Named Entity Results, Port Royal (South Carolina, United States)

ter on board one of the vessels composing the expedition relates the following: United States gunboat Ottawa, Port Royal, S. C., Dec. 11, 1861. A third of the series of important reconnoissances projected by Flag-officer Dupont, for the purna, Captain John Bankhead, and the Mary Andrews, in command of Acting Master Mathews, late of the Quaker City. We left Port Royal yesterday (Tuesday) at noon, and, the Ottawa leading, followed by the Pembina and Mary Andrews in the line, steamed soue Ottawa, and the flotilla steamed rapidly toward Port-Royal. A short time after dark, while we were between Tybee and Port Royal, a strange steamer was seen ahead. The men were sent to quarters, the guns cast loose, and the ship prepared for actio by a boat from the steamer, coming toward us. An officer stepped aboard and stated it was the Rhode Island, bound from Port Royal to Tybee. Having lost her way, he wished directions. They were given, and we both went on our respective ways. We ar

Doc. 232. reconnoissance near Port Royal. Commander Drayton's report. U. S. Steamer Pawnee, Port Royal, S. C., Dec. 21, 1861. sir: In obedience to your order of the 14th instant, I left this harbor at daylight of the 16th instant, accompanied by the gunboat Seneca, Lieutenant Commanding Daniel Ammen, and coast survey steamer Vixen, Capt. C. O. Boutelle; but at the bar found that the heavy north-easter which was blowing had raised such a sea as to render it out of the question to atPort Royal, S. C., Dec. 21, 1861. sir: In obedience to your order of the 14th instant, I left this harbor at daylight of the 16th instant, accompanied by the gunboat Seneca, Lieutenant Commanding Daniel Ammen, and coast survey steamer Vixen, Capt. C. O. Boutelle; but at the bar found that the heavy north-easter which was blowing had raised such a sea as to render it out of the question to attempt entering the rivers which I was directed to examine. I therefore returned to my anchorage, which I left a second time, however, on the following morning, and reached the North Edisto at two o'clock. Shortly after, I crossed the bar with the Seneca, piloted in by Capt. Boutelle in the Vixen, which vessel he, however, left when we were inside for the Pawnee, his vessel remaining astern of us. At this time we could plainly see fortifications ahead on Edisto Island, distant a mile and a h

ves the following minute account of the fleet: off Port Royal entrance, steamship Cahawba, Dec. 17, 1861. To Charlethat freights it, sailed this morning from the harbor of Port Royal, and before two days are past will have made Charleston th the crews of the sunken ships; the Cahawba returns to Port Royal. She is a good steamer, and at this moment carries her and compels the crews of the sunken vessels to return to Port Royal, Map of Charleston harbor. instead of going direct tore stationed at different guns during the bombardment at Port Royal, and fought throughout the action with perfect steadinesre in Charleston, of which some rumors had reached us at Port Royal. He was at anchor close in shore, and had the bearings provisions, and greatly dispirited. A rumor, current at Port Royal, says that a meeting was held in Charleston not long sin at sea. She was still burning when the Cahawba left for Port Royal at one in the morning. The work of the expedition is