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Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: strategic Reconnoissances. (search)
that fell within the fort rolled into the deep furrows that had been made to receive them, where they burst without doing injury. Less than one year had passed since the seizure by the Confederates of all of the forts within their power, and again the National ensign floated over three of them. The blockading duties did not prevent the officers commanding vessels from more pronounced action when circumstances appeared to favor it. Lieutenant-Commanding A. C. Behind, in the Crusader, at North Edisto, had sent a boat's crew to assist a Government agent. In performing this duty Master Urann was severely wounded by the enemy. Colonel Fellows, Fifty-fifth regiment of Pennsylvania, kindly detailed a force under Lieutenant Bedell to accompany Captain Rhind. A force of 60 men with a light field howitzer reached the vicinity of the enemy at 3 A. M. of the 19th of April, but not without discovery and the precipitate flight of the enemy. Shortly after daylight a considerable force of mount
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: raid of the Confederate ironclads off Charles-Ton.—attack on Fort M'Allister. (search)
lly effected until the 28th. She also had a bronze yoke put in to avoid a future mishap, such as the Patapsco and Nahant had undergone. The last-named, and indeed all of the monitor class, had bronze yokes placed in the carriages upon which the Xi-inch guns were mounted. All of them, too, had one-inch plates of iron placed over the magazines, and the vessels that had not powerful centrifugal pumps already were so fitted. On the 25th the Weehawken, Nahant, Patapsco, and Catskill left Port Royal under tow for North Edisto Inlet—an excellent harbor within twenty miles of Charleston Bar. The repairs and fitments of the Passaic, Montauk, and Keokuk detained them until the 1st of April, when they also proceeded to North Edisto, where they had been preceded by the Nantucket—another monitor which had arrived from the North on the 13th of March. The vessels were amply supplied with ammunition, and were fully prepared, as far as they could be, to make the intended attack on Fort Sumt
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: naval attack on Charleston. (search)
Chapter 5: naval attack on Charleston. On April 2, 1863, the Rear-Admiral left Port Royal to join the ironclads, as the monitors were styled, at North Edisto, and on the morning of the 5th left for Charleston Bar with all of them in tow of suitable vessels. As previously arranged, on arrival, the Keokuk, aided by Captain Boutelle and Master Platt of the Coast Survey, sounded and buoyed the bar of the main ship channel, supported by the monitors Patapsco and Catskill. This was soon accomplished, and before dark these two monitors anchored within. At high tide on the following morning, the Admiral came in on board of the New Ironsides, Commodore Thomas Turner, and was followed by the five monitors yet outside, and by the Keokuk. He intended to proceed the same day to the attack of Fort Sumter, and thence to the city of Charleston, but the weather became so hazy that the ranges could not be seen and the pilots refused to go farther. The state of the atmosphere prevented a satis
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: the Monitor class of vessels. (search)
three-fourths of an inch. Her role was short, and she would not have proved a success anywhere, whether against forts or ships. By April 13th all of the monitors had been sent to Port Royal for repairs, and as fast as finished were sent to North Edisto, the inland waters of which were contiguous, and actually afforded a better base for menacing or taking Charleston than Morris or Sullivan's Island. Had both of these islands been in possession of the National forces, Charleston would certainly have been a sealed port, but so far as its attack from a land force was concerned, even then an approach from Stono and North Edisto would have been more practicable, considering the support derivable from guns afloat. The admiral had reason to suppose that at any day the monitor force, with the exception of two vessels, would be ordered to the Mississippi, and so it was held in expectancy. Definite information was obtained of the approaching readiness of the ram Atlanta to leave Savannah
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: operations against Charleston. (search)
sign Hazeltine, and four of the crew were missing; they had been either stunned by the explosion or drowned as the vessel went down. Pickering, who commanded the Housatonic, was severely bruised by the explosion. The torpedo-boat, which was designed to be wholly submerged if required, went down with the four men in her. She had on former occasions drowned her crews. Notwithstanding the destruction of this torpedo-boat and her entire crew, another one, at 1 A. M. of March 6th, in North Edisto River, was discovered rapidly approaching the blockading steamer Memphis. The chain was slipped and the men called to quarters; the boat was then under the port quarter and no gun could be brought to bear on her; a rapid fire of small arms was delivered into what looked like a hatchway near her centre; she dropped a short distance astern, and came up again immediately under the stern. The propeller then revolving is supposed to have caught and broken the torpedo pole. The boat then appea
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
Smith's Island, Nov., 1863 51, 4 Washington, March 30-April 20, 1863 24, 5 Wilmington, 1863 25, 5; 132, 1 North Carolina, Department of (U): Boundaries 165-167; 171 North Carolina, Department of (C): Boundaries 164; 165 North Carolina and Southern Virginia, Department of (C): Boundaries 166-171 Northeastern Virginia: Military defenses, 1862 7, 1; 8, 1 Northeastern Virginia, Department of (U): Boundaries 163 North Edisto River, S. C. 91, 4; 135-A; 144, E13 Northern Alahama and Middle Tennessee Campaign, Nov. 14, 1864-Jan. 23, 1865: Columbia, Tenn., Nov. 24-27, 1864 105, 4 Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864 72, 1; 73, 3-73, 5; 105, 9; 135-B, 1; 135-C, 5 Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 15-16, 1864 72, 2; 73, 1, 73, 2 West Harpeth River, Tenn., Dec. 17, 1864 105, 6 Northern Department (U): Boundaries 169-171 Northern Virginia, Army of (C) 87, 4; 100, 1; 165-171 Position, Apr
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
he 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 battle of Hilton Head it came in contact with the enemy but once; this was on the 1st of January, 1862. The Confederates had massed several thousand men on the left bank of the Coosa
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
e an account of the battle secured to the Federals the possession of the entire group of the St. Helena islands. During this month, their gun-boats were employed in running into and observing the large bays of which they had taken possession—North Edisto, St. Helena Sound and its branch, South Edisto, the Coosaw, the Broad River, Warsaw and Ossabaw Sounds. The localities of North Edisto, in consequence of its contiguity to Charleston, required particular attention. Reconnaissances were likewNorth Edisto, in consequence of its contiguity to Charleston, required particular attention. Reconnaissances were likewise made in the inland channels which connect the Savannah River with the adjoining arms of the sea, in order to complete those we have mentioned above, which had revealed the existence of a navigable communication between the river and Warsaw Sound, by means of which the guns of Fort Pulaski could be avoided. During the early part of January, a bold explorer had discovered another pass on the left bank of the Savannah, which, after a thousand windings between marshy islands, debouched northwar
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
ral could have recrossed the bar, kept the enemy constantly occupied, and by degrees have perfected himself in the management of his vessels; but in order to do this these vessels should not have been taken away from him a few days later. For his own part, DuPont did not believe that these vessels could play a useful role before Charleston: he stated this deliberately. The Secretary of the Navy having soon decided to leave him the six monitors, he sent them to the bays of Port Royal and North Edisto, instead of keeping them in sight of Fort Sumter. The government did not insist, but determined to supersede him as soon as the moment for resuming active operations against the cradle of secession had arrived. The Washington authorities had at length profited by the experience acquired on the 7th of April, and recognized the fact that these operations, in order to be successful, should be combined between the War and Navy Departments. It was time, for, as we have stated, the fine ar
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Running the blockade. (search)
Running the blockade. --The South Carolina schooner Petrel, E O Murden commanding, left South Edisto on Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock; passed North Edisto at 4 o'clock, and made Stono at 5.30 P. M. The officers report that they saw in sight two men-of-war, one a large man-of-war ship and the other a bark-rigged vessel. These were seen about 20 miles to the Northeast of Charleston bar. The Petrel ran in over the bar, passing the blockaders, was brought to by a shot from Fort Sumter, when nearly abreast of Fort Johnson, and a few moments afterwards was hailed with another shot from Fort Moultrie. This occurred about 8 o' clock on Saturday evening, and no doubt gave rise to the current rumor, that a boat from the blockading vessels, in attempting a landing, had been fired at from Sumter. The Petrel anchored in the stream, off the battery yesterday morning, giving a salute as she dropped anchor. An officer on board reports the blockading vessels on Sunday morning immediate
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