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Thomas Jordan (search for this): chapter 24
ny negroes have you? If not enough, call on Captain Adams, Memphis, for more forthwith, also for tools. How are batteries off for ammunition? Look to this. Thomas Jordan, Acting Adjutant-General. 6. Jackson, Tenn., March 22d, 1862. Captain J. Adams, Comdg. Memphis: Send Captain Owen's Arkansas company to Fort Pillow, toommanding officer of that post. The land front defences must be shortened, for a total garrison of but three thousand men, as he has repeatedly stated before. Thos. Jordan, A. Adj-Gen. 8. Jackson, Tenn., March 31st, 1862. Brigadier-General J. B. Villepigue, Comdg. Fort Pillow: Furnish Mississippi defence expedition all requllow: 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,
George W. Randolph (search for this): chapter 24
ifice a fractional command to save the other and larger portion. Here the sacrifice had become all the more imperative, by reason of the fact that Fort Pillow was now our only reliance, for the safety of the Mississippi Valley; except, perhaps, Randolph, fifteen miles farther down, where some light works had been thrown up, with as little regard to a minimum garrison as at Forts Pillow and Columbus. Less than a week after the surrender of Island No.10, transports were filled with General Pop for immediate service, and report. G. T. Beauregard. 9. Corinth, April 14th, 1862. Brigadier-General Rust, Fort Pillow: No arms here, or available at present. Employ unarmed men to construct bridge over Hatchie on roads to Covington and Randolph, and 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
Charles Reid (search for this): chapter 24
, struck from the deck insensible, 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 cr
M. Lynch (search for this): chapter 24
Beauregard's telegrams and instructions to Generals Polk, Withers, Stewart, Rust, and Villepigue, to Captains Harris and Lynch, to Lieutenant Meriwether, and other officers of the engineer corps, show how extreme was his vigilance, and what minute mples: Other telegrams of equal importance are given in the Appendix. 1. Jackson, Tenn., March 8th, 1862. Captain M. Lynch, Corps Engineers, Fort Pillow: Your traverses would do against field-guns, but not against heavy ones. Dismount ly selected by the Hon. Mr. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, are deserving of enthusiastic praise; the more so, since Commodore Lynch, after inspection, said of her, she is very inferior to the Merrimac in every particular; the iron with which she is Society Papers, for May, 1876. Captain Reid was one of the officers of the Arkansas, and it was he who, by order of Commodore Lynch, forwarded to the Secretary of War the despatch above, pronouncing the vessel inadequate for the service required of
J. K. Jackson (search for this): chapter 24
Chapter 23: General Beauregard's insistance on the evacuation of Columbus. documents relating to the matter. General McCown to be put in command of Madrid Bend. he is called by General Beauregard to Jackson for instructions. he repairs to Madrid Bend. dispositions made for its defence. Commodore Hollins to co-operate with land forces. number of troops under General McCown. arrival of General Pope on the 28th of February in front of New Madrid. Colonel Plummer establishes a battery on the river. apprehensions of General McCown. General Beauregard's despatch to General Cooper. General McCown exhibits still greater anxiety. General Beauregard doubts General McCown's capacity. successful evacuation of Columbus. attack commenced on New Madrid March 12th. conference of General McCown with Commodore Hollins on the 13th, and evacuation of Forts. General Beauregard applies for General MacKALLall. garrison of New Madrid transferred to opposite bank of river and Is
H. S. Foote (search for this): chapter 24
urse, until he was finally relieved by General Mackall, on the 31st, as already explained. He was sent to Memphis, out of command, and ordered to write the report of his operations, especially such as referred to the evacuation of New Madrid. After a stout and soldierly resistance at Island No.10, our troops displaying the unflinching spirit that distinguished them during the war, the work at last succumbed on the 7th of April, and surrendered to the Federal fleet, under Commodore A. H2. Foote, two or three hours after the retreat of the Confederate forces from Shiloh had been ordered. The shattered condition of the works proved to what extremity their defenders had been reduced. A Federal writer says: The earth is ploughed and furrowed as with an earthquake. Small caverns were excavated by the tremendous explosions, Record of the Rebellion (Documents), 1862, vol. IV. p. 440. etc. And General Force, a fair narrator of this period of the war, speaking of the first or second da
Force (search for this): chapter 24
was high at that season of the year, and the eight Confederate gunboats, under Commodore Hollins, could easily rake the approaches to the above-named forts. General Force, From Fort Henry to Corinth, pp. 68, 69. On or about the 12th of March, General McCown's forces, exclusive of the gunboats—which were not under his orders,rowed as with an earthquake. Small caverns were excavated by the tremendous explosions, Record of the Rebellion (Documents), 1862, vol. IV. p. 440. etc. And General Force, a fair narrator of this period of the war, speaking of the first or second day of the bombardment (what must it not have been on the last!), uses this language-field of Shiloh, to an aggregate of at least one hundred and twenty thousand men. General Halleck puts the number at one hundred and twenty-five thousand. General Force, in his book, often quoted by us, says one hundred thousand. General Sherman, in his Memoirs, vol. i. p. 251, says that the army must have numbered nearly one
Ellerson (search for this): chapter 24
h determination and energy; and caused General Beauregard to regret still more the supineness of the naval commanders charged with the protection of that part of the Mississippi River. Small hope, however, could be entertained of a change for the better in these matters. For, on May 13th, and despite strenuous efforts on the part of General Beauregard, the two iron-clads on the stocks at Memphis were far from being finished. On that day (13th) he was informed by General Villepigue that Mr. Ellerson, of Memphis, offered to complete at once either of the two gunboats, if officially authorized, and properly assisted in doing so. General Beauregard immediately forwarded instructions to that effect, as is shown by the following 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 or
Carondelet (search for this): chapter 24
kney, who now commanded the Confederate gunboats, co-operated in the attack, as it was his plain duty to do. Two of the enemy's gunboats, the Mound City and the Carondelet, were seriously crippled, and compelled to seek safety in shoal water. The mortar-boats—of which one was reported sunk—were towed out of range. This is proowas 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 promptly assailed this advance squadron, and, after an hour of close combat, disabled and silenced the iron-clad and drove the other two vessels to the shelter of the fleets, in the main river. Losing no time with the disabled Carondelet, the Confederate iron-clad proceeded down stream, and attacked the combined fleet of more than twenty men-of-war. She pushed through their double line of heavy ships, rams, mor
Farragut (search for this): chapter 24
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 anlad, the Arkansas, mounting ten guns, with a crew of two hundred men, descended the Yazoo River to attack, not one or two Federal gunboats, 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 story of the Arkansas may be given in a few words. On the evening of the 15th (July), the day of the double battle above Vicksburg, she engaged the fleet of Admiral Farragut, passing Vicksburg, and, in the latter action, had both her armor and machinery further damaged, suffering also severely in killed and wounded among men and
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