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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reminiscences of the Confederate States Navy. (search)
towed up to Vicksburg by the steamers at New Orleans is perfectly absurd. The large flat-bottomed, square-ended floating battery, built at New Orleans, was easily towed up to Columbus. The naval steamer Joy was a regular lower river tow-boat. The magnificent steam ship Star of the West, one of the Pacific mail steamers, a powerful double walking beam engine ship of over 3,000 tons, was in command of a Lieutenant Bier, but instead of taking hold of the Mississippi --the hope of the great Southwest--he steamed gallantly away. The Mississippi could have towed under the guns at Vicksburg, and in ten days would have been ready for service. She was invulnerable to any shot the enemy had at that time, and as the enemy had only wooden ships below, there can be no doubt that Farragut's fleet would have been driven out of the river or destroyed. After the fall of New Orleans I proceeded to Richmond,and there received orders to report to Commander Pinkney for duty in the fleet formerly c
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 19: battle of the forts and capture of New Orleans. (search)
New Orleans, May 1, 1862. Sir — I have the honor to report that, since my arrival at Pass à l'outre, on the 18th of March, I have been employed, with little intermission, as follows: Towing the mortar vessels attached to the flotilla to the Southwest Pass, and for the succeeding two weeks was constantly engaged in assisting the larger vessels belonging to the flag-officer's squadron, viz: the Pensacola, and Mississippi, over the bar on which they had grounded, and in aiding the gun-boats atnd set also a blue signal at the fore. Calling on the flag-officer, he said he had no vessel to spare from the engagement, and would consider it a favor if I would carry some of his wounded men in the Sachem to the hospital at the mouth of the Southwest Pass. He further added that, as he was preparing a severe night attack with the fleet, it would seem too hard to carry those poor crippled fellows with him in the fight. Of course I at once consented very cheerfully, and repeated that, when
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 164 (search)
ade to get her head up stream, when I found myself a mile and a half down the Southwest Pass. I then put the helm up, continued down the river, hoping to be able tohould not easily obtain it. The ship's head was immediately headed toward the Southwest Pass, orders to that effect, in the event of our being obliged to slip at anylower down, on the opposite side of the river, and nearer the entrance of the Southwest Pass. The moon having gone down, and the sky being partially overcast, thee Richmond, and soon afterward the Preble also passed us, steering toward the Southwest Pass. Finding that the fire rafts were drifting with the wind steadily over uadron, the Water Witch, toward daybreak, dropped down to the entrance of the Southwest Pass, and with the earliest light (about half-past 5 A. M.) made out the Riche head of the Passes evacuated, the Confederate steamers followed us down the Southwest Pass, the Ivy leading and opening fire on the Richmond, at a long range, with
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 8: from Hatteras to New Orleans. (search)
d down the river. With my glass I could see the rebel ram Louisiana lying at a point just above and at the side of Fort St. Philip. She had not moved from the place in which she had anchored after coming down from New Orleans a day or two before. Two steamers near her seemed to be her tenders. Before the Miami got ready, the mortar fleet started down the river to the passes. The Miami was slow, besides steering very wildly. When I got to the head of the passes, that is, where the Southwest Pass, the South Pass, and Pass a l'outre, to the easterly, form several means of passage from the river to the Gulf, all my troops and steamers, under the personal command of General Williams, went up to the rear of Fort St. Philip, and I made my headquarters on Sable Island. I was delayed twenty-four hours by the Miami running aground, and I was much in need of light draft steamers, for which I had made requisition on the quartermaster-general on the 24th of February. That requisition
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 2, chapter 17 (search)
e 16, et seq., give their exact condition and strength. The Department of the Arkansas was then subject to my commnand, but General Fred Steele, its commander, was at Little Rock, remote from me, acting in cooperation with General Banks, and had full employment for every soldier of his command; so that I never depended on him for any men, or for any participation in the Georgia campaign. Soon after, viz., May 8th, that department was transferred to the Military Division of the Gulf, or Southwest, Major-General E. R. S. Canby commanding, and General Steele served with him in the subsequent movement against Mobile. In Generals Thomas, McPherson, and Schofield, I had three generals of education and experience, admirably qualified for the work before us. Each has made a history of his own, and I need not here dwell on their respective merits as men, or as commanders of armies, except that each possessed special qualities of mind and of character which fitted them in the highest deg
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Eads, James Buchanan, 1820- (search)
The Mississippi River is, at its mouth, 40 feet deep and 1 3/4 miles wide, and carries every minute 72,000,000 feet of water to the Gulf, which holds in solution nearly 20 per cent. of mud and sand. The river has three channels to the sea—the Southwest Pass, the Passe l'outre, and the South Pass—the first carrying out about 50 per cent. of its water, the second 40 per cent., and the third 10 per cent. There is a bar at the mouth of each pass, and each has a channel through which large vesselsstened together in enormous mattresses were sunk, and these filled in with stones and gravel. This work was done on the South Pass, the narrowest of the three channels of the Mississippi delta. Captain Eads wished to try his experiment on the Southwest Pass, the deepest and widest channel, but Congress would not permit him to do so. The work of making the South Pass jetties was completed July 9, 1879. A channel 30 feet deep, with a minimum width of 45 feet, had been made from the river to de
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
apolis......Jan. 25, 1898 Free silver beaten in the House of Representatives by a vote of 182 to 132......Jan. 31, 1898 The letter written by the Spanish minister at Washington (De Lome) reflecting on the President published......Feb. 8, 1898 The battle-ship Maine blown up in the harbor of Havana......Feb. 15, 1898 Joint resolution providing for a survey and report upon the practicability of securing a channel of adequate width and of 35 feet depth at mean low water through the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River approved......Feb. 17, 1898 Joint resolution providing for the recovery of the remains of the officers and men on the United States ship Maine approved......Feb. 23, 1898 A law prohibiting the passage of local or special laws in the Territories, and limiting territorial indebtedness, amended......March 4, 1898 Gen. William S. Rosecrans dies at Rosecrans, Cal.......March 11, 1898 Relief for the sufferers by the destruction of the United States ship
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Virginia money. (search)
ive a large majority in favor it; certainly, judging from the large number of secession flags floating from nearly every house-top, there are very few Unionists in our village at least, and from conversations I have had with prominent gentlemen from all parts of the county, I have good reason to believe that this one sentiment pervades the hearts of a majority of the people, who feel restless under the yoke of a Black Republican President. The people of this once proud Old Dominion have been under the rule of Abraham Lincoln quite long enough, and I am sure that none feel more keenly the humiliating position occupied by Virginia than the people of the much abused Southwest, and I know that when the tocsin of war is sounded, our gallant mountain companies will be among the first to respond to the call, and go north to battle for "Southern Rights," and or the preservation of Southern honor; and assure you they will prove formidable foes the weakly city soldiery of the North. G.
The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
d to Springfield with a large number of prisoners at three o'clock in the morning of the 11th. He continued his retreat upon Rolia, bringing off his baggage trains and 405,000 in specie from the Springfield Bank. The following is a verbal report taken from a special messenger who brought dispatches for General Fremont: Early on Saturday morning General Lyon marched out of Springfield to give battle to the enemy. He came up to him on Davis Creek, on Green's prairie, a few miles Southwest of Springfield, where he had taken a strong position on rolling ground, at 20 minutes past 5 o'clock in the morning. General Lyon fired the first gun, when the battle immediately began. Severe cannonading was kept up for two or three hours, when the fire of Captain Totten's artillery proving too severe for the enemy, they gradually fell back towards their encampment on Wilson's Creek. General Lyon's cavalry was posted on the enemy's left flank and Gen. Siegei's artillery on the right
The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], R. L. I. Blues. (search)
f 1812 showed that men paid as substitutes for drafted men were the best troops, and that volunteers were the worst. But though neither volunteers nor militia could always be relied upon, they would often fight very well if provided with cover. The relation of the Northwestern States to the Union is peculiar from their pursuits and their geographical situation. When the compromises of 1850 were happily adopted, it was a favorite idea with Union men that the great tier of free States Southwest of the Ohio, which are destined, after a few decades, to contain a population of a hundred millions, would, by their naval and commercial influence upon the Eastern and Southern sections of the Union, forever maintain its integrity. Yet they soon after failed to control the fierce political antagonisms that arose between the two extremes. But the great and growing interests of the North west require a restoration of peace and the perpetual freedom of commerce with both sections. In no r
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