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Switzerland (Switzerland) (search for this): chapter 2
flotilla consisted, besides the mortar-boats and transports, which were of no service in battle, of five gun-boats, the Benton, the Louisville, the Carondelet, the Cairo and the St. Louis; and four rams, the Queen of the West, the Monarch, the Switzerland and the Lancaster No. 3. The latter vessels were not under the orders of Commodore Davis; having been built by the war department under the superintendence of Colonel Ellet, an officer of great energy and intelligence, they had been placed uwhich their fate depended. A bright sun lighted up this exciting scene. The two flotillas were advancing toward each other. Finding soon that the gun-boats were moving too slowly, Ellet shot ahead of them with his rams; but one of them, the Switzerland, ran aground, broke her rudder, and remained disabled for the rest of the day; another, the Lancaster, being badly commanded, kept aloof from the action. Ellet therefore had only two ships left with which to engage in a close fight, while the
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
o had remained faithful to his flag, although a native of Tennessee. He was placed in command of the Gulf squadron, and embarmy, since it had lost Kentucky and the larger portion of Tennessee, was to retain possession of the two great arteries whicht will be remembered that their successes in Kentucky and Tennessee had been due to the facilities which three parallel river rear, and the fall of the defences of the Cumberland and Tennessee had led to that of all the works erected on the Mississipbridges of Stevenson and Decatur. Leaving the capital of Tennessee at the same time as the remainder of the army of the Ohio Master of this position, indeed, he could menace either Tennessee or Kentucky, Nashville or Louisville, and wrest from the on that side. The forces which had been dispersed in East Tennessee had been again assembled at Knoxville, under command ohe borders of the Ohio, and by menacing Kirby Smith in East Tennessee he would have made a diversion equally advantageous in
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
fleet called the South Atlantic squadron and of the army of T. W. Sherman, on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida during the first six months of 1862. In the preceding volume we gavehots with the Federal gun-boat Crusader. Owing to their possession of all the islands of South Carolina, the Federals maintained a strict blockade of the coast of that State. Although it became eied by small detachments. Consequently, the naval division charged to observe the waters of South Carolina confined itself to the task of blockading as strictly as possible the entrance of this great by Small, she thus passed before all the forts, displaying the Confederate flag and that of South Carolina, and exchanged the usual salute and signals with the lookout. When the latter discovered tntelligent negro. The services of this new pilot were soon made available on the coast of South Carolina, with which he was perfectly acquainted. These services were the more important because Hun
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
West, we must retrace our steps to narrate operations, at once military and naval, of which a portion of the coast of the Confederate States had been the theatre during the early part of 1862. We followed these operations upon the coast of North Carolina and in the Gulf of Mexico up to the spring, a period when they ceased entirely, partly in consequence of the new destination given to Burnside's army, which left Albemarle Sound for the borders of the James, and partly owing to the retreat int of all, on the one hand, to get possession of some of the islands in the vicinity of Charleston as stations for troops, and on the other hand to make the blockade more stringent along that portion of the coast situated between this city and North Carolina, which had hitherto been less strictly guarded by the Federal fleet. On the 20th of May, three gun-boats, detached from the division which blockaded Charleston, entered the Bay of Stono River, south of the city, under the pilotage of Rober
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
elf at Mill Springs. Buell commanded the army of the Ohio, which he had so opportunely led to the battle-field of Shiloh, comprising the divisions of McCook, Wood, Nelson and Crittenden. The army of the Mississippi, which Pope had brought from Missouri, and to which Curtis had contributed some reinforcements from Arkansas, consisted of the five small divisions of Stanley, Hamilton, Palmer, Paine and Plummer; a distinguished officer, General Granger, commanded its cavalry. The reserve was compe President to make it an independent department. He placed it in charge of General Hunter, a meritorious officer, cool and resolute, who had the reputation of possessing great good sense and experience, and whom we have already seen at work in Missouri. General Benham proceeded to Tybee to assume command of the troops assembled there, and all those stationed south of the Savannah River; General Viele, who was placed under him, continued to direct the special operations on the left bank of the
Mississippi (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
nd government had decided that these vessels, with fourteen river-boats more or less armored, should proceed to the Upper Mississippi as soon as completed to contend with Foote; but the danger which threatened New Orleans was so great that Lovell sus, followed Farragut, and placed garrisons at all the places which it was important to defend. The conquest of the lower Mississippi was proceeding rapidly, and the Federals already flattered themselves with the hope of reopening the navigation of in width, and on the left it enfolds the extremity of a long chain of hills, which extend into the interior of the State of Mississippi. Vicksburg is situated on the bluffs which form the extremity of these hills. The Confederate batteries rose, sosolution. He ordered the fleet to descend the river again, passing under the fire of Vicksburg, so as to close the lower Mississippi against the dangerous visitors who had just braved his power. Night came on before his vessels could be put in mo
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
in the centre of one of the richest rebel States; they would take from their adversaries a port which required a large number of vessels to blockade, and would secure a strong base of operations from which to attack in rear the armies charged with the defence of the upper course of the Mississippi. Consequently, since the outset of the war their aim had been to make themselves masters of the place. We have said that in the month of December, 1861, General Phelps had landed with a few Massachusetts battalions on a small sandy islet called Ship Island, situated at the entrance of Lake Borgne. As this bay extends to within a short distance of New Orleans, the station of Ship Island, although a disagreeable spot, swept by winds dangerous to vessels and unhealthy for men, afforded, nevertheless, an indispensable point for victualling the fleet and the troops which were about to attack the capital of Louisiana. Upon this island Phelps had found a large fortification commenced before t
Louisiana (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
n coast of the Mississippi delta, where some Louisiana militia were in the habit of parading for a housand volunteers raised by the governor of Louisiana, engaged for only three months, badly equippulty, were taken away to be put on board the Louisiana, where they did not fire a single shot. Sugh a fortunate chance for the Federals, the Louisiana, which had reached Fort Jackson on the 20th,, but also in all the small garrisons of Western Louisiana, which had been ordered to the city by Ll took care to leave no flag floating on the Louisiana, which was moored above St. Philip; but imme upon them as a fire-ship. Fortunately, the Louisiana exploded too soon, just off Fort St. Philip,efore Baton Rouge. The political capital of Louisiana offered no resistance, and a detachment of mntations which had constituted the wealth of Louisiana, nor in restoring real activity to the cottoConfederate forces stationed on the coast of Louisiana. It remains for us to speak of the combined[12 more...]
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
d the best way for conveying the products of the States of Georgia and Alabama to the coast, which the blockade-runners came ooga, under different disguises, and thence to Marietta in Georgia, which had been assigned them as a place of rendezvous, anhe army of T. W. Sherman, on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida during the first six months of 1862. In thes canals; the enormous volume of water which the rivers of Georgia discharge into the Atlantic has hollowed several bays, of no outlet to the sea. The fertile islands of the coast of Georgia, formed by alluvia, are then succeeded by extensive sand-bacuating Fort Clinch was imitated along the whole coast of Georgia between the bays of Ossabaw and St. Mary. All the white position, whence he could easily command the whole coast of Georgia. In the mean time, Dupont had extended his conquests soame hostile feeling toward the Federal sailors as those of Georgia; the doctrine of States' rights had not penetrated into th
Colorado (Colorado, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
nd seven hundred men. Farragut had long been waiting for him, and had availed himself of this delay to organize his forces, and prepare them for the difficult enterprise which had been entrusted to them. His squadron consisted of the frigate Colorado, forty-eight guns; the sloop-of-war Brooklyn, twenty-four guns, which had been blockading the Mississippi for some time; the sloop-of-war Iroquois, nine guns, brought back from the West Indies; of the following ships, recently fitted out in the mud, thus adding a natural defence to those we have already described. Consequently, when Farragut tried to enter the Mississippi River in the month of March, he had the greatest difficulty in getting his sloops-of-war over the bar. The frigate Colorado, drawing twenty-two feet of water, was obliged to remain outside, and the greater part of her crew were distributed among the other vessels. It was only on the 8th of April that, the sloops-of-war Mississippi and Pensacola having surmounted the
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