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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, July, 1863. (search)
calling out of the militia. At Philadelphia I saw a train containing one hundred and fifty Confederate prisoners, who were being stared at by a large number of the beau monde of Philadelphia. I mingled with the crowd which was chaffing them. Most of the people were good-natured, but I heard one suggestion to the effect that they should be taken to the river, and every mother's son of them drowned there. I arrived at New York at 10 P. M., and drove to the Fifth Avenue Hotel. 13th July, 1863 (Monday). The luxury and comfort of New York and Philadelphia strike one as extraordinary after having lately come from Charleston and Richmond. The greenbacks seem to be nearly as good as gold. The streets are as full as possible of well-dressed people, and are crowded with able-bodied civilians capable of bearing arms, who have evidently no intention of doing so. They apparently don't feel the war at all here; and until there is a grand smash with their money, or some other cata
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary, XXX. September, 1863 (search)
Governor demanded the State magazine to-day of the War Department, in whose custody it has been for a long time. What does this mean? The Governor says the State has urgent use for it. Gen. Cooper visited the President twice to-day, the Secretary not once. The Enquirer, yesterday, attacked and ridiculed the Secretary of War on his passport system in Richmond. The Northern papers contain the following letter from President Lincoln to Gen. Grant: Executive mansion, Washington, July 13th, 1863. Major-General Grant. my dear General:--I do not remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgment for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say a word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg I thought you should do what you finally didmarch the troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below; and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew bette
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Confederate torpedoes in the Yazoo. (search)
d as soon think of going to----at once, was the answer, for Brown has got the river chock-full of torpedoes. I also made a contract with Dr. Fretwell and Mr. Norman, then at Yazoo City, for fifty or more of these destructives on Dr. Fretwell's plan — automatic action on being brought in contact with a vessel or boat. But the difficulty of procuring materials prevented the completion of the contract for the whole number in time. On the morning of the Union advance upon Yazoo City [July 13th, 1863], I had myself placed two of these Fretwells half a mile below our land-battery of one rifle 6-inch gun — handled by the same men — the same gun, in fact, that had aided in the defense of Fort Pemberton. The De Kalb had there felt this gun, and it came twice within its range on this day,--retiring both times without unreasonable delay,--but when our sailor crew found themselves uncovered by our land force, and a whole division of Union men within rifle-range, they withdrew under orders<
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 8.89 (search)
to some of their comrades. It was my lot to form a more intimate acquaintance with the three illustrious officers who I foresaw would play an important part in the War. I fought against McClellan from Yorktown to Sharpsburg (Antietam), I encountered Rosecrans at Chickamauga, and I surrendered to Sherman at Greensboro‘, N. C.--each of the three commanding an army.--D. H. H. by Daniel H. Hill, Lieutenant-General, C. S. A. Confederate line of battle in the Chickamauga woods.On the 13th of July, 1863, while in charge of the defenses of Richmond and Petersburg and the Department of North Carolina, I received an unexpected order to go West. I was seated in a yard of a house in the suburbs of Richmond (the house belonging to Mr. Poe, a relative of the poet), when President Davis, dressed in a plain suit of gray and attended by a small escort in brilliant uniform, galloped up and said: Rosecrans is about to advance upon Bragg; I have found it necessary to detail Hardee to defend Missi
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 1.9 (search)
st entirely of very soft morasses, and traversed by deep bayous and crooked creeks in every direction. The Union troops under Major-General Quincy A. Gillmore, the Tenth Army Corps, in the early morning of July 10th, 1863, crossed Light-house Inlet from Folly Island and captured a large portion of Morris Island. [See p. 58.] The Confederate forces still held Cumming's Point Battery and Battery Wagner on that part of Morris Island nearest to Fort Sumter and to Charleston. On the 13th day of July, 1863, General Gillmore directed Lieu tenant Peter S. Michie, United States Corps of Engineers,--now Colonel Michie, a professor in the Military Academy at West Point,--to make an examination of the marshes on the left of our position toward Charleston and ascertain if it were possible to construct a battery from which to fire into that city. In compliance with this order he spent some time in the examination of the swamp district of Morris Island, and then reported the result of his inve
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 29: siege of Vicksburg--continued. (search)
ficers and men who served under him, as will appear from the following letter written after the surrender of Vicksburg. [detailed report of Acting-Rear-Admiral Porter.] U. S. Mississippi Squadron, Flag-Ship Black Hawk, off Vicksburg, July 13, 1863. Sir — I have made reports to the Department of the different actions that have occurred on this river since the investment of Vicksburg; and it now remains for me to give credit to the different officers who have participated in the eventvant, David D. Porter, Acting Rear-Admiral, Commanding Mississippi Squadron. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C. Congratulatory letter to Rear--Admiral Porter on the surrender of Vicksburg. Navy Department, July 13, 1863. Sir-Your dispatch of the 4th instant announcing the surrender of Vicksburg on the anniversary of the great historic day in our national annals, has been received. The fall of that place insures a severance of the rebel territory, and m
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 30: (search)
ous to avoid when circumstances brought them near together. On many occasions a few gun-boats were of more advantage than a division of soldiers would have been. Mississippi Squadron. Vessels employed at Vicksburg during the siege, with list of officers. Names of vessels, officers, etc., are obtained from the Navy Register of January, 1863, unless some other date is appended thus (1864), (1865). Officers who received favorable notice in Admiral Porter's official report, dated July 13, 1863 (concerning the fall of Vicksburg and operations on the river), are marked thus*. Flag-ship Black Hawk (3d rate). *Lieutenant-Commander, K. R. Breese; Fleet-Surgeon, Ninian Pinkney; Assistant Surgeon, J. C. Bertolette; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, W. H. Sells; Ensigns, W. B. Bridgeman, Merrill Miller, S. H. Hunt and G. M. Brown; Acting Ensigns, G. D. Gove, W. Wardrop, E. Wv. Clark, R. R. Hubbell and D. P. Rosenmiller; Acting-Master's Mates, F. J. Turner, P. H. Brown, James DeCamp, C
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 11: list of battles, with the regiments sustaining the greatest losses in each. (search)
  July 4, 1863.             25th Michigan ------------ ---------- 6 23 -- 29 20th Kentucky ------------ ---------- 5 16 -- 21 Helena, Ark.             July 4, 1863.             33d Iowa Salomon's Thirteenth 19 50 16 85 33d Missouri Salomon's Thirteenth 16 25 9 50 Hagerstown, Md.             July 6, 1863.             18th Penn. Cavalry Kilpatrick's Cavalry 8 21 59 88 1st Vermont Cavalry Kilpatrick's Cavalry 6 14 63 83 Donaldsonville, La.             July 13, 1863.             174th New York Grover's Nineteenth 18 29 7 54 30th Massachusetts Grover's Nineteenth 8 39 1 48 161st New York Grover's Nineteenth 7 39 7 53 falling Waters, Md.             July 14, 1863.             6th Michigan Cavalry Kilpatrick's Cavalry 23 33 23 79 Shephardstown, Md.             July 16, 1863.             16th Penn. Cavalry Gregg's Cavalry 5 19 -- 24 1st Maine Cavalry Gregg's Cavalr
General Joseph E. Johnston, Narrative of Military Operations During the Civil War, Telegrams. (search)
weakness of the position and its untenableness against a powerful artillery. Breckenridge's front, south of the town, was assaulted this morning, but not vigorously. A party of skirmishers of the First, Third, and Fourth Florida, Forty-seventh Georgia, and Cobb's battery, took the enemy in flank, and captured two hundred prisoners and the colors of the Twenty-eighth, Forty-first, and Fifty-third Illinois regiments. Heavy skirmishing all day yesterday. J. E. Johnston. Jackson, July 13, 1863. To his Excellency the President: Your dispatch of the 11th received. I think Grant will keep the Vicksburg prisoners until operations here are ended. He may be strongly reinforced from Port Hudson. If the position and works were not bad, want of stores, which could not be collected, would make it impossible to stand siege. If the enemy will not attack, we must, or at the last moment withdraw. We cannot attack without seriously risking the army. But it is difficult to yield t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 47 (search)
which should have succeeded, I refrain from all expressions of commendation, believing that the brave officers and men who distinguished themselves will willingly forego the applause due to them, in consideration that our beloved country reaped no benefit from their exploits. I have the honor to be, General, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Thomas H. Holmes, Lieutenant-General. Report of Major-General Price. headquarters Price's division, camp on Jones' Lake, July 13, 1863. Captain John W. Hinsdale, A. A. G.: Captain: I have the honor to submit to the Lieutenant-General commanding, the following report of the part taken by this division in the attack made upon Helena on the fourth instant: I left Jacksonport, in obedience to his orders, on the twenty-second day of June, with this division and Marmaduke's division of cavalry. My march was greatly impeded by the extraordinary rains, which, beginning on the evening of the twenty-fourth June, and fallin
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