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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 13.94 (search)
The Albemarle and the Sassacus. by Edgar Holden, U. S. N. On the 5th of May, 1864, the Albemarle, with the captured steamer Bombshell, and the steamer Cotton Plant, laden with troops, came down the Roanoke River. The double-enders Mattabesett, Sassacus, Wyalusing, and Miami, together with the smaller vessels, Whitehead, Ce864: a, Albemarle; B, Bombshell; C P, cotton Plant; M, Mattabesett; S, Sassacus; Wy, Wyalusing ; mi, Miami; C, Ceres; Wh, Whitehead; C H, Commodore Hull. The Sassacus ramming the Albemarle. The Sassacus disabled after ramming. on as the clouds closed over us in the grim and final struggle. There was no lack of couragSassacus disabled after ramming. on as the clouds closed over us in the grim and final struggle. There was no lack of courage on the other ships, and the previous loss of the Southfield, the signal from the Wyalusing that she was sinking, the apparent loss of our ship, and the loss of the sounds of North Carolina if more were disabled, dictated the prudent course they adopted.--E. H. Captain French, of the Miami, who had bravely fought his ship at
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 17: Sherman's March through the Carolinas.--the capture of Fort Fisher. (search)
drawn into a severe and disastrous fight with the Sassacus. This was one of Captain Melancthon Smith's blockahe principal vessels were the Mattahessett, Miami, Sassacus, Wyalusing, and Whitehead. The Commodore Hull and nd its tender pushed on, and first encountered the Sassacus. The latter, with the other steamers, more agile t of its most vulnerable point, and in doing so the Sassacus gave the Bombshell a broadside which caused her to and Whitworth guns. After a brief cannonade, the Sassacus, Lieutenant-Commander F. A. Roe, moving with full distance of a few paces. Most of the bolts of the Sassacus glanced from the mailed sides of her antagonist liound Brooks bolt through one of the boilers of the Sassacus. In its passage it killed three men and wounded sihe direction of Plymouth, firing as she fled. The Sassacus slowly followed, and finally stopped for want of sicksburg, St. Jago de Cuba, Fort Jackson, Osceola, Sassacus, Chippewa, Maratanza, R. R. Cuyler, Rhode Island,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
end the Constitution offered by, 1.234. Alabama, secession movements in, 1.59; secession convention in, 1.172; march of Gen. Mitchel into, 2.266; military operations to the fall of Mobile, 3.506-3.514; Gen. Wilson's march through, 3.514. Alabama, Confederate cruiser, escape of from a British port, 2.569; details of her conflict with and destruction by the Kearsarge, 3.435. Albany, Democratic convention at, 1.207. Albemarle, ram, at the siege of Plymouth, 3.470; fight of with the Sassacus, 3.471; destruction of by Lieut. Cushing, 3.472. Albemarle Sound, naval operations in, 2.176; Gen. Reno's expedition on, 2.314. Alexandria, occupation of by Union troops, 1.482. Alexandria, La., occupation of by National troops, 3.254; abandonment of by Gen. Banks's forces, 3.268. Allatoona Pass, battle of, 3.397. Allegheny Summit, battle at, 2.103. Ambulances, Philadelphia firemen's, 1. 579. Amelia Court-House, Gen. Lee's retreating forces at, 3.552. Amendments to t
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 59: (search)
e Perry, Valley City, Underwriter, Commodore Barney, Hunchback, Southfield, Morse, H. Brinker, Lockwood. Steamer Neptune 40,820 58 4,460 44 36,360 14 Key West Mar. 29, 1864 Lackawanna. Steamer Nassau 71,958 63 10,699 23 61,259 40 New York May 10, 1864 State of Georgia, Victoria. Schooner Nanjemoy 35 00   No proceeds Washington     Sloop Nellie 20,643 24 1,580 90 19,062 34 New York July 19, 1864 South Carolina. Steamer Nutfield 2,219 00 352 60 1,866 40 Washington Oct. 29, 1864 Sassacus. Sloop Neptune 20,045 35 1,654 58 18,390 77 Key West April 26, 1865 Sunflower, Honduras, J. L. Davis. Sloop (no name) 95 00 87 92 7 08 do   San Jacinto. Steamer Nan Nan 21,006 02 2,035 78 18,970 24 do May 1, 1865 Nita. Sloop Nina 440 71 105 56 335 15 do   Roebuck. Sloop Osceola 600 00 240 95 359 05 New York July 21, 1863 New London, Massachusetts, R. R. Cuyler. Schooner Olive 1,750 00 274 20 1,475 80 do July 21, 1863 New London, Massachusetts, R. R. Cuyler. Steamer Ouac
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xxiii. The War along the Atlantic coast in 1864. (search)
ton, at the head of Pamlico sound, was soon evacuated by Gen. Palmer ; April 23. some of our departing soldiers disgracing themselves and their flag by arson and pillage ere they left. Capt. Cooke, of the Albemarle, being naturally somewhat inflated by his easy triumph ever two unmailed gunboats, our remaining gunboats in those waters, under Capt. Melancthon Smith, were disposed to tempt him to a fresh encounter, on more equal terms. They had not long to wait for it. The Mattabesett, Sassacus, and Wyalusing, were lying 20 miles off the mouth of the Roanoke, when our picket-boats, which had been sent up the river to decoy the ram from under the protecting batteries of Plymouth, reported her coming; May 5, 3 P. M. and soon she was descried bearing down, accompanied by the river steamboat Cotton Plant, and what was lately our gunboat Bombshell. The former — being too frail for such an encounter — put back, with her 200 sharp-shooters and boarders, to Plymouth; and the contest b
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Appendix. (search)
play, but one or two guns of the enemy were fired, this feu d'enfer driving them all to their bomb-proofs. The small gunboats Kansas, Unadilla, Pequot, Seneca, Pontoosuc, Yantic, and Huron took positions to the northward and eastward of the monitors, and enfilading the works. The Shenandoah, Ticonderoga, Mackinaw, Tacony, and Vanderbilt took effective positions as marked on the chart, and added their fire to that already begun. The Santiago de Cuba, Fort Jackson, Osceola, Chippewa, Sassacus, Rhode Island, Monticello, Quaker City, and Iosco dropped into position according to order, and the battle became general. In one hour and fifteen minutes after the first shot was fired, not a shot came from the fort. Two magazines had been blown up by our shells, and the fort set on fire in several places; and such a torrent of missiles were falling into and bursting over it that it was impossible for anything human to stand it. Finding that the batteries were silenced completely, I dire
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 81 (search)
eras inlet, N. C., May 18, 1864. I venture to submit the following account of one of the most unusual and remarkable naval conflicts of this or any other war, in which the contending forces were so markedly disproportionate, and the result so contrary to preconceived ideas of iron-clad invincibility, that it may justly claim to take a historical position on the same page that records the brilliant exploits of Decatur and John Paul Jones. On the afternoon of May fifth, the Mattabesett, Sassacus, and Wyalusing, side-wheel gunboats, were lying at anchor in Albemarle Sound, twenty miles below the mouth of the Roanoke River, having been assigned the arduous duty of encountering, and, if possible, destroying the rebel iron-clad ram Albemarle, whose recent raid, in conjunction with the attack and capture of Plymouth, when she succeeded in capturing two of our gunboats, and sustained unharmed the repeated broadsides of the Miami, directed by the brave and lamented Flusser, rendered our p
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 17 (search)
tolled ten miles down the sound by the picket force left to guard the entrance of the river, the Mattabesett, Wyalusing, Sassacus, and Whitehead got under way, and stood up to engage them; the smaller boats falling into position in accordance with thwill advance in the third order of steaming, the Miami leading the second line of steamers. Miami,Mattabesett, Ceres,Sassacus, Commodore Hull,Wyalusing, Seymour,Whitehead. The proposed plan of attack will be, for the large vessels to pass ithin their line of fire. Our vessels at this time were on both sides of the Albemarle, this vessel, the Wyalusing, and Sassacus being the only ones that had then rounded her bows, we being on her quarter, Sassacus abeam, and Wyalusing on starboard Sassacus abeam, and Wyalusing on starboard bow, all having stopped their engines. At five minutes past five the Sassacus ran down bows on, striking the Albemarle on starboard quarter. After remaining in contact some few minutes she disengaged herself, and soon afterwards was seen to be enve
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
combe Legion, detachment 59th Va. and Home Guards. Losses: Union, 14 killed, 60 wounded, 27 missing; Confed., (about) 180 wounded and captured. May 5, 1864: Roanoke River, N. C. Union, gunboats, Ceres, Commodore Hull, Mattabesett, Sassacus, Seymour, Wyalusing, Miami, and Whitehead. Confed., iron-clad ram Albemarle. Losses: Union, 5 killed, 26 wounded; Confed., 57 captured. May 5, 1864: Dunn's Bayou, Red River, La. Union, 56th Ohio, gunboats Signal, Covington, androoklyn, Juniata, Mohican, Shenandoah, Ticonderoga, Tuscarora; Screw Gun-Vessels: Kansas, Maumee, Nyack, Pequot, Yantic; Screw Gun-Boats: Chippewa, Huron, Seneca, Unadilla; Double-Enders: Iosco, Mackinaw, Maratanza, Osceola, Pawtuxet, Pontoosuc, Sassacus, Tacony; Miscellaneous Vessels: Fort Jackson, Monticello, Nereus, Quaker City, Rhode Island, Santiago de Cuba, Vanderbilt; Powder Vessel: Louisiana; Reserve: A. D. Vance,Alabama, Britannia, Cherokee, Emma, Gettysburg, Governor Buckingham, Howqua
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pequod War, the (search)
t Bay to Hudson River, and over Long Island. Sassacus, their emreror, ruled over twenty-six native n be strengthened and endanger his dominions, Sassacus determined in 1636 to exterminate the white pConnecticut Valley capable of bearing arms. Sassacus undertook the task alone. First his people k by many Narragansets and Niantics, and while Sassacus was dreaming of the flight of the Europeans mhed the foot of the hill on which the fort of Sassacus stood—a circular structure strongly palisadcolumns. The Indian allies grew fearful, for Sassacus was regarded as all but a god. Uncas was firod souls were brought down to hell that day. Sassacus was not there; he was at another fort near the Thames, opposite the site of New London. Sassacus sat stately and sullen when told of the massacrthey all surrendered to the English excepting Sassacus and a few followers, who escaped. A nation hd in Kent, Conn., about 1860, aged 100 years. Sassacus took refuge with the Mohawks, who, at the req
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