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Twiggs (search for this): chapter 4
the entrance of the bay of Charleston. Always tardy in his action, on the 18th he dismissed General Twiggs, who, on the 16th, had surrendered the troops under his command to the insurgents of Texas; he Federal government in their estimation, and to increase their faith in its helplessness. General Twiggs, who commanded the regular troops stationed in Texas, was in accord with the rebels. He sufss of a man who had deserted his colors. His former comrades, betrayed through the defection of Twiggs, were, some of them, in San Antonio with Colonel Waite, the remainder with Major Sibley at Indialices, General Floyd had not confined his operations to Texas, where we have seen the treason of Twiggs and Van Dorn fully successful. He had sent Colonel Loring to Santa Fe to take command of the re resisted the solicitations of those faithless chiefs, who failed to find among the settlers, as Twiggs had found, an armed force ready to assist them. Lieutenant-Colonel Roberts, having fathomed the
Regis Trobriand (search for this): chapter 9
imited; it will be enough to mention the remarkable work of M. Vigo Roussillion on The Military Power of the United States, and the writings of three officers with whom the author had the good fortune to serve in the campaign against Richmond in 1862: History of the War of Secession, by the Swiss Federal colonel F. Lecomte, two volumes; History of the War of Secession, by Lieutenant-colonel Fletcher of the British Guards, three volumes; and Four Years in the Army of the Potomac, by General Regis de Trobriand, two volumes, Paris, 1867. This last work, French in language, in spirit, and in the place of its publication, possesses at the same time, in an historical point of view, all the value of a narrative written by one of the eye-witnesses and actors in the great American drama. We shall conclude this note with a final reference, which will convey to the reader an idea of the multitude of documents of varied importance and value that have been published on the subject of which we
M. Trobri (search for this): chapter 4
superfluity of officers. But these troops, which at a later period were to impart lustre to the numbers which they wore, were then only fit for parade-duty and utterly inexperienced in military matters. French wit, ever facetious, had seized the ludicrous side of these useless displays of epaulets and drums, and the officers of the Fifty-fifth New York, who in the hour of danger freely shed French blood in the cause of their adopted country, under the command of a brave and able chief, M. de Trobri and, had dubbed themselves at one of the regimental banquets which always followed such demonstrations, Gardes Lafourchettes, or Knife and Fork Guards. Charmed by a showy procession, the multitude mechanically rehearsed the official statistics, according to which the strength of the national troops might reach the total of three million and seventy thousand men. If some now and then called to mind the behavior of the militia of 1776 and 1812, this idea was as quickly dismissed under the
Trent (search for this): chapter 6
d McFarland, for St. Thomas and England, on the English mail-packet Trent. At that time the Federal sloop-of-war San Jacinto was cruising in English steamer, which was to pass there after leaving Havana. The Trent hove in sight on the 8th of November at the very hour that Wilkes oat with Lieutenant Fairfax and a detachment of marines boarded the Trent, whose deck was crowded with passengers awaiting the issue of this after the first cannon-shot had been fired Captain Wilkes set the Trent free and proceeded with his prisoners to Fort Monroe, while the Engealous; it shared the feelings experienced by the passengers of the Trent when they saw the deck of the vessel occupied by Federal soldiers. e other hand, the seizure of all the contraband of war on board the Trent, and the arraignment of that vessel before a prize-court, would havland, and only acknowledged that the fact of not having brought the Trent before one of the prize-courts constituted an illegal act which ren
Trent (search for this): chapter 7
nd six metres fifty centimetres interior diameter, formed of plates laid upon each other, the entire thickness being eighteen centimetres. This vessel was to carry two Dahlgren guns of thirty centimetres calibre. Entrusting the execution of his work to three different private establishments, Ericsson set to work to superintend the details with ardent solicitude, foreseeing the services his invention might render to his adopted country. The prospect of a war with England arising out of the Trent affair contributed to hasten the completion of the Monitor. It was by this name that Ericsson's vessel became famous. At the time it seemed especially intended for the protection of the port of New York against British squadrons. On the 30th of January, after three months work, she was launched in the presence of a curious and incredulous crowd, that flocked to see if the strange machine would not sink in the water under the weight of her armor. It required four weeks more to complete he
Trenholm (search for this): chapter 6
iddle of the year 1861, with instructions to fit out vessels of war, which, by fraudulently hoisting the Southern flag, should resume the work of destruction which they were unable to continue themselves. The cotton which the secessionists possessed enabled them to obtain the required amount of money to purchase these vessels. Those agents had found in England a favorable reception. Captain Bullock, foremost among them, an able officer, full of resources, assisted by the firm of Fraser & Trenholm, who represented the financial interests of the Richmond government, knew well how to avail himself of these dispositions, and by the end of the year several privateers were preparing to put to sea. We shall speak hereafter of the war they waged against American commerce. The maintenance of the blockade was another and a no less difficult part of the task so suddenly imposed upon the Federal navy. As we have stated above, the blockade, which was proclaimed on the 19th of April, after th
Totten (search for this): chapter 6
rved, and the fire of which is very irregular. As we have just seen, this artillery has already saved the regular troops compromised in the valley. A section of Totten's battery replies with great effect to a few guns posted by the enemy on the heights commanding the right bank of Wilson's Creek, for the purpose of enfilading th back in disorder, but the artillery still supports them. The Confederates try to surprise them by displaying a Federal flag under cover of which to advance; but Totten, who has allowed them to approach, discovers the disloyal trick in time, and a few rounds of grape severely punish the authors of it for their temerity. The Fed, but failed to break their lines; and when he returned furiously to the charge, it was only to be again repulsed. At last, when he was on the point of capturing Totten's battery on the right, three regiments from the left wing, which was not so hard pressed, rushed upon the assailants and threw them into disorder. It was near
De Tocqueville (search for this): chapter 2
duced a book displaying careful research, cool judgment, and a manifest purpose to be just to all. It is vigorous in style, scholarly without a touch of pedantry; his battle-pictures are effective from their great simplicity; the battle fights itself under the reader's eyes. So varied and skilful is the handling of the narrative that the interest does not flag for a moment, even when he deals with dry statistics. In a large and philosophic view of American institutions he has rivalled De Tocqueville. Although his service was short in this country, he gained a full knowledge of the machinery and working of our government, and was a witness of the marvellous creation of a colossal army out of nothing. He has thus been enabled to use intelligently the large materials he has collected, and to present the first portion of what must be regarded as an admirable history of the greatest war, as to numbers, extent of territory, and importance of issue, the world has ever seen. Not one
De Tocqueville (search for this): chapter 4
se name it had been procured. In spite of all artificial barriers, a double contraband, favoring the escape of the slave on one hand, would, on the other, have carrried into the South those abolition publications so much dreaded by the latter, which a secret but irresistible propagandism would have circulated among enslaved populations whom the faintest glimpse of liberty was sufficient to excite. This inevitable consequence of separation was predicted long ago by the sagacious mind of De Tocqueville, who foresaw the day when slavery would bring on a terrible crisis, in the midst of which it would disappear, and which even seemed to him destined to prove fatal to one of the two races. He had therefore counselled the men of the South to remain faithful to the Union at all hazards, because, sustained by the numerous white population of the North, he told them, they would be able to abolish slavery slowly without subverting the order of things, and still preserving their social superio
De Tocqueville (search for this): chapter 5
r hills made to bristle with cannon, their waters ploughed by armed vessels, and many lives sacrificed; while others had to supply the combatants with provisions and gather together the produce of rich and undisturbed districts for the use of the army. The events we have narrated, which marked the line of separation between the belligerents, divided this vast basin into three parts. One, situated north of the Ohio, that boundary between freedom and slavery so admirably described by De Tocqueville, comprised the rich Middle States, the granaries of America, and soon to be those of the whole world. It was to know nothing of the war except through the accounts given by its sons, and by the absence of those who were doomed never again to revisit the domestic hearth. The second extended along the right bank of the Mississippi, the home of the Indian and the buffalo, and the new country of the pioneer, the eternal enemy of both—a country the immensity of which seems to stimulate i
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