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Levi Lindley Hawes (search for this): chapter 11
Personal Experience of a Union Veteran By Levi Lindley Hawes (Continued.) About the middle of April General Butler learned that Farragut's fleet had crossed the bar and was ready to proceed up the Mississippi. Six regiments and two batteries were immediately embarked on sailing transports and started for the front. On the eighteenth—although about sixty miles away—we heard the gentle voice of Porter's fifteen-inch mortars. Then came the cheering account of Farragut's passing the forts—Jackson and St. Philip—and later the landing of General Butler in New Orleans on the first of May. Other troops were sent forward as transportation could be furnished, till early in May the Thirteenth Maine only was left on the island. Many are called, but few are chosen, was my comment at the time; and we were the chosen few. Some of the boys regarded this as punishment, but punishment for what? No adequate answer was forthcoming. We had been inspected by General Butler himself, and ve
Paine (search for this): chapter 11
hat General Banks had been ordered to relieve General Butler. On Sunday, December 14, 1862, General Banks and his fleet of transports passed the forts. Mobile and Texas, so ran the rumor, are to be annexed at once. We hoped to be included in the annexation business. But the programme was materially modified. About three months later I received a letter from General Dudley's adjutant-general asking me to come to Baton Rouge immediately, for he and other officers had recommended me to Colonel Paine, of the First Louisiana Regiment, who desired an adjutant familiar with the duties of the office. By reason of lack of transportation, a week or two passed before I was able to report; and then I found the army all ready to move out towards Port Hudson. The colonel had been obliged to detail one of his own officers, and it was too late to make any change. I housed my disappointment and resumed my duties at Fort St. Philip. July 8 Port Hudson was annexed, in spite of my nonattendan
Parrott (search for this): chapter 11
ns left their bed, out of the darkness (we were working by night) came the warning, Captain, come out of the battery, or we'll have a funeral. Only one, I said, for I would allow no one in the battery with me. I will admit that I laid my hands very gingerly on the huge gun as I swung it into position to lower it into the trunnion beds of the old ship's gun-carriage placed on the parapet to receive it. All chatter had ceased. As gently as a sleeping infant would be placed in its crib, this Parrott was lowered to its improvised carriage and eased down the slope of the sand battery and on to the board track on which it was to be transported to the wharf a mile away. Now a question that had been put to me a hundred times, What are you going to do with those old boards? was answered by the screaking trucks of a resurrected gun-carriage, as a jolly set of boys seized the dragrope and walked away with the gun, while boarders were called away to shift track. At eleven o'clock at night (
Pike (search for this): chapter 11
in the volunteer service till the close of the war; that my desire for peace was so intense that I was ready and willing to fight for it. The temptation to yield to their several arguments was great, but I believe that I decided wisely. Shortly thereafter came orders consolidating the Ninety-first Regiment with the Seventy-fourth Regiment—headquarters at Ship Island. All surplus officers, including all the field officers of the Ninety-first Regiment, received an honorable discharge. Major Pike, on assuming command at Fort Macomb, told me that the company to which I had been assigned at Ship Island was under orders to proceed to Mobile Bay, where Admiral Farragut was making preparations to attack the forts. Glory! Hallelujah! I shouted. The astonished major said, What! are you that anxious to have your head knocked off? Oh, no, not that, I answered, but I have a consuming desire to lead these boys where we can get a wholesome whack at this edge of the diabolical rebellion.
Porter (search for this): chapter 11
Personal Experience of a Union Veteran By Levi Lindley Hawes (Continued.) About the middle of April General Butler learned that Farragut's fleet had crossed the bar and was ready to proceed up the Mississippi. Six regiments and two batteries were immediately embarked on sailing transports and started for the front. On the eighteenth—although about sixty miles away—we heard the gentle voice of Porter's fifteen-inch mortars. Then came the cheering account of Farragut's passing the forts—Jackson and St. Philip—and later the landing of General Butler in New Orleans on the first of May. Other troops were sent forward as transportation could be furnished, till early in May the Thirteenth Maine only was left on the island. Many are called, but few are chosen, was my comment at the time; and we were the chosen few. Some of the boys regarded this as punishment, but punishment for what? No adequate answer was forthcoming. We had been inspected by General Butler himself, and ve
Rust (search for this): chapter 11
l headquarters, on Ship Island. These several transfers, you will notice, carried the entire regiment to guard all the water approaches to New Orleans, save the river above the city, and Farragut the Superb was competent to attend to that approach. According to the repeated statements of the commanding general, the Thirteenth Maine regiment held the posts of honor in the Department of the Gulf. On the twenty-eighth of April Colonel Dow was promoted to brigadier-general, and Lieutenant-Colonel Rust succeeded to the command of the regiment. Shortly after our arrival on Ship Island, I was detailed in the adjutant's office. Adjutant Speed was promoted to captain and assigned to General Dow's staff as acting assistant adjutant-general. Sergeant-Major Wilson was promoted to adjutant, and I was warranted to rattle around in the office vacated by him. And I found it no sinecure, for during the absence of the adjutant on several occasions, the entire duties of the office devolved o
T. W. Sherman (search for this): chapter 11
ranger to me. I was the victim of a situation and a condition. I might have said O. K. at the outlook, but I didn't. I said nothing, but went to work. After a few days the colonel did me the honor to call on me and read me a letter from General T. W. Sherman, ordering him to detail an officer to act as ordnance and artillery officer. None of my old officers, he said, have any knowledge of ordnance or heavy artillery. You, I have been informed, are well up in these branches, and I have instr I immediately made out a requisition for such stores as I deemed essential, and referred it to the colonel, who said, The war will be over before your requisition will be filled. On the contrary, I replied, it will be filled by return boat, or Sherman will give me a cursing that will be heard in Washington. The first steamer from New Orleans brought every article for which I had made requisition—not omitting the garrison gin and gin-sling, which were not brought in bottles. I guess old To
Tom Sherman (search for this): chapter 11
will give me a cursing that will be heard in Washington. The first steamer from New Orleans brought every article for which I had made requisition—not omitting the garrison gin and gin-sling, which were not brought in bottles. I guess old Tom Sherman knows you, was the colonel's comment as the stores were landed on the wharf. I apprehend he will know me before he is done with me, I replied, for I have a report on the condition of the batteries which I would like to have you sign and transarge; three carriages at the second, and one carriage at the third discharge. You have redeemed your promise; and it is the best Sunday job I have ever seen, was the inspector's comment. In recognition of my Sunday's work of destruction, General Sherman sent to our post the Second Ohio Light Battery. And I served as ordnance officer till the regiment was mustered out of service. Although my second tour of duty on Ship Island was of rather a sober character, yet we occasionally had somew
Jesse Smith (search for this): chapter 11
n where he belonged, and detail the best officer he had, as he was originally ordered to do. The colonel was somewhat scared. I was happy. Please leave the report with me, I said, and I will trump the general's trick. Since I have been kicked by a government mule, I don't shy at trifles. The second report proved sufficient to bring the inspector-general of the defences of New Orleans down upon me about five o'clock one Saturday afternoon. Before going to headquarters, the inspector, Colonel Smith, with whom I was well acquainted, called on me, and in his peculiar way informed me of the object of his visit. You and I, he began, are in the same boat. The general alleges that you falsely report that the five Dahlgren gun-carriages are liable to collapse at the first or second discharge of the gun; that the plank gun foundations of the batteries are rotten and unsafe. The general is mad at you, and he is wrathy with me for saying to him that I knew you personally, and that you wer
Speed (search for this): chapter 11
Orleans, save the river above the city, and Farragut the Superb was competent to attend to that approach. According to the repeated statements of the commanding general, the Thirteenth Maine regiment held the posts of honor in the Department of the Gulf. On the twenty-eighth of April Colonel Dow was promoted to brigadier-general, and Lieutenant-Colonel Rust succeeded to the command of the regiment. Shortly after our arrival on Ship Island, I was detailed in the adjutant's office. Adjutant Speed was promoted to captain and assigned to General Dow's staff as acting assistant adjutant-general. Sergeant-Major Wilson was promoted to adjutant, and I was warranted to rattle around in the office vacated by him. And I found it no sinecure, for during the absence of the adjutant on several occasions, the entire duties of the office devolved on me. When the three companies were transferred to Fort Jackson, I was detailed as acting adjutant of the post. Later I served in the same capa
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