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Berwick City (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
so doing he left Brashear exposed. Taylor's troops found little difficulty in raiding all over the country between Brashear and the Mississippi at New Orleans. They captured little posts here and there; and some Texans, dashing into Plaquemine, June 18. on the Mississippi, captured some convalescent prisoners, and burnt four steamers, seventy-five bales of cotton, and a barge. At the same time a co-operating force, under the Confederate Generals Green and Mouton, appeared on the site of Berwick, a small village opposite Brashear, which Lieutenant Ryder, in command of a gun-boat, had bombarded and burnt a little while before. The weak garrison in Fort Buchanan, at Brashear, was then in command of a sick colonel, and illy prepared for an attack. Major Hunter, with three hundred and twenty-five Texans, crossed the bayou below it, and assailed and carried the fort June 24, 1863. in a few minutes. Ryder had fled with his gun-boat on the approach of danger, and before ten o'clock on
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
and begin a regular and systematic siege of Charleston by troops and ships. General Hunter was rconcentrated for operations directly against Charleston. He had at his disposal ninety-six heavy gus preparing to move vigorously in a siege of Charleston, Dupont was relieved, and Commodore Foote Fort Wagner could be easily re-enforced from Charleston at any time, and a crushing force might be c entire naval force at hand, were opened on Forts Sumter and Wagner and Battery Gregg, the first in honor to report the practical demolition of Fort Sumter, as the result of our seven days bombardmenished the accuracy and effect of our fire. Fort Sumter is to-day a shapeless and harmless mass of on, is extinguished. As a commercial mart, Charleston has no existence; her wealth, her trade, hasharbor on a deadly errand; the battering of Fort Sumter now and then by Gillmore's guns, to keep th a slow and irregular fire upon the fort and Charleston, when, seeing no prospect of the passage of [39 more...]
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
e of little Rock, 216. operations in the Indian country, 217. Shelby's raid into Missouri, 218. advance of Taylor in Louisiana, 219. events near Donaldsonville, 220. expedition to Sabine Pass, 221. Nationals repulsed at Sabine Pass expeditionhe Confederates, at the beginning of 1863; See page 595, volume II. Banks's triumphant march through the interior of Louisiana to the Red River, in April and May, 1863, See pages from 595 to 600 inclusive, volume II and the Battle of Helena, iervice which required nearly all of his available troops--General Dick Taylor, whom he 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 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 boundary line. There was the te
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
he slain of his colored troops, and so they were buried. The deaths of Colonels Shaw and Putnam caused the most profound sorrow, not only in the army, but. throughout the country. Colonel Shaw was only twenty-seven years of age when he gave his life to the cause of Right and Justice. He was son of Francis G. Shaw, of Staten Island, New York, 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
Brashear City (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
nd it. Banks's outposts were drawn into Brashear City, where there seems to have been very littled Lieutenant-Colonel Stickney, in command at Brashear, that the Confederates had struck the road at dangerous movement, and, in so doing he left Brashear exposed. Taylor's troops found little difficulty in raiding all over the country between Brashear and the Mississippi at New Orleans. They captlittle while before. The weak garrison in Fort Buchanan, at Brashear, was then in command of a sicBrashear, was then in command of a sick colonel, and illy prepared for an attack. Major Hunter, with three hundred and twenty-five Texanseen, Mouton and Hunter, were in conference in Brashear as victors, with one thousand prisoners, a stat city. Four days after the capture of Brashear City, General Green attempted to seize Fort But a force equal to Franklin's, was ready at Brashear City to co-operate with the latter. After thf the woods, and Washburne pursued his way to Brashear with his shattered force. The Union loss w[3 more...]
Mustang Island (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ago, drove a small cavalry force stationed there, and followed them to Brownsville, thirty miles up the river, which Banks's advance entered on the 6th. November. Point Isabel was taken possession of on the 8th; and as soon as possible Banks, who made his Headquarters at Brownsville, sent as many troops as he could spare, up the coast, to seize and occupy the water passes between the Rio Grande and Galveston. By the aid of steamers obtained on the Rio Grande, troops were transported to Mustang Island, off Corpus Christi Bay, from which a force, under General T. E. G. Ransom, went to the Aranzas Pass, farther up the coast, and by a gallant assault Nov. 18, 1863. carried the Confederate works there, and captured one hundred prisoners. Corpus Christi was occupied by National troops the same day. Then a force, under General Washburne (then commanding the Thirteenth Army Corps), moved upon Pass Cavallo, at the entrance to Matagorda Bay, where the Confederates had a strong fort, called E
Washita River (Oklahoma, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
s was done with the most abundant success. The Confederates broke, and fled through the city, closely followed by the Union cavalry, sabers in hand. At seven o'clock that evening, Sept. 10. when Steele and his immediate followers were occupying the Confederate works on the north side of the river, opposite Little Rock, the city and its military appurtenances were formally surrendered to Davidson by the civil authorities. The troops had all fled in hot haste toward Arkadelphia, on the Washita River. A pursuing column was organized, but the National forces, men and horses, were too much exhausted to chase with vigor, and they followed the fugitives only about twenty miles. Steele's army, at the end of a campaign of forty days from the time he reached Helena, quietly took possession of the capital of Arkansas. It saved three pontoon bridges which Price had fired, and found the National Arsenal, which he intended to blow up, unharmed, Steele reported his own losses in action duri
Yellow Medicine (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
lar influence they were impelled; and the suspicion that they were incited to hostilities by emissaries of the Conspirators, with the hope of thereby causing a large number of troops fighting the rebellion to be drawn away to a distant point, rests only upon conjecture. The fact is, that a Sioux chief, named Little Crow, a most saintly-looking savage in civilized costume, was the most conspicuous of the leaders in the inauguration of the war, by the butchery of the white inhabitants at Yellow Medicine, New Ulm, and Cedar City, in Minnesota, in August and September, 1862. and at outposts beyond the boundaries of that State. For nine days in October the Indians besieged Fort Ridgeley. Fort Abercrombie was also besieged, and twice assaulted by the savages; and in that region they butchered about five hundred white inhabitants, consisting mostly of defenseless women and children. General H. H. Sibley, with a body of militia, was sent to crush the Indians, but the latter were too num
Mingo Swamp (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ck 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 guerrillas, led by George Todd, who committed great atroci
Donaldsonville (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
5. capture of little Rock, 216. operations in the Indian country, 217. Shelby's raid into Missouri, 218. advance of Taylor in Louisiana, 219. events near Donaldsonville, 220. expedition to Sabine Pass, 221. Nationals repulsed at Sabine Pass expedition to the Rio Grande, 223. possession of the Texan harbors, 224. War withing the way open for the foe to Algiers, opposite that city. Four days after the capture of Brashear City, General Green attempted to seize Fort Butler, at Donaldsonville, See page 528, volume II. by a midnight assault. The fort was garrisoned by two hundred and twenty-five men of the Twenty-eighth Maine, under Major Bullen, July 12. General Green, with a superior force, attacked the advanced brigade of General Grover, commanded by General Dudley, about six miles in the rear of Donaldsonville, and drove them back with some loss at first, but the Nationals, in turn, with the assistance of reserves, drove the Confederates, and on the following day th
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