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Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
s, seven and a half feet thick, rose twenty-five feet above high water, mounting one tier of guns in casemates and one in barbette. The gorge face was covered by a demi-lune of good relief, arranged for one tier of guns in barbette, and was also provided with a ditch. The marshy formation, Cockspur island, on which Pulaski stood, was surrounded by broad channels of deep water, and the only near approach to it, on ground of tolerable firmness, was along a narrow strip of shifting sand on Tybee island. The people of Savannah, familiar with the situation, thought they were menaced by a danger as great as that of Sumter to Charleston; that even a few days' delay might permit this isolated fort to be made effective in closing the main seaport of Georgia, and that once strongly manned, it would be impossible to reduce it with ordnance such as could soon be obtained by the State. Capt. William H. C. Whiting, of the United States army engineers, who had an office in Savannah at that time
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
d gun should be turned over to Lawton. At this time the latter had an aggregate present of about 3,000 men, at sixteen posts, the most important of which were Tybee island, Brunswick, Camp Lawton, Savannah, Fort Pulaski, Sapello island and Fort Screven. On October 26th the military department of Georgia was created, and General on of the whole coast line except the entrance to Savannah harbor. These scouting vessels did not venture to attack Fort Pulaski, but landed a force of men on Tybee island on the 24th of November, after shelling the martello tower and battery, which had been abandoned some two weeks before. Captain Read, with a detachment of hise, completed about Christmas, was cut loose by a traitor and floated down unlighted to Tybee beach, the Federal position. The main object of the expedition to Tybee island was to escort Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, chief engineer of the Federal corps at Hilton Head. His purpose was to prepare batteries for the reduction of Fort Pula
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
trated the chamber. Such was the condition of affairs when Colonel Olmstead called a council of officers in a casemate; and without a dissenting voice they acquiesced in the necessity of a capitulation, in order to save the garrison from utter destruction by an explosion, which was momentarily threatened. Accordingly, at 2 o'clock p. m. the men were called from the guns and the flag was lowered. Early in the day Colonel Olmstead had no doubt of his ability to silence every battery on Tybee island, and to this end he determined that when night came and the enemy's fire slackened, he would change the position of all his heavy guns, so as to bring them to bear on the enemy. As the day progressed, however, his situation became desperate. Every man did his duty with aladrity, and there being few guns that bore on the enemy, there was a continued contest as to who should man them. When volunteers were called for to perform any laborious duty, there was a rush of men from every compan
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: the Port Royal expedition. (search)
d, inasmuch as, if non-combatants had remained, they would not have been molested or interfered with in any manner. The object, probably, of this insane action was to prevent any weakening of the feeling of intense bitterness which was apparent from everything written or uttered at that time. Commander John Rodgers in the Flag, with the Seneca and Pocahontas, was directed to proceed to the Savannah River and push his reconnoissance so as to form an approximate estimate of the force on Tybee Island, and of the possibility of gaining an entrance. A day or so before he had made a partial examination from beyond the bar, and arrived at the supposition that the earthworks guarding the entrance had been abandoned. Arriving at noon of November 24th, he found the bar quite rough and the ranges for crossing it destroyed. He therefore went on board of the vessel having the least draught, crossed the bar, and shelled the earthworks without receiving a reply. A closer examination showed th
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: strategic Reconnoissances. (search)
nfederates were not content, however, with having the gunboats in the upper waters of that river, and again endeavored to exclude them, but the effort proved wholly fruitless, and cost them nine more rifled guns in the earthwork on St. John's Bluff, the September following. After the operations on the coast of Florida were fully completed, the flag-officer returned to Port Royal. During his absence the army had planted batteries of rifled guns and heavy columbiads on the sand-hills of Tybee Island, for the purpose of reducing Fort Pulaski, which the flag-officer described as a purely military operation, the result of laborious and scientific preparation, and of consummate skill and bravery in execution. . . . General Hunter, with a generous spirit long to be remembered, permitted the navy to be represented on this interesting occasion by allowing a detachment of seamen and officers from this ship to serve one of the breaching batteries. Commander C. R. P. Rodgers with a detachme
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
T. R., 178 Rockville, desertion of, 39 et seq. Rodgers, Commander C. R. P., 13, 21, 27; reconnoitres Wassaw Sound, 38; commands advance against Port Royal Ferry, 43 et seq.; in Wassaw Sound, 46; in St. Andrew's Inlet, 50 et seq., 55 et seq.; at Fort Pulaski, 61 et seq., 70; highly commended, 102, 109 Rodgers, Commander George W., of the Catskill, 92 et seq., 125, 127 (note), 128; death of, 131 et seq., 146, 162 (note) Rodgers, Commander, John, 19, 27; makes a reconnoissance on Tybee Island, 35 et seq.; threatens Savannah, 47 et seq.; off Charleston, 91; in Wassaw Sound, 117, 122, 162 (note) Rogers, Ensign, 150 Rowan, Captain S. C., 128, 137, 146, 165, 172, 177, 179; at Roanoke Island, 182 et seq., 185 et seq.; at Newbern, 189 et seq. S. Sabine, the, U. S. frigate, 6, 17 St. Andrew's Inlet, 48 et seq. St. Augustine, Fla., surrendered to Captain Rodgers, 55 et seq., 59 et seq. St. Louis, the, U. S. sloop, 6 St. Mary's, Ga., 53 Sampson, Lieutenant Wi
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)
1864 46, 3 Turnback Creek, Mo. 160, B12 Turner's Ferry, Ga. 45, 5; 57, 1, 57, 3; 62, 9, 62, 11, 62, 12; 65, 3; 88, 1, 88, 2 Turner's Mill, Va. 93, 1 Tuscaloosa, Ala. 76, 1; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 148, B4; 171 Tuscumbia, Ala. 24, 3; 76, 1; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 149, D4; 171 Tuscumbia, Mo. 117, 1; 135-A; 152, F4; 171 Tuscumbia River, Miss. 13, 6; 23, 10; 149, D1; 154, B13 Tuskegee, Ala. 76, 1; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 148, E9; 171 Tybee Island, Ga. 70, 2; 135-A; 145, A12 Fort Tyler, Ga. 72, 4 Tyree Springs, Tenn. 24, 3; 30, 2; 118, 1; 150, F6 Umatilla River, Oreg. 134, 1 Uniforms: Illustrations 172 Union, Miss. 51, 1; 117, 1; 155, B13 Union, Mo. 47, 1; 135-A; 152, E8; 171 Union, Tenn. 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 142, B7; 153, E12; 154, A10 Union, Va. 7, 1; 16, 1; 27, 1; 74, 1; 100, 1; 136, F6; 137, D5 Union Church, Miss. 155, F8 Fort Union, N. Mex. 98, 1; 119, 1;
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
Among all the points of the coast which the Federals had thus seized without striking a blow, thanks to the prestige of their success, the most important was Tybee Island, at the entrance of the Savannah River. Situated on the right bank of the mouth of that river, and being the spot where the lighthouse stands, Tybee Island enTybee Island enabled the Federals, as soon as they became masters of it, to obstruct the passage of the blockade-runners on their way to the great mart of Savannah. At a distance of about six hundred feet from its borders, on an islet in the middle of the river, stood Fort Pulaski, so called after the illustrious exile, to whom America had the asonry, constructed on General Bernard's plan, on the same model as Forts Warren at Boston and Sumter at Charleston, commanded the entire course of the river. Tybee Island afforded some positions from which its high walls could be easily bombarded. On the 25th of November the sailors of the steamer Flag landed on this island,
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
right bank. There the Federals already occupied Tybee Island, which they contemplated making the base of theiprecede the siege of Pulaski progressed slowly. Tybee Island, already designated for the erection of breach-bning from the Savannah River, are the following: Tybee Island, a bay; then Warsaw Islands, a bay; then the Ossat Venus Point had been reinforced; the works on Tybee Island were rapidly progressing, and the garrisons at t placed a few guns in it. It was, however, on Tybee Island, south-east of Pulaski, that the great works reqof the Savannah River is bounded on the south by Tybee Island and, an on the north by Long Island, Venus Islan of December, had proposed to erect batteries on Tybee Island to bombard the fort. It was the only point from-sixth New York, to establish himself quietly on Tybee Island. The newly-arrived troops set themselves bravts through which the Federal troops stationed on Tybee Island might try to obtain a foothold on the continent.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
ountaineers, as brave as the bravest warriors of the Creek nation, some of them kindred to the loyalists who fell victims to their fidelity to the Stuarts, embarked for America, and established New Inverness, in Darien, ‘Where wild Altama murmured to their woe.’ Within a few weeks, a new company of three 1736 Feb. 6 hundred emigrants, conducted by Oglethorpe himself, whose care of them during the voyage proved him as considerate as he was brave, ascended a rising ground, not far from Tybee Island, where they all knelt and returned thanks to God for having safely arrived in Wesley Georgia. Among that group was a reinforcement of Moravians;—men who had a faith above fear; whose wives and children even were not afraid to die; Chap XXIV.} whose simplicity and solemnity, in their conferences and prayers, seemed to revive the primitive assem- 1736 blies, where form and state were not, but Paul, the tent-maker, or Peter, the fisherman, presided with the demonstration of the Spirit. <
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