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St. Marys county (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
r. During the 25th, 26th, and 27th, there had been an abatement of fire on the forts, and with it had subsided the excitement which imminent danger creates in the brave. A rumor became current that the city had surrendered, and no reply had been received to inquiries sent on the 24th and 25th. About midnight on the 27th the garrison of Fort Jackson revolted en masse, seized upon the guard, and commenced to spike the guns. Captain S. O. Comay's company, the Louisiana Cannoneers of St. Mary's Parish, and a few others remained true to their cause and country. The mutiny was so general that the officers were powerless to control it, and therefore decided to let those go who wished to leave, and after daybreak to communicate with the fleet below and negotiate for the terms which had been previously offered and declined. Under the incessant fire to which the forts had been exposed, and the rise of the water in the casemates and lower part of the works, the men had been deprived n
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
above. On the 26th Commodore Porter, commanding the mortar fleet below, sent a flagof-truce boat to demand the surrender of the forts, saying that the city of New Orleans had surrendered. To this Colonel Higgins replied, April 27th, that he had no official information that New Orleans had been evacuated, and until such notice wat what has been given above will sufficiently attest the zeal and capacity of the Secretary of the Navy, and his anxiety, in particular, to protect the city of New Orleans, whether assailed by fleets descending or ascending the river. Having thus reviewed at length the events, immediate and remote, which were connected with theh the events, immediate and remote, which were connected with the great catastrophe, the fall of our chief commercial city, and the destruction of the naval vessels on which our hopes most rested for the protection of the lower Mississippi and the harbors of the Gulf, the narrative is resumed of affairs at the city of New Orleans.
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
esponsibility, as did the old-time doom of the scapegoat. New Orleans had never been a shipbuilding port, and when the Messrs. Tift, the agents to build the ironclad steamer Mississippi arrived there, they had to prepare a shipyard, procure lumber from a distance, have the foundries and rolling-mills adapted to such iron work as could be done in the city, and contract elsewhere for the balance. They were ingenious, well informed in matters of shipbuilding, and were held in high esteem in Georgia and Florida, where they had long resided. They submitted a proposition to the Secretray of the Navy to build a vessel on a new model. The proposition was accepted after full examination of the plan proposed, the novelty of which made it necessary that they should have full control of the work of construction. To the embarrassments above mentioned were added interruptions by calling off the workmen occasionally for exercise and instruction as militiamen, the city being threatened by the e
Florida (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
y, as did the old-time doom of the scapegoat. New Orleans had never been a shipbuilding port, and when the Messrs. Tift, the agents to build the ironclad steamer Mississippi arrived there, they had to prepare a shipyard, procure lumber from a distance, have the foundries and rolling-mills adapted to such iron work as could be done in the city, and contract elsewhere for the balance. They were ingenious, well informed in matters of shipbuilding, and were held in high esteem in Georgia and Florida, where they had long resided. They submitted a proposition to the Secretray of the Navy to build a vessel on a new model. The proposition was accepted after full examination of the plan proposed, the novelty of which made it necessary that they should have full control of the work of construction. To the embarrassments above mentioned were added interruptions by calling off the workmen occasionally for exercise and instruction as militiamen, the city being threatened by the enemy. From
Columbus, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
ake the necessary changes in the machinery, and undertake the work. Efforts at other places in the West had been unsuccessful, and this was one of the difficulties which an inefficient department would not have overcome. The ironclad gunboats Arkansas and Tennessee were commenced at Memphis, but the difficulty in obtaining mechanics so interfered with their construction that the Secretary of the Navy was compelled, on December 24, 1861, to write to General Polk, who was commanding at Columbus, Kentucky, asking that mechanics might be detached from his forces, so as to insure the early completion of the vessels. So promptly had the ironclad boats been put under contract that the arrangements had all been made in anticipation of the appropriation, and the contract was signed on the very day the law was passed. On December 25, 1861, Lieutenant Isaac N. Brown, Confederate States Navy, a gallant and competent officer, well and favorably known in his subsequent service as commander of
Fort Jackson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
refusal to surrender meeting of the garrison of Fort Jackson the forts surrendered ironclad Louisiana de-stGeneral Lovell on December 5, 1861, consisted of—Fort Jackson: six forty-two-pounders, twenty-six twentyfour-pissippi River in force, whereupon he repaired to Fort Jackson. After describing the condition of the forts frr the old water battery to the rear of and below Fort Jackson, which had never been completed, for the receptis. The mortar-fire was furiously increased upon Fort Jackson, and, in dashing by, each of the vessels deliver issued the following address: soldiers of forts Jackson and St. Philip: You have nobly, gallantly, an5th. About midnight on the 27th the garrison of Fort Jackson revolted en masse, seized upon the guard, and cohe fleet below, came up under a flag of truce to Fort Jackson, and while negotiations were progressing for theanding the military department, had gone down to Fort Jackson, where General Duncan, commanding the coast defe
Buras (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
rtars. The garrisons of Forts Jackson and St. Philip were about one thousand men on December 5, 1s report of the passing of Forts Jackson and St. Philip by the enemy's fleet: The enemy evidentl have succeeded in passing Forts Jackson and St. Philip. The darkness to which he referred was not address: soldiers of forts Jackson and St. Philip: You have nobly, gallantly, and heroicallhe well-tried garrisons of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Be vigilant, therefore, stand by your gunspair the raft. As immediate commander of Fort St. Philip, he had done all which skill and gallantry had passed through a channel in rear of Fort St. Philip and had landed a force at the quarantine,fted down the river and, when close under Fort St. Philip, exploded and sank. The defenses afloascent of the river between Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the batteries on the river where the int way through one of the bayous in rear of Fort St. Philip to the Mississippi River above the forts [3 more...]
Norfolk (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
New Orleans, between July 1, 1861, and the fall of the city, to have been one hundred ninety-seven, and that before July twentythree guns had been sent there from Norfolk, being a total of two hundred twenty guns, of which forty-five were of large caliber, supplied by the Navy Department for the defense of New Orleans. Very soonand to proceed forthwith with the necessary alteration and armament. In the latter part of 1861, it having been found impossible with the means in Richmond and Norfolk to answer the requisitions for ordnance and ordnance stores required for the naval defenses of the Mississippi, a laboratory was established in New Orleans, and a effectual barrier across the river, and I was anxious that the navy should afford all possible aid. . . . A large number of anchors were sent to New Orleans from Norfolk for the raft. Though much more might be added, it is hoped that what has been given above will sufficiently attest the zeal and capacity of the Secretary of t
Island Number Ten (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
e ship. In February and March notice was given of the forwarding from Richmond of capstan and mainshaft, which could not be made in New Orleans. On March 22d the Secretary, by telegraph, directed the constructors to strain every nerve to finish the ship, and added, work day and night. April 5th he again wrote: Spare neither men nor money to complete her at the earliest moment. Can not you hire night-gangs for triple wages? April 10th the Secretary again says: Enemy's boats have passed Island 10. Work day and night with all the force you can command to get the Mississippi ready. Spare neither men nor money. April 11th he asks, When will you launch, and when will she be ready for action? These inquiries indicate the prevalent opinion, at that time, that the danger to New Orleans was from the ironclad fleet above, and not the vessels at the mouth of the river; the anxiety of the Secretary of the Navy and the efforts made by him were, however, of a character applicable to either
Lake Pontchartrain (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 1.14
s well to the ports of Europe as to those of Central and South America. It was the depot which, at an early period, had led to controversies with Spain, and its importance to the interior had been a main inducement to the purchase of Louisiana. It had become before 1861 the chief cotton mart of the United States, and its defense attracted the early attention of the Confederate government. The approaches for an attacking party were numerous. They could through several channels enter Lake Pontchartrain, to approach the city in rear for land attack, could ascend the Mississippi from the Gulf, or descend it from the Northwest, where it was known that the enemy was preparing a formidable fleet of ironclad gunboats. In the early part of 1862, so general an opinion prevailed that the greatest danger to New Orleans was by an attack from above, that General Lovell sent to General Beauregard a large part of the troops then in the city. At the mouth of the Mississippi there is a bar, the
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