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James Russell Soley, Professor U. S. Navy, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, The blockade and the cruisers (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
y of, 168 et seq.; its agents abroad, 182 Congress, the, 60 et seq.; taken, 64; burned, 65 Craven, Commodore, commands Potomac flotilla, 87 et seq. Crocker, Acting Master, commands expedition to Sabine River, 142 et seq. Crosman, Lieutenant, 124 et seq. Cumberland, the, 48, 52, 60 et seq.; sunk by the Merrimac, 63 et seq. Cushing, Captain, daring exploits of, 94 et seq., 101, 161 Cuyler, the, 122, 135, 139 Dahlgren, Admiral, 105 Downes, Commander, 117 et seq. Dupont, Admiral, 90, 105, 115 Ericsson, John, plans monitor, 55 Farragut, Admiral, 90, 123, 141, 145 et seq., 148, 150 Florida, blockade of, 124 et seq. Florida, the, fights the Massachusetts, 132; runs blockade of Mobile, 137 et seq., 184 et seq.; captured at Bahia, 187 Flusser, Lieutenant-Commander, 97; killed, 98 Fisher, Fort, 90 Fox, Captain Gustavus V., 61 (note), 66 (note), 234 et seq. Freeborn, the, 86 Galveston, Tex., blockaded, 35, 140 et seq., 143 et seq. Georgetown,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Military operations of General Beauregard. (search)
duty being the defence of Charleston. Here General Beauregard had a field eminently adapted to his talents. A most skillful and accomplished engineer, he not only displayed ability of the highest order in this memorable defence, but exhibited astonishing fertility of resource and tenacity of purpose. At the end of January, 1863, the Confederate gunboats made such a descent upon the blockading squadron as to cripple it and drive it off for the time. Early in April the Federal fleet, under Dupont, made the first grand attack upon Fort Sumter, but was beaten off with terrible loss. Again in July a most formidable armament, equipped with the best means at the command of the Federal Government, and under one of the best engineers in the old army, General Gillmore, began a most determined and protracted attack upon the defences of Charleston. With comparatively slender means Beauregard completely baffled and kept at bay the prodigious armament with which the Federal Government sought
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.13 (search)
their reduction by the Federal is equally manifest. Situated to the south of Morris Island is Folly Island, separated from it by Light House Inlet, about five hundred yards wide. After the memorable repulse of the iron clad fleet, under Rear-Admiral DuPont, by Fort Sumter on the 7th of April, 1863, the enemy changed his plan of attack, and the Union Commander, General Q. A. Gilmore, who had relieved Major-General Hunter, concentrated upon Folly Island, ten thousand infantry, three hundred and fifty artillery, and six hundred engineer troops. In the meantime. Rear-Admiral DuPont had been relieved and Rear-Admiral Dahlgren placed in command of the naval squadron. Concealed from the view of the Confederates by dense brushwood, the Federal commander with remarkable skill and celerity had erected formidable batteries within easy range of the weak and imperfect works of the Confederates on the southern end of the island. The presence of these works, armed with guns of heavy calibre,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.32 (search)
ores were destroyed. Occasionally some parties would cheer the command; they were evidently Southern sympathisers. This, however, was in the Hoosier, but not in the Buckeye State. The command moved on to Canton, where more prisoners were taken, and more property destroyed; thence to New Philadelphia, with more prisoners and a skirmish. In fact, the command was never out of the sound of arms, or the flash of gunpowder. The command then moved on through Vienna, Lexington, Paris, Vernon, Dupont and Versailles. There the command had a pretty good skirmish, and more government property was destroyed. The country passed through was well cultivated and in fine crops, and the citizens moved and looked as if no war was on hand. No pillaging or thieving was allowed, and none of it was done. Only provisions for men and provender for stock were taken, and Confederate money offered, which was refused. The command was kept under strict orders and discipline enforced. The Yankee women
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
at, 276. Cole, Major C. H., Desperate exploit of, 259. Cooke, Captain J. W., 208. Cromwellhave a Statue, Shall, 1. Crutchfield, Colonel S., 114. Dana, C. A., 99. Davis, President, Jefferson, to Lincoln, 92; manacled, 100; tribute to, 121,832. Dinkins, Captain, James, 185, 205. Dix, General J. A., 88. Dixon, Captain G. E., 168. Dorsey, Frank, 288; Colonel Gus W., 286. Doughoregan Manor, 220. Drayton, General T. F., 140. Du Bois, A., 279. Dunant, M. Henri, 229. DuPont, Admiral S. F. 139. Early General J. A., 105; meagre force of, in Valley, 109; his movement on Washington, 216, 250. 257, 267; at Lynchburg, 307, 372; his Indian orderly, 871. Elliott Grays, Roll and History of, 161. Elliott, Gilbert, 208. Emack, Lieutenant. 113. Embargo of 1812, The, 25. Finley. Colonel Luke W. 288. Fisher's Hill, Battle of, 371. Forces, Federal and Confederate, Disparity between, 109, 184, 241 280. Fox, Captain of the, 198. Frazier's Farm, Battle of, 14
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 3. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Anti-Slavery Poems (search)
So Hellas sang her taunting song, “The fisher in his net is caught, The Chian hath his master bought;” And isle from isle, with laughter long, Took up and sped the mocking parable. Once more the slow, dumb years Bring their avenging cycle round, And, more than Hellas taught of old, Our wiser lesson shall be told, Of slaves uprising, freedom-crowned, To break, not wield, the scourge wet with their blood and tears. 1863. At port royal. In November, 1861, a Union force under Commodore Dupont and General Sherman captured Port Royal, and from this point as a basis of operations, the neighboring islands between Charleston and Savannah were taken possession of. The early occupation of this district, where the negro population was greatly in excess of the white, gave an opportunity which was at once seized upon, of practically emancipating the slaves and of beginning that work of civilization which was accepted as the grave responsibility of those who had labored for freedom. t
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
the Coast Survey, all under the presidency of Commodore Dupont. For many years past this scientific and acttrained gunners and picked crews. The fleet, under Dupont's command, was to consist of the steam frigates Wabce remained a profound secret; it was only known to Dupont, Sherman, and the members of the cabinet, when the soon. Having first thought of the Savannah River, Dupont had decided to direct his attack upon the entrancesors call the death-blast. The bad weather overtook Dupont south-east of Cape Hatteras on the night of the 1stber of them were already in sight of that point. Dupont arrived in the course of the morning with twenty-fielly disappointed. Immediately after his arrival Dupont set to work. A gunboat had reconnoitred the bar whfavor the movements of the fleet. At an early hour Dupont gave the signal waited for, selecting Fort Walker fificant cannonade. Thus, at the end of the year, Dupont's fleet, supported by detachments from Sherman's ar
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
waters was no doubt the reason which prevented Dupont from going up the river with his gun-boats. ar into the sea in the direction of Havana. Dupont weighed anchor on the 28th of February to takesoon as he found himself master of Fernandina, Dupont divided his fleet, in order to display the Feded Saint John's River; the other, commanded by Dupont in person, to the Bay of St. Augustine. The fentered St. John's River on the 9th of March. Dupont left it at the entrance of this difficult bay,t abandoned it. They themselves delivered into Dupont's hands Fort Marion, a permanent work of masonad never dreamed for an instant of defending. Dupont took possession of it on the 12th of March, an. The mission of General Sherman's troops and Dupont's gun-boats should simply have been to close extremity of the line of the coast, occupied by Dupont, were trying to remedy the bad effect producedces were the more important because Hunter and Dupont intended to take advantage of the propitious s[6 more...]
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
tle higher up. The Confederates had established themselves there and erected batteries, which were a source of great annoyance to vessels anchored in the bay. Admiral Dupont determined to dislodge them; and on the very day of his arrival at Beaufort, Mitchell sent a few troops, under General Brannan, to assist the naval force in turpose of laying siege to Charleston. It was decided that the Monitor should precede the new turreted vessels which were being constructed on her model, and join Dupont's fleet on the coast of South Carolina. It was hoped that she would be able to force the passes of Fort Sumter. On the 29th of December she left Chesapeake Bay ts views upon the same question, and readily availed itself of it to take a new step in the policy it had adopted. The naval expedition to Port Royal, under Commodore Dupont, was getting ready; in landing at the Sea Islands in the midst of an almost exclusively black population, it was to be expected that the slaves, abandoned by
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
blockading squadron was resuming its positions DuPont learned that on the previous day it had experias calling for the capture of Charleston. But DuPont was unable to imitate the bold stroke which ha could guide his vessels with impunity, whilst DuPont, had he proceeded as far as the third circle f the larger force commanded by Beauregard. DuPont adopted the only plan which, in the midst of ad north-west fronts being the most vulnerable, DuPont was desirous of making the attack on that sidevy the superiority over the land artillery? DuPont was looking for the solution of this problem aut at the very first stage of the struggle Admiral DuPont's plan of battle was modified by unforeseehand, yielding to other influences, was urging DuPont to promptly renew the attack in order to set f required for so difficult an enterprise. Admiral DuPont persisting in his incredulity regarding th not in the least alarmed when they heard that DuPont, who was fully informed of the presence of the[16 more...]
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