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True (search for this): chapter 7
back to a line of intrenchments on the Bayou Metoe, when he was driven across the stream, after some fighting. August 27. He checked pursuit by burning the bridges behind him, and fled toward Little Rock. Four days afterward Steele was joined by True's brigade, sent from Memphis, and then concentrated his whole available force at Brownsville. A reconnoissance by Davidson showed that great difficulties lay in the way of a direct march upon Little Rock, across the Bayou Metoe and its fringe of d pushed on to the Arkansas River. He reached its banks at Ashley's Mills on the 7th of September, after Davidson and his horsemen had severely skirmished there. He left seven hundred more of his sick, with his supply-trains, there, in charge of True's brigade and Ritter's cavalry, and then pushed up the northern side of the Arkansas River, toward Little Rock, Little Rock is on the right bank of the Arkansas River, about three hundred miles from its mouth, and over a thousand miles, in a di
Thomas Higgins (search for this): chapter 7
y Samuel A. Cooley, photographer of the Fourth Army Corps. readiness, Gillmore proceeded to distract the attention of the Confederates, and mask his real design, by sending July 8. General A. H. Terry, with nearly four thousand troops, up the Stono River, to make a demonstration against James's Island, while Colonel Higginson, with some negro troops, went up the Edisto to cut the Charleston and Savannah railway, so as to prevent troops from being sent from the latter to the former place. Higgins went in the gun-boat John Adams, with two transports, but in his attempt July 10. to reach the railway he was repulsed, and returned with two hundred contrabands, See explanation of this word in this connection on page 501, volume I. who gladly followed him. Terry's movement was successful, for it drew the attention of the Confederates to James's Island. and caused them to send re-enforcements thither from Morris Island. Thirty hours after Terry's departure, General George C. Stron
Reeder (search for this): chapter 7
m killed. His ammunition was running low, so he fell back on Lebanon, while Marmaduke, having no spirit for further fighting in Missouri, fled swiftly southward that night, and escaped into Arkansas. With a part of his force he took post at Batesville, on the White River, where he was attacked Feb. 4. by the Fourth Missouri Cavalry, Colonel G. E. Waring, and driven across the stream, with the loss of a colonel and several men made prisoners. At about the same time a small force, under Major Reeder, broke up Feb. 3. a band of guerrillas at Mingo Swamp, and killed their leader, McGee; and, on the 28th of the same month, Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart, scouting from Fayetteville (the National outpost in Northwestern Arkansas), with one hundred and thirty cavalry, captured, near Van Buren, on the Arkansas River, a Confederate steamer, with about three hundred prisoners. A month later, March 28. the steamer Sam Gaty, on the Missouri River, was captured at Sibley's Landing by a gang of gue
M. L. Harrison (search for this): chapter 7
f the boat, and one after another was shot through the head. In the spring of 1863, Fayetteville was occupied by some Union cavalry and infantry, under Colonel M. L. Harrison, and, on the 18th of April, they were attacked by nearly two thousand mounted Confederates and two guns, led by General W. L. Cabell. He had marched rapidly over the Boston mountains from Ozark, with the intention of surprising Harrison at dawn, but he did not arrive until after sunrise. About five hundred of the Unionists kept up a spirited fight with the assailants until about noon, when the latter were repulsed, and returned over the mountains as swiftly as they came. HarrisoHarrison, for lack of horses, could not pursue. His foe had inflicted on him a loss of seventy-one men (four killed), and he had received in exchange fifty-five prisoners, fifty horses, and a hundred shot-guns. Meanwhile Marmaduke had gone to Little Rock, and there, with the chief Conspirators and military leaders in Arkansas, he pla
Charles Green (search for this): chapter 7
lonel Chatfield were mortally wounded; and Colonels Barton, Green, and Jackson were severely so, at the heads of their regime same time a co-operating force, under the Confederate Generals Green and Mouton, appeared on the site of Berwick, a small vnd before ten o'clock on the day of the capture, Taylor and Green, Mouton and Hunter, were in conference in Brashear as victo city. Four days after the capture of Brashear City, General Green attempted to seize Fort Butler, at Donaldsonville, Senty-four were prisoners. Three weeks later, July 12. General Green, with a superior force, attacked the advanced brigade oalaya, became quite active. His most efficient leader, General Green, was particularly so, and made occasional raids toward one thousand. These were surprised on a dark night by General Green, who stealthily crossed a bayou, Sept. 30, 1863. surro obedience to orders, he commenced falling back, Taylor and Green pursued him closely. Finally, they swept Nov. 3. stealthi
C. W. Samson (search for this): chapter 7
ader, who was instructed to land them a few miles below Sabine Pass, and then move directly upon Confederate works, if any were found there and occupied. Admiral Farragut detailed a naval force of four gun-boats to form a part of the expedition. These were commanded by Lieutenant Frederick Crocker, who made the Clifton his flag-ship. The flotilla consisted of the Clifton, Lieutenant Crocker; Sachem, Lieutenant Amos Johnson; Arizona, Acting-Master H. Tibbetts; and Granite City, Acting-Master C. W. Samson-all light-draft vessels. The expedition sailed on the 5th of September. Instead of following his instructions, to land lis troops below Sabine Pass, Franklin arranged with Crocker to have the gun-boats make a direct attack upon the Confederate works, without landing the troops until the garrison should be expelled, and two gun-boats, which it was understood were there, should be captured or driven up the river, when the business of the soldiers would be to go ashore and take pos
G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 7
ton. Mayor Macbeth, after consultation with Beauregard, advised and earnestly requested all women as the spoil of the ruthless conquerer. and Beauregard, as usual, issued bombastic orders, and fulmhe National troops, on the recommendation of Beauregard, hoping thereby to keep alive the fire of haames's. Island, had found lively work to do. Beauregard had received re-enforcements of Georgia troohundred. In his report to General Jordan, Beauregard's chief of staff, General Ripley, in commandfor business, and Gillmore sent a summons to Beauregard to evacuate Morris Island and Fort Sumter wiime given for a reply. Hearing nothing from Beauregard, he ordered the Angel to take some messages the few people, but injured nobody. It gave Beauregard an opportunity to attempt to fire the Southed unworthy of any soldier, In his letter Beauregard said, that after an unsuccessful attack of m-combatants were removed. In this instance, Beauregard, by his own admission, had had forty days in[1 more...]
W. H. T. Walker (search for this): chapter 7
yards of the sea face See page 195. of the fort; and at the dawn of the 5th of September, his broadsides of eight guns, carrying 11-inch shells, and the land batteries, opened simultaneously upon the parapet. The garrison soon abandoned their cannon, and took refuge in the bomb-proof, upon which, for nearly forty hours, the great guns thundered without any sensible effect. When the guns of Fort Wagner were silenced, Gillmore's sappers pushed rapidly forward, under the direction of Captain Walker, until Battery Simkins and its fellows on James's Island could annoy them no more, without danger of hurting the garrison. The men now worked without danger, and early in the evening of the 6th, Sept., 1863. the sap was carried by the south face of the fort, leaving it to the left; the counter-scarp of the ditch was crowned near the flank of the east, or sea-front, by which all the guns in the work were masked, excepting in that flank; a line of palisades,, which there protected it, we
W. A. Webb (search for this): chapter 7
. She bore four great guns, and was provided with a powerful beak. She was named Atlanta, and her commander was Lieutenant W. A. Webb, formerly of the National Navy, who had a crew of one hundred and sixty men. The Atlanta was 190 feet in lengt of them women, who went down to see the fight and enjoy the victory; and when the National vessels appeared in sight, Captain Webb assured the audience that the Yankee monitors would be in tow before breakfast. Like many prophesies of the Confederates, Webb's was not fulfilled, and the spectators were grievously disappointed. As the ram pushed swiftly toward the Weehawken, the latter held back its fire until its antagonist was within short range, when a gun, sighted by Rodgers himself, sent of live-oak planking and five of Georgia pine back of it. One man was killed and seventeen were wounded by the blow, when Webb ran up a white flag. In the space of fifteen minutes after the first shot was fired, the Atlanta was prisoner to the Weeh
Forman (search for this): chapter 7
a strong position, about five miles from the fort, where Phillips attacked him with energy. The Confederates fled across the river with their booty, and escaped with a loss of about sixty men. Phillips's loss was about the same. Four weeks later, a train of three hundred wagons, on the way from Kansas with supplies for Fort Blunt, under a convoy of ten cavalry companies, the First Kansas (colored), Colonel J. M. Williams, eight hundred in number, and about\five hundred Indians led by Major Forman, was attacked July 1, 1863. at the crossing of the Cabin Creek, in the Indian Territory, by seven hundred Texans and some Creeks, led by a Confederate Indian chief named Standwatie. The assailants were repulsed, and fled in haste, leaving forty of their dead and nine wounded on the field. The Union loss was twenty-three. The train pressed forward, and reached Fort Blunt in safety, followed immediately afterward by General Blunt, who arrived there from Fort Scott, July 16. one hundred
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