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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The Union and Confederate navies. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 149 (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Vicksburg . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.76 (search)
The Confederate gun-boat Arkansas.
by her commander, Isaac N. Brown, Captain, C. S. N.
After the Appomattox capitulation, the observance of which, nobly maintained by General Grant, crowns him as the humane man of the age, I took to the plow, as a better implement of reconstruction than the pen; and if I take up the latter now, it is that justice may be done to the men and the memory of the men of the Arkansas.
On the 28th of May, 1862, I received at Vicksburg a telegraphic order fromy, a Missourian of nerve and equal to the duty, took the wheel, and I ordered him to keep the iron-clad ahead.
All was going well, with a near prospect of carrying out my first intention of using the ram, this time at a great advantage,
Captain I. N. Brown, C. S. N. From a photograph. for the stern of the Carondelet was now the objective point, and she seemed to be going slow and unsteady.
Unfortunately the Tyler also slowed, so as to keep near his friend, and this brought us within easy r
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Confederate torpedoes in the Yazoo . (search)
Confederate torpedoes in the Yazoo. by Isaac N. Brown, Captain, C. S. N.
It was rather by inference than by any direct orders that after the sacrifice of the Arkansas I was left to guard the Yazoo River.
At this juncture Messrs. McDonald (or McDonough) and Ewing, acting masters in the Confederate navy, offered to aid me with torpedoes.
So poor in resources were we, that in order to make a beginning I borrowed a five-gallon glass demijohn, and procuring from the army the powder to fill it gun-boat off the mouth of the Yazoo, under flag of truce, and met there an old messmate and friend, and said banteringly to him, Tom, why don't you go up and clean out the Yazoo?
I would 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
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 21 : capture of New Orleans.--first attack on Vicksburg by Farragut 's fleet and mortar flotilla.--junction of flag-officers Farragut and Davis above Vicksburg .--ram Arkansas . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 72 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), Spies for Cincinnati . (search)
Spies for Cincinnati.
Navy Department, Richmond, July 20, 1861. Lieut. Isaac N. Brown, Navy Confederate States, Memphis:
Sir: I desire to learn, as early as practicable, the character of the vessels which it is said the enemy is preparing at Cincinnati.
Reports and rumors declare that iron-clad or armored boats are being built, and that vessels are being thus altered; but the testimony of some reliable expert is deemed important.
You will, therefore, do a good service by employing a competent man to proceed to that city and procure the desired information, to be communicated through you to this Department.
A mechanic who could and would obtain means of accurately reporting the character of the vessels, whether steamers or not; and if steamers, whether propellers, their size and armament, and whether and to what extent they are protected by iron; in what manner it is secured, and its thickness.
Such details as these, together with the number of vessels being prepared at C
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 46 (search)