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Glasgow, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
liant exploit which deprived the Confederates of a vessel upon whose success they had built the most extravagant hopes. On the 12th of November, 1861, the English steamer Fingal, forcing the blockade, had entered Savannah River with a valuable cargo of small-arms and cannon. But since that period the vigilance of the Federal sailors had not allowed her to put to sea. This vessel, of twelve hundred tons, two hundred and four feet in length and forty-one feet in breadth, had been built at Glasgow; her hull was solid and her machinery powerful. The Confederate government, seeing that she was unable to continue trading with England, purchased her with a view of converting her into a man-of-war. The hull, which was of iron, was cut down to within two feet of the water-line, while in the centre of the new deck, constructed at the water's edge, there was erected a casemated battery having the shape of a truncated rectangular pyramid, whose four faces had an inclination of twenty-nine d
Folly River (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e-runners, and among others two large steamers, the Queen of the Wave and the Georgiana, which, being hotly pursued by Federal ships, were driven upon the coast and abandoned by their crews. The operations against Charleston were about to commence. A regiment of infantry had occupied Cole's Island, on the left bank of the Stono River, on the 28th of March—a position extremely well chosen for commanding both this arm of the sea and the entrance of the long channel which under the name of Folly River runs as far as Secessionville. The navy had completed its preparations and collected together all the forces it could dispose of. These forces comprised nine iron-clad vessels. They were the four monitors already mentioned, the Montauk, the Passaic, the Patapsco, and the Nahant; three others, named the Weehaw- Ironsides; and, finally, the Keokuk, a species of monitor differing from the original type in so far that it carried two stationary turrets, each furnished with four portholes and
Tar River (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
d. was not long in making the assailants beat a retreat. Following the execution of this plan, Hill, who was striving to magnify the number of his soldiers in the eyes of his adversaries, conveyed them from the banks of the Neuse to those of Tar River; on the 30th of March he came with one division to invest the small town of Washington, which the Federals had converted into a depot for supplies for the fleet, and which was surrounded by a belt of redoubts and half-bastions. This place, situated on the left bank of the Tar, was occupied by a small garrison; two gunboats were at anchor in the river. While the Confederate infantry were occupying some old works which had been erected the previous year when this same town had been attacked, considerable detachments with a powerful artillery force took position on the opposite side of the river, carried off the buoys which indicated the course of the channel, and thus succeeded in blockading the garrison. At the first news of the a
Cumming's Point (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ir turret, cover the portholes, which were the weakest points. The manoeuvre which was to bring them in front of the most vulnerable part of the fort was therefore abandoned from the first, and the vessel which carried the admiral, with the largest number of guns, was kept away from the scene of action. The other four vessels, however, were approaching in their turn, and before half-past 3 o'clock they began firing alternately upon Forts Sumter and Moultrie and against the battery of Cumming's Point. The entrance of the bay of Charleston presented at this moment a truly wonderful sight. The eight Federal vessels, collected within the space of two-thirds of a square mile, steaming slowly forward and backward in the midst of a dense volume of smoke, not wishing to remain stationary for fear of facilitating the aim of the enemy's guns, were driven hither and and thither by the contrary currents of a slack tide, manoeuvring so as to avoid coming in contact with each other, and with t
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
s of the general staff, that of inspection, was reorganized and considerably increased. While the army was regaining confidence and courage for the hard battles it was about to fight, its effective force was not only augmented by the return of deserters, but also by the addition of some ten thousand men. Unfortunately, there were in its ranks nearly twenty-three thousand men whose term of service expired in the month of May. These consisted of thirty-three New York regiments and two from Maine, which, out of a total of 20,842 men, numbered 16,472 who had enlisted for two years at the breaking out of hostilities in April, 1861; also eight regiments of Pennsylvania, mustered into service for nine months only by the call for troops which followed Pope's disaster in August, 1862, and which numbered 6421 officers and men under arms. The soldiers appertaining to the first category, trained up to the hardships of war by two years of campaigning, were about to leave a great void in the A
Strasburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ver some distance below Falmouth, surprised a Federal post and captured about one hundred prisoners at a place called Leedstown. Finally, in Northern Virginia, Captain McNeil, on the 16th of February captured a Federal convoy near Romney. On the 26th, General Jones, prior to his expedition along the Monongahela, made a bold move in the Valley of the Shenandoah, and, surprising two cavalry regiments which had been sent by Milroy for the purpose of checking his course, dispersed them near Strasburg, taking two hundred prisoners. A detachment of his brigade even pushed on as far as the Potomac, and, crossing the river in boats, captured about sixty Federals near Poolesville in Maryland. The Federal mounted men were not so sprightly as their adversaries; they did not like to rush in small bands into the midst of a country where the inhabitants were all hostile to them, and rendered the chances too unequal. Nevertheless, they displayed a considerable amount of activity, and the only
Wilmington River (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
of the whole Federal fleet assembled in the waters of Savannah River—it was at last determined in the month of June to send the Atlanta to sea. In order to avoid the guns of the fort, it was decided to take her by way of Augustine Channel to Wilmington River, which empties its waters into Warsaw Sound. This is the pass which the Federals had vainly attempted to follow previous to the capture of Fort Pulaski. The Atlanta, rapid in her movements, had been fitted out in view of a long campaign oit was supposed that she would have nothing to fear even from the monitors themselves. Consequently, the Confederate sailors were not in the least alarmed when they heard that DuPont, who was fully informed of the presence of the Atlanta in Wilmington River, had sent the Weehawken and the Nahant to those waters for the purpose of watching her and preventing her from coming out. Being obliged to unload their vessel in order to enable her to get through the Augustine Channel, which was shallow, t
Port Royal (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
. Foster had embarked at Beaufort in North Carolina on the 2d of February. When he arrived at Port Royal nothing was found in readiness for his soldiers. He was received as an intruder; soon after H62 masters of a large number of points along that coast. Their central depot is in the bay of Port Royal, where their fleet finds excellent shelter for victualling purposes, and near which the land-ftan and Canandaigua, had been sent at the same time, through a singular imprudence, to coal at Port Royal: all the others, ten in number, were old merchant-ships: they were armed with heavy guns, it iary of the Navy having soon decided to leave him the six monitors, he sent them to the bays of Port Royal and North Edisto, instead of keeping them in sight of Fort Sumter. The government did not insre he had embarked, the South Atlantic squadron was entrusted to Admiral Dahlgren. He reached Port Royal on the 4th of July—a date rendered memorable by the events which marked that epoch in other se
Fayette (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
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 defiles of Cotton Hill, which had been so warmly disputed the previous year. On the 19th and 20th of May, after a few skirmishes, a Confederate detachment attacked them in their intrenched camp at Fayette, but were unable to dislodge them. While these insignificant conflicts occupied a few isolated detachments in West Virginia, the two great armies that were watching each other near Fredericksburg had remained stationary. The moment was approaching when they were once more to encounter each other on the bloody field of battle. But before returning to the borders of the Rappahannock and undertaking the recital of these struggles, which will occupy the latter half of this volume, we must
Monticello (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
unners 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 those latitudes for an offensive campaign. They proposed to confine themselves no longer to the task of simply harassing the Federals and shutting them up in their positions, but to re
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