Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War at the Second Session, Thirty-eighth Congress: Red River Expedition [with Minority report, by D.W. Gooch] Fort Fisher Expedition. Heavy ordnanceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1865 - Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 |
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19th army corps 19th corps A. J. Smith Admiral Porter advance Alexandria Answer April Arkansas arrived artillery assault Atchafalaya attack battery battle Beaufort boats brigade Butler Captain captured cavalry co-operate Colonel cotton Dahlgren gun December despatch division Eastport enemy enemy's expedition explosion fire Fisher FLAG-SHIP fleet force Fort Fisher Fortress Monroe Franklin Galveston garrison General-in-Chief Grand Ecore Grant gunboats H. A. WISE H. W. HALLECK infantry January January 23 land Lieutenant Commander Louisiana Major miles military Mississippi morning move movement N. P. BANKS Natchitoches naval navy night North Atlantic Squadron o'clock obedient servant officers operations ordnance Orleans Parrott Pleasant Hill Port Hudson position powder powder-boat Question re-enforcements rear Rear-Admiral rebel received Red river regiment respectfully rifled guns Rodman gun sent shell Sherman Shreveport skirmishers Steele Texas train transports troops vessels wagons Washington Weitzel
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Page 115 - I have the honor to be, with much respect, your obedient servant, "JC FREMONT, "Lieut. Colonel, Mounted Riflemen. "Brigadier-General SW KEARNEY, Commanding, &c.
Page 265 - The work was commenced by running out from the left bank of the river a tree dam, made of the bodies of very large trees, brush, brick, and stone, cross-tied with other heavy timber, and strengthened in every way which ingenuity could devise. This was run out about three hundred feet into the river; four large coal-barges were then filled with brick and sunk at the end of it.
Page 266 - Bailey. This is, without doubt, the best engineering feat ever performed. Under the best circumstances, a private company would not have completed this work under one year, and to an ordinary mind the whole thing would have appeared an utter impossibility.
Page 10 - Fort Fisher and the batteries guarding the entrance to the river, then the troops should intrench themselves, and, by co-operating with the navy, effect the reduction and capture of those places.
Page xxxix - Eastport until she was safe within our lines, or blown up, to prevent her falling into the hands of the enemy. On two occasions I had given the commander preparatory instructions relative to her destruction, thinking her time had come ; but, still hopeful and persistent, he stuck to the work, and deserved to have met with greater success. Every effort was made to get the Eastport off from what proved to be...
Page 266 - By 3 o'clock that afternoon, the vessels were all coaled, ammunition replaced, and all steamed down the river with the convoy of transports in company. A good deal of difficulty was anticipated in getting over the bars in lower Red River — depth of water reported only five feet ; gunboats were drawing six.
Page 274 - Black rivers, destroying bridges and stores, and endeavoring to destroy 8,000 cattle collected at Sicily island. The Mississippi river is very quiet, and the rebels retreated into the interior on hearing of the advance of the gunboats. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, DAVID D. PORTER, Rear-Admiral. Hon. GIDEON WELLES, * Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC CAPTURE OF SIMMSPORT AND FORT DE RUSSY.
Page 266 - More, he has deprived the enemy of a triumph which would have emboldened them to carry on this war a year or two longer; for the intended departure of the army was a fixed fact, and there was nothing left for me to do, in case that event occurred, but to destroy every part of the vessels, so that the rebels could make nothing of them.
Page 265 - ... brick, and stone, crosstied with other heavy timber, and strengthened in every way which ingenuity could devise. This was run out about three hundred feet into the river ; four large coal barges were then filled with brick and sunk at the end of it. From the right bank of the river cribs filled with stone were built out to meet the barges.
Page 265 - I jumped on a horse and rode up to where the upper vessels were anchored and ordered the Lexington to pass the upper falls, if possible, and immediately attempt to go through the dam.