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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 70 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 53 7 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 41 7 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. 36 4 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 30 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 20 2 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 19 3 Browse Search
Col. J. J. Dickison, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.2, Florida (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 17 3 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 12 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 2 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 6: siege of Knoxville.--operations on the coasts of the Carolinas and Georgia. (search)
s. The guns were immediately put into the Confederate service--substantial trophies of the affair, Beauregard said. Had a sufficient supporting land force been employed in vigorously attacking the Confederates on Morris Island, and keeping the garrisons of Battery Gregg and Fort Wagner engaged while the squadron was attacking Fort Sumter, the result might have been different. But only about four thousand of Hunter's troops had aught to do with the expedition directly. These, under General Truman Seymour, Hunter's chief of artillery, were posted behind a thicket of palm-trees, on Folly Island, at Light-House inlet, with pontoons and cannon, ready to dash across to Morris Island and attack the Confederates there when the squadron should reduce Fort Sumter and silence the guns of Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg; but they were not permitted to co-operate in that work. The squadron failed, and the land troops had nothing to do. A mere spectator, General Hunter wrote to Admiral Dupont the
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. (search)
and at five o'clock the next morning July 11. he led them to an assault on Fort Wagner. They pressed boldly up, and had reached the parapet, when they were met by a fire so withering that they recoiled, yet without very serious loss. The loss of the Nationals on Morris Island since the landing of Strong, the day before, was about 150 men. Beauregard reported the Confederate loss during the same time at 300 men. The troops engaged in this assault were the brigades of Generals Strong and Seymour, and consisted of the Seventy-sixth Pennsylvania, Forty-eighth and One Hundredth New York, Third New Hampshire, Ninth Maine, and Sixth and Seventh Connecticut. The Nationals were not disheartened by the repulse, while the attack created the greatest consternation at Charleston. Mayor Macbeth, after consultation with Beauregard, advised and earnestly requested all women and children, and other non-combatants, to leave the city as soon as possible, in anticipation of an attack; and the Gover
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
ed mostly of women and children, remained. Seymour, pursuant to instructions, immediately marchealted in a drenching rain, and telegraphed to Seymour, then at Sanderson, for food and orders. He e 15th, February with the understanding that Seymour was not to attempt a further penetration of Fldwin concentrated at Baldwin without delay. Seymour demurred, alleging that to leave the south focomplish the work for which he had been sent, Seymour took the responsibility of advancing, and putarmed, because of the seeming danger to which Seymour would expose his six thousand troops to attacter of remonstrance, but it was too late, for Seymour, on the day of its arrival, Feb. 20. had advmost serious trouble near Olustee Station. Seymour had pressed forward, that morning, from Barbe and the other on Ocean Pond. Into this net, Seymour's wearied van marched at the hour above namedehind them. The fight raged furiously, and Seymour was seen everywhere, at points of greatest pe[4 more...]