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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 12 6 Browse Search
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. 8 4 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 4 4 Browse Search
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) 4 2 Browse Search
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . 4 0 Browse Search
General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 4 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 4 0 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
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nt and assault was about 50 killed and 250 wounded. All the cannon, small arms, munitions, provisions, etc., on the Island, were among the spoils of victory. Com. Rowan, with 14 gunboats, was dispatched next evening up Albemarle Sound and Pasquotank river in pursuit of the Rebel gunboats. He found them, 7 in number, at Elizabece to Edenton, on the west end of Albemarle Sound, where eight cannon and a schooner were destroyed, and two schooners, with 4,000 bushels of corn, captured. Com. Rowan's flotilla next moved Feb. 19. five miles up the Chowan river to Winton, Hereford county, upon assurances that its citizens wished to return to and be protecat the junction of the Neuse and Trent rivers, near Pamlico Sound, and the most important seaport of North Carolina. Corn. Goldsborough having been relieved, Commander Rowan directed the fleet. Leaving Hatteras in the morning, March 12. the expedition came to about sunset at Slocum's creek, on the south side of the river, 18 m
nge; thus expelling the garrison from its only available shelter. To this end, all the light mortars were brought to the front, and placed in battery; the capacity of tie fifth parallel and advanced trenches for sharp-shooters was greatly enlarged and improved; the rifled guns in the left breaching batteries were trained upon the fort; and powerful calcium lights prepared to assist the operations of our cannoniers and sharp-shooters, while blinding those of the enemy. The New Ironsides, Capt. Rowan, also moved up and set to work, during the day-light, on the obstinate fortress. All being ready, our batteries reopened Sept. 5, at daybreak. in full chorus: the New Ironsides pouring in an eight-gun broadside of 11-inch shells against the parapet, whence they dropped nearly vertically, exploding within or over the fort; while calcium lights turned night into day, blinding the garrison, and rendering visible to the besiegers every thing connected with the fort. This proved too much
his estimate of Price's force in Missouri, 562. Ross, Brig.-Gen. L. F., fails to reach the Yazoo, via the Yazoo Pass and Tallahatchie, 297. Rousseau, Gen. Lovell H., at Perryville, 218; at Stone River, 274; in the Atlanta campaign, 631. Rowan, Com., succeeds Goldsborough in command of Burnside's fleet, and destroys Rebel gunboats, 76. Rowan, Capt. (Navy), at Fort Wagner, 480. Royalists of ‘75 appealing to slaves for help, 513. Royall, Capt., 5th U. S. cavalry, attacked by StuRowan, Capt. (Navy), at Fort Wagner, 480. Royalists of ‘75 appealing to slaves for help, 513. Royall, Capt., 5th U. S. cavalry, attacked by Stuart, 150. Ruffin, Col., 1st N. C., killed at Centerville, 396. Russell, Gen. D. A., assaults and carries Rappahannock station, 397; charges at the Wilderness, 571; is killed at the Opequan, 610. S. Sabine Cross-roads, La., Union rout at, 539. Sabine Pass, La., Gen. Franklin's failure at, 339. Salomon, Gen., 36; at Prairie Grove, 39. Sanborn, Brig-Gen., at Iuka, 224; chases Price in Western Missouri, 561. Saunders, Gen. W. S., of Ky., is killed at Knoxville, 432. Sau