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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 46: (search)
should the to Indians be prompted to take up the hatchet against the colonies, they could not be restrained from committing the most inhuman barbarities on women and children. I am averse to acts of this nature, though my duty to my sovereign exceeds all other considerations. But the greatest danger to the planters was from the sea, and the council of safety slowly and reluctantly admitted the necessity of defending the harbor of Charleston. During the summer, ships were boarded off Savannah river, and near St. Augustine, and more than twenty thousand pounds of gunpowder were obtained. The export of rice was allowed on no other terms than that it should be exchanged for arms and ammunition, which were obtained from Hispaniola and from the French and Dutch islands. The governor was all the while urging the ministry to employ force against the three southernmost provinces; and the patriots were conscious of his importunities. A free negro man of property, charged with the intenti
The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1860., [Electronic resource], New blasting Powder. (search)
Secession demonstration. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 30. --A grand secession demonstration takes place here this afternoon. A flag, bearing the arms of South Carolina and Georgia, has been suspended across the Savannah river, with music and salutes. A large attendance is expected. [second Dispatch.] Augusta, Nov. 30, P. M.--The demonstration this afternoon was a grind affair. The flag suspended over the river was cheered, guns were fired, and great enthusiasm prevailed. No national airs were played — nothing but the Marseilles and polkas.
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], War Movements. (search)
to the National vessels-of-war, about twenty armed steamers from New York, Boston and Philadelphia, have been, or are being, put in readiness for blockading purposes. Information has been received that enlistments for the increase of the personnel of the Navy are so successful that the necessary number will soon be supplied. The Secretary of the Navy is assiduous in hurrying forward the measures of the blockade, and informs his friends that by this time Charleston and the Savannah river experience its effects. The steamer Niagara and other vessels will similarly operate at New Orleans. Speaking of the commerce of the Mississippi, the Memphis Bulletin of the 12th instant says: The blockade at Cairo will operate in more ways than one. The ostensible object is to prevent the export of provisions and munitions of war from the Northwestern to the Southwestern States. But it will be equally effective in preventing the exports from the latter in return. So far a
The Daily Dispatch: may 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
From Utam, Territory. --Advices from Salt Lake city to the 26th ult. state that the fall of Fort Sumter and the secession of Virginia had created intense interest among the "Saints. " The news was read in the tabernacle by Brigham Young, and the disciples were asked to believe that this was merely the prediction of Joe Smith about the breaking up of the American Union. Captain Gardner, of the army, left Fort Bridger about the middle of April, without orders and without handing in his resignation to Colonel Cooke, commanding the department of Utah. This step was supposed to be owing to the captain's secession proclivities. Lieut. Good, another United States officer, at Fort Crittenden, handed in his resignation, and five others were expected to do likewise. Gov. Cumming was to have left Utah on the 15th inst. for the banks of the Savannah, anticipating the arrival of his successor and the other new Territorial officers.
The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ten dollars reward. (search)
the labor of their Negroes, and they seem confident that the Negroes will work without superintendence. But the experiment is rather dangerous, and it will only be tried in the last extremity. Another letter from Mr. Russell. Savannah, May 1, 1861. It is said that "fools build houses for wise men to live in." Be that true or not, it is certain that "Uncle Sam" has built strong places for his enemies to occupy. To-day I visited Fort Pulaski, which defends the mouth of the Savannah river, and the approaches to the city. It was left to take care of itself, and the Georgians quietly stepped into it, and have been busied in completing its defences, so that it is now capable of stopping a fleet very effectually. Pulaski was a Pole who fell in the defence of Savannah against the British, and whose memory is perpetuated in the name of the fort, which is now under the Confederate flag and garrisoned by bitter foes of the United States.--Among our party were Commodore Tatuall,
The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
in the harbor. The surveying schooner Crawford--this vessel was formerly a revenue cutter, and was the flag-ship of the revenue fleet in 1832, during the Nullification; she, with eight others, captured and took possession of the smuggling brig General Hane. This schooner Crawford is the old one of that name rebuilt; she is now engaged surveying the harbor and inlets near Charleston. The diminutive steamer Fire-Fly (coat survey), purchased of Commodore Vanderbilt for the survey of the Savannah river; was two months on the passage from New York to Charleston, having to keep in shore. A Colt's revolver placed on a pivot would be an efficient battery for her, and in fact the only one she could carry with any degree of safety. The above named vessels are a collection of old rotten planks and not worth (if require) the powder and shell to blow them out of the water.--There is a light-vessel stationed on Rattle snake shoals, twenty-five miles from the city of Charleston. Major Ande
The Daily Dispatch: July 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Shocking suicide. (search)
morning, at the Dean Forest Bridge, on the Ogechee Canal. The following is his confession: "I was brought by Henry Tucker from Virginia when I was seventeen years of age; I am now about twenty-four years old. I was sold to Dr. Briggs, in Troupville, Ga. and was sold by him to B. L. Johnson. I run away from Mr. Johnson in December, 1860, carrying a boy with me to Savannah; said boy has been returned to his owner, having been taken on the Savannah and Charleston Railroad, near the Savannah river. I was captured also that time, but made my escape afterwards, and returned to the city of Savannah, and have been in the county of Chatham ever since. "On March the 4th I murdered Mr. P. Brady, in the city of Savannah, in Yamacraw. Mr. Brady saw me pass his house several times, and took me to be a runaway. He invited me into his house, saying he would give me something to eat. I went to the door, and he arrested me, saying, "You are my prisoner." I had a knife, and stabbed him
The Daily Dispatch: January 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Late Northern and Southern news. (search)
the enemy has passed up around little Tybee Island, and now holds the north end of Wilmington Island, still the communication between Fort Pulaski and they city remains intact. Indeed, it would appear that the Federal steamers have not the Savannah river proper at all. at Warsaw Sound — into which St. Augustine creek (one of the numerous myths of the Savannah) empties its waters — then vessels sought to turn the Fort by one of the cutlets of St. Augustine creek, Should they succeed in passinying to avoid a battery which is Augustine creek, southwardly from They had encountered obstacles, already stated, which they were and savor remove, and which labor may, be one of more difficulty than is supposed. Fort Pulaski is upon the Savannah river, in a exactly direction from the present position of the Yankee vessels; but, between them , there is an impassable marsh. Should the Yankee ships succeed in passing above Wilmington Island, and proceeding on the Savannah, they have stil
The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he batteries on Skid away or Green islands, and this week will probably witness the attempt and its result, for it will soon be decided one way or the other. Savannah river is accessible from several points above and below its mouth at Tybee, and these have been carefully watched for some time, save one hitherto neglected, and whas I am that the enemy designs an attack, though it may be delayed beyond the period which I have assigned. The Federal gun-boats are everywhere, save in the Savannah river itself, and are making great exertions to remove the various obstructions placed in the way of navigation of the small creeks. On Sunday the steamer St. ew river, which small stream I have once before spoken of in my letters, and thereby with the creek at the back of Hilton Head, affording a short cut into the Savannah river above Fort Pulaski, and beyond the reach of its guns. This cut had been blocked up by sinking an old hull athwart the channel, which at high tide is only fif
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Southern intelligence. (search)
erning the situation at Savannah; Fort Pulaski, on Cockspur Island, at the mouth of the Savannah river, is a strong casemated work, which, it is believed, the enemy can neither pass, take, nor stucted, and how, is not for us to say. Wall's Cut is an opening from Port Royal into the Savannah river, with some 7 or 8 feet depth at high water. This out opens into the Savannah river about siSavannah river about six miles above Fort Pulaski, and of course out of the range of its guns. Into this cut the enemy's light gunboats had come, and were trying to force their way into the Savannah river, but had not succSavannah river, but had not succeeded at the latest dates. On the Georgia side of the river the Lincolnites have availed themselves of two openings known as Wilmington Creek and Freeborn's Out, connecting Warsaw Sound with Auguut, and about two miles from it. It was between these vessels in the cuts, on both sides the Savannah river, that Tatuall's fleet had to pass on their way to Fort Pulaski on Tuesday of last week, and
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