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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 30 (search)
s. Lieutenant, E. L. Haines, of Philadelphia. Chief Engineer, Chas. A. Norris, of Washington. Assistants, Chas. R. Joyce and A. J. Hopkins, of Washington. Acting Purser, T. Thornton. Steam gunboat Stars and Stripes, Lieut. Commanding R. Worden. Steam gunboat Valley City, Lieut. Commanding J. C. Chaplin. Steam Gunboat Underwriter, Lieut. Commanding W. V. Jeffers. Steam gunboat Hetzel, Lieut. Commanding H. K. Davenport. Steam gunboat Delaware, Lieut. Commanding S. P. Quackenbush. Steam gunboat Shawsheen, Acting Master T. G. Woodward. Steam gunboat Lockwood, Acting Master G. L. Graves. Steam gunboat Ceres, Acting Master J. McDiarmid. Steam gunboat Morse, Acting Master Peter Hayes. Steam gunboat Whitehead, Acting Master Chas. A. French. Steam gunboat Virginia. Steam gunboat Louisiana, Lieut. Commanding A. Murray. Steam gunboat Henry Brincker, Acting Master Commanding John E. Geddings. Steam gunboat General Putnam, Lieut. Commanding----
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 35 (search)
Doc. 33.-capture of Elizabeth City, N. C. Report of Lieut. S. P. Quackenbush. United States steamer Delaware, off Elizabeth City, February 11, 1862. Comman 1862, at ten o'clock in the morning, the United States steamer Delaware, S. P. Quackenbush, Lieut. Commanding, and bearing the red pennant of Commander S. C. Rowan,was unsuccessful in procuring them, owing to the engagement at the time. Capt. Quackenbush and his aid, F. R. Curtis, went on shore at half-past 1 o'clock to offer hundred yards of Fort Sullivan, when Commander Rowan and Lieut. Commanding Quackenbush landed at the fort, and witnessed the raising of the glorious Stars and Strid others, jumping overboard, swam and waded to the shore. Lieut. Commanding Quackenbush now gave the order to his aid, F. R. Curtis, to man the cutter and bring offree o'clock P. M. It was composed of the following steamers: Delaware, Lieut. Com. Quackenbush, the flag-ship; Underwriter, Lieut. Corn. W. N. Jeffers; Louisiana, Li
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 56 (search)
cting Master Hammond, (promoted for his bravery at Roanoke Island,) took possession of the town of Winton, situated some half a mile back from the landing. The village was found to be entirely deserted, even by the five hundred Union men, of whom we saw no trace, unless they were the ones who had given us so warm a reception on the evening previous. No doubt the person who reported these Union men was a rank secessionist and spy. About this time we came to anchor, and Lieut. Commanding Quackenbush and Acting Assistant Paymaster F. R. Curtis went on shore for the purpose of reconnoitring, and while there took possession of a rebel sloop lying at the wharf, from which place they ascended the banks and entered the village, where they found the Zouaves in full possession, with our two howitzers guarding the forks of the road, ready at a moment's warning to cover the soldiers. After setting fire to the town, (with the sole exception of the church,) and witnessing the total destruction
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 111 (search)
Doc. 107.-expedition up Pamlico Sound, N. C. Official report of Com. Murray. United States steamer Louisiana, Washington, N. C., March 26, 1862. sir: In obedience to your orders of the twentieth inst., I proceeded to this place, arriving at the obstructions, about five miles below, on the morning of the twenty-first. The naval column consisted of this vessel, the Delaware, Lieutenant Commanding Quackenbush, and the Commodore Perry, Lieut. Commanding Flusser. We were accompanied to the obstructions by the steamer Admiral, army transport, with eight companies of the Twenty-fourth regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, Colonel Stevenson, and a small tugboat, We met with no resistance, the batteries having been abandoned, and their armament removed by blasting and other processes. We soon forced a channel through the piles, though they had been driven very deep in triple row, and cut off three feet below the surface. At eleven o'clock last night we arrived off the town, th
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 138 (search)
t Georgia has in the field. Gen. Reno, who was designated to take command of this expedition, left Newbern on the morning of the seventeenth inst., with two regiments of his brigade, the Twenty-first Massachusetts, Lieut.-Col. Clark, and Fifty-first Pennsylvania, Col. Hartranft, which embarked on the army transports Northerner, Admiral, Pilot Boy, and Ocean Wave, for Roanoke Island, in convoy of the flag-ship Philadelphia, Com. Rowan, and the war-steamers Delaware, Lieut. Commanding S. P. Quackenbush, and the Picket, Capt. Ives, arriving at Roanoke Island on the evening of the seventeenth, a distance of one hundred and twenty miles, where they anchored until morning. Early on the morning of the eighteenth, Com. Rowan and staff, together with Gen. Reno and staff, went on shore and paid a visit to Col. Hawkins, Acting Brigadier-General, in command of the forces on Roanoke Island, who was to join the expedition with three regiments of his brigade, the Ninth and Eighty-ninth New-Yor