Named Entity Results, Fortress Monroe (Virginia, United States)

Bennett, for of all the vessels of the fleet at Fortress Monroe the Cossack is the first to move. This trip shrles lightship, which is twenty-five miles from Fortress-Monroe, and here we get our bay pilot, having brought ions. Ten or twelve gunboats that quietly left Fortress Monroe at intervals during the past week are said to he inlet, the steamer S. R. Spaulding which left Fortress Monroe for Port Royal, and brought Com. Goldsborough tew of us. The gunboats recently arrived from Fortress Monroe were anchored inside the northern hook, formed e stores of baled hay and oats. She arrived at Fortress Monroe on Thursday, at eleven o'clock and thirty minutes A. M. She left Fortress Monroe at noon, on Saturday, with sealed orders, and when outside the Chesapeake the sealed orders, under which they sailed from Fortress Monroe, were opened, it became the subject of general ed she would have reached this point. She left Fortress Monroe at eleven o'clock Saturday night, and was conse

. When about seven or eight miles from Fortress Monroe, the Minnesota grounded. We continued to and soon after the latter stood down for Fortress Monroe, and we thought it probable she had exhaunce by Captain Talmadge, Quartermaster at Fortress Monroe--and succeeded in dragging her half a milore afloat, and am now at anchor opposite Fortress Monroe. It gives me great pleasure to say thaC. Commander Radford's report. Fortress Monroe, Va., March 10, 1862. sir: It is my painf, Captain. G. V. Fox's despatch. Fortress Monroe, March 9, 6.45 P. M. Gideon Wells, Secreered all the women and children away from Fortress Monroe, in anticipation of the Merrimac's reappe before the muster, and made their way to Fortress Monroe. About one hundred are thus unaccounted Saturday was a terribly dismal night at Fortress Monroe. About nine o'clock, Ericsson's batterpowers. The scene was in plain view from Fortress Monroe, and in the main facts all the spectators[2 more...]

Doc. 86.-President Lincoln's orders: published March 11, 1862. Executive mansion, Washington, January 27, 1862. President's General War Order, No. 1. Ordered, That the Twenty-second day of February, 1862, be the day for a general movement of the land and naval forces of the United States against the insurgent forces. That especially The Army at and about Fortress Monroe, The Army of the Potomac, The Army of Western Virginia, The Army near Mumfordsvillc, Kentucky, The Army and Flotilla at Cairo, And a Naval Force in the Gulf of Mexico, be ready for a movement on that day. That all other forces, both land and naval, with their respective commanders, obey existing orders for the time, and be ready to obey additional orders when duly given. That the Heads of Departments, and especially the Secretaries of War and of the Navy, with all their subordinates, and the General-in-Chief, with all other commanders and subordinates of land and naval forces,

the charitable. New supplies are now needed, and, especially in view of the imminence of another battle, should be forwarded at once to Mr. Colyer, in care of Dr. Church, Division Surgeon, Newbern, N. C. Any vessels coming from New-York or Fortress Monroe, will bring them here free of charge, by Gen. Burnside's special order. Mr. Colyer has gone to considerable pains to collect the names of the killed and wounded, and has laid me under obligations for the list hereto annexed. As I have giette, and a few others whose names it is impossible for me to call to mind at the present moment. The reason of Commodore Rowan being in command was, that as soon as the news reached the fleet of the attack by the Merrimac on our vessels at Fortress Monroe, Commodore Goldsborough was so uneasy, that he immediately returned to Old Point, leaving the direction of the naval movements in the hands of the next officer in rank. Commodore Rowan consequently took charge, and he is deserving of the hi

anitary reasons I disembarked the troops, and shall reembark to-morrow, and shall sail for the Head of the Passes, when I am informed that the navy will be ready for operations. I have pleasure in reporting the safe arrival of all the troops assigned to this department. The last regiment from the North arrived last night, the Connecticut Thirteenth Volunteers, except Nim's battery, the only drilled corps of artillery given me, which had, for some unexplained reason, been detained at Fortress Monroe. During my enforced delay by shipwreck Gen. Phelps had sent away both the Constitution and Fulton steamers, so that I am much crippled for transportation; but where there is a will there is a way, and I shall be able, by means of sailing vessels under tow, to make my way up the Mississippi. But for ulterior movements on the coast, one, at least, of these steamers will be of the last necessity, as well as several light-draft steamers for which I had made requisitions on the Quarter-m

Doc. 119.-fight near Yorktown, Va. April 4th, 1862. The following is an account of the advance from Fortress Monroe and the fight near Yorktown: Locust hill., in camp, five miles from Fortress Monroe, April 3, 1862. The order for the advance was given to-day. It made a lively and exciting stir in the different camps. From the moment of pitching tents here an order to this effect has been impatiently looked for and desired. There was not a soldier that was not delighted at the Fortress Monroe, April 3, 1862. The order for the advance was given to-day. It made a lively and exciting stir in the different camps. From the moment of pitching tents here an order to this effect has been impatiently looked for and desired. There was not a soldier that was not delighted at the order. It foretold an advance to Richmond, as was believed, although, of course, unknown, and the chance of seeing active service on the way. This was what the soldiers wanted. With the order came one to prepare five days rations, three in knapsacks and two in wagons. While the troops have been busying themselves getting ready for the morrow's work and writing letters home, a council of all the commanding officers was held at Gen. Porter's headquarters. There had never been an assemblage of

as I can the engagement of our ship with the Merrimac. It was about eight o'clock on Saturday morning, the eighth day of March, when we first saw the Merrimac. We beat to quarters, and so did the Congress. She went on the passage down to Fortress Monroe, instead of coming toward our ship; afterward she stood for the ship. As she passed the Congress the brave ship poured two or three broadsides at her, but they were not any more than throwing peas or apples at her, when she came at us. Coul He sang the first verse of Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm, and retreated under cover of the applause. Wm. E. Dodge, Esq., gave a vivid description of the destruction of the Cumberland and Congress, which he witnessed from Fortress Monroe. He should never forget the shout which went up from the battlements of the Fortress when the arrival of the Monitor was announced. On the next day the fight between the Monitor and Merrimac shook the walls of the Fort. He never felt so s

Doc. 130.-the Second visit of the Merrimac. April 11, 1862. The following is the account given by the Baltimore American's correspondent: Fortress Monroe, Friday, April 11. I said two days since, that we were looking for the Merrimac and sunshine together. Both are here this morning. The day opened bright and clear, with the broad expanse of Hampton Roads almost unruffled by a wave. About seven o'clock a signal-gun from the Minnesota turned all eyes toward Sewell's Point, and coming out from under the land, almost obscured by the dim haze, the Merrimac was seen, followed by the York-town, Jamestown, and four smaller vessels, altogether seven in number. There was instantaneous activity among the transports and vessels in the Upper Roads, to get out of the way. Steamboats, several of which were crowded with troops, moved down out of danger. Steam-tugs ran whist-ling and screaming, towing strings of vessels behind them, whilst sloops, schooners and brigs took advanta

rgeon will be released with the paroled wounded. I have now to call your attention to the case of Lieutenant H. E. Jarrigan, company C, Third Georgia volunteers, who was left as a nurse with Lieutenant Wilson of the same regiment, wounded and paroled. I ask that Jarrigan be paroled or exchanged for one of your men prisoners in our possession. Your obedient servant, Albert Blanchard, Brigadier-General C. S.A. Account by one of the wounded. United States General hospital, Fortress Monroe, Va., April 26, 1862. dear Father and mother: I suppose you both will be greatly surprised to hear that I am back again to the hospital at the Fortress, but not with sickness this time, but in consequence of a wound which I received last Saturday afternoon in the fight at South-Mills. You know I said in my last letter that we expected to have another fight soon. Well, last Friday, the eighteenth, we embarked on board the steamer Ocean Wave--the other regiments going on other boats.

th the least possible delay consistent with the service to be performed. On the day following my departure from Washington, April seventeenth, I arrived at Fortress Monroe in the Pawnee; at four P. M. took on board a detachment of volunteers, and sailed at six P. M., arriving at the Navy-Yard at eight P. M. To my great surprid been sent to remove had been scuttled, and were so far filled with water that they could not be saved. They had been scuttled two hours after my arrival at Fortress Monroe, and the great shears of the Yard cut away — just about the time that information could have been conveyed to the Navy-Yard of my arrival at Fortress Monroe, Fortress Monroe, which is not the least remarkable part of the transaction. One principal object of my visit to the Navy-Yard was in this manner defeated, and it remained for me to consider what I was to do under my orders to destroy the property of the Government that I could not prevent from falling into the hands of the enemy. The channel in i