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Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 46
n and Vicksburg, General Banks, in New Orleans, had at his disposal over 50,000 troops; and General Grant, at that time having in his mind the idea of sending Sherman on the celebrated march to the sea, had urgently requested the authorities at Washington to Chart showing the fleet, under Admiral Farragut, passing Fort Morgan, and the position of the Confederate forts and vessels; also, chart of Mobile Bay up to the city of Mobile, showing forts and obstructions. send Banks to Mobile with a informed in regard to matters on which they were expressing opinions. As soon as Secretary Welles heard of the results of the battle of Mobile Bay, he forwarded to Admiral Farragut the following congratulatory letter: Navy Department, Washington, August 15, 1864. Sir — Your dispatch of the 5th instant, stating that you had on the morning of that day entered Mobile Bay, passing between Forts Morgan and Gaines, and encountering and overcoming the rebel fleet, I had the satisfaction to
New Orleans (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 46
on. Schooner John Griffiths. Acting-Master, Henry Brown; Acting-Master's Mates, Alex. Moses and John McAllister. Schooner Samuel Houston. Acting-Master, C. W. Pratt. Schooner Sarah Bruen. Acting-Master, A. Christian. Schooner Henry Janes. Acting-Ensign. Joseph A. Chadwick; Acting-Master's Mates, T. S. Russell, Zach. Predmore and Wm. Roberts. Schooner Oliver H. Lee. Acting-Ensign, Douglas F. O'Brien; Acting-Master's Mate, Cornelius Dailey. Naval station, New Orleans, La. Acting-Master, Adrien C. Starrett. Naval hospital. Surgeon, J. S. Dungan; Assistant Surgeon, J. H. Clark; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, W. H. Went-worth. Southwest Pass. Acting-Master, William Jones. The following officers participated in the battle of Mobile Bay. This list has been compiled from the official reports of the battle. The Navy Register for January 1, 1864, does not give them as part of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and they were, therefore, omitted i
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 46
pectfully, etc., D. G. Farragut. Extract from the report of Captain Drayton; commanding United States flag-ship Hartford: To Lieutenant-Commander Kimberly, the executive officer, I am inim almost necessary to me. I must also thank Lieutenant A. R. Yates, a volunteer from the United States steamship Augusta, who acted as an aide both to you and myself, and was to me most useful. age throughout the affair, which will always reflect creditably upon you and the Navy of the United States. From report of Lieutenant-Commander James E. Jouett, commanding U. S. S. Metacomet: king Fort Morgan and the rebel fleet, Lieutenant-Commander Bancroft Gherardi, commanding the United States Steamer Port Royal, reported himself with his vessel to me ready for action a little before surrendered, unconditionally, at 2 o'clock on that day, to the Army and naval forces of the United States then present. These terms were accepted by Brigadier-General R. L. Page, of the Confederate
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 46
owing about them. But he failed to appreciate the merit of their commanding officers, and, ever following in the wake of the lost cause, he forgot the spirit of the brave seamen who manned the Union ships. He well knew what would be the effect of the 11 and 15 inch shot that would be fired from the Monitors. He had seen in the fight of the Monitor and Merrimac that 11-inch shot would not penetrate the 4-inch armor of the latter, and he had seen, from the reports of the bombardment of Fort Sumter by the Monitors, that 15-inch shot had not enough penetrating power to break through masonry that was easily bored through and through by a 6-inch rifle. He knew that the fleet had very few rifled guns, and that what they had were small calibre Parrotts, which it was necessary to load with reduced charges in order to guard against explosion. He had placed one-third more armor on the Tennessee than was on the Merrimac, and had strengthened her in other ways as no vessel had ever been str
Le Roy (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 46
k in her sides. Her smoke-stack had been shot away, her steering apparatus was disabled, and several of her port shutters driven in or jammed. Any one could see that the battle was won by the fleet for some time before the Confederate surrendered. But one shot was fired by the ram after the Hartford ran into her, but her crew were game to the last, and took it out in jeering the Yankees. The Ossipee was within a few feet of her, and in another moment would have collided, when the gallant Le Roy (who never laid aside his politeness under any circumstances) saw the white flag fluttering on the Tennessee, and stopped and backed his engines. Confederate ram Tennessee after her surrender to U. S. Squadron, Rear-Admiral D. G. Farragut, Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. The Tennessee had done well, though she was not fought with the skill expected from Buchanan. The latter was wounded and had his leg so shattered that it had afterwards to be amputated. The Tennessee lost only two or th
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 46
hird-Assistants, R. H. Alexander, Barna Cook and F. A. Hurd. Steamer Granite City. Acting-Masters, C. W. Lamson and A. H. Atkinson; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, E. C. Ver Mulen; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, John Reed; Acting Ensigns, S. R. Tyrrell and A. H. Berry; Acting Master's Mates, T. R. Marshall, T. E. Ashmead and D. Hall; Engineers: Acting-Second-Assistant, S. Green; Acting-Third-Assistants, E. M. Schryver, J. H. Rollins and R. H. Gordon. Steamer Jasmine. Acting-Master, Wm. A. Maine; Acting-Ensign, F. J. Brenton; Acting-Master's Mates, L. E. Heath and F. W. Kimball; Engineers: Acting-Second-Assistant, Samuel Lemon; Third-Assistant, Jay Dinsmore; Acting-Third-Assistants, J. M. Cheeney and J. H. Pelton. Steamer Hollyhock. Acting-Master, Meltiah Jordan; Acting-Master's Mate, Lewis Milk; Engineers: Acting-First-Assistant, J. F. Butler; Acting-Second-Assistants, Arthur Clements and S. B. Rannells; Acting-Third-Assistants, G. S. Prvor and Arthur Irwin. Steamer Commod
Mobile Bay (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 46
rpool. While the forts at the entrance of Mobile Bay remained intact, the Confederates could contre his vessels for an attack on the forts in Mobile Bay, and promised that a land force should be fong this attack was to get the gun-boats into Mobile Bay through Grant's Pass, and to endeavor to dese and frigates) that could pass the bar into Mobile Bay, or that might attempt to enfilade Fort MorgU. S. Squadron, Rear-Admiral D. G. Farragut, Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. The Tennessee had done Lackawanna in passing the forts and entering Mobile Bay on the 5th instant, I inadvertently omitted utes past 10 in the lower fleet anchorage of Mobile Bay. Enclosed please receive engineer's reporral order, no. 12. U. S. Flag-Ship Hartford, Mobile Bay, August 6, 1864. The Admiral returns thanor. The Navy commanded it and the waters of Mobile Bay, and the army having landed in its rear, shut you had on the morning of that day entered Mobile Bay, passing between Forts Morgan and Gaines, an[13 more...]
Mobile, Ala. (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 46
s; also, chart of Mobile Bay up to the city of Mobile, showing forts and obstructions. send Banks thich General Banks' measures had placed it. Mobile itself was poorly fortified against a land attlated. Two more rams were reported to be at Mobile, not yet plated, and one just completed at Seln-boats that may be attempting to escape up to Mobile. There are certain black buoys placed by the expected that the possession of the harbor of Mobile would be secured without disaster. The loss throughout the world. This battle rendered Mobile of no value to the Confederacy, for, although ennessee. The vessel had been built at Mobile, Alabama, under the superintendence of Messrs. Pieommander, L. A. Kimberly, executive officer at Mobile; Lieutenants, H. B. Tyson and J. C. Watson; Fl. Lieutenant-Commander, James E. Jouett, at Mobile; Acting-Masters, Henry J. Sleeper, N. M. Dyer mer Oneida Commanders, J. R. M. Mullany, at Mobile, and W. E. LeRoy; Lieutenant, C. L. Huntington[34 more...]
Mississippi Sound (United States) (search for this): chapter 46
d tend to keep the Confederate Navy up the river if he could succeed in getting possession of it; and from the 22d of February to the 2d of March he kept up a fire on this fort from rifles, smooth-bores and mortars from a distance of 4,000 yards--the nearest point attainable. Fort Powell was built on an oyster bank. The Confederate engineers had exhibited great skill in its construction, and it was impervious to shot and shell. It was built to guard Grant's Pass, the entrance from Mississippi Sound to Mobile Bay, and it was very important that it should be well built and armed. A Confederate writer says: Admiral Farragut opened from his mortars and gun-boats a tire on the small fort that would have battered any stone or brick structure into a mass of ruins. The firing, especially that of the 13-inch mortars could (in accuracy) not have been surpassed: one shell after another falling on the earth-cover of the bomb-proof, penetrating as deep as three and a half feet, expl
Atchafalaya River (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 46
no time had any idea of doing. His policy was to fight Farragut's fleet, under the cover of the forts, in the narrow channel which had been left by the Confederate engineers. The only thing wanting to make Farragut satisfied with his condition was the arrival of the Tecumseh, and this took place on the 4th of August. He now determined to make his attack as soon as possible. As soon as General Canby had arrived in New Orleans with the troops which General Banks left crossing the Atchafalaya River, Farragut communicated with him and requested that two or three thousand troops be sent to co-operate with him in an attack on Mobile. These troops were promised without hesitation on the 8th of July, in an interview held on board the Hartford, between the Admiral and Generals Canby and Granger; but circumstances soon obliged General Canby to say that he could only spare troops enough to invest one fort. Farragut then suggested that it should be Fort Gaines, and engaged at the same
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