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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Battles of the armies in Virginia in which Alabama troops were engaged. (search)
nf. Cross Keys, Va., June 8. Gen. Jackson, 13,000; loss 56 k, 392 w, 47 m.—Federal, Gen. Fremont, 14,672; loss 14 k, 443 w, 127 m. Alabama troops, 15th Inf. Port Republic, Va., June 9. Gen. Jackson, 13,000; loss 78 k, 533 w, 4 m.—Federal, Gen. Shields, 2,500; loss 67 k, 393 w, 558 m. Alabama troops, 15th Inf. Oak Grove, Va., June 25. Total loss 541.—Federal, Gen. Heintzelman; loss 67 k, 504 w, 55 m. Mechanicsville, Va., June 26. Gens. Jackson and Longstreet, 10,000; total loss 1589.—Federal, Gen. Fitz John Porter, 5,000; loss 49 k, 207 w, 105 m. Alabama troops, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 10tb, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 26th, 44th, 5th Battn. Inf.; Jeff. Davis and Hardaway's Battrs. Gaines' Mill, Va., June 27. Gens. Longstreet and Jackson, 50,000; loss Loss does not include Longstreet's a — in Hills corps. 589 k, 2671 w, 24 m.—Federal, Gen. Fitz John Porter; loss 894 k, 3107 W, 2836 m. Alabama troops, same as at Mechanicsville. Golding's Farm, etc.,
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
st, one of them fell in with men-of-war from Rochelle, and, after a bloody fight, was boarded and rifled. Both ships were compelled to return immediately to England, to the ruin of the colony and the displeasure of its author. Hakluyt, edition 1589, 771 quoted in Oldys, 98, 99. The delay was fatal; the independence of the English kingdom, and the security of the Protestant reformation, were in danger; nor Chap III.} 1588 could the poor colonists of Roanoke be again remembered, till after tuyt; it is the connecting link between the first efforts of England in North Carolina and the final colonization of Virginia. The colonists at Roanoke had emigrated with a charter; the new instrument Hazard, i. 42—45. was not an assignment of 1589 Mar. 7 Raleigh's patent, but extended a grant, already held under its sanction, by increasing the number to whom the rights of that charter belonged. Yet the enterprise of the adventurers languished for it was no longer encouraged by the profus
The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Piscatory. (search)
an opinion on this point. All agree that, whether it was the Preble or the Vincennes, she received a terrible, if not an utterly ruinous, blow. At last accounts there was one less steamer at the Passes than at the close of the action of Saturday. The Water Witch was seen to go away, probably with dispatches, and the inference from these observations is that the vessel struck by the Manassas had sunk in fifteen fathoms of water. This is Commodore Hollins's opinion, and seems a reasonable one. All accounts concur in describing the affair as one of the most gallant and spirited over heard or read of in history. It reminds one of the night attack of the English vessels upon the Spanish armada, off Calais, in 1589, when fireships were set adrift in the direction of the proud galleous and galleasses of that boastful fleet, and struck the Duke of Sidonia Medina and the whole of his command with a panic that resulted in their dispersal and the eventual defeat of the armada.
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