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Pamlico (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
on picket duty at Bacheller's Creek and Evans's Mills. On the 17th, the regiment, with other forces, marched on Trenton; and afterwards was ordered to Rocky Run to relieve the Twenty-fifth Regiment. April 7.—It joined an expedition under Brigadier-General Spinola, for the relief of Little Washington. It came up with the enemy at Blount's Creek. After a short artillery duel,—the regiment supporting a battery,—it was ordered to retreat. April 11.—It proceeded to the blockade, on Pamlico River, on a call for volunteers to man three schooners loaded with provisions and ammunition, to run the blockade; thirty men of this regiment were selected. They succeeded in doing it; were highly complimented for their skill and bravery by the commanding general. One man wounded. During April, the regiment was detailed for garrison and picket duty at Little Washington, and was afterwards ordered to Newbern, where it remained until June 24, during which time heavy details were made from
Pollock (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ent into quarters in the unfinished barracks on the south side of Trent River. It was assigned to the brigade commanded by Colonel T. J. C. Amory, and, Dec. 11, took part in the expedition to Goldsborough. Dec. 30.—Company G was detached to perform outpost duty at Brice's Ferry. This post was garrisoned by this company as long as the regiment remained in North Carolina. Jan. 17, 1863.—Seven companies of the regiment marched with a portion of the First Brigade on an expedition to Pollocksville. Having accomplished their object successfully, and having driven back the enemy at White Oak Creek, they returned to Newbern. On the 20th of February, the regiment suffering severely from a steadily increasing sick list, six companies were moved from the barracks to Deep Gully, as a sanitary measure; but, the shelter tents proving quite insufficient for the comfort of the men suffering from malaria, they returned in a week to the barracks. On the 1st of March, Colonel Sprague, wi
Memphis (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
r coast defence, at the city of Salem; and it may be a convenience for them to have official authority to occupy the pile of old bricks there, which is called Fort Pickering, and of which the only tenant at present is a superannuated ordnance-sergeant, who sells beer and lets fishing-rods. At this time there had been nothing done by the Government to place old Fort Pickering in a defensible position. It is on what is called Winter Island, and commands the harbor of Salem. It had no guns, and was precisely in the position named by the Governor. He asked of General Dix authority to station the companies then being raised for coast defence, as the latter. It has seven 32-pounder guns with casemate carriages. Fort Lee, at Salem, is almost finished. Four 8-inch Columbiads will be mounted there this month. Forts Pickering (Salem) and Sewell (Marblehead) will not be ready for their armament for several weeks. It is not likely that any thing heavier than 24 or 32-pounders can be
Berkshire (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 9
tions, the regiment had no further active service until its return home. It reached Pittsfield, Mass., Aug. 21, having returned via the Mississippi River, where it was publicly received with much enthusiasm by the citizens of Berkshire County. By special permission of the Governor of the Commonwealth, the colors of the regiment are retained in the county in the keeping of the clerk of the courts. The record of the regiment is an honorable one, and worthy of the revolutionary fame of Berkshire men. The Fiftieth Regiment was in the Department of the Gulf. After various attempts to reach its destination upon unseaworthy transports, it succeeded in arriving at New Orleans in the Jenny Lind and Montebello, Jan. 27, 1863, when the small-pox broke out among a portion of the troops on board not belonging to the Fiftieth; for which reason they were ordered to the quarantine-station, twenty miles below New Orleans. A portion of the regiment suffered somewhat from the epidemic, but n
Folly Island, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
aft should ever have been made in Massachusetts, because the State had more than filled her quotas upon previous calls by voluntary enlistments, and, as will be seen, filled all subsequent calls without resort to a draft, and came out of the war with a surplus of 13,083 men. The second colored regiment (Fifty-fifth) left the State July 21, embarking at Boston in transports for Morehead City, N. C., where it arrived July 25. On the 29th, it was ordered to South Carolina, and arrived at Folly Island, in that State, Aug. 3. There had been some question in regard to the destination of this regiment. It was the wish of the Governor to have it sent to South Carolina, where the Fifty-fourth then was. On July 11, the Governor received from the Secretary of War this despatch:— Various circumstances indicate the necessity of relieving the troops at New Orleans, and substituting for them troops of African descent. This will be done as far as possible by the organization of troops alr
Indian Bend (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
ived at New Orleans in the early part of December, 1862, and during the months of December, 1862, and January and February, 1863, was stationed at Baton Rouge, La. March 13, 1863.—The regiment made a reconnoissance in the direction of Port Hudson, marching up under the guns of the rebel fortifications, a mile and a half in advance of other regiments, in a manner satisfactory to the brigade and division commanders. Having marched with Grover's division to Brashear City, it landed at Indian Bend, on Grand Lake, on the 13th of April; the advance meeting and driving before it a small force of the enemy. Encamped on Madam Porter's plantation. On the 15th, it started in pursuit of the enemy, marching to New Iberia in two days. From the 26th of April to the 21st of May, the regiment was employed at Barre's Landing in collecting and guarding corn, cotton, sugar, and molasses, guarding negroes, and loading and unloading boats at the landing. On the 19th of May, having been rej
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
and of the front; the position was occupied by the New-York One-hundred-and-thirtieth, Massachusetts Seventh Battery, Sixth Massachusetts Infantry. An attack was immediately expected; and from this time onward a continual skirmishing was kept up for twenty-three days, mostly between sharpshooters, gunboats, and artillery, though several times the engagements assumed the proportions of smart battles. On May 4, the enemy fell back from his position, and made a precipitous march towards Fredericksburg; and our forces started in pursuit, capturing several hundred prisoners. During the twenty-three days siege, the regiment was severely taxed, and much exposed; but the singular good fortune that has ever attended it did not fail here: its loss was very slight. May 13.—The regiment started with others towards the Blackwater, for the eighth and last time. Colonel Foster commanded the whole, and Colonel Follansbee commanded Foster's brigade. The object was to protect workmen engaged in
Whitehall (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
oops marched more than one hundred and fifty miles. It participated in the battles of Kinston, Whitehall, and Goldsborough. The regiment was complimented at the last-named battle by its brigade commton. On Dec. 15, the regiment rejoined the main column. On the 16th occurred the battle of Whitehall. After the battle had been raging nearly an hour, Lee's brigade was ordered to the front, and order, directing the regiment to inscribe on its banners the names of the battles of Kinston, Whitehall, and Goldsborough. After Jan. 21, the regiment was employed upon fortifications, upon the cn, but, fortunately, without any injury. Dec. 16.—It was again under fire, at the battle of Whitehall, where it lost one killed, and three or four wounded. Dec. 17.—It was detached from the maiunable to withstand the attack. On the 16th of December, it suffered again at the battle of Whitehall, with a loss of four killed, and sixteen wounded. Among the killed was the gallant Sergeant Pa
Massachusetts Bay (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
is probably the fact, neither the War nor the Navy Department had means at their command to afford the protection which our exposure to attack demanded. They probably did all they could, but all they did was not sufficient for our security. Not only was it regarded as of the utmost importance to have the forts on the coast properly armed and garrisoned, but it was also deemed of the greatest necessity to have iron-clad armed vessels to defend the harbor of Boston, and to cruise in Massachusetts Bay. Colonel William Raymond Lee, who had commanded with distinguished bravery and skill the Twentieth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, and who was brevetted brigadier-general for brave and meritorious services, was forced by ill health, and much against his will, to resign his commission, Dec. 17, 1862; and was commissioned by Governor Andrew chief engineer, with the rank of brigadier-general, Oct. 27, 1863, on the Governor's staff. General Lee was a graduate of West Point, and one
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 9
t was ordered home on the third day of August, arrived at Boston by rail via Cairo, Ill.; at Readville, Sept. 1, was mustered out of service. The regiment lost byus, in light marching order. Aug. 9.—The Forty-eighth started for Boston via Cairo, where it arrived Aug. 23, and was mustered out of service Sept. 3, at Camp Lanhe 29th, when it took passage up the Mississippi on its way home; arrived at Cairo, Ill., Aug. 5, and proceeded by railroad to Boston, and was mustered out of servicit returned to Baton Rouge, and, on the 12th, was ordered to Massachusetts, via Cairo. It arrived at Cairo Aug. 19, and at Fitchburg, Mass., the 24th, where, after Cairo Aug. 19, and at Fitchburg, Mass., the 24th, where, after a public reception, it was furloughed one week, and mustered out of service Sept. 2, by Captain I. R. Lawrence. There was but one light battery raised for the nigiment was the first loyal command which ascended the river from New Orleans to Cairo, at the mouth of the Ohio; thus keeping up the advance record of Massachusetts
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