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Fort Pillow (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
to get under arms, when, at early dawn on the 15th, Pillow's eight thousand men rushed in close column upon hittack, Colonel Baldwin, who commanded the first of Pillow's brigades, had one of those inspirations which somions defended by scarcely seven or eight thousand. Pillow, who had followed the inspiration of Baldwin, outnup they had opened, were quickly dispelled. Indeed, Pillow had exhausted his strength in the fortunate attack was the decisive moment. Buckner was repulsed, and Pillow, being no longer sustained, found it impossible to wo o'clock, after a conflict of eight hours, he saw Pillow's soldiers pause on the ground they had conquered, ed the command of which he made such miserable use. Pillow, who succeeded him by right of seniority, insisted the sad fate of being made prisoners of war. Floyd, Pillow, and a large number of staff-officers had already cable importance—Forts Wright, Randolph, Harris, and Pillow—which had been erected under the superintendence of
Tennys Creek (Oregon, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
in the mountains, a Federal brigade, under Colonel Garfield, was sent to dislodge him. Garfield occupied George Creek, on the West Big Sandy, where he could obtain his supplies by water. He started, on the 7th of January, with two thousand infantry, four hundred horses, and a few field-pieces, and carrying three days provisions. On being informed of his approach, Humphrey Marshall abandoned Paintsville and fell back upon Prestonburg, leaving a few hundred men to cover his retreat upon Tenny's Creek, which could be easily defended. The Federal cavalry, and a few companies of infantry that accompanied it, encountered this rear-guard of the enemy on the 7th of January, and attacked it without waiting for the remainder of the troops; the Confederates were put to flight after losing a few of their men. Being obliged to replenish his supplytrain before going farther, Garfield took the Prestonburg road on the 9th of January with about one thousand five hundred men. On the following morni
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
ned to meet him again for a long time to come. Indeed, so far from intending to go in pursuit of that enemy, it was also about to fall back. The battle of Pea Ridge had greatly weakened the small army of Curtis; and having no expectation of receiving the necessary reinforcements to maintain himself so far within an enemy's country, that general withdrew into the southern counties of Missouri; he established himself there without having to fight any more battles but a trifling engagement at Salem, on the Arkansas frontier, where, on the 18th of March, his cavalry obtained some advantage over a party of Confederates. This new campaign, although more bloody, terminated like those which had preceded it, and could exercise no decisive influence over the ensemble of military operations collectively. It may be said that there is just as much difference between the modes of waging war in countries already civilized, and these campaigns of which the far West was the theatre, as there is be
Sebastopol (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
he vessel he had looked upon as his master-piece, and the Swede Ericsson, who had long been a naturalized citizen of the United States, where he had already become celebrated for his construction of the Princeton, the first war-ship provided with a screw-propeller, and by important improvements in steam machinery. This invention, now familiar to everybody, is that of vessels with revolving turrets, which Ericsson had submitted to the French government as early as 1854, during the siege of Sebastopol. He was aware that, in order to solve so novel a problem, it would be necessary to discard all traditions regarding naval architecture, to abandon the system of high-decked ships, as the engineers of the sixteenth century had given up the castellated forts of the Middle Ages for the low profiles of modern fortifications; then the necessity of encasing the sides of vessels with heavy iron armor introduced a complete change in the conditions of the equilibrium which establish their water-li
Elizabeth City (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
f Roanoke, the key of the inland sea, with all its works, together with about twenty cannon and more than two thousand prisoners, fell into the hands of Burnside. The fruits of this victory were promptly and easily gathered. Two days after, Elizabeth City, the most important town in that part of the country, with the abandoned hulls of Lynch's fleet, fell into the power of the Federal navy after a brief engagement. In a few days the latter acquired absolute control of the whole coast of Albemto the nature of the ground, a few regiments were sufficient to invest it. The rest of the troops were occupied, for the most part, in serving as garrisons, small but numerous. Reno's brigade, being available, was sent by Burnside to land at Elizabeth City, on the north, whence it was to make a demonstration against Norforlk which should prevent the enemy from attempting a diversion to save Fort Macon. On the 19th of April Reno met a small body of Confederate troops, accompanied by a few guns,
Aquia Creek (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
nd strong, with three hundred cannon. The exaggerations emanating from this source contributed to a great extent, perhaps, in rendering General McClellan excessively cautious. The Confederates had constructed a considerable number of fortifications along the line of Bull Run and the Manassas plateau, but they had not armed them with heavy cannon, which proved that the leaders contemplated their abandonment. But on the right bank of the Lower Potomac, from the mouth of the Occoquan to Acquia Creek, they had erected batteries, which were mounted with the most powerful guns at their disposal. The navigation of the Potomac, therefore, as we have stated, had been interrupted by these batteries, and the injurious effects of this interruption were beginning to be sensibly felt in Washington. This blockade soon became the principal complaint against General McClellan, and its removal formed a conspicuous feature in all the programmes of operations devised at that period. The chiefs o
Randolphs (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
y raised. A complete success had crowned their ingenious efforts and their perseverance; the Mississippi was open for more than eighty miles in a straight line, and for nearly twice that distance, following its sinuosities, across the low and marshy grounds, where no fortified works could be erected, as far as the first bluffs, like those of Columbus, which are found a little above the city of Memphis. These bluffs were covered with several works of considerable importance—Forts Wright, Randolph, Harris, and Pillow—which had been erected under the superintendence of Beauregard at the very time when Island No.10 was being evacuated. These forts protected not only the approaches of Memphis, but were intended to cover the left wing of the army assembled at Corinth; and their fate was inseparably connected with that of this position, as Columbus had been before with that of Bowling Green. The intersection of the two principal Southern railways had designated Corinth as the point of
Newcastle (Texas, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
the battle of Wilson's Creek, of great importance in those primitive regions, although in a wretched condition, was in prolongation of the railway. It passed through Springfield, descended into Arkansas, and after crossing the Ozark Mountains near Bentonville, reached Fort Smith, on the great Arkansas River. Beyond this last station the habitations and cultivated lands which the facilities of communication had developed along the road became more and more rare; at last, on leaving Fort Belknap, in Texas, the mail-carrier had no other guide than a small compass to direct him in finding out the stages marked by the whitened bones of the Anglo-Saxon emigrant or the Mexican adventurer. The two adversaries, one resting upon St. Louis, the other on the State of Arkansas, had to meet on this road whenever the aim of their campaigns was the possession of Missouri. Hostilities commenced west of the Mississippi about the same time as on the banks of the Tennessee. Hunter, after supersedi
Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
land, and the two steam frigates Roanoke and Minnesota, sisters of the Merrimac. But the Roanoke, wWhile the Roanoke, the St. Lawrence, and the Minnesota were proceeding towards Newport News, and thad lost all hope of assistance on seeing the Minnesota stranded in the distance upon a sand-bank, aat once in search of another adversary. The Minnesota seemed to offer them a new and easy success.raught of water, took position nearer to the Minnesota, and commenced cannonading her with their riely uncertain. Only one missile reached the Minnesota; another struck the St. Lawrence: it was theth troops destined to take possession of the Minnesota as soon as the guns of that vessel should hato hide himself behind the large hull of the Minnesota, in order to fall suddenly upon the Virginia sides was fully justified. The crew of the Minnesota beheld with admiring wonder the enormous bal in every direction; some of them strike the Minnesota; another bursts the boiler of a steam-tug fa[1 more...]
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 7
towards the end of the year. The second, under General Grant, guarded the Mississippi and the mouth of the Tennessee at Cairo and Paducah. The third, under General Buell, operated in Kentucky, with its centre near Elizabethtown. The first two we ready for use at the end of January. They formed, including three steamers not iron clad, the naval division which left Cairo on the 2d of February, under the command of Commodore Foote, at the same time as the vessels with Grant's troops. On tls on their side collected all their forces in order to strike a decisive blow. All the available troops to be found at Cairo, Paducah, and St. Louis were hurried on transports for the purpose of joining Grant, while several regiments from the fard himself under the necessity of undertaking a regular siege. While waiting for the heavy guns which he had ordered from Cairo, and which were to be landed above Island No.10, he sent a portion of his troops, with his field-batteries, to occupy Poi
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