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Wool (search for this): chapter 7
ms against the Union were not to be surrendered to their masters, these slaves would have to be successively cared for, set to work and enrolled. But for the present hardly more was thought of than to feed them and give them something to do. Accustomed to spend their time without any forethought, liberty being to them a synonymous term for idleness, they required the controlling guardianship of the Federal authority. The largest number of refugees was to be found at Fortress Monroe, and General Wool, who commanded this place, was obliged, in the month of November, to publish a series of orders regulating their work and wages, whether in the service of the State or of officers, fixing the price of their clothing, and establishing a fund in their favor, formed by keeping back a portion of their wages. In Missouri, however, General Halleck seemed to make it a point to act in every respect in a manner contrary to his predecessor. The latter had received the slaves and sought to enfranc
S. Williams (search for this): chapter 7
o testify before the courts on the same conditions as the latter. Pending the discussion of these laws, public attention was again directed to the treatment of fugitive slaves by some new incidents. The troops under Butler, who occupied the counties adjoining New Orleans, were everywhere surrounded by these fugitives, whose number was much larger in that locality than in any other part of the South, in consequence, no doubt, of the extreme hardships of servile labor in that region. General Williams, who was stationed at Baton Rouge with his brigade, wishing, perhaps, to put an end to some abuses injurious to discipline, or thinking that he would thereby conciliate the good — will of the powerful proprietors in the neighborhood, published an order absolutely prohibiting such fugitives all access to his camps. This order was in open violation of the law of Congress, and Colonel Paine, of the Fourth Wisconsin, refused to execute it. His command was taken from him. Respect for the mi
Westfield (search for this): chapter 7
tem of occupation prescribed by Farragut and on the 26th of October two of his gun-boats. the Westfield and the Clifton, took possession of the village of Indianola, in the Bay of Matagorda, withouts about to set, the steamer Boardman, with Governor Hamilton on board, entered the passes; the Westfield, Renshaw's flagship, had gone to meet him, and was escorting him. These two vessels sailed cloer of twilight. It is not astonishing, therefore, that the two largest Federal gun-boats, the Westfield and Clifton, anchored outside of Pelican Island, had not yet been able to take part in it. At orypheus were steaming out of Galveston under Law's direction, Renshaw ordered the crew of the Westfield to be transferred to the Boardman, for no effort could avail to save that vessel, and nothing ery direction, and a shower of debris and projectiles fell around the blackened carcass of the Westfield. When the smoke at length disappeared, the yawl was seen floating keel upward. The fifteen me
Wessells (search for this): chapter 7
tried to make up for this disadvantage by the vigor of his attack. While his batteries were shelling the Confederates, Wessells' brigade, composed of well-trained soldiers, advanced first, and went into action; that of Amory followed close, replacid exhausted their ammunition. Twenty minutes later, just as the third brigade, under Stevenson, was about to join them, Wessells and Amory gave the signal to charge. Their whole line rushed forward, and without a moment's pause dislodged Evans fromit on fire, but so carelessly that the flames were extinguished before any serious damage had been done. An hour later, Wessells' brigade entered the town of Kingston, where it took possession of nine guns which Evans had abandoned in his precipitat the greatest importance to the Confederates. Foster sent nearly the whole of his artillery to Lee's assistance, whilst Wessells' brigade occupied an eminence from which it commanded the course of the river. The signal for the attack was given, and
Wessell (search for this): chapter 7
t. He finally set her on fire, and, taking one of the launches, reached Fort Macon safe and sound. On the same day three Federal steamers, leaving Yorktown, in Virginia, with a few companies of infantry, landed these troops for a few hours in one of the bays of Matthews county, on the Chesapeake coast, where they destroyed three schooners and some important saltworks. In the mean time, Foster had received new reinforcements, which enabled him at last to carry out his plan of campaign. Wessell's brigade, detached from Peck's division, which was stationed between Yorktown and Fort Monroe, had come to join him at Newberne, and on the 11th of December he set off with the four brigades placed under his command. This time the preliminaries were complete, and nothing was likely to stop the march of his troops, as had been the case the preceding month. The object of the expedition was difficult to accomplish. Foster proposed to penetrate into the interior of the country, and to cut,
Weitzel (search for this): chapter 7
re dangerous than useful, as we shall presently see. Meanwhile, he continued the system of occupation prescribed by Farragut and on the 26th of October two of his gun-boats. the Westfield and the Clifton, took possession of the village of Indianola, in the Bay of Matagorda, without opposition. Similar bold strokes were attempted along that portion of the coast of the Mexican gulf which extends east of the mouths of the Mississippi. We do not propose to speak of the operations of General Weitzel, nor of the flotilla that accompanied him on the Atchafalaya and the Bayou Teche; the naval force having only played an accessory role, these operations have been recorded elsewhere. We shall merely mention a small naval expedition, undertaken a month earlier by Major Strong, chief of Butler's staff, against some Confederate detachments which were assembling on the left bank of the Mississippi for the purpose of harassing the Federals in their possession of the districts in the vicinit
Washington (search for this): chapter 7
em were laid up with fever in the hospital, so that when the roll was called there were only three hundred able-bodied men present, and one sergeant to command them. Without allowing himself to be disconcerted by the numerical weakness of his troops, Sergeant Green led them against the enemy. Turning the tables, he suddenly fell upon the Confederates, routed them, killed about thirty men, and triumphantly brought back forty prisoners, among whom was Colonel Garrett. The attack against Washington was more serious. This village was occupied by a field-battery of six pieces, five squadrons of cavalry and four companies of infantry. The gun-boats Pickett and Louisiana were at anchor in the river fronting the village. The talk of the inhabitants, who were known to be in sympathy with the enemy, had roused the suspicion of the Federals, and on the morning of September 6th the cavalry, with two pieces of cannon, went out on a reconnaissance along the Plymouth road. Three or four hund
Walker (search for this): chapter 7
ing the road leading to the village of Pocotaligo, situated at a distance of eighteen kilometres from Mackay's Point. This road runs along the right bank of the watercourse, and crosses, over narrow causeways intersected by wooden bridges, the broad swamps, often bounded by thick copses, with which all the small valleys in this region are covered. Each of these causeways formed a defile easy to defend. The Confederates took good care to avail themselves of these excellent positions. Colonel Walker, after feeling the Federals, who were advancing and deploying whenever the nature of the ground allowed them, awaited their approach behind one of these obstacles in front of the Frampton plantation, twelve kilometres from Mackay's Point. Twice did the Union troops cross the wood by which the swamp was bounded on their side; and each time they were received by such terrific volleys of musketry along its edge that they were compelled to fall back, leaving behind them a large number of ki
Wainwright (search for this): chapter 7
ay. Guided by the light produced by the discharge of their guns, they had directed their course toward that vessel in the midst of the darkness. Meanwhile, Captain Wainwright, who commanded her, had at last succeeded in starting his engines; and on perceiving the two hostile vessels, he steamed direct toward them. The combatants, being anxious to come together, only exchanged a few shots at a distance. Wainwright ran his vessel against the huge sides of the Bayou City, struck her obliquely, and carried off her paddlebox, without doing any other damage. The Neptune on her part, wishing to assist her mate, rushed against the fore part of the Harriet Lanenged on the quarter-deck of their steamer, so as to command the deck of the Harriet Lane; consequently, after a few discharges, they boarded the latter vessel. Wainwright and his second in command were killed, and the crew, stricken with terror, hastened to surrender. Out of one hundred and twenty men only ten were disabled.
Unionists (search for this): chapter 7
ion of the coast, not only proposed to themselves to complete the blockade of the States in rebellion against the Union, but they also sought to create centres of political resistance against the action of the Confederate government at all the points they occupied, and were especially in hopes of succeeding in their designs on the coast of Texas, where slavery had but recently been introduced. Among the rough settlers who had come into that State from all parts of America, there were many Unionists, whose number daily increased in consequence of the severity of the Confederate conscription law. Hunted down by merciless adversaries, and not being sufficiently numerous to resist them on the soil of Texas itself, they sought to gain those regions where the Federal flag afforded them a safe refuge. Most of them had for some time proceeded first to the Mexican frontier, and thence had gone to New Orleans by sea. Thus, in the beginning of August, about sixty young men, nearly all settler
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