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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 21: (search)
sports, and an army of 15,000 men, had been sent to capture a couple of mud forts, armed with 24 and 32-pounders, and garrisoned with three or four hundred raw troops. Our next batch of newspapers from New York, brought us the despatches of Commodore Dupont, the commander of this expedition, exceeding in volume anything that Nelson or Collingwood had ever written. Plates, and diagrams showed how the approaches had been buoyed, and the order of battle was described, with minute prolixity. I ca, seeing the necessity of this precaution, submitted cheerfully to the restraint—for as such only they viewed it—and not as an indignity. We received another supply of late newspapers, by the Dodge. They were still filled with jubilations over Dupont's great naval victory. We learned, too, that New England had been keeping, with more than usual piety and pomp, the great National festival of Thanksgiving, which the Puritan has substituted for the Christian Christmas. The pulpit thundered war
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 28: (search)
to the hands of the enemy, for the first time during the war. Commodore Samuel Barron, of the Confederate States Navy, commanded the forts, and surrendered, after a gallant resistance, to the overwhelming force which assaulted him, on condition that he should be treated as a prisoner of war. The battle of Manassas had occurred to humble the pride, and appeal to the fears of the enemy, and the condition named by Barron was readily assented to. The other naval expedition, under command of Commodore Dupont, captured Port Royal, in South Carolina as mentioned in a former page. The Trent Affair, already described, came off in November, 1861, and Commodore Hollins' attack upon the enemy's fleet at the mouths of the Mississippi, in which he gave him such a scare, occurred, as already related, in October of the same year. This brings us to the close of the first year of the war. The year 1862 was big with events, which we will, for the most part, merely string on our thread. The Confeder
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 46: (search)
chor, and steamed off to Port Royal, and reported to their Admiral—Dupont! Did Dupont send her back to Ingraham? No. He reported the facts to Mr. Secretary Welles. presided. And what think you, reader, was the excuse? It is a curiosity. Admiral Dupont reported the case thus to Mr. Welles:—* * * Unable to use his [Stellwagen'sthe enemy's ship, and made the arrangements. Mr. Welles, thus prompted by Admiral Dupont, adopted the exceedingly brilliant idea, that as nothing had been said abou over the Hatteras. Sherman made an attempt upon Vicksburg, and failed. Admiral Dupont, with a large and well appointed fleet of ironclads, attacked Charleston, ar attempt was made upon Charleston, which was repulsed as the others had been. Dupont, after his failure, had been thrown overboard, and Admiral Foote ordered to sucal hot-bed of secession. They made a lodgment on Morris Island, but failed, as Dupont had done, against the other works. We have thus strung, as it were, upon our t
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Biographical sketch of General Beauregard. (search)
tionably the most scientific, complete, and perfect of all defences devised during the war—has been partially comprehended and appreciated among military engineers in Europe and at the North. When we consider with what scant and utterly inadequate resources General Beauregard held, for nearly two years, over three hundred miles of most vulnerable coast, against formidable and always menacing land and naval forces; when we bear in mind the repulse from Charleston on April 7th, 1863, of Admiral Dupont's fleet of ironclads and monitors, supported by General Hunter's army; when we mark the prolonged resistance made by a handful of men, in the works on Morris Island, against the combined land and naval batteries of General Gillmore and Admiral Dahlgren; the assault and repulse of June 10th, 1863; the defeat of the former's forces in an attack on the lines of James Island, on July 16th, 1863; the masterly and really wonderful evacuation of Battery Wagner and Morris Island, after the enemy
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 13: (search)
mand of that or any other corps. Such a command the War Department persistently ignored, addressing General Beauregard as the commander of the district, though sending to him, directly, for execution, orders which evidently referred to the army. Delicate embarrassments in administration arose from this state of affairs, which virtually reduced the leading general of the Confederacy to the rank of a Major-General. On the 7th of November a strong United States naval expedition, under Admiral Dupont, seized Forts Walker and Beauregard, two small field-works armed with thirty-five guns of inferior calibre and only two of them rifled, guarding the entrance to Port Royal harbor, South Carolina. The reader is already aware of what had been done, upon General Beauregard's advice, with regard to the protection of that harbor. He had never concealed the fact that, inadequately armed as it necessarily would be, its defense, against any regularly organized expedition, would be impossible.
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Indiana Volunteers. (search)
urrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., and there mustered out June 24, 1865. Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 47 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 169 Enlisted men by disease. Total 220. 102nd Indiana Regiment Infantry. Organized to repel Morgan's Raid July 10, 1863. Left Indianapolis, Ind., for Vernon July 11. Duty at Vernon, Dupont, Osgood and Sauman's Station till July 17. Mustered out July 17, 1863. 103rd Indiana Regiment Infantry. Organized at Indianapolis, Ind., July 10, 1863, to repel the Morgan Raid. Left Indianapolis for Vernon, Ind., July 11. Pursuit of Morgan from Vernon to Harrison and Batavia, Ohio, July 12-15. March to Sauman's Station July 15, thence to Indianapolis, Ind. Mustered out July 16, 1863. 104th Indiana Regiment Infantry. Organized July 10, 1863, to repel the Morgan Raid.
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 2: (search)
ife of General Butler, says,— On this evening, at Philadelphia, there was telegraphing to the Governor of Massachusetts; there were consultations with Commodore Dupont, commandant of the navy yard; there were interviews with Mr. Felton, President of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad,— a son of Massachusetts, full of pe only way, therefore, of getting communication with Washington for troops from the North is over the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, or marching from the west. Commodore Dupont, at the navy yard, has given me instructions of the fact in accordance with these general statements, upon which I rely. I have therefore thought I could reld not give the order; but that I might say to him that he most urgently advised that he should go to Annapolis. I then, in company with Admiral, then Commodore, Dupont, and my brother Frank, called upon General Butler at the Continental Hotel, and told him all I knew about the condition of things in Baltimore, and of the imposs
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 10: (search)
teers have represented Massachusetts, during the year just ended, on almost every field, and in every department of the army, where our flag has been unfurled,—at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Fort Wagner; at Chickamauga, Knoxville, and Chattanooga; under Hooker, Meade, Banks, Gilmore, Rosecrans, Burnside, and Grant. In every scene of danger and of duty,—along the Atlantic and the Gulf; on the Tennessee, the Cumberland, the Mississippi, and the Rio Grande; under Dupont, Dahlgren, Foote, Farragut, and Porter,—the sons of Massachusetts have borne their part, and paid the debt of patriotism and valor. Ubiquitous as the stock they descend from, national in their opinions and universal in their sympathies, they have fought shoulder to shoulder with men of all sections, and of every extraction. On the ocean, on the rivers, on the land, on the heights where they thundered down from the clouds of Lookout Mountain the defiance of the skies, they have graven with <
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
, of Springfield, as temporary chairman, and Theodore H. Sweetser, of Lowell, as permanent president. On taking the chair, Mr. Sweetser made an impressive and eloquent speech, which closed as follows:— And, while we raise here the banner of civil conflict, we will neither now or ever cease to remember our brothers—braver men never lived—who have upheld the honor of our flag, under Sherman at Atlanta, under Sheridan at Winchester, under Grant at Petersburg, on the land; under Farragut, Dupont, and Dahlgren, and other commanders, on the seas. Nor will we forget our not less brave but more unfortunate brethren than if they had died with the shouts of victory on their lips, whose mournful groans come up to us from loathsome prisons, unheeded by the ear and heart of him who sits too long in the presidential chair. If we are powerless to save, we will pity them, and we will not forget their beloved ones at home. At the close of Mr. Sweetser's speech, Charles G. Greene, editor of<
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 209 (search)
rsenal November 17   1     1               2                       Washington Arsenal November 18           1 1           2                       Washington Arsenal December 31         2               2                       Washington Arsenal Various times                           47 34 120   44 34 644 207 497   1426 Alleghany Arsenal August 20         4               4 4 1 8                 Harper's Ferry Depot December 28 6       6     1         13 7     2 1486 1117 1038     1184   Dupont's Battery October 10         1               1 1                     Reissued to Batteries in Mid. Mil. Div. by the Ordnance Department Various times between Sep. 1, 1864, and Jan. 1, 1865                       24 24 24                     total   12 9 7 1 29 3 1 11 1 2 1 24 101 83 35 128 2 1530 1151 1682 207 497 1184 5067 headquarters, Midd
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