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Yorktown (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
e distance between the fort and the landing, the party turned back. What number of troops were in the forts we had no means of knowing, but it appeared probable that there were quite enough to give our forces much trouble. During the action the scenes on the decks of the Minnesota were most exciting. What do you think of arming negroes? Wouldn't Wendell Phillips have found a text for an oration had he stood on that deck watching half-a-dozen contrabands, who came from the batteries at Yorktown to seek the protection of Fortress Monroe, as they worked the after gun of the upper deck? Certainly it was a sight which I little expected ever to see when I left your office to take notes of the war. But opinions change very rapidly under the accelerating influence of revolutionary times. First our soldiers were to quell servile insurrections. Then they were to protect contrabands who should relieve them of fatigue duty. Then the contraband doctrine went down before a newcomer, lookin
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 8
cers of the line, served in Mexico as private soldiers. The men composing the Seventh regiment North Carolina Volunteers are scarcely equal in appearance to the New York Seventh. They are not well clad. Their physique is not such as would lead one to select them for important duty. Fully one-third, I think, would be rejected in the Federal service, under the standard of surgical examination which now obtains. In intelligence they are greatly inferior to any regiment with which you in New England are familiar. Many of them appeared to be thoroughly convinced that they were all to be hanged — they have not yet found out what unconscionable liars their leaders are. In addition to the six hundred and ninety-two mentioned above, there are a dozen or so who are to be taken to Annapolis in the Adelaide, and quite a number severely wounded are to be cared for at the forts for the present. Fort Hatteras--the first work erected — appears to have been built rather to prevent small gunbo
Sutton, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
red to be very cool. I take a page from his journal, to show his style: August 28.--We had no attack last night. Eleven ships are now in sight, about ten miles off. Eight of them are war steamers. We lay on our arms and by our cannon all night. Major Andrews has not yet arrived. Colonel Martin sent to Newbern yesterday evening, by a pilot boat, after four or five more companies. They have not arrived yet. We have five guns in our little fort, ten men, six of our company, and four of Sutton's, and a gunner to each cannon, which makes fifty-five men in the fort. We have thirty-one men beside, who do not belong to any cannon, and Lieutenant Sitisen and myself have a squad of eight men to the Light Artillery, and we will start on the island to prevent them from landing presently. Sutton has twenty-one men who do not belong to cannon squads. Captain Lamb told me to stay in the fort with all the men, but Sitisen says he has got to have me for gunner. Major Andrews was absent o
Bull Run, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
inty that before many hours the weather would put a stop to the attack — for, be it remembered, that it very seldom happens, not once a year indeed, that a fleet of ships can lie so near Hatteras forty-eight hours--how happens it that an old soldier like Flag-officer Barron should surrender. I fancy this is the answer to the question: That the wood-work of a ventilator in the bomb-proof, near the magazine, took fire, and the men raised a panic greater in degree than that of our troops at Bull Run, and absolutely forced him to put up the white flag. The fort was in no great degree injured, and, according to Mr. Barron, there was no great danger to the men. They were, I imagine, almost entirely protected by the bomb-proofs. Supposing, while the firing was going on, that it must cause great mortality in the forts, I gave the rebels much credit for pluck. But the evidence left after the evacuation proves them to have been great cowards, supposing always that the story of Mr. Barron
Tar River (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
boroa Guards; lacerated flesh wound of instep. Not serious. 2. William E. Clark, aged 17, a native of North Carolina, Tar River boys; lacerated wound one and a half inches deep, external surface of upper part of lower third of right thigh. Doing well. 3. James A. Corry, aged 23, a native of North Carolina, Tar River boys; deeply The Coast of North Carolina. lacerated wound, involving deltoid muscle, left shoulder. Quite serious, although the joint is not believed to be implicated. 4.ive of North Carolina, Hamilton Guards; lacerated wound, left side. 10. John Mills, aged 18, native of North Carolina, Tar River boys; penetrating wound, produced by fragment of shell occupying posterior aspect of forearm, one and a half inches froried away by a piece of shell — extensive hernia cerebri. Mortal. 13. John Mooring, aged 18, native of North Carolina, Tar River boys; compound (comminuted) and complicated fracture of left arm; compound fracture of left thigh. Mortal. The abov
Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
rebel forts at Hatteras Inlet. We left Fortress Monroe on Monday, at one o'clock P. M. The last (serving with the army as post-captain at Fortress Monroe,) who had volunteered to come down with t be justified under the state of facts at Fortress Monroe, and owing to the threatening appearance is a station second in importance only to Fortress Monroe on this coast. As a depot for coaling anarmed canal boat (the steam-tug Fanny, from Fort Monroe) to Hatteras Inlet, in order that the expeded to me by the arrival of a steamer from Fortress Monroe, to report to you the action of the troopthe troops on board from Newport News and Fortress Monroe, nine hundred men, with arms, provisions, Headquarters Department of Virginia, Fortress Monroe, August 31, 1861. General Order No. 8. ugust 30. When General Wool arrived at Fortress Monroe, he found that preparations had already bined us there, having been sent down from Fortress Monroe previously. Arrangements were made to be[3 more...]
New Bern (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
t of North Carolina to Bogue Inlet, extending many miles inland to Washington, Newbern, and Beaufort. In the language of the chief engineer of the rebels, Colonel Tcolors, one of which had been presented within a week by the ladies of Newbern, North Carolina, to the North Carolina defenders. By the goodness of that Providencaware that we could be shelled out of the fort; but expecting the arrival from Newbern of a regiment of North Carolina volunteers at or before midnight, (the fleet h cannon all night. Major Andrews has not yet arrived. Colonel Martin sent to Newbern yesterday evening, by a pilot boat, after four or five more companies. They hhey remained until the white flag was raised, when they put with all speed for Newbern. Mr. Barron was in command on the second day. He knew that our troops could nern part of the State is now exposed to the ravages of the merciless vandals. Newbern, Washington, Plymouth, Edenton, Hertford, Elizabeth City, are all now exposed,
Hertford, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
ave been led to believe, through the Executive Department of the State, that our coast was in a very strong state of defence. How this has happened I know not, nor will I attempt to guess. But we see now what the boasted strength of our coast defences amounted to. What does the entrance of the Yankees into our waters amount to? It amounts to this: The whole of the eastern part of the State is now exposed to the ravages of the merciless vandals. Newbern, Washington, Plymouth, Edenton, Hertford, Elizabeth City, are all now exposed, besides the whole of the adjacent country. The strength of the Yankee forces already landed is not definitely known. It is supposed to be about eight thousand men. Our State is now plunged into a great deal of trouble, which certainly could have been avoided had the proper steps been taken. It was said publicly by a member of the Convention, during the late session, that if the Government had had nothing to do with the coast defence, but left it to
Monticello (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
n G. A. Van Brune, having in company the United States steamers Wabash, Captain Samuel Mercer; Monticello, Commander John P. Gillis; Pawnee, Commander S. C. Rowan; Harriet Lane, Captain John Faunce; UAt forty-five minutes past six A. M., made signal to disembark troops, and ordered the Pawnee, Monticello, and Harriet Lane to cover and assist in landing them. At forty-five minutes past eight, thcan flag displayed from Fort Clark by our pickets, who were in possession. At four o'clock, Monticello, Captain Gillis, was ordered to feel his way into the inlet and take possession, but he had adbody of our troops near where they landed. At a quarter past seven instructed Commanders of Monticello and Pawnee to attend to the troops on the beach, and embark them if they wished to come off; ioff. The weather being fine and the sea smooth, and having the assistance of the Susquehannah, Monticello, and Pawnee under my direction to render every aid, I am in hopes that she has ere this succee
Lenoir, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 8
ntused wound of upper part of left breast and neck; expectorating blood. Not much constitutional disturbance. 6. Logan Metts, aged 18, native of North Carolina, Lenoir braves; slight flesh-wound of middle third of left leg, external surface. 7. Wilson J. Forbes, aged 27, native of North Carolina, Jonesboroa Guards; lacerated woabout two and a half inches long and three inches deep, upper part of upper third of thigh, posterior surface. 8. Henry Hines, aged 25, native of North Carolina, Lenoir braves; severely lacerated wound, left side. 9. Ashley Keele, aged 25, native of North Carolina, Hamilton Guards; lacerated wound, left side. 10. John Mills, agrson, native of North Carolina, Roanoke Guards; contusion right foot, considerable swelling, no fracture. 12. Francis Mooring, aged 51, native of North Carolina, Lenoir braves; right half of os frontis, with a portion of anterior lobe of the brain carried away by a piece of shell — extensive hernia cerebri. Mortal. 13. John Moor
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