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Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 12
steam, the second in tow. Other puffs of smoke, other sharp reports from the gunboats, but the Virginia goes on steadily, silently to do her work. Now the in-shore frigate, the Cumberland, fires, now the Virginia close aboard, now Sewell's Point battery, now the Minnesota, now the Roanoke, now the air trembles with the cannonade. Now the Virginia delivers both broadsides, now she runs full against the Cumberland's starboard bow, now the smoke clears away and she appears to be heading up James river. This at 22 minutes to 2. The Congress now lets fall fore-topsail and then the main, and so, with a tug alongside, starts down the North channel, where the Minnesota has grounded, and presently runs plump ashore. Meanwhile the Virginia opens upon the Yankee fort; slowly she steams back, and the Cumberland, sunk now to her white streak, opens upon her again A gallant man fought that ship — a man worthy to have maintained a better cause. Gun after gun he fired; lower and lower sunk his
Pig Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 12
sed through one of her boilers, disabling it. She was compelled to haul off temporarily for repairs. There were four men killed and three wounded on board of her. Other damage not material. On board the gunboat Raleigh, Midshipman Hutter was killed. Prises. Several small prises were said to have been taken by our gunboats from the Yankees, one of which, the schooner Reindeer, was brought up to the Navy-Yard on Saturday night. Two others were said to have been carried over to Pig Point on Saturday. The battle on Sunday. Some detention occurred on board the Virginia on Sunday morning, we learn, or she would have commenced the engagement much earlier than 8½ o'clock; at which time she, together with the Patrick Henry and Jamestown, and our other gunboats, opened fice on the Minnesota, which still lies hard and fast aground. The tide being at the ebb, the Virginia did not take the channel where the Minnesota lay probably for fear of grounding, but getting within a
Beaufort, S. C. (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): article 12
ictory.full particulars. departure of the fleet — the enemy surprised — terrible cannonade — the Cumberland and Congress Destroyed — Incidents of the fight, &c., &c. We copy from the Norfolk Day Book, of yesterday, the subjoined graphic description of the great Naval battle on the 8th and 9th of March: On the morning of the 8th, the steam frigate Virginia, Flag Officer Franklin Buchanan, Commanding, left her moorings at the Dock-Yard, and, attended by the steam-tugs "Beaufort," Lieut. Commanding Parker, and the "Raleigh," Lieut. Commanding Alexander, steamed down the harbor. It was a gallant sight to see the iron-clad Leviathan gliding noiselessly through the water, flying the red pennon of her commander at the fore flag-staff, and the gay Confederate ensign after. Not the least impressive thought which she suggested, was that her gallant crew, under a commander and officers worthy to direct their destiny and defend the flag she bore, went thus boldly
Roanoke Island (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): article 12
d goes down on her beam ends, at once a monument and an epitaph of the gallant men who fought her. The Virginia stops. Is she aground? And the gunboats? Raleigh and Beaufort! glorious Parker! glorious Alexander! there they are on the quarters of the Congress hammering away, and creeping up closer and closer all the time. At ten minutes to 4 the Congress struck. Parker hauled down the ensign, run up his own battle flag in its place; there the heroic Taylor, who fought the Fanny at Roanoke Island and Elizabeth City, got his wound — there the gallant young Hutter fell, all shot by the dastards who fired from the ship and shore when the white flag was flying at the main and mizzen of the Congress! Here, too, and in the same way, Flag-Officer Buchanan, and Flag-Lieut. R Minor were wounded. Now, the James River gunboats, whose dark smoke had been seen against the blue distance ever since 8 o'clock, came dashing along past the shore batteries. Tucker, the courtly and chivalrous
Sewell's Point (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 12
re the questions we discussed as we steamed across the flats to the south of the frigate, with the two gallant little gunboats well on our starboard beam heading up for the enemy. Our doubts were solved by the heavy boom of a gun from beyond Sewall's Point. The reverberation rolled across the sun-lit water and died away, but still the clothes hung in the rigging, still the boats lay at the booms. Another gun, (twenty minutes past one,) broke on the air, and a tug started from Newport News, whengagement was going on between the two frigates and the Virginia, the enemy's steam frigate Minnesota put out from Old Point to their assistance. She laid well ever towards Newport News, but not entirely out of the range of our batteries on Sewell's Point, which opened on her, with what effect we are unable to say, but she replied to them without any damage whatever. The Minnesota got aground when within a mile or two of Newport News Point. There she stuck, unable to get off, while the Confe
Hampton (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 12
he frigate, with the two gallant little gunboats well on our starboard beam heading up for the enemy. Our doubts were solved by the heavy boom of a gun from beyond Sewall's Point. The reverberation rolled across the sun-lit water and died away, but still the clothes hung in the rigging, still the boats lay at the booms. Another gun, (twenty minutes past one,) broke on the air, and a tug started from Newport News, while at the same time two others left Old Point, taking the channel inside Hampton bar. Steadily, with a grim and ominous silence, the Virginia glides through the water, steadily and with defiant valor the Beaufort and Raleigh followed where she led. At ten minutes to two, a rifle gun from one of these little vessels rang out, then a white puff from her consort. Still the clothes in the rigging, still the boats at the boom? Was this confidence? It could not be ignorance. Did it mean torpedoes, submarine batteries, infernal machines? The gunboats have fired again, and
Old Point (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): article 12
twenty minutes past one,) broke on the air, and a tug started from Newport News, while at the same time two others left Old Point, taking the channel inside Hampton bar. Steadily, with a grim and ominous silence, the Virginia glides through the watethe engagement was going on between the two frigates and the Virginia, the enemy's steam frigate Minnesota put out from Old Point to their assistance. She laid well ever towards Newport News, but not entirely out of the range of our batteries on Sehe assistance of the Minnesota, and she also got aground, and a steam frigate, supposed to be the Roanoke, put off from Old Point with the same intention, it is supposed: but seeing the sad havoc which the Virginia was playing with the Federal vessels, she put back to Old Point. Casualties. The Virginia had two men killed and some five or six wounded. A shot entered the porthole and struck the gun on the mixable, knocking off a piece nine inches long..This disabled the gun, which was
Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): article 12
Virginia glides through the water, steadily and with defiant valor the Beaufort and Raleigh followed where she led. At ten minutes to two, a rifle gun from one of these little vessels rang out, then a white puff from her consort. Still the clothes in the rigging, still the boats at the boom? Was this confidence? It could not be ignorance. Did it mean torpedoes, submarine batteries, infernal machines? The gunboats have fired again, and led here away to the eastward were the Roanoke and Minnesota rising like prodigious castles above the placid water, the first under steam, the second in tow. Other puffs of smoke, other sharp reports from the gunboats, but the Virginia goes on steadily, silently to do her work. Now the in-shore frigate, the Cumberland, fires, now the Virginia close aboard, now Sewell's Point battery, now the Minnesota, now the Roanoke, now the air trembles with the cannonade. Now the Virginia delivers both broadsides, now she runs full against the Cumberland's sta
Beaufort, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): article 12
sunk now to her white streak, opens upon her again A gallant man fought that ship — a man worthy to have maintained a better cause. Gun after gun he fired; lower and lower sunk his ship; his last discharge comes from his pivot gun, the ship lurches to starboard, now to port, his flag streams out wildly, and now the Cumberland goes down on her beam ends, at once a monument and an epitaph of the gallant men who fought her. The Virginia stops. Is she aground? And the gunboats? Raleigh and Beaufort! glorious Parker! glorious Alexander! there they are on the quarters of the Congress hammering away, and creeping up closer and closer all the time. At ten minutes to 4 the Congress struck. Parker hauled down the ensign, run up his own battle flag in its place; there the heroic Taylor, who fought the Fanny at Roanoke Island and Elizabeth City, got his wound — there the gallant young Hutter fell, all shot by the dastards who fired from the ship and shore when the white flag was flying a
Larkin Smith (search for this): article 12
nnie muskets, fired into her, and killed several of their own men and slightly wounded in the arm Mr. John Hopkins, one of our plicts, attached to the Beaufort. While the Virginia was engaged with the Congress, with her how gun she poured broadside after broadside into the shore batteries of the enemy at Newport News. One discharge from the bow-gun of the Virginia, says of the priestess, capsized two of the guns of the Congress, willing of her crow and taking off the head of a Lieut. Smith, and literally tore the ship to pieces. The Minnesota and it Lawrence come up. While the engagement was going on between the two frigates and the Virginia, the enemy's steam frigate Minnesota put out from Old Point to their assistance. She laid well ever towards Newport News, but not entirely out of the range of our batteries on Sewell's Point, which opened on her, with what effect we are unable to say, but she replied to them without any damage whatever. The Minnesota got agr
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