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Clifton, Arizona (Arizona, United States) (search for this): chapter 103
our instructions, we proceed to state the facts in relation to the capture of Galveston, Texas, on the first of January, 1863, as elicited by the testimony before the court of inquiry. The naval force in possession consisted of the Westfield, Clifton, Harriet Lane, Owasco, Sachem, and Corypheus. The two latter had joined only two days previous to the attack, having come up from below, the Sachem (steamer) in a broken-down condition, and the Corypheus as her escort. The positions of the vesidentally ignited, she was but a dangerous neighbor. The Mary A. Boardman did not wait to witness another explosion by the aft magazine. The rebel ram and gunboats were now coming down the bay, and the batteries had reopened upon the Owasco, Clifton, and Sachem; in addition to which the artillery used in slaughtering the Twenty-second Massachusetts had been conveyed by mules to below the town, where they began firing upon our steamers. There seemed nothing for it but flight, and flee they
Bolivar Point (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 103
n, as already related, the Mary A. Boardman steamed southward for Galveston, and with her the Honduras, leaving the slower Cumbria to bring up the rear, full forty-eight hours subsequent. The Mary A. Boardman parted with her companion at the Delta of the Mississippi, on the bar of the South-West Pass, and henceforward held on her way alone. At four o'clock on the afternoon of December thirty-first she arrived off Galveston. Here an ominous sight awaited her in the ruined lighthouse on Bolivar Point — a long sandy reach stretching toward the town from the east. The upper portion of the tower, of whitewashed brick, had been destroyed, the light extinguished, the house below burned, as afterward appeared, on the night of Sunday, the twenty-eighth, by the rebels, in anticipation of the arrival of Union troops. The signal of the Mary A. Boardman being answered by the flagship Westfield, that vessel came out to meet her, and Com. Renshaw sent an officer and pilot on board, when the Mar
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 103
ttack on Galveston, Texas. The following is the official report of the court of inquiry ordered by Admiral Farragut, to investigate the Galveston disaster: United States steam Stoop Hartford, at anchor off New-Orleans, Jan. 12, 1863. sir: In conformity with your instructions, we proceed to state the facts in relation to the tartling rumor reached this city. It was said that the rebels at Galveston, Texas, had made an unexpected attack, in overpowering numbers, upon the handful of United States soldiers, who, supported by a few war-vessels, have held the place in nominal subjection. That the former had been killed or taken prisoners, the Harriet Laneres and forage; the second carried the Vermont battery before spoken of; and the Cumbria (captured off Charleston) contained a number of Texas refugees, embryo United States cavalrymen, with one thousand stand of arms for the use of their loyal countrymen. These vessels were to have left New-Orleans on or about December twenty-sev
Galveston (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 103
e the facts in relation to the capture of Galveston, Texas, on the first of January, 1863, as elicithis city. It was said that the rebels at Galveston, Texas, had made an unexpected attack, in overpoary to the understanding of his story. At Galveston the position of affairs was as follows: The will presently be narrated. There were in Galveston, up to within a week of the attack, absoluted, landing on a wharf near the upper part of Galveston. There they took possession of one of the c the silent city. Such was the condition of Galveston up to the thirtieth of December. I append a, the Mary A. Boardman steamed southward for Galveston, and with her the Honduras, leaving the slowon. A light-draft steamer, she had put into Galveston in an almost unseaworthy condition, and had s the Union fleet until ten o'clock to leave Galveston on peril of destruction. Almost directly re. There is now no Union vessel, save the captured Harriet Lane, in Galveston, Texas. T. B. G. [3 more...]
Charleston (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 103
-pound rifled gun, four twenty-pounders. The Clifton, Captain Law--two nine-inch guns, four thirty-two pounders, one pivot rifled gun. The Owasco, Captain Wilson--one eleven-inch gun, one thirty-pound rifled gun, four twenty-four-pound howitzers. The Mary A. Boardman, the Honduras, and the Cumbria were excepted. The first (a propeller, built for Chinese waters) was laden with stores and forage; the second carried the Vermont battery before spoken of; and the Cumbria (captured off Charleston) contained a number of Texas refugees, embryo United States cavalrymen, with one thousand stand of arms for the use of their loyal countrymen. These vessels were to have left New-Orleans on or about December twenty-seventh. None of them, however, got off until two days later, when, as already related, the Mary A. Boardman steamed southward for Galveston, and with her the Honduras, leaving the slower Cumbria to bring up the rear, full forty-eight hours subsequent. The Mary A. Boardman pa
Virginia Point (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 103
deration of its past and possibly future usefulness, a mark of consideration which the rebels have improved to bloody advantage. They had exclusive possession of it, coming and going at pleasure, controlling it by means of three batteries at Virginia Point — the north, or mainland end — and by another, on the island end, at a spot called Eagle Grove. A sort of tacit compromise seems to have existed, by which the enemy agreed neither to use the bridge for belligerent purposes, nor to molest thehe signal of the Mary A. Boardman being answered by the flagship Westfield, that vessel came out to meet her, and Com. Renshaw sent an officer and pilot on board, when the Mary's crew learned for the first time that Magruder was in command at Virginia Point, with heavy reenforcements, threatening active hostilities. The Mary A. Boardman crossed the first bar of the harbor in company with the Westfield, just at sunset, the day dying magnificently, the declining sun lighting up the windows of t
Texas (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 103
recent tragedy. He was despatched thither as the General's representative in his future capacity of Military Governor of Texas; his duties comprising the assisting of Union men, and the raising of recruits for the wresting of the State from the bloody misrule of treason now rampant there. With him went also Capt. S. W. Cozzens, of Texas, to be assigned to a command. Both gentlemen left this port in the Mary A. Boardman, on the night of Monday, December twenty-ninth, just six days ago. Beforrst Texas cavalry, the expected nucleus of a regiment. Of these troops, only the Forty-second Massachusetts embarked for Texas, on or before the twenty-fifth of December, the Twenty-third Connecticut remaining at Ship Island, where it still is. The the second carried the Vermont battery before spoken of; and the Cumbria (captured off Charleston) contained a number of Texas refugees, embryo United States cavalrymen, with one thousand stand of arms for the use of their loyal countrymen. These
Eagle Grove (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 103
e Galveston and Houston Railroad crosses West Bay and enters the former city. Unfortunately no attempt had been made to destroy this structure, in consideration of its past and possibly future usefulness, a mark of consideration which the rebels have improved to bloody advantage. They had exclusive possession of it, coming and going at pleasure, controlling it by means of three batteries at Virginia Point — the north, or mainland end — and by another, on the island end, at a spot called Eagle Grove. A sort of tacit compromise seems to have existed, by which the enemy agreed neither to use the bridge for belligerent purposes, nor to molest the Harriet Lane, on duty guarding it, while she refrained from shell practice on the batteries, until an active necessity arose for doing so, contenting herself with mutely menacing them, and commanding both the bridge and the four miles space intervening between it and the city. In what sanguinary shape the contingency appeared, will presently
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 103
their ripple on the bay. And so the last night of the year settled down on Galveston. Up to half-past 2 o'clock A. M., every thing remained tranquil, but just then, when the moon was disappearing in the western haze, and the specks of light on the vessels burned all the brighter for the gathering darkness, the Harriet Lane signalled suddenly, announcing danger. From her post at the inner extremity of the town she had discerned an uprising within it — an attack upon our three hundred Massachusetts soldiers. Almost simultaneously, four rebel gunboats were discovered, either by the Clifton or Westfield, coming down the bay. Immediately the signalled vessels answered, and the Westfield, hauling up her anchor, got under way, intending to cross the Pelican Spit and run up to the wharves, abreast the town. The flag-ship aground! A fatal mischance! Drifted by the current directly on to the island, in shoal-water, at full tide, there she struck on her bows and there remained. A tho
Ship Island (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 103
o troops, the place being held merely by the naval arm. Two regiments had been ordered thither, the Forty-second Massachusetts, Col. Burrill, the Twenty-third Connecticut, Colonel----, with one battery, the Second Vermont, under command of Capt. Holcomb; also a fraction of the First Texas cavalry, the expected nucleus of a regiment. Of these troops, only the Forty-second Massachusetts embarked for Texas, on or before the twenty-fifth of December, the Twenty-third Connecticut remaining at Ship Island, where it still is. The first-mentioned regiment went in three transports, under the respective charges of its Colonel, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Major. The vessels being slow, only three companies of this regiment, under Col. Burrill, had arrived, landing on a wharf near the upper part of Galveston. There they took possession of one of the churches as a look-out, and waited the arrival of their comrades. They were, in all, about three hundred men; not enough to establish pickets. They
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