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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
lonel Fisher and Private Hanna were lying far beyond it. These assertions are substantiated by five officers present on the field, and by the written statements of many others, published years ago. This battle ended the fighting in Virginia for that year. North Carolina, however, was not so fortunate, for the next month saw Butler's descent upon its coast. The coast of North Carolina, as will be seen by the accompanying map, is indented by three large sounds: Currituck, Albemarle and Pamlico. Into these the rivers of that section, most of them navigable, empty. These were the great highways of trade, and by them, by the canal from Elizabeth City, and by the railroads from New Bern and Suffolk, the Confederacy was largely supplied with necessary stores. The command of the broad waters of these sounds, with their navigable rivers extending far into the interior, would control more than one-third of the State and threaten the main line of railroad between Richmond and the se
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
his suggestion an additional coast district was formed and Gen. D. H. Hill put in command. The exigencies of the service in other quarters prevented the sending of reinforcements, which he repeatedly called for, and in March, 1862, New Bern fell into the hands of the enemy. He was at this time suffering from a severe illness, and on this account, on March 19, 1862, was relieved from duty. In his final report he stated that we failed to make timely efforts to maintain the ascendency on Pamlico sound, and thus admitted Burnside's fleet without a contest; we failed to put a proper force on Roanoke island, and thus lost the key to our interior coast, and we failed to furnish General Branch with a reasonable force, and thus lost the important town of New Bern. What I claim is that these failures do not by right rest with me. Being advanced in years, he resigned in September, 1862, but subsequently served as adjutant and inspector-general of the State. After the close of hostilities h
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter VIII Hatteras Inlet—Roanoke Island. (search)
sooner was the Civil War fairly begun, and the Navy Yard at Norfolk in the possession of the Confederates, than heavy guns were transported from that point, and the inlets at Hatteras and Ocracoke fortified. From the Sounds of Albemarle and Pamlico through Hatteras and Ocracoke Inlets, small vessels made raids to capture vessels under the National flag that might be passing along the coast, and for a time these efforts were well rewarded. The shoal water extending far out gave these entl be found on p. 573, Vol. IV., of the Rebellion Records, published by the Government. It concludes as follows: I may be permitted to conclude this rapid sketch by stating that we failed to make timely efforts to maintain the ascendancy on Pamlico Sound, and thus admitted Burnside's fleet without a contest; we failed to put a proper force on Roanoke Island, and thus lost the key to our interior coast; and we failed to furnish General Branch with a reasonable force, and thus lost the importan
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix. (search)
439 Besides which there were at this time serving in North Carolina the Twenty-third Army Corps and Provisional Army Corps, the aggregate of which was 26,954 men. VI.—Abstract from returns of the Confederate military forces serving in the State of North Carolina, front the close of the year 1861, to February, 1865. compiled from original returns now in the war Department, Washington, D. C. Date.Present for duty.Aggregate present.Commanding general. September, 1861, Dirt, of Pamlico9,01610,743Brigadier-General R. C. Gatlin, to March 19, 1862, October 31, 1861, Newbern8,239 January 31, 1862, in North Carolina6,29012,095 Total enlisted men. March 31, 1862, in North Carolina10,37224,300 April 19, 1862, in North Carolina17,947 Effective total.22,068Brig.-Gen. Joseph B. Anderson, from Mch. 19. 1862, to May 25, 1862. April 30, 1862, in North Carolina 16,25519,822 July 15, 1862, in North Carolina and Southeast Virginia17,50521,196Major-General T. H. Holmes, from May
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Index. (search)
, W. Va. 141, F11 Padre Island, Tex. 65, 10 Paducah, Ky. 6, 2; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 153, B13; 171 Vicinity, 1861 6, 2 Pagan Creek, Va. 93, 1 Paincourtville, La. 156, D7 Paint Rock, Ala. 149, E7 Paint Rock River, Ala. 149, E7 Paintsville, Ky. 118, 1; 135-A; 141, E6 Palatka, Fla. 146, C10; 171 Palmyra, Mo. 135-A; 152, A6; 171 Palmyra, Tenn. 24, 3; 30, 2; 135-A; 150, F4 Palo Alto, Miss. 135-A; 154, G13 Pamlico Sound, N. C. 12, 6; 40, 3; 117, 1; 135-A; 138, F12; 171 Pamunkey River, Va. 16, 1; 17, 1; 19, 1; 20, 1; 21, 9; 74, 1; 81, 6; 92, 1; 100, 2; 137, E8 Panola, Miss. 117, 1; 135-A; 154, D10 Panther Springs, Tenn. 117, 1 Paola, Kans. 66, 1; 119, 1; 135-A; 161, E9 Papinsville, Mo. 47, 1; 135-A; 161, G10 Paraje, N. Mex. 12, 3 Paris, Ky. 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 141, D2; 151, F13; 171 Paris, Mo. 135-A; 152, B5 Paris, Tenn. 24, 3; 117, 1; 118, 1;
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6: (search)
ch Gen. Benjamin F. Butler had been assigned. Several gunboats of the Federal squadron also made this island their base, while they attacked Confederate shipping and harassed the Mississippi coast. On April 3d, a force of 500 Federals was landed at Biloxi, and General Lovell, in command of the department, arranged for an attack upon them by seven companies of the Third Mississippi, Colonel Deason, stationed at Handsborough and Pass Christian, while Commodore Whittle with the Carondelet, Pamlico and Oregon should engage the Federal vessels; but the enemy's fleet was reinforced by two ships, the troops were re-embarked and the Confederate boats repulsed. The expedition then landed 1,200 men at Pass Christian, who overpowered the three companies there and burned their camp, the men retreating and joining Colonel Deason's other battalion. The flag that was captured on that day from Company A, Capt. B. Curran, was returned to him by Col. John B. Healy, Ninth Connecticut, with publi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Confederate States Navy and a brief history of what became of it. [from the Richmond, Va. Times December 30, 1900.] (search)
geeche river in 1864, and was destroyed by shell from the blockading vessels. Neuse—Iron-clad, two guns; built on the Neuse river, 1864, and burned by the Confederates in 1865 on the approach of Sherman's army. North Carolina—Iron-clad, four guns; built at Wilmington, N. C., 1863; sprung aleak and sunk in Cape Fear river in September, 1864, at anchor. Palmetto State—Iron-clad, four guns; built at Charleston, and burned by the Confederates at the evacuation of that city, in 1865. Pamlico—Side-wheel river steamer; bought at New Orleans in 1861; burned by Confederates on Lake Pontchartrain, 1862, to avoid capture. Patrick Henry—Side-wheel merchant steamer Yorktown; seized at Richmond, 1861; mounted ten guns; burned by Confederates at Richmond, 1865. Plymouth—Sailing sloop of war; seized by the Confederates at the Gosport navy-yard, 1861; burned at the evacuation of Norfolk, 1862. Polk—Side-wheel river steamer, mounted seven guns; burned by Confederates in Yaz
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.22 (search)
derals had complete possession of all the bays and sounds and rivers along the Virginia and North Carolina coasts. Pamlico Sound afforded a fine rendezvous for vessels of all kinds, while the towns along the Roanoke, Neuse and Pamlico rivers were—in which action the Confederate ram, Albemarle, destroyed one gunboat of the Federal fleet and drove the others into Pamlico Sound; the Confederates were greatly encouraged and the Federals correspondingly discouraged and alarmed. The Yankees spand the depth sufficient to float a vessel drawing sixteen feet of water as high up as Plymouth. Along the shores of Pamlico Sound that beautiful May morning the marsh was gay with little blue flags that nodded to the wind and bowed to the tide asg to suggest the desperate encounter and inglorious defeat that awaited the great fleet which floated so grandly over Pamlico Sound. The scene resembled preparations for review. Everything in readiness, the column headed for the mouth of the riv
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), P (search)
er, Ben, IV., 166. Palmer, D., VIII., 363. Palmer, I. N.: III., 344; IV., 15. Palmer, J., X., 296. Palmer, J. B., X., 299. Palmer, J. M.: II., 174, 324; III., 105, 110; X., 189, 220, 294. Palmer, J. S., VI., 314. Palmer, J. W., IX., 24, 86. Palmer, W. J., III., 344. Palmetto sharpshooters, losses at Glendale, Va., X., 158. Palmetto State, , C. S. S.: II., 330; VI., 124, 172, 239, 272, 318. Palo Alto, Miss., IV., 132. Pamlico Sound, N. C., VI., 115, 263. Pamunkey, Va., I., 319. Pamunkey River, Va.: I., 274; The White House on the, I., 275, 282, 324; III., 78; IV., 127, 203; VI., 59; scouts of Army of the Potomac, VIII., 267. Pancoast, G. L., VII., 226. Panther Gap, W. Va., III., 322. Paris, Count de: I., 115, 117; quoted, II., 82; IV., 32, 222, 267, 272. Parke, J. G.: at battle of Fort Macon, N. C., I., 362; commanding the Ninth Corps at siege of Petersburg, Va., III., 282; battle
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
y indented coast of North Carolina stretches a narrow tongue of sand, which describes a convex arc and envelops a vast sheet of water. This inland sea, called Pamlico Sound, which resembles, on a larger scale, the lagoons of Venice, is almost everywhere navigable for vessels of considerable size. It is interspersed with numerous islands, the largest of which, Roanoke Island, divides it into two unequal parts; the southern portion, designated as Pamlico Sound proper, presents the larger surface; the sheet lying northward is known by the name of Albemarle Sound. This tongue of sand is intersected at intervals by difficult inlets resembling those of Lido and, above all, not to leave the other in the hands of the enemy, who yet occupied two of them. These two entrances, opening in the tongue of sand which envelops Pamlico Sound, are the Ocracoke Inlet, south of Hatteras; and more to the northward, the three contiguous estuaries called Oregon Inlet, New Inlet, and Loggerhead Inlet, sit
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