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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 8 (search)
ertions were being made to procure a rifled gun, he deemed it best to consider, if the place was to be attacked, that at least one of those fearful instruments would be found there. He believed that three companies were stationed at the Point. Aside from the facts which I have mentioned, Mr. Campbell did not know of any thing particularly fearful. Upon this information, which was duly reported at Headquarters, but which had become somewhat ancient when the expedition finally sailed, General Scott ordered General Butler, in conjunction with Flag-officer Stringham, to prepare an expedition to attack and take the place, but not to attempt to hold it. The batteries were to be destroyed, and the bulk-head, or narrow neck of channel which connects the inlet with the Albemarle Sound, was to be filled by sinking a wreck. This accomplished, the forces were to return to Old Point Comfort. Information that such an expedition had been projected was, as usual, communicated to the rebels thr
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 34. attack on Santa Rosa Island. October 9, 1861. (search)
hree columns, commencing by attacking with small parties of twenty or thirty men every sentinel. Two companies charged the picket tent, the three bodies, numbering in all two thousand men, simultaneously firing volleys of musketry into the hospital and guardhouse. We were out and formed in quick time. The sentinels, the guard, and officers came running in. They had fought retreating, until over-powered, killing quite a number of them. Several of our pickets were killed and wounded. Private W. Scott deliberately waited until one column was within ten feet of him, and then shot the commanding officer, Capt. Bradford. In an instant after we were formed, fronting, as I supposed, the enemy. It was so dark that I could not discover a man ten feet off. We were fired into from three sides. I had just sent out Capt. Harelton with his company to the front as skirmishers, and Capt. Duffy with twenty men to the left flank, to endeavor to find out the whereabouts of the enemy, and draw thei
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 67 (search)
Doc. 63 1/2. the Cherokee Indians. The Fort Scott Times published the following letter from John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Indians, giving his adhesion to the Confederate States: Executive Department, Park Hill, Cherokee nation, August 24, 1861. To Major Clark, Ass't Quartermaster, C. S. A.: sir: I herewith forward to your care despatches for Gen. McCulloch, C. S. Army, which I have the honor to request you will cause to be forwarded to him by the earliest express. At a mass meeting of about four thousand Cherokees at Tahlegue on the 21st instant, the Cherokees, with marked unanimity, declared their adherence to the Confederate States, and have given their authorities power to negotiate an alliance with them. In view of this action, a regiment of mounted men will be immediately raised and placed under the command of Colonel John Drew, to meet any exigency that may arise. Having espoused the cause of the Confederate States, we hope to render efficient service
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 114 (search)
advantage of considerable experience in that line of practice. What, then, is the prospect of success? In the first place, events have travelled very fast and very far. At the North, the whole history of its tyrannical and imbecile civil administration, from Lincoln's inaugural to the last ukase of Mr. Seward, putting in force, of his own mere will, that most obnoxious of all European tyrannies, the passport system — the whole history of its war administration, from the haughty threats of Scott to the insolent vaporings of Butler — from the sullen lowering of its flag at Sumter, to its ignominious trailing in the dust at Manassas — all prove the truth of our denunciation; while at the South, the steady and orderly development of our new political life, the earnest and ready sacrifices of all classes of our people, the continuous and triumphant success of our arms, the temperate wisdom of our Government — all prove the truth of our assertions. Facts which the Herald cannot suppres
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 126 (search)
t into consideration. It was decided that Gen. Scott's request, under the circumstances of his adident and attended him to the residence of General Scott. On being seated, the President read to tesident of the United States, Brevet Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott is ordered to be placed, and ll hear with sadness and deep emotion that General Scott has withdrawn from the active control of tedily. The President then took leave of General Scott, giving him his hand, and saying he hoped Simon Cameron, Secretary of War. To Lieut.-Gen. Winfield Scott, present. The following is the oouncement to the army of the retirement of General Scott, and the assumption of the command of the command of the honored veteran, Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, will be read by the army with pesident of the United States, Brevet Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott is ordered to be placed, and th and honor. Such has been the career of Winfield Scott, whom it has long been the delight of the [4 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 134 (search)
try, and won for himself an ever-enduring fame; and whose counsels in many an exigency have rescued the nation from peril, whilst saving untouched its honor. Winfield Scott, bearing upon his body wounds received in the national service, and which, with age, unfit him, as he for himself has decided, has retired from the command ofacred standard which they were educated to defend, and bound by every motive of gratitude and by oft-repeated pledges to Heaven to defend to the last! Whilst Winfield Scott's memory will ever live, honored and revered by the good and the great of the world, every true soldier will try, for the sake of his profession, to forget that such men had belonged to it. Scott is gone, but the army has still a chief. Though new to fame, McClellan's repeated and rapid victories in Western Virginia, that so thrilled with joy every patriotic heart, and his untiring zeal, scientific attainments, and complete organization of his vast army, are guarantees on which the
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 137 (search)
s thanks to the troops under his command at the battle of Belmont on yesterday. It has been his fortune to have been in all the battles fought in Mexico by Generals Scott and Taylor save Buena Vista, and he never saw one more hotly contested or where troops behaved with more gallantry. Such courage will insure victory wherevy were in full retreat, and we never got near them; in fact, only one regiment of our brigade pursued them at all, and they only for a mile or two. I went with Col. Scott's regiment, belonging to Col. Neeley's brigade. When about two miles out we were ordered back, as the enemy had reached his boats. I had fifty or eighty men detailed from Scott's regiment to scour the woods with me to pick up the wounded. We found none but Federals, but they were in such numbers we could only take back a few and return for the others. In one cornfield they were lying, dead and wounded, as thick as stumps in a new field. I saw sixty or seventy, and others report as ma
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Rebel accounts of the battle. (search)
the enemy, but it was not carried out. We did not get on the ground till the enemy were in full retreat, and we never got near them; in fact, only one regiment of our brigade pursued them at all, and they only for a mile or two. I went with Col. Scott's regiment, belonging to Col. Neeley's brigade. When about two miles out we were ordered back, as the enemy had reached his boats. I had fifty or eighty men detailed from Scott's regiment to scour the woods with me to pick up the wounded. WeScott's regiment to scour the woods with me to pick up the wounded. We found none but Federals, but they were in such numbers we could only take back a few and return for the others. In one cornfield they were lying, dead and wounded, as thick as stumps in a new field. I saw sixty or seventy, and others report as many as two hundred in this field. They were mostly of the Sixth Iowa regiment, and some of the Twenty-seventh Illinois. The Lieutenant-Colonel and three captains I know to have been killed, or wounded and taken prisoners. The Seventh Iowa was almos
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 141 (search)
Doc. 135. retirement of General Scott. Resolution of the New York Chamber of commerce. At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, held November 7th, 1861, the following solved, That the Chamber of Commerce, at this its first meeting after the retirement of Lieutenant-General Scott from the command of the army of the United States, desires to join its voice to that of nation and of the people at large, in bearing testimony to the signal services of Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott, and to his illustrious example as a man, a soldier, and a citizen, through a perital with overwhelming forces, and the head of the nation called all loyal men to the rescue, Winfield Scott at Washington was our sword and buckler, and to him flocked instantly thousands and tens of ace upon its records this memorial of grateful appreciation. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, duly authenticated, be presented to Lieutenant-General Scott by a committee of this body.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 146 (search)
you particularly relative to the reasons which induced my action in making them prisoners. When I heard at Cienfuegos, on the south side of Cuba, of these commissioners having landed on the Island of Cuba, and that they were at the Havana, and would depart in the English steamer of the 7th November, I determined to intercept them, and carefully examined all the authorities on international law to which I had access, viz.: Kent, Wheaton, and Vattel, beside various decisions of Sir William Scott, and other judges of the admiralty court of Great Britain, which bore upon the rights of neutrals and their responsibilities. The Governments of Great Britain, France, and Spain, having issued proclamations that the Confederate States were viewed, considered, and treated as belligerents, and knowing that the ports of Great Britain, France, Spain, and Holland in the West Indies, were open to their vessels, and that they were admitted to all the courtesies and protection vessels of the Unit
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