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Alexander Hamilton (search for this): entry island-number-ten
ll, and leaving the troops on the Kentucky and Tennessee shores in charge of General McCown, he, with a considerable number of his best soldiers, departed for Corinth to check a formidable movement of National troops through middle Tennessee towards Northern Alabama. The vigorous operations of Pope after he passed through the wonderful canal hastened the crisis. McCall and his troops, in their efforts to escape from the island, were intercepted by Pope's forces under Generals Stanley, Hamilton, and Paine; and on April 8, 1862, Island The Carondelet. Number Ten, with the troops, batteries, and supports on the main, was surrendered. Over 7,000 men became prisoners of war; and the spoils of victory were 123 cannon and mortars, 7,000 small-arms, many hundred horses and mules, four steamboats afloat, and a very large amount of ammunition. The fall of Island Number10 was a calamity to the Confederates which they never retrieved. It caused widespread alarm in the Mississippi Valle
William H. Bissell (search for this): entry island-number-ten
that would insure its capture. The opposite shore was lined with Confederate batteries, and it would be madness to attempt a crossing until these were silenced. Gen. Schuyler Ham- Island number10. Map of Island number10. ilton proposed the construction of a canal across the neck of a swampy peninsula of sufficient capacity to allow the passage of gunboats and transports, so as to effectually flank Island Number10 and insure its capture. It was undertaken under the supervision of Colonel Bissell, and was successfully performed. In the mean time daring feats against the shore batteries had been performed; and during a terrible thunder-storm on the night of April 3, Captain Walke ran by the Confederate batteries with the gunboat Carondelet, assailed by all of them, her position being revealed by the flashes of lightning. It was the first vessel that ran by Confederate batteries on the Mississippi River. She had not fired a gun during her passage, but the discharge of three ass
April (search for this): entry island-number-ten
artillery had been landed on the Missouri shore, in a position to assail the Confederate flotilla near the island. The next day a tremendous attack on the Confederate works was made by a floating battery of ten guns, formed of three gunboats lashed together, side by side, followed by three others separately. The day's work was barren of any decisive result. The island shores were lined with A mortar-boat. batteries. So the siege went on, with varying fortunes, until the first week in April, when Beauregard telegraphed to Richmond that the Federal guns had thrown 3,000 shells and burned 50 tons of gunpowder without damaging his batteries or killing one of his men. The public began to be impatient; but victory was near. General Pope was chafing with impatience at New Madrid. He wished to cross the river to the peninsula and attack the island in the rear, a movement that would insure its capture. The opposite shore was lined with Confederate batteries, and it would be madne
April 8th, 1862 AD (search for this): entry island-number-ten
he Kentucky and Tennessee shores in charge of General McCown, he, with a considerable number of his best soldiers, departed for Corinth to check a formidable movement of National troops through middle Tennessee towards Northern Alabama. The vigorous operations of Pope after he passed through the wonderful canal hastened the crisis. McCall and his troops, in their efforts to escape from the island, were intercepted by Pope's forces under Generals Stanley, Hamilton, and Paine; and on April 8, 1862, Island The Carondelet. Number Ten, with the troops, batteries, and supports on the main, was surrendered. Over 7,000 men became prisoners of war; and the spoils of victory were 123 cannon and mortars, 7,000 small-arms, many hundred horses and mules, four steamboats afloat, and a very large amount of ammunition. The fall of Island Number10 was a calamity to the Confederates which they never retrieved. It caused widespread alarm in the Mississippi Valley, for it appeared probable th
April 3rd (search for this): entry island-number-ten
Ham- Island number10. Map of Island number10. ilton proposed the construction of a canal across the neck of a swampy peninsula of sufficient capacity to allow the passage of gunboats and transports, so as to effectually flank Island Number10 and insure its capture. It was undertaken under the supervision of Colonel Bissell, and was successfully performed. In the mean time daring feats against the shore batteries had been performed; and during a terrible thunder-storm on the night of April 3, Captain Walke ran by the Confederate batteries with the gunboat Carondelet, assailed by all of them, her position being revealed by the flashes of lightning. It was the first vessel that ran by Confederate batteries on the Mississippi River. She had not fired a gun during her passage, but the discharge of three assured anxious Commodore Foote of the safety of the Carondelet after the dangerous voyage. Perceiving the perilous fate that awaited them after the completion of the canal, the
March 14th, 1862 AD (search for this): entry island-number-ten
them. And the people furnished large quantities of old brass—andirons, candlesticks, gasfixtures, and even door-knobs. These were all sent to New Orleans to be used in cannon foundries. There they were found by General Butler, sent to Boston, and sold at auction. Beauregard had thoroughly fortified the island, and, after the capture of New Madrid, it became an object of great interest to both parties, for it was besieged by the Nationals. For this purpose Commodore Foote left Cairo, March 14, 1862, with a powerful fleet of gun and mortar-boats. There were seven of the former iron-clad and one not armored, and ten of the latter. On the night of the 15th Foote was at Island Number10, and the next morning (Sunday) he began the siege with a bombardment by the rifled cannon of his flag-ship, the Boston. This was followed by the mortar-boats, moored at proper points along the river shore, from which tons of iron were hurled upon the island and the batteries on the Kentucky bank oppos
March 8th, 1862 AD (search for this): entry island-number-ten
Island number10. This island lies in a sharp bend of the Mississippi River, about 40 miles below Columbus, and within the limits of Kentucky. At the beginning of the Civil War it was considered the key to the navigation of the lower Mississippi. To this island some of the troops and munitions of war were transferred when General Polk evacuated Columbus, and all the troops there were in charge of Beauregard. On March 8, 1862, he sent forth a proclamation in which he called for bells with which to make cannon, and there was a liberal response. In some cities, wrote a Confederate soldier, every church gave up its bells. Court-houses, public institutions, and plantations sent them. And the people furnished large quantities of old brass—andirons, candlesticks, gasfixtures, and even door-knobs. These were all sent to New Orleans to be used in cannon foundries. There they were found by General Butler, sent to Boston, and sold at auction. Beauregard had thoroughly fortified t
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