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Corinth (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
Pillow, and appreciating the necessity of defending the river at some other point farther down, telegraphed General Villepigue as follows: Corinth, April 20th, 1862. Brigadier-General J. B. Villepigue, Comdg. works at Fort Pillow: Release Captain D. B. Harris, and instruct him to repair to Vicksburg, where he will find orders in post-office. By command of General Beauregard. Thomas Jordan, A. Adj.-Gen. These orders ran thus: Headquarters army of the Mississippi, Corinth, Miss., April 21st, 1862. Captain D. B. Harris, Chief-Engineer, Vicksburg, Miss.: Captain,—Understanding that there are no points sufficiently high on the river, between Memphis and Vicksburg, which could be fortified for the defence of the Mississippi, I have concluded to construct some defensive works on the bluffs at or about Vicksburg, for which purpose you will make a careful reconnoissance of that locality. From what I am told, I should think the bluffs immediately above that city, no
Buras (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
previously written to Dr. E. K. Marshall, a very influential citizen of Vicksburg, asking him to give Captain Harris all the aid in his power, and to arouse his people to a sense of their duty to furnish the necessary labor in such measure that the work will go on with proper celerity. On the very day upon which Captain Harris's answer was penned New Orleans surrendered to the Federal fleet under Admiral Farragut, after a short and inglorious resistance on the part of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. There had been no adequate assistance from the Confederate gunboats and rams ordered to cooperate with them; nor did the armed vessels known as the Montgomery fleet, with one or two exceptions, show any efficiency whatever. Such a disaster, resulting from so weak a defence, took the whole country by surprise—the North as well as the South; and it is grievous to make even a passing mention of it. Want of foresight and discipline caused this irreparable calamity. It affords us some conso
Fort Jackson (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
e even a passing mention of it. Want of foresight and discipline caused this irreparable calamity. It affords us some consolation, however, to be able to state that the Hon. J. T. Monroe, mayor of the unfortunate city, evinced more than ordinary firmness and patriotism in his refusal to comply with the demand made upon him, to strike the Confederate flag floating over the city hall. On the 28th the bombardment of Fort Pillow was fairly begun. No mutineers were there, as there were in Fort Jackson, to force a surrender upon the officers. The whole command, men and officers, vied with each other in a determined and resolute resistance, and troops were even withdrawn from the fort to reinforce other points needing assistance, without a sign of despondency, still less of mutiny, among the men. Troops act differently in different forts. Their conduct depends on the conduct of their officers. As these prove themselves to be, so, invariably, are the men under them. We were now in M
Point Pleasant (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
bring to his assistance. On March 5th he detached Colonel Plummer, from near New Madrid, with three regiments of infantry, four light rifled pieces of artillery, two companies of cavalry, and one of engineer troops, to act as an outpost at Point Pleasant, some ten miles below New Madrid, and to attempt, with their rifled field-pieces, to stop the passage of transports up and down the river. By morning of the 7th the enemy's four guns were in position, in separate sunken batteries, along thefollowing telegram: New Madrid, March 5th, 1862, Via Memphis, March 6th. General Beauregard: The force in my front is, say fifteen thousand; between here and Sykeston fifteen thousand, and large number of guns. Sigel is marching on Point Pleasant with ten thousand. My position is eminently dangerous. J. P. Mccown, Comdg. New Madrid. This somewhat alarmed General Beauregard, although he could not well believe that the forces under General Pope amounted to more than twenty or twen
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
repair roads. Impress negroes also for same purpose. Show to General. Villepigue. Ample additional forces ordered to our assistance. G. T. Beauregard. 10. Corinth, April 14th, 1862. General Sam. Cooper, Adjutant and Inspector General, Richmond, Va.: Cannot a more active and efficient officer be put in command of gunboats at Fort Pillow? It is important to do so at once. I am informed garrison at Madrid Bend capitulated; part got off. No official report yet. I am reinforcing garrisoowing telegrams: 1. Corinth, May 13th, 1862. Brigadier-General J. B. Villepigue, Fort Pillow, Tenn.: Yes, let him work day and night until finished. G. T. Beauregard. 2. Corinth, May 14th, 1862. General S. Cooper, A. and I. G., Richmond, Va.: I have ordered the Memphis ram to the Yazoo for safe-keeping until finished. Have ordered every exertion made to finish it forthwith. It will be done in one week. May I request proper officers, crew, armament, and ammunition to be prov
Bowling Green (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
ief-Engineer, Captain Harris. The reader is referred to the several chapters preceding the account of the battle of Shiloh, Chapters XV.-XVIII. wherein many of the arrangements made by General Beauregard with regard to Columbus, and for the defence of New Madrid, Island No.10, and Madrid Bend, including the incidents connected therewith, are mentioned at length, and carefully reviewed in the order of their actual occurrence. We allude to the memorandum of February 7th, prepared at Bowling Green by General Beauregard, exhibiting the general plans of operations adopted by General A. S. Johnston at that time; Chapter XV: p. 220. to General Beauregard's letter to General Johnston, dated February 12th, 1862; Ibid. p. 221. to the telegram of the Secretary of War, dated February 19th, authorizing the evacuation of Columbus, as suggested by General Beauregard; Appendix to Chapter XVI. to the latter's communication of February 21st to General Cooper; Ibid. to his circular of
Island Number Ten (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
d transferred to opposite bank of river and Island no.10. General Beauregard orders all surplus gunupplies, and boats to Fort Pillow. fall of Island no.10 on the 7th of April. General Pope's forcesolumbus, and for the defence of New Madrid, Island No.10, and Madrid Bend, including the incidents cCown's own troops arrived from Columbus, at Island No.10, and at Madrid Bend, where he established hho manned and made glorious the defences of Island No.10, Fort Pillow, Vicksburg, Charleston Harbor,y depended, just then, on the possession of Island No.10 and the surrounding works, if only for twel After a stout and soldierly resistance at Island No.10, our troops displaying the unflinching spirort Pillow, one hundred and ten miles below Island No.10. That fort, contrary to the general opin Less than a week after the surrender of Island No.10, transports were filled with General Pope'so Federal craft of any description south of Island No.10, against which her ramming qualities might [9 more...]
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 24
ks that the Confederate flotilla, under Commodore Hollins, did not display the energy, resoluteness, and daring afterwards evinced by many an officer in the Confederate States navy, most conspicuous among whom were the heroic Admiral Semmes, Commodore Maffitt, and Captain Brown of the Arkansas. Among the gunboats brought from Nrack, and is poorly secured to the vessel; boiler iron on stern and counter; her smoke-stack of sheet iron. See Captain C. W. Reid's Reminiscences of the Confederate States Navy, vol. i. No. 5 of the Southern Historical Society Papers, for May, 1876. Captain Reid was one of the officers of the Arkansas, and it was he who, by oboats, but the fleets of Admirals Farragut and Davis, then near Vicksburg. She was met at sunrise, in Old River, ten miles from the Federal anchorage, by the United States iron-clad Carondelet, the gunboat Tyler, and the ram Monarch. The Carondelet alone was superior in guns, armor, and speed to the Arkansas. Captain Brown promp
Dabney Scales (search for this): chapter 24
sible, he was, for the moment, supposed to be killed, but he regained consciousness, and, dauntless as ever, resumed his place and command till the end of the battle. Among the wounded was Lieutenant G. W. Gift, who, with Grimball of South Carolina, the second lieutenant, ably commanded the bow-guns. Lieutenant Stevens, the executive officer, discharged with honor, both in preparation for and during the action, every duty of his responsible position. Barbot, Charles Reid, Wharton, and Dabney Scales, lieutenants who, like their commander, were recently from the United States navy, were alike distinguished for the bravery and precision with which they served their guns. Captains Harris and McDonald, of a Missouri regiment, with sixty of their men, volunteered for the naval service, and though they went on board only forty-eight hours before the battle, and were entirely unused to the exercise of great guns, formed an effective portion of the Arkansas's crew. It is but a just tribu
lve 8-inch and 10-inch guns, fifteen 42pound-ers, three 24-pounders, and several mortars, with a dozen field rifled guns, and half a dozen 24-pounder howitzers; those being all the guns we can spare at present for the defence of the river at that point. The total garrison will consist of about three thousand men. There should be ample space in those works for magazines-traverses in every direction, field bomb-proofs, and a few storehouses and cisterns. Acting Captains John M. Reid and Pattison, also Acting Lieutenant John H. Reid, have been ordered to report to you for the construction of these works. The two Reids (father and son) I am well acquainted with; they were for years employed by me in the construction of my forts in Louisiana. They are very reliable, practical men, and will be of much assistance to you; the other gentleman I am not personally acquainted with. Colonel Aubrey, military commander of Vicksburg, has been ordered to afford you all the assistance in his po
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