Rock (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
e page 201, volume I.) had died in exile at Little Rock, Dec. 6, 1862. in Arkansas, but Sterling Pot-guns. Meanwhile Marmaduke had gone to Little Rock, and there, with the chief Conspirators andHelena to organize an expedition to capture Little Rock, the capital of Arkansas. His forces gatheing the bridges behind him, and fled toward Little Rock. Four days afterward Steele was joined by Tlties lay in the way of a direct march upon Little Rock, across the Bayou Metoe and its fringe of snorthern side of the Arkansas River, toward Little Rock, Little Rock is on the right bank of theLittle Rock is on the right bank of the Arkansas River, about three hundred miles from its mouth, and over a thousand miles, in a direct lks on the north side of the river, opposite Little Rock, the city and its military appurtenances weer to join and help Price in his defense of Little Rock. He failed to do so, but joined the fugitide of the Arkansas River, fifty miles below Little Rock, then in command of Colonel Powell Clayton,
Pineville (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
d, Cabell came up with his Texans, nearly three thousand strong. He did not think it prudent to attack the victorious Nationals, so during that night he moved rapidly southward, and disappeared beyond the Canadian River, when the Union force returned to Fort Blunt. In the mean time guerrilla bands were becoming exceedingly active in Blunt's rear. One of these, led by Colonel Coffey, went up from Northern Arkansas, and struck Aug. 13. the Sixth Missouri Cavalry, Colonel Catherwood, at Pineville, in Southwestern Missouri; but he was beaten, and driven away with great loss. His retreat was so precipitate, that he left behind him his wagons and supplies, and about two hundred men killed, wounded, and prisoners. At the same time a most savage raid was made into Kansas from Missouri, by a band of desperadoes collected in the western part of the latter State, and led by a human fiend under the assumed name of Quantrell. His followers numbered about three hundred. They gathered secr
James Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ationals on Morris Island, 202. battle on James's Island, 203. assault on Fort Wagner, 204. repulst part. On the west it is separated from James's Island by marshes traversed by Folly River, a narono River, to make a demonstration against James's Island, while Colonel Higginson, with some negro these he sent to co-operate with troops on James's Island in an attempt to surprise and capture Terre movement had been a feint, withdrew from James's Island, according to arrangement, to join in the enemy, about two thousand in number, from James's Island. He suppressed the fact that Hagood was rrt Sumter, Battery Gregg, and batteries on James's Island. Fort Wagner could be easily re-enforced fnfederates had constructed a heavy work on James's Island, which they named Battery Simkins. This, t at short range, and enfilading ones from James's Island, not only made a farther advance almost im, until Battery Simkins and its fellows on James's Island could annoy them no more, without danger o[1 more...]
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
and when the war broke-out was a member of the New York Seventh Regiment, so conspicuous in the movement for opening the way to Washington through Maryland. See chapter 18, volume I. He was with his regiment in those opening scenes of the war, and then received a commission in the Second Massachusetts, in which he did brave service, and had narrow escapes from death in the battles of Cedar Mountain and Antietam. He was appointed colonel of the first regiment of colored troops raised in Massachusetts, and at the head of these he fell just as he gave the word, Onward, boys! He is spoken of as one possessed of a most genial nature; of manners as gentle as a woman's; of a native refinement that brooked nothing coarse; and of a clear moral insight that no evil association could tarnish. Because he commanded negro troops the Confederates hated him; and they foolishly thought they had dishonored him when, as it was savagely proclaimed, his body had been buried in a pit under a heap of hi
Gulf of Mexico (search for this): chapter 7
cticable at that season of the year, so, in the exercise of his discretionary powers, he fitted out an expedition to make a lodgment on Texas soil at Sabine City, at the Sabine Pass. This is the name of the outlet from Sabine Lake into the Gulf of Mexico. Sabine Lake is an expansion of the Sabine River, about five miles from its entrance into the Gulf of Mexico at the southwest extremity of Louisiana, between which State and that of Texas the Sabine River, for a long distance, forms the boundGulf of Mexico at the southwest extremity of Louisiana, between which State and that of Texas the Sabine River, for a long distance, forms the boundary line. There was the terminus of a railway leading into the heart of Eastern Texas, and which was crossed by another leading to Houston, the capital of that State. Banks felt certain that by a successful movement at this point he might speedily concentrate full 15,000 men at Houston, which would place in his hands the control of all the railway communications of Texas, and the most populous part of the State, and enable him to move into the interior in any direction, or fall back upon Galv
Fort De Russy (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
had driven into the wilds of Western Louisiana, See page 600, volume II. took heart, and soon reappeared with about four thousand followers, including a large number of Texas cavalry. He reoccupied Alexandria and Opelousas, and garrisoned Fort de Russy, early in June. He then swept rapidly through Fort De Russy. the State, over the route he had been driven a few weeks before, and pushed toward New Orleans, hoping to find it sufficiently weak in defenders to allow him to capture it, or aFort De Russy. the State, over the route he had been driven a few weeks before, and pushed toward New Orleans, hoping to find it sufficiently weak in defenders to allow him to capture it, or at least by his menace to draw Banks from Port Hudson, to defend it. Banks's outposts were drawn into Brashear City, where there seems to have been very little preparation made for a defense of that important interior post, and the vast amount of National property collected there. Even its only railway communication with New Orleans appears to have been strangely undefended, and it was not until word suddenly reached Lieutenant-Colonel Stickney, in command at Brashear, that the Confederates
Cumming's Point (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
within twelve hundred yards of Fort Sumter, heavily armed and fully garrisoned by veterans, under Colonel Lawrence M. Keitt. This carried, Battery Gregg, on Cummings's Point, must fall as a consequence, when the National guns might be brought to bear heavily on Fort Sumter, and possibly hurl their shot and shell into the city of hen General Terry announced to them that the fort was evacuated. The Confederates had begun to leave it and Battery Gregg before midnight, and had fled from Cummings's Point in boats so precipitately that all but seventy escaped. During forty hours no less than one hundred and twenty-two thousand pounds of iron, in the form of b your artillery from the very spot where the first shot was fired at your dountry's flag, and the rebellion itself was inaugurated. From Battery Gregg, on Cummings's Point, Edmund Ruffin, it will be remembered, fired the first shot on Fort Sumter, on the 12th of April, 1861. See page 320, volume I. Gillmore expected the ir
Fort Gibson (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
armaduke took with him his fourteen pieces of artillery, and full as many prisoners as had been taken from him. His loss in killed and wounded was much greater than that of the Nationals. On the 20th of May, 1863. Fort Blunt, not far from Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee country west of Arkansas, was menaced by about three thousand Confederates, under Colonel Coffey. The fort was commanded by Colonel William A. Phillips, and garrisoned by about eight hundred white men and a regiment of Creek loss was fifty-seven, of whom seventeen were killed. Later in the year, a motley horde of white and red marauders, composed of the united forces of Quantrell and Standwatie, the Creek chief, attacked one of Colonel Phillips's outposts, near Fort Gibson, Dec. 18, 1863. in the Indian Territory. A contest of over four hours ensued, when the assailants were repulsed and driven across the Arkansas River. After that there was no fighting of importance in all the region between the Red and Misso
Fredericton (Canada) (search for this): chapter 7
ad gone to Little Rock, and there, with the chief Conspirators and military leaders in Arkansas, he planned a raid into Missouri, having for its chief objective the capture or destruction of a large depot of National stores at Cape Girardeau, on the Mississippi River. With a force of about eight thousand men, in four brigades, known as Price's First Corps of the Trans-Mississippi Department, he pushed rapidly into Missouri, and following the general line of the St. Francis River, reached Fredericton, between Pilot Knob and Cape Girardeau, on the 22d of April. 1868. There he turned quickly to the southeast, and marched on Cape Girardeau; but General John McNeil, who, at Bloomfield, in Stoddard County, had heard of the raid and divined its object, beat him in a race for that point, and, with his twelve hundred followers, reached Cape Girardeau two days before Marmaduke's arrival. April 25. McNeil found there about five hundred men, mostly of the First Nebraska, under Lieutenant-Colon
Nahant (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
lated with strips of iron two and a half inches in thickness, covering thick oak and pine planking. She was armed with four of Brooke's (English) rifled cannon, whose projectiles were steel-pointed, and at her bow was an iron beak six feet in length, to which was suspended a submarine torpedo, charged with 50 pounds of gunpowder, for blowing up any vessel she might attack. Deserters from the Atlanta reported her ready for work, and Admiral Dupont sent the Weehawken, Captain Rodgers, and Nahant, Commander Downes, to Wassaw Sound, to watch her. She was considered by her commander a match for both, and on the morning of the 17th of June, she was seen moving rapidly down the Wilmington River to attack them, accompanied by two wooden gun-boats of Tattnall's Mosquito Fleet, which were intended to tow up to Savannah the captured monitors. After the battle, the Atlanta was to proceed to sea, and destroy or disperse the blockading squadrons off Charleston and Wilmington. She was provided
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