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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., In command in Missouri. (search)
ossible and forwarded to me, together with shells for both guns and mortars. On the 24th of August I directed the construction of 38 mortar-boats, and later of 8 steam-tugs to move them, and the purchase and alteration into gunboats of two strongly built river vessels,--the New Era, a large ferry-boat, and the Submarine, a powerful snag-boat; they were renamed Essex and Benton. At my suggestion and order, the sides of all these vessels were to be clad with iron. On the 3d of September General Meigs advised me to order from Pittsburg fifteen-inch guns for my gun-boats, as able to empty any battery the enemy could make. Work on these gun-boats was driven forward night and day. As in the case of the fortifications, the work was carried on by torchlight. August 25th an expedition was ordered under Colonel G. Waagner with one regiment, accompanied by Commander John Rodgers with Brigadier-General Nathaniel Lyon. From a photograph. two gun-boats, to destroy the enemy's fortificati
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 34: first year in the Cabinet. (search)
Davis in office shows the faintest trace of any desire to take advantage of the power entrusted to him for any sectional aggrandizement. Representing in his office the entire Union of States, he was equally mindful and watchful of the interests and rights of every section of it. Under the supervision of the War Department, also during this first year of Mr. Davis's administration, the work for the extension of the capitol was energetically prosecuted, under the special charge of Captain M. C. Meigs, of the Corps of Engineers, detailed by the Secretary for the purpose. The War Department was also intrusted with the work of bringing an adequate supply of water into the city of Washington. It was necessary to bring this supply from the great Falls of the Potomac through a conduit nine feet in diameter. The work was energetically prosecuted, and when finished was found capable of delivering nearly seventy million gallons of water, at an elevation of fourteen feet above the up
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 4.14 (search)
k City to await orders. The next morning the general gave some other reasons, such as an article in the Tribune reflecting on General Hancock, which I had nothing in the world to do with, and two letters which I had written, before the campaign began, to two of General Grant's most devoted friends, urging upon them to try and prevent him from making the campaign he had just made. . . . Very truly yours, William F. Smith, Major-General. editors. From A photograph. Brevet Major-General M. C. Meigs, quartermaster-general. U. S. A. From a photograph. In one of my early interviews with the President I expressed my dissatisfaction with the little that had been accomplished by the cavalry so far in the war and the belief that it was capable of accomplishing much more than it had done if under a thorough leader. I said I wanted the very best man in the army for that command. Halleck was present and spoke up, saying: How would Sheridan do? I replied The very man I want.
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 12: the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the Ideas and policy of the Government. (search)
by the insurgents there; and the third, losing her smoke-stack, was not able to reach Charleston bar until it was too late. The Powhatan The energy displayed in getting the Powhatan ready for sea was wonderful. She had been put out of commission, and was lying up, and her crew were on the receiving-ship North Carolina. She was put into commission at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and sent to sea in the space of three days. was also lost to the expedition. While passing down New York Bay, Captain Meigs, who was Quartermaster-General during the war, and Lieutenant (afterward Rear-Admiral) Porter went on board of her, with an order from the President to take any man-of-war they might select and proceed immediately with her crew to Pensacola. Under this order they took possession of and sailed away in the flag-ship of the relief expedition. The order (issued by the President) changing the destination of the Powhatan did not pass through the Navy Department, or it would have been arres
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 15: siege of Fort Pickens.--Declaration of War.--the Virginia conspirators and, the proposed capture of Washington City. (search)
of Cuba; and at about the time of Mr. Lincoln's election, November 6, 1860. Captain (afterward Quartermaster-General) M. C. Meigs arrived, to take charge of the works at the Tortugas. He went by land, and was satisfied from what he heard on the waense advantage to the conspirators in the event of war. It was determined to defeat their designs, and to this end Captain Meigs worked assiduously, with his accustomed energy and prudence in conjunction with Captain Brannan and the officers of the Navy at that station, whom he supposed he could trust. Within a week after the arrival of Captain Meigs, a crisis seemed to be approaching, and Fort Taylor in 1861. this Fort is near Key West, and, with Fort Jefferson, commands the northehere; and a company of artillery, under Major Arnold, was disembarking from her at Fort Jefferson, then in command of Captain Meigs. This apparition caused the Galveston to put about and disappear. Forts Taylor and Jefferson were now in a conditio
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 10: naval engagement at South-West pass.--the Gulf blockading squadron in November, 1861. (search)
ers, Lieut. D. D. Porter, U. S. N., and Captain M. C. Meigs, U. S. Engineers, presented themselves may desire. Abraham Lincoln. A true copy. M. C. Meigs, Chief Engineer of the expedition. Simie to make the expedition a success. Then Capt. Meigs and Lieut. Porter called on Gen. Scott, ande better to conceal the intended movement. Capt. Meigs also urged Foote to obey the President's orrt McRea, with his crew at their guns, when Capt. Meigs in a large Government vessel laid right in ed to communicate. The ship was stopped and Capt Meigs came on board, handing to Lieut. Porter a pred it would draw their fire upon the fort! Capt. Meigs had obtained, before he left Washington, aurter had discussed Col. Brown's protest with Capt Meigs, and carefully considered the matter, he rel obeyed, the steamer Atlantic, chartered by Capt. Meigs, arrived and threw 600 men into the fort, w the Navy Department, are null and void. Capt. Meigs puts the matter truthfully and squarely, wh[1 more...]
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 13: building a navy on the Western rivers.--battle of Belmont. (search)
nt, as it was supposed the armed vessels would be a mere appendage of the land forces; and there does not seem to have been a man in the Cabinet at that time who knew the difference between a gun-boat and a transport. In July, 1861, Quartermaster General Meigs contracted with Mr. Eads to build a number of iron-clad gun-boats for the Western waters, and from the fact that Gen. Meigs contracted for them it is presumed the War Department paid for them, and that the Navy Department had not then Gen. Meigs contracted for them it is presumed the War Department paid for them, and that the Navy Department had not then risen to the height of the occasion. Seven of these gun-boats were each to be about 600 tons, to draw six feet of water, to be plated with two and a half inch iron, and steam nine knots. They were to be each 175 feet long and 51 1/2 wide, their sides at an angle of 35 degrees from the water line, their gun decks being but a foot above the surface of the water. The bow and stern were at an angle of 45 degrees, and the wheel for propelling the vessels was placed in the stern. Of course these v
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott), April 29-June 10, 1862.-advance upon and siege of Corinth, and pursuit of the Confederate forces to Guntown, Miss. (search)
alized. For the last few days their resistance has been slight. H. W. Halleck, Major-General, Commanding. Washington, D. C., June 2, 1862. The following dispatch has been received at the War Department in reply to an inquiry of General Meigs: Corinth, Miss., May 31, 1862. M. C. Meigs, Quartermaster-General: If Beauregard has been at Richmond others have forged his signature, as I have receipted letters from him about the exchange of prisoners nearly every day for the last foM. C. Meigs, Quartermaster-General: If Beauregard has been at Richmond others have forged his signature, as I have receipted letters from him about the exchange of prisoners nearly every day for the last fortnight. The evacuation of Corinth commenced on Wednesday and was completed on Thursday night, but in great haste, as an immense amount of property was destroyed and abandoned. No troops have gone from here to Richmond unless within the past two days. H. W. Halleck, Major-General, Commanding. The retreat of the enemy from Corinth-great destruction of property-a bold cavalry reconnaissance. Washington, D. C., June 2, 1862. The following dispatch was received at the War Departm
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xviii. The Chattanooga campaign.—Middle and East Tennessee. (search)
kamauga — hearing nothing from Grant or Sherman — detached Sept. 23. the 11th and 12th corps from the Army of the Potomac, and ordered them, under Gen. Hooker, to Middle Tennessee, to hold, till further orders, Rosecrans's line of communications from Nashville to Bridgeport. This transfer of 20,000 men, with all their artillery, munitions, and baggage, was made with remarkable celerity, through the extraordinary exertions of Gen. D. C. McCallum, government superintendent of railroads, M. C. Meigs, Quartermaster General, and W. Prescott Smith, master of transportation on the Baltimore and Ohio road: the two corps marching from the Rapidan to Washington, taking cars, and being transported by Cumberland, Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Nashville, to the Tennessee, and there debarked in fighting array, within eight days. Meantime, Bragg had sent a large portion of his cavalry, under Wheeler and Wharton, across Sept. 30. the Tennessee at Cottonport, between Chattanooga and
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 72 (search)
when this vessel was about to leave, in obedience to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, two officers, Lieutenant D. D. Porter, United States Navy, and Captain M. C. Meigs, United States Engineers, presented themselves on board with an order from the President of the United States authorizing the former to take any vessel whatdition under the command of Colonel Harvey Brown, supplying him with men and material, and cooperating with him as he may desire. Abraham Lincoln. A true copy. M. C. Meigs, Captain of Engineers, Chief Engineer of said Expedition. Confidential. Washington City, April 2, 1861. sir: Circumstances render it necessary to place l have full confidence in the disposition of the Government toward you, I remain, etc., Abraham Lincoln. Captain S. Mercer, United States Navy. A true copy. M. C. Meigs, Captain of Engineers, Chief Engineer of Expedition of Colonel Brown. War Department, Adjutant-General's office, Wednesday, April 4, 1861. sir: By direction
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