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Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 6
its power. It prohibited the exportation of powder, military preparations were made with feverish activity, and a large body of troops was embarked in haste for Canada. The Guards, who have the noble privilege of taking part in all important wars, were the first to start. These troops went on board the vessels playing an air wre even reproached for the premature delight their associates had exhibited when war seemed inevitable. A portion of the troops who had embarked in England for Canada had not yet arrived when the commissioners left Fort Warren. Mr. Seward took advantage of this delay to wind up the negotiation with one of those strokes of wit w at that port, and pass freely through the territory of the United States, to avoid the New Brunswick route—impeded by snow and ice at that season—on their way to Canada. We have reached the end of the first year of the long war the narrative of which we have undertaken. It terminated contrary to the expectations of both parti
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
lready in sight of that point. Dupont arrived in the course of the morning with twenty-five vessels, after having put the Susquehanna about, opposite Charleston; and on that evening, when the sun went down behind the lower coast of Carolina, it shone upon the greater portion of the fleet riding peaceably on the bosom of a sea as smooth as a mirror. Most of the ships which had been dispersed were heard from, and that terrible storm so warmly welcomed in the South as an interposition of Providence had not, after all, caused any irreparable injury to the expedition. The entrance of Port Royal was difficult of access. A bar, with eighteen feet of water at high tide, forms, several kilometres in front, a vast semicircle, the two extremities of which touch the coast. A tortuous channel leads through numerous sand-banks to the pass which opens between the island of St. Philip to the north and that of Hilton Head to the south. The latter takes its name from the cape formed by its no
Cape Hatteras (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
there arrived at Fortress Monroe the captain of a merchant-vessel who had been wrecked near Cape Hatteras, on the coast of North Carolina. Mr. Campbell, having been kept three months a prisoner in tembling those of Lido and Malamocco; at the highest point of the arc which it describes lies Cape Hatteras, and a little farther to the south the inlet of the same name. This inlet was very much freurrounded, abandoned their camp, with everything it contained, and fled towards the beach of Cape Hatteras. They arrived, exhausted by fatigue, in the greatest confusion, leaving behind them fifty p to complete their success by a rapid march, and night overtook them before they had reached Cape Hatteras. On the following morning Brown's soldiers, who had gathered along the beach near the cape,ng of November, sailors call the death-blast. The bad weather overtook Dupont south-east of Cape Hatteras on the night of the 1st and 2d of November. When day dawned, cloudy and dim, on that immens
St. Phillip (Indiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
en dispersed were heard from, and that terrible storm so warmly welcomed in the South as an interposition of Providence had not, after all, caused any irreparable injury to the expedition. The entrance of Port Royal was difficult of access. A bar, with eighteen feet of water at high tide, forms, several kilometres in front, a vast semicircle, the two extremities of which touch the coast. A tortuous channel leads through numerous sand-banks to the pass which opens between the island of St. Philip to the north and that of Hilton Head to the south. The latter takes its name from the cape formed by its northern extremity. Beyond it lies an immense sheet of water, tranquil and deep, which runs far inland and serves as the principal artery to the network of canals which render that region a perfect archipelago. The whole line of defences along the entire coast of South Carolina had been entrusted to General Ripley. He had constructed two large earthworks to command the pass of Por
China (China) (search for this): chapter 6
flotilla consisting of eight small steamers had been organized by Commodore Tatnall, a former officer of the Federal navy, who had distinguished himself in 1859 by the zeal he displayed in going to the assistance of the Anglo-French expedition in China after the check it sustained on the Pei-Ho. The Confederates placed great reliance on that flotilla and its commander. Their expectations were to be cruelly disappointed. Immediately after his arrival Dupont set to work. A gunboat had reconf they are transported in good faith from one neutral port to another neutral port, they are covered by the flag. Without this restriction, every belligerent could intercept the commerce of the whole world; as, for instance, it would suffice for China and Russia to be at war, to justify the latter in searching and seizing every ship engaged in carrying arms, and even coal, between France and England. The Confederate commissioners, therefore, could not be assimilated to contraband of war, beca
Rockville, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
at first some confusion into their ranks. But the Federal guns soon obtained the advantage, and without coming to closer quarters both parties retired, each on his own side, with trifling losses. Sometimes it was the Confederates who assumed the offensive; as, for instance, on the 15th of September a detachment of their cavalry, numbering about four hundred and fifty horses, boldly crossed the Potomac and came in turn to attack the Federal posts near Darnestown, between Poolesville and Rockville; but it was repulsed, and left about a dozen wounded behind. Two months had elapsed since the battle of Bull Run. The Confederate chiefs, in view of the increase of the Federal forces at Washington, could no longer entertain the idea of an offensive campaign. The ardor with which they had fired the South, by pushing their outposts in sight of the capital, had swelled the number of their soldiers; the result which they had sought was accomplished. These outposts, having ventured very
Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ted elsewhere, Mr. Davis had encouraged the equipment of privateers, immediately after the capture of Fort Sumter, on April 17th, and had offered letters of marque to those who were willing to cruise under the Confederate flag. The Congress at Montgomery, on its part, had promised to the crews of privateers a premium of twenty-five dollars for every prisoner, and for every Federal vessel which should be destroyed in a naval combat a sum equal to as many times one hundred francs as the vessel ha task so suddenly imposed upon the Federal navy. As we have stated above, the blockade, which was proclaimed on the 19th of April, after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, against all the maritime States which had just entered into confederacy at Montgomery, was shortly after extended to the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina. This proclamation of the President gave rise to questions of international law of the gravest character. In the first place, had a government the right of blockading,
West Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
ollowed that war the same vicissitudes as the regular army. Its maintenance had been necessary to enforce respect for the star-spangled banner on every sea; and the immense development of American commerce had given it an importance which screened it from the economical or political measures which had affected the land forces. The crews were obtained by voluntary enlistments, and were liberally paid. The officers were all pupils of the Naval Academy at Annapolis; being admitted, as at West Point, upon the presentation of members of Congress, or by appointment of the President, they received at that institution a thorough scientific and practical education; The Naval Academy was established by the Hon. George Bancroft, Secretary of the Navy, in 1845. It had long been a desideratum, but before that time midshipmen were only instructed on board ship on regular cruises. The reader might be misled by the author's language into thinking that the school was as old as the navy.—Ed. t
Round Hill, Ark. (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
nly approachable by narrow and tortuous roads, easy to defend, but surrounded by positions which must be occupied, and which required a numerous garrison. A ridge which commanded the camp to the east, at the south-east a mound (mamelon) called Round Hill, and two cliffs jutting out on the south like two bastions to the right and left of the London road, constituted the main features of these positions, which were separated from each other by deep ravines. After one month of inactivity, Zollints of infantry and one of cavalry. The positions, which had previously only been guarded by advanced sentinels, were now strongly occupied; and when, on the morning of the 21st, two Tennessee regiments advanced, full of confidence, to attack Round Hill, they met with a resistance they had not expected. Bravely advancing under fire, they made the defenders waver for an instant, but they were immediately rallied and soon recovered their advantage, driving the enemy back into the valley. A few
Edisto Island (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Port Royal. This bay, which was destined to be of great use to the navy, was occupied at the end of November. The vessels which were sent to make a reconnaissance of it found the works erected upon its borders without defenders, and they penetrated as far as the river Coosaw, which empties its waters into it, without any difficulty. A few weeks after, the Federal ships made their appearance in the estuary called North Edisto River, situated between St. Helena Sound and Charleston. On Edisto Island, which separates that estuary from the bay of St. Helena, there were several fortifications and a camp of considerable size, all of which were evacuated after an insignificant cannonade. Thus, at the end of the year, Dupont's fleet, supported by detachments from Sherman's army, was in possession of the five large bays of North Edisto, St. Helena, Port Royal, Tybee, Warsaw, and the whole chain of islands which forms the coast of Carolina and Georgia between those bays. After the battl
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