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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
blockade at that place, and in the inlets to the southward. It was to be another raid on the blockades, like that of the 31st of January; but the vessel to be employed was much more powerful. Dupont, however, was careful to be well informed, and the experience of the previous winter had not been lost. The double-ender Cimmerone was at this time maintaining the blockade alone, and two monitors were despatched to Wassaw, the Weehawken, under Captain John Rodgers, and the Nahant, under Commander Downes. The Weehawken had already won an enviable fame, and was known throughout the squadron as a vessel that was always ready for any service and always handled with masterly skill. Early on the morning of the 17th of June, the ironclad was discovered coming down the river. She was accompanied by two steamers, filled with spectators who had come out in the confident expectation of witnessing the speedy destruction of the Federal fleet. It was to be a spectacle, a party of pleasure, lik
James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
nfederate Government, naval policy of, 168 et seq.; its agents abroad, 182 Congress, the, 60 et seq.; taken, 64; burned, 65 Craven, Commodore, commands Potomac flotilla, 87 et seq. Crocker, Acting Master, commands expedition to Sabine River, 142 et seq. Crosman, Lieutenant, 124 et seq. Cumberland, the, 48, 52, 60 et seq.; sunk by the Merrimac, 63 et seq. Cushing, Captain, daring exploits of, 94 et seq., 101, 161 Cuyler, the, 122, 135, 139 Dahlgren, Admiral, 105 Downes, Commander, 117 et seq. Dupont, Admiral, 90, 105, 115 Ericsson, John, plans monitor, 55 Farragut, Admiral, 90, 123, 141, 145 et seq., 148, 150 Florida, blockade of, 124 et seq. Florida, the, fights the Massachusetts, 132; runs blockade of Mobile, 137 et seq., 184 et seq.; captured at Bahia, 187 Flusser, Lieutenant-Commander, 97; killed, 98 Fisher, Fort, 90 Fox, Captain Gustavus V., 61 (note), 66 (note), 234 et seq. Freeborn, the, 86 Galveston, Tex., blockaded, 35, 140 et
The Daily Dispatch: March 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], Notes of the War. (search)
ers ascended the at Mary's with the Ottowa, and took possession of the town, driving out a picket of the enemy's cavalry. Early in the morning the town of Fernandina was also occupied by a party of seamen and marines, from Commander Drayton's command. In both places most of the inhabitants had fied, by order, it is said, of the rebel authorities. A company of seamen and marines, under Lieut. Miller, was sent from the Mohican to hold Fort Clinch. It is reported to me by Lieutenant Commanding Downes, of the Huron, that the whole structure of the railroad on the Fernandina side, including the swinging drawbridge, is quite uninjured. The rebels have done some damage by fire to the tressel-work on the other side of the river, but I am not yet informed of its extent. Several locomotives, baggage-tenders, freight cars, and some other property besides that found in the steamer Darlington, have been recovered. The whole number of guns discovered up to this time is thirteen, e
The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From North Alabama. (search)
Arrest on a serious charge. --The police yesterday evening caged a man named Frank, alias William Guy, as one of the murderers of Patrick Kelly. It will be remembered that Richard Duff and others are already in custody for killing both Kelly and Downes, who were members of Read's heavy artillery company, and whose mysterious murder on 17th street, a few weeks since, by unrecognized ruffians, threw the whole city into a fever of excitement. The evidence against Guy, if indeed he prove one of the assassins, will be elicited on his examination this morning before the Head of Police.
The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Arrests. --The city police during Saturday night arrested an enterprising youth, named Thos. Dobson, (lately out of jail, where he had been imprisoned for stealing.) on the charge of stealing a horse worth $230, from Julius H. Gantt. Michael Burns was also arrested and imprisoned for complicity in the offence. A man, named McCabe, was taken in custody for being in an affray, on the 9th of May last, in which Patrick Kelley was killed, and — Downes badly stabbed David, slave of Mary Smith, and Mary F. Sawyer, a white woman, were put in the cage for associating together contrary to law.
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], The opinion of the Northern press on Lincoln's proclamation. (search)
ty, came to town with his master to sell some wheat, and got lost. He was a little nigger, and was arraigned as runaway or lost. The latter appeared to be the most probable, and he was sent to jail to await the call of his master, who had advertised for him as a lost darkey. The subject was both small and young. Geo. Washington, a venerable Ethiopian, slave of Maria Bond, was committed for going at large. Jas. McCabe, alias Johnson, arrested as one of the murderers of Kelley and Downes on the 9th of last. May, on 17th street, was brought up for examination. The case was continued, at the suggestion of the Mayor, on account of the absence of witnesses. W. W. Bingham charged with stealing Lizzie, slave of Sarah man of Macon, Ga., was arraigned for examination. It was in evidence that Bingham hired the girl in Georgia to wait on his child, with a knowledge on the part of her mistress that he was coming to Richmond. After his arrival here he had occasion to thrash Li
The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
him to the freedom of the city, having been liberated, was again arrested yesterday for another petty abstraction, the particulars of which did not transpire. The prisoner desired to explain, but the sitting magistrate cut him short with the assurance that he would be heard at another time. He would no more be deluded by his protestations of innocence. Committed for examination. James Johnson, alias McCabe, arrested a few days since for alleged complicity in the murder of Kelley and Downes, was present in Court, but not examined, as was also James Hogan, charged with aiding in the escape of a man who robbed Abnor Derliff, a soldier, of $75, in Hughes's row, on 17th street. Sigismond Zalaski, represented to be a 2d Lieutenant in the regular army of the Confederate States, was charged by Captain William S. Reid, of the President's Guard, with stealing from him an India rubber overcoat, worth $40, at Mrs. A. P. Maynard's boarding house. A deal of testimony was preferred as
The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], Proceedings in the Courts. (search)
iana regiment, arrested for obtruding himself in the private office of J. P. Ballard, of the Exchange Hotel, and resisting the watchmen, was detained to be reported to Gen. Winder. Dennis O'Brien and John McDonald, arrested for getting into John Clash's carriage and taking his negroes coat on leaving the same, were commented in default of security to appear before the Hustings Court and answer the charge of misdemeanor. James Johnson McCaba, implicated in the killing of Kelley and Downes, was called up and had his case continued until Tuesday next, on which day the Mayor said he would discharge or commit the prisoner. Johnson was formerly a U. S. soldier, but left and joined the Confederate army. He declares his innocence in of any compi ty in the transaction for which he has been arrested. Alice Rawkins, Maria Gary, Elizabeth Valentine, and Abigale Mitchell, the women arrested a few nights since in a house, rear of the Varsities, were called up and examined, and the
The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Sad result. (search)
dy in his possession, for which he could not account, was whipped. The fluid was ordered to be confiscated, but to whose use the reporter did not learn. Richard, slave of Joseph Hierholzer, arrested as a runaway, exhibited to the Court a pass signed by Robert W. Oliver. Defendant committed till tomorrow morning, and Mr. Oliver ordered to be summoned to attend his examination. James McCabe, alias Johnson, arrested as an accomplice of Duff and Broderick, in the murder of Kelley and Downes, was acquitted, and committed to jail in default of $500 security for his good behavior. Johnson was drummer at the Newport Barracks, Ky., but left there in 1861, and joined our army. For several months past he had been doing nothing. John Rommell was fined for allowing a nuisance to exist on his lot in Pink Alley, near the 2d market house. Charles, slave of Adams & Robinson, was brought up for having a bundle of clothes in his possession, supposed to have been stolen. He proved
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], The New York monitors — what the officers think of them. (search)
side armor was struck nine times — once below the water line. A number of the side plates are started so much that another shot in their vicinity would, in my opinion, knock them off. One bait was driven through the hon, and is buried in the oak. One of the dead plates is started from a blow on the side armor. The smoke stack was riddled in the upper sections, and received five shots in the lower sections--one, a solid 10 inch. fell after striking upon the deck, and was secured. Captain Downes, of the Nahant: We soon began to suffer from the effects of the terrible and I believe almost unprecedented fire to which we were exposed, and at 4,30 the turret refused to true, having become jammed from the effects of three blows from heavy shot, two of them on the composition ring about the base of the pilot house (one of these breaking off a piece or iron weighing seventy eight pounds from the interior that assisted to keep the house square on its bearings, throwing it with suc
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