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New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
s not discouraged. He has one regiment left in good condition; he leads it forward to meet Bartlett, and succeeds in checking the course of the latter. The reinforcements of the Federals are at some distance, whilst the Confederate troops can sustain themselves with promptness. Wofford has come to take position on the right of Kershaw, making thus five brigades as the total amount of forces gathered on this battlefield. Semmes, on the left of the road has driven back the soldiers from New Jersey. The whole Confederate line makes a forward movement beyond the wood. A portion of Newton's division, added to Brooks' troops, offers successful resistance, but when the Federals attempt to resume the offensive, they meet with a vigorous opposition. Night supervenes: they are worn out with twenty-four hours of marching and fighting, and have no intention of prolonging the struggle in the dark. The battle of Salem Church had checked the menacing movement of Sedgwick; the Confederates
Pamlico (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
large depots of grain; on the 30th of the same month a Federal gunboat With fifty men of the Twenty-seventh Massachusetts on board.—Ed. entered the waters of the Perquimans River, which runs from the Dismal Swamp into Albemarle Sound, reached the town of Hertford, and destroyed the bridge of a road through which the Confederates drew their supplies from the neighboring districts. In short, on the 4th of March a naval expedition dispersed some partisan bands in the bay of Pungo on the Pamlico River. The role imposed upon the navy was a difficult and dangerous one: it was required to put to sea in all kinds of weather, to navigate along a difficult coast, destitute of lighthouses, frequently occupied by the enemy, and to chase blockade-runners at the risk of striking against sunken reefs. The vessels, for the most part old merchant-ships, were often commanded by improvised officers. On the 14th of January the steamer Columbia was wrecked near Masonboroa Inlet on the coast of No
Fort McAllister (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
r to attack a large work constructed by the enemy at Genesis Point, called Fort McAllister, which closed the navigation of that river to the Federals. They were theommand of the Monitor at Hampton Roads—brought her broadside to bear upon Fort McAllister at a distance of twelve hundred yards, and for the space of four hours thewe have remarked, could not be reached except by passing under the fire of Fort McAllister. But the intrepid Worden, availing himself of a fortunate chance, did notMarch they proceeded in their turn to make trial of their strength against Fort McAllister. The Montauk did not accompany them, the experience she had acquired bein protected, their fire was too slow to reduce even a simple earthwork like Fort McAllister; but the time for experiments was past, and it was against the formidable to venture upon this undertaking had as yet only been tested against Fort McAllister: though they had withstood its fire, they had not succeeded in silencing it,
Ashland (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ad arrived the day before. The latter had started at the same time as himself, and had followed, more to the northward, along the South Anna, a parallel direction with his own. His route being the shortest, he reached the Aquia Creek Railway at Ashland, which neither Gregg at the north nor Kilpatrick at the south had expected to strike before the following morning, about six o'clock in the evening of the 3d. So that, arriving unexpectedly, he had a chance of intercepting a train of cars comintroyed, as also some of the cars, one or two locomotives, and a large quantity of provisions; the railroad-ties which had been wrenched off with the rails were formed into a pile and set on fire; while two small bridges, one on Stony Creek, near Ashland, the other on Machumps Creek, near Hanover, were burned. But these damages were of small importance: in order to adequately destroy the usefulness of the two lines of railway it would have been necessary to have burned the two bridges of the S
Buras (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
sses marked the distances, carefully measured, at which the enemy's vessels could be reached with almost faultless precision. The task of the Federal navy, as will be seen, was a singularly difficult one. The government, yielding to the unthinking pressure of public opinion, was calling for the capture of Charleston. But DuPont was unable to imitate the bold stroke which had delivered up New Orleans to Farragut's fleet. The latter, after having forced the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, had before him the immense artery of the Mississippi along which he could guide his vessels with impunity, whilst DuPont, had he proceeded as far as the third circle of defence prepared by the Confederates, would have found himself cut off from all chances of retreat. Having once reached this point, he could undoubtedly have bombarded and burnt a portion of the city of Charleston; but this barren success would have been dearly bought, for all the vessels which could have ventured so far
Penobscot (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
s one: it was required to put to sea in all kinds of weather, to navigate along a difficult coast, destitute of lighthouses, frequently occupied by the enemy, and to chase blockade-runners at the risk of striking against sunken reefs. The vessels, for the most part old merchant-ships, were often commanded by improvised officers. On the 14th of January the steamer Columbia was wrecked near Masonboroa Inlet on the coast of North Carolina; notwithstanding the efforts of a vessel Two, the Penobscot and the Cambridge.—Ed. sent to her assistance, she was destroyed by the enemy and her crew taken prisoners. On the 23d of February two Union ships, The Dacotah and the Monticello.—Ed. having attempted to attack a blockade-runner at the entrance of Cape Fear River, were driven back by the fire of Fort Caswell, an old Federal work which defended its entrance. At the approach of the mild season, from the middle of March, the Confederates determined to employ the forces assembled in th
Point Pleasant (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
n foot, showed themselves in West Virginia at Moorefield, where, on the 3d of January, General Jones succeeded in capturing about sixty Federals; and again at Point Pleasant, where they were repulsed with loss on the 30th of March. They finally returned to the charge at the end of April, while one detachment tried in vain, on theter opens the campaign at the end of March by coming down the Kanawha in small boats with a few companies of his best troops. Having arrived near the town of Point Pleasant at the entrance of this river, he lands and attacks the small Federal garrison, but after a brisk fight is repulsed. Hoping to have thus put the enemy on thes expedition we have only to mention a trifling engagement in the vicinity of Fayette Court-house on the borders of New River. After Jones' check in front of Point Pleasant the Federals had ascended the valley of the Kanawha, which bears the name of New River in the upper part of its course, and had occupied the approaches of the
Hilton Head (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Fort Sumter. The government did not insist, but determined to supersede him as soon as the moment for resuming active operations against the cradle of secession had arrived. The Washington authorities had at length profited by the experience acquired on the 7th of April, and recognized the fact that these operations, in order to be successful, should be combined between the War and Navy Departments. It was time, for, as we have stated, the fine army corps which Foster had brought to Hilton Head from North Carolina in the beginning of February had remained inactive since then. Whether General Hunter was waiting for the result of the campaigns which were being prosecuted along the borders of the Nansemond, the James, and the Potomac, or rather that his attention was distracted from his strictly military duties by his solicitude for the maintenance, the education, and the arming of fugitive negroes, he suffered the whole spring to pass without giving any other employment to his tr
Lee's Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
left to guard the heights which command Fredericksburg from Taylor's Hill to Lee's Hill, on a front of over three miles in extent. The march of the Federals durinthere. Howe's division was deployed on the north-west of the railway, facing Lee's Hill; that of Brooks, on his left, had remained massed south of the bridges erecteeceived no positive instructions, he confined himself to the task of watching Lee's Hill and the neighboring positions situated along the right bank of Hazel Run, andemnants of which are driven back upon the Telegraph Road, which passes behind Lee's Hill. In the mean time, Howe, having been informed by Sedgwick of the movement mbankments. The main Federal column becomes divided in scaling the slopes of Lee's Hill: a portion of it, crossing Hazel Run, takes Marye's Hill in the rear, and rearnham; the rest, joining the three regiments of the left, takes possession of Lee's Hill after a very sharp fight. A number of prisoners and four additional pieces o
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
whatever those well-known points where the Alabama was sure to make rich captures, such as the whaling-station near the Azores, where Semmes had struck his first blows against the merchant marine of the United States, and the channel of the Bahamas, where all the American trade with the Gulf of Mexico passed. Thus free in his movements, Semmes proceeded to lie in ambush along the route of the steamers plying between Aspinwall and New York, hoping to seize upon some one of them a cargo of California gold, which would have enabled him to fit out another privateer in England, and, as he himself very wittily remarks in his Memoirs,would have sufficed to develop the growing navy of the Confederate States in British ports. But chance did not favor him. After capturing a steamer that was sailing in a contrary direction, on board of which he had the satisfaction of capturing and releasing on parole a number of Federal officers and soldiers, an accident to his machinery rendered him for some
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