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O. C. Glisson (search for this): chapter 10
alongside with Major Bell accompanying Capt. O. C. Glisson, who was welcomed by me on deck. He red navigated the vessel to Ship Island. Captain Glisson informed us that just ahead of us was theregiment and stand by you; and he did. Captain Glisson's boats not being many nor large, it madeou need not trouble yourself to do that. Captain Glisson is a gentleman and will see that she has or the exchange of proper courtesies with Captain Glisson, I sprang to the chaplain and said:-- into the army again. Go. I then told Captain Glisson what the man had done. He said he never your discharge to your post-office. Now, Captain Glisson, you can keep this fellow or throw him ov must make ready to go in a few minutes. Captain Glisson was about to return to his own vessel, anp cool, it will be strange if we can't. ) Captain Glisson preceded me down the side of the ship, anommand, Mr. Sturgis having gone away with Captain Glisson. We then found that the captain had put [5 more...]
Winona (search for this): chapter 10
-were to engage the water battery below Fort Jackson, but were not to attempt to pass the forts. The Hartford, Richmond, and Brooklyn, Farragut commanding, were to advance upon Fort Jackson. The Cayuga, Pensacola, Mississippi, Oneida, Varuna, Katahdin, Kineo, and Wissahickon, Capt. Theodorus Bailey commanding, were to proceed along the eastern bank and attack Fort St. Philip as they passed. Captain Bell, commanding the third division, which consisted of the Scioto, Iroquois, Pinola, Winona, Itasca, and Kennebec, was to advance in the middle of the river and push on to attack the enemy's fleet above the forts. The night was still, and a light breeze up river brought with it a haze, which clung to the water. At two o'clock, a red light was run up the Hartford's mast-head, the signal to weigh anchor and advance. From the starting-point to a point in the river above the range of the guns of the forts the distance was five miles. The current was a strong three-mile current,
Sarah (search for this): chapter 10
n a box. I have come back for you and Mrs. Butler. I will go down and see Mrs. Butler, said I. The men stood at halt. I found her in our state-room. I explained the situation and told her that I had come for her and her maid; that I must stay and see the matter out, although I had little hope that the ship would live out the night; that it certainly would not if there came on a blow, but my duty was with my men. I cannot go and leave you here, she at first said. Stop a minute, Sarah, said I. We have three children. Is it best to have them lose both father and mother, when one can be saved? I will go, she said. We came on deck, and with a kiss we parted. The sea was so uneasy that it made it difficult for the captain to get up to the side of the vessel, so he waited in his boat a little distance off. When I stepped on the house the eye of every soldier was upon me. I hailed the boat. Captain, said I, I will be obliged to you if you will take Mrs. Butler a
M. Lovell (search for this): chapter 10
t on for six days. How little harm was done appears from the report of the Confederate Brigadier-General Duncan, who had charge of the forts, in his report to General Lovell of the Confederate army:-- Heavy and continued bombardment all night and still progressing. No further casualties except two men slightly wounded. God i, and also the battery at Chalmette, being the fortified line that Jackson defended against Pakenham when he appeared before the city. All the rebel troops under Lovell ran away across Lake Pontchartrain, and very many citizens took steamers and went up the river to Alexandria and elsewhere, having burned and destroyed immense quantities of cotton, sugar, rosin, tobacco, and coal. Lovell and Twigg having run away, Farragut called upon the city government to surrender and to hoist the United States flag in token thereof on the United States public buildings. This the mayor declined to do, making the excuse that he was not a military officer. Farragut
Pakenham (search for this): chapter 10
river, the lively ram having been destroyed. On the 27th, after the garrisons of the forts were captured at my pickets, I went on board the Wissahickon, Captain Smith, which was at quarantine, and joined Farragut at New Orleans, to consult with him as to the next move to be made. Meantime Farragut had gone up the river, engaged the rebel battery at English Turn, and routed them with a broadside, and also the battery at Chalmette, being the fortified line that Jackson defended against Pakenham when he appeared before the city. All the rebel troops under Lovell ran away across Lake Pontchartrain, and very many citizens took steamers and went up the river to Alexandria and elsewhere, having burned and destroyed immense quantities of cotton, sugar, rosin, tobacco, and coal. Lovell and Twigg having run away, Farragut called upon the city government to surrender and to hoist the United States flag in token thereof on the United States public buildings. This the mayor declined to
J. H. Duncan (search for this): chapter 10
e harm was done appears from the report of the Confederate Brigadier-General Duncan, who had charge of the forts, in his report to General Lovxhaust themselves; if not, we can stand it as long as they can. Duncan evidently made this report to show his men's courage and stimulate only three hundred during the whole bombardment, and at the time of Duncan's report the last day's firing had not been counted. Duncan's reDuncan's report reads exactly like some of the magazine war articles written by our officers who wish to establish reputations for bravery and endurance, but are somewhat economical of truth. As Duncan was educated at West Point he was taught in the same way as were these officers who write masultation of the War Records, the testimony of the enemy. Brigadier-General Duncan says (War Records, Series 1, Vol. VI., pp. 529-532):-- to a rebel officer or soldier, and under those terms the rebel General Duncan claims a right to be and is in the army of Beauregard, giving a
Fulton (search for this): chapter 10
nt through the great labor of unloading everything from the hold of the vessel, fore and aft, and as we had about thirteen hundred tons of coal on board when we started, that was no small labor. Then the difficulty was to get this water out of the forward hold. There were valves which could be opened so as to let the water flow through each bulkhead into the well of the vessel where it could be pumped out by the engine. As the vessel had been fitted out and loaded under the command of Captain Fulton whom I still held under arrest, I found it necessary to release him and engage his help. He was then and there investigated by a board of inquiry and restored to his command, Mr. Sturgis having gone away with Captain Glisson. We then found that the captain had put in no water-ways to conduct the water from the water-tight compartments, so that it might run through freely without spreading over the compartments. We further found that the lower hold had been filled up with coal, and in
Maine Chaplain (search for this): chapter 10
Chapter 8: from Hatteras to New Orleans. Sailing to the South ashore on the Shoals of Hatteras a narrow escape a Maine Chaplain's cowardice Yankee ingenuity stops a leak arrival at Ship Island making ready for the attack on New Orleans Hampered but not delayed below forts Jackson and St. Philip Porter's mortar-boat fiasco cutting the chain cable how Farragut passed the forts Army goes down the River and up the coast and moves against the forts from the Rear circumstances of their surrender to Porter testimony of the Confederates some remarks concerning Porter It was my intention to call at Fort Hatteras in my steamer, the Mississippi, to take off General Williams, who had been in command there and who had been detailed to me as a brigadier-general, at my request. The sea was calm and the night beautiful, with a light southwest wind blowing. As we were to go around Cape Hatteras, a course always difficult of navigation on account of the trend of the edd
Everett (search for this): chapter 10
lt Fort St. Philip from the rear, and the fleet was to assist us from the river. There had been a wonderful omission by the rebels of any preparation of defence for Fort St. Philip in the rear; they had mounted no guns to cover the side towards the Gulf. True, it was for several miles a marsh covered with water and short shrubbery, but still, troops who were in earnest could get through it, as Lieutenant Weitzel informed us. Under the cover of night, in a boat from the Saxon, I sent Captain Everett, of my Massachusetts battery, to reconnoitre in the rear of St. Philip from one of the many little bayous [guts] which run out from the river into the Gulf. The first night he went in he explored enough to find that he could get anywhere he wanted to in the rear of the fort without being noticed. The next night he took a slightly heavier boat and some men, and went behind Fort St. Philip again. He ascertained that there were no guns mounted which would prevent our boats coming up the
Twigg (search for this): chapter 10
had gone up the river, engaged the rebel battery at English Turn, and routed them with a broadside, and also the battery at Chalmette, being the fortified line that Jackson defended against Pakenham when he appeared before the city. All the rebel troops under Lovell ran away across Lake Pontchartrain, and very many citizens took steamers and went up the river to Alexandria and elsewhere, having burned and destroyed immense quantities of cotton, sugar, rosin, tobacco, and coal. Lovell and Twigg having run away, Farragut called upon the city government to surrender and to hoist the United States flag in token thereof on the United States public buildings. This the mayor declined to do, making the excuse that he was not a military officer. Farragut then sent Captain Bailey and Lieutenant Perkins ashore with a party of marines and hoisted the United States flag over the United States mint, but did not leave it guarded except that he had howitzers in the main-top of the Hartford whic
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