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Judith White McGuire, Diary of a southern refugee during the war, by a lady of Virginia, 1863. (search)
he 1st of January with mad demonstrations of delight, as the day on which Lincoln's proclamation to abolish slavery would take effect. In Norfolk the negroes were deluded by the Abolitionists into great excitement. Speeches were made, encouraging them to take up arms against their masters! Hale has offered a resolution in the Northern Congress to raise two hundred regiments of negroes! The valiant knight, I hope, will be generalissimo of the corps. He is worthy of the position! January 16th, 1863. Just returned from Richmond. B's situation still precarious, and I am obliged to stay with him a great deal. I see a number of officers and other gentlemen in his room; they seem to be in fine spirits about the country. Our President's Message has been enthusiastically received. It is a noble production, worthy of its great author. I think the European public must contrast it with the Northern Message most favourably to us. Several friends have just arrived from Yankeedom
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 144 (search)
Doc. 142.-cruise of the Florida. Official rebel account. C. S. Steamer Florida, St. George's, Bermuda, July 21, 1863. To the Editors of The Daily Journal. Wilmington, N. C. you and your readers are doubtless well aware that this steamer ran out of the harbor of Mobile on the sixteenth day of January, 1863, so I will say nothing on that head, but endeavor to give you a full account of what we have done since. Our first work was the hermaphrodite brig Estelle, of Boston, on her first voyage and homeward bound from Santa Cruz, with a full cargo of sugar and honey for the good people of Boston. But we consigned her to Old Father Neptune. She was valued at one hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars. In Havana we received our coal, stores, etc. At daylight on the morning of the twenty-second of January we catted our anchor and ran along the, coast eastward, and at eleven A. M. captured and burned the hermaphrodite brig Windward, from Matanzas, bound to Portland, and j
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.75 (search)
Gulf operations in 1862 and 1863. see Vol. II., p. 13. by Professor James Russell Soley, U. S. N. The regular monotony of the blockade of Mobile by the West Gulf squadron was interrupted only by the two successful passages of the Oreto or Florida, under Commander J. N. Maffitt, C. S. N., past the blockading squadron, inward on the 4th of September, 1862, and outward on the 16th of January, 1863. The first passage was made in broad daylight, under the disguise of an English gun-vessel, at a time when the Oreto was short-handed, the captain and crew ill, and the battery incapable of resistance. As a bold dash, it was hardly paralleled during the war. The second passage was made at night, without disguise, after the squadron had received full warning, and had been reenforced specially to capture the cruiser. On the Texas coast the blockade was only of moderate efficiency, and in the summer of 1862 Farragut determined to convert it at the principal points into an occupation
Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Jefferson the gentleman. (search)
d n't let him go loose during the sojourn of these great English visitors. Well, we don't envy the elegance of our Southern friends; we rather admire it. It comes of having such a perfect model of propriety at the helm of their affairs as Jefferson Davis is. It is not customary, we believe, for the head of one belligerent power to call the presiding genius of another belligerent power a baboon, as this Davis called Mr. Lincoln in a speech at Mobile. The kings of England have thought terrible things of the kings of France, but they have never styled them monkeys, nor made allusion to wooden shoes and frog soup in their speeches to Parliament. It was Swift, and not the Prime Minister, who had so much to say of Louis Baboon. But the President of the Confederacy forestalls the penny-a-liners, and cheats the pamphleteers out of their perquisites; which proves that, if not a gentleman, he is that mysterious next-thing-to-it, sometimes denominated quite A gentleman. January 16, 1863.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 108 (search)
Doc. 99.-battle of Hartsville, Mo. Report of General Warren. headquarters, Houston, Mo., Jan. 16, 1863. Colonel: I have the honor to report the operations of my force against the combined troops of General Marmaduke and Colonel Porter. Immediately on the receipt of a copy of the telegram from Brig.-General Brown, commanding at Springfield, January ninth, informing Major-Gen. Curtis of the advance of a column of six thousand rebels toward Springfield, I ordered Colonel Merrill, of the Twenty-first Iowa, senior officer, to move with seven hundred men, infantry, cavalry, and one section of artillery, by a forced march, to Springfield, to report to the commanding officer there. My own health incapacitated me from the fatigue of the expedition. For greater speed and progress, I sent with them a heavy transportation train for the use of the infantry. They reached Hartsville at six o'clock A. M., Saturday, and learned that Porter's column had passed through, taking the Mars
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Naval chronology 1861-1865: important naval engagements of the Civil war March, 1861-June, 1865 (search)
the crew. January 11, 1863. U. S. S. Hatteras, Lieut.-Comdr. H. C. Blake, sunk off Galveston, Tex., by Confed. steamer Alabama. 100 of the Federal crew captured. January 14, 1863. Four Union gunboats under Lieut.-Comdr. Buchanan, assisted by Gen. Weitzel's troops, engaged the Confed. iron-clad gunboat J. A. Cotton, which was aided by Confed. artillery, on the Bayou Teche, La. The Cotton was destroyed after several hours' combat. Lieut.-Comdr. Buchanan was killed. January 16, 1863. Confed. cruiser Florida escaped from Mobile. January 27, 1863. First attack on Fort McAllister, Ga. January 30, 1863. U. S. gunboat Isaac Smith captured in Stono River, S. C. Discussing the plans-porter and Meade On the left sits Rear-Admiral David Dixon Porter, in conference with Major-General George Gordon Meade. There were many such interviews both on shore and aboard the Malvern before the details of the expedition against Fort Fisher were finally settle
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 44: (search)
h, 1862. We hope you may arrive safely, and in good season, but we think you will find business rather flat at Liverpool, as American ships especially are under a cloud, owing to dangers from pirates, more politely styled privateers, which our kind friends in England are so willing should slip out of their ports, to prey on our commerce. Our torches always grew brighter as we read such effusions of joint stupidity and malice. Here is another wail from Buckport, Maine, under date of January 16th, 1863. It instructs the master as to the best mode of employing his ship. In the first place, it will not do to come this way with the ship; as New York business for ships is flat enough—a large fleet in that port, and nothing for them to do, that will pay expenses, and more arriving daily. And another from the same place. I hope you will be as prudent and economical as possible in managing your ship matters, as your owners want all the money they can get hold of, to aid in putting do
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Arkansas, 1863 (search)
OHIO--2d Indpt. Battery Light Arty. Jan. 13-19: Expedition from Helena up White RiverINDIANA--11th, 24th and 34th Infantry. U. S. Gunboat "DeKalb." Capture of Saint Charles, Clarendon, Devall's Bluff and Des Arc. Jan.: Skirmish near MaysvilleKANSAS--3d Indian Home Guard. Jan. 14-15: Exp. to South Bend, Arkansas RiverOHIO--57th Infantry. WISCONSIN--20th Infantry (Detachment). Jan. 15: Skirmish, Clarendon Road near HelenaWISCONSIN--2d Cavalry. Jan. 15: Skirmish, Mound City(No Reports.) Jan. 16: Skirmish, Devall's Bluff, Des ArcINDIANA--24th Infantry; U. S. Gunboat "DeKalb." Jan. 18: Occupation of Des ArcINDIANA--24th Infantry. Jan. 23-27: Scout from Fayetteville to Van BurenARKANSAS--1st Cavalry (Detachment). ILLINOIS--10th Cavalry (Detachment). Jan. 25: Skirmish, Pope CountyARKANSAS--1st Cavalry. Jan. 26: Skirmish, Mulberry SpringsILLINOIS--10th Cavalry. Feb. 2-3: Skirmishes, Vine Prairie, and mouth of Mulberry RiverARKANSAS--1st Cavalry (Detachments). Union loss, 3 killed,
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Battles, Tennessee, 1863 (search)
h, Chamber's Creek, near HamburgILLINOIS--15th Cavalry. Jan. 13-15: Reconnoissance from Murfreesborough to Nolensville and VersaillesINDIANA--10th Indpt. Battery Light Arty.; 15th, 40th, 51st, 57th and 73d Infantry. OHIO--6th Indpt. Battery Light Arty.; 64th, 65th and 97th Infantry. UNITED STATES--4th Cavalry. Jan. 13-19: Reconnoissance to Harpeth River and Cumberland River(No Reports.) Jan. 14: Skirmish, La FayetteOHIO--20th Infantry. Jan. 15: Skirmish, UnionPENNSYLVANIA--9th Cavalry. Jan. 16: Skirmish, WaverlyIOWA--5th Cavalry (Detachment). Jan. 19: Skirmish near WoodburyOHIO--3d Cavalry (Cos. "A," "D," "E," "F"). Jan. 20: Skirmish, ChewallaALABAMA--1st Cavalry. Jan. 21: Skirmish, Shelbyville PikeILLINOIS--75th Infantry. Jan. 21: Affair near MurfreesboroughCapture of train; Detachments 2-Brig., 5-Div., 14-Corps. Jan. 21-22: Reconnoissance from Murfreesborough to Auburn, Liberty and CainsvilleTENNESSEE--1st and 2d Cavalry (Detachments). UNITED STATES--4th Cavalry (Detachmen
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, John Sedgwick (search)
John Sedgwick Brigadier GeneralFeb. 19, 1862, to March 13, 1862. Stone's Division, Army of the Potomac Brigadier GeneralMarch 13, 1862, to Sept. 17, 1862. 2nd Division, Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac Brigadier GeneralOct. 3, 1861, to Feb. 19, 1862. 2d Brigade, Heintzelman's Division, Army of the Potomac Major GeneralApr. 13, 1864, to May 9, 1864.Killed.Sixth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac Major GeneralDec. 26, 1862, to Jan. 26, 1863. Second Army Corps, Army of the Potomac Major GeneralFeb. 4, 1863, to Apr. 6, 1864. Sixth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac Major GeneralJan. 16, 1863, to Feb. 5, 1863. Ninth Army Corps, Army of the Pot
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