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Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: condition of the Navy at the beginning of the war. (search)
violence to the Government, found themselves, rather unwittingly than venally, in the toils of the enemy. These conditions prevailed at Washington and Southward, both in the army and the navy. Those officers who were deemed most likely to be influenced to suit the ends of the conspirators, had been placed, as said before, within favoring districts. On the 4th of March, 1861, Isaac Toucey of Connecticut, who had been Secretary of the Navy for the four previous years, was succeeded by Gideon Welles, of the same State. He remained in that position for the eight years following. At that date the chiefs of Bureaus were as follows: Of Yards and Docks, Captain Joseph Smith; of Construction, John Lenthal; of Provisions and Clothing, Horatio Bridge; of Ordnance and Hydrography, Captain George W. Magruder; of Medicine, Surgeon William Whelan. These officers had been incumbents for years, and remained throughout the Civil War, with the exception of Captain Magruder, a Virginian, who rem
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: naval attack on Charleston. (search)
ained him, such as no loss of life, had it occurred, would have done. On the evening of the attack the flag-officer received a letter, as follows: Confidential. Navy Department, April 2, 1863. Sir—The exigencies of the public service are so pressing in the Gulf that the Department directs you to send all the ironclads that are in a fit condition to move, after your present attack upon Charleston, directly to New Orleans, reserving to yourself only two. Very respectfully, Gideon Welles. Of the same date is the following unofficial letter from the Assistant Secretary of the Navy: Matters are at a standstill on the Mississippi River, and the President was with difficulty restrained from sending off Hunter and all the ironclads directly to New Orleans, the opening of the Mississippi being the principal object to be obtained. It is, however, arranged, as you will see by to-day's order, that you are to send all the ironclads that survive the attack upon Charleston imme
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Index. (search)
Wamsutta, the, 64 Wando, the, 156 Wassaw Sound, demonstration in, 46 et seq. Washington, D. C., menaced by Confederates, 4 Wassaw Sound, 117 et seq., 157 Water Witch, the, U. S. vessel, 71, 146, 149 Watmough, Lieutenant-Commanding Paul G., 81 Weber, Colonel, 165 Weed, the, U. S. transport, 148 Weehawken, the, 90 et seq., 109, 114, 117 et seq., 125, 127 et seq., 130, 133 et seq., 137; sunk, 141 et seq. Weitzel, General, at Fort Fisher, 223 et seq. Welles, Gideon, Secretary of Navy, 3, 104 et seq. Welles, Master F. S., 177, 201 et seq. (note) Werden, Lieutenant-Commanding, Reed, 177 et seq., 189 Wescott, Master's Mate, 231 Wessels, General, 201, 203 West, Captain, John, 179 Western World, the, 46 Whelan, Surgeon, William, Chief of Medicine Bureau, 3 Whitehall, the. 176 Whitehead, the, 177, 181, 183 et seq., 186, 188, 194, 201, 204, 207, 200 et seq. Whiting, Lieutenant-Commander W. D., 128 Whiting, Major-Gen