torpedoes, and it was hoped that all had been found; but,
unfortunately, they had not. On the 28th the Winnebago and Milwaukee
moved up toward Spanish Fort, shelling a transport lying there from a
distance of two miles. As the enemy's works were throwing far over,
they were ordered to return to the rest of the fleet when the
transport moved off. The Milwaukee dropped down with the current,
keeping her head up stream, and had come within two hundred yards of
the fleet when she struck a torpedo, on her port side forty feet from
the stern. She sank abaft in three minutes, but her bow did not fill
for nearly an hour. No one was hurt or drowned by this accident. The
next day, the Winnebago having dragged in a fresh breeze too near the
Osage, the latter weighed and moved a short distance ahead. Just as
she was about to drop her anchor, a torpedo exploded under the bow
and she began to sink, filling almost immediately. Of her crew 5 were
killed and 11 wounded by the explosion, but none were drowned. The
place where this happened had been thoroughly swept and the torpedo
was thought to be one that had gone, or been sent, adrift from above.
The two vessels were in twelve feet water, so that the tops of the
turrets remained in sight. Lieutenant-Commander Gillis, after the loss
of his vessel, took command of a naval battery in the siege and did
good service.
On the 1st of April the light-draught steamer Rodolph, having on board
apparatus for raising the Milwaukee, was coming near the fleet when
she too struck a torpedo, which exploded thirty feet abaft her stem
and caused her to sink rapidly, killing 4 and wounding 11 of the crew.
The siege lasted until the evening of the 8th of April, when Spanish
Fort surrendered. Up to the last the enemy sent down torpedoes, and
that night eighteen were taken from Blakely River. Commander Pierce
Crosby, of the Metacomet, at once began sweeping above, and so
successfully that on the 10th the Octorara and ironclads were able to
move abreast Spanish Fort and shell two earthworks, called Huger and
Tracy, some distance above. These were abandoned on the evening of the
11th, when the fleet took possession. Commander Crosby again went on
with the work of lifting torpedoes, removing in all over one hundred
and fifty. The way being thus cleared, on the 12th Commander Palmer
with the Octorara and ironclads moved up the Blakely to the point
where it branches off from the Tensaw, and down the latter stream,
coming out about a mile from Mobile, within easy shelling distance. At
the same time Admiral Thatcher, with the gunboats and 8,000 troops
under General Granger, crossed the head of the bay to attack the city,
which was immediately given up; the Confederate troops having already
withdrawn. The vessels of the enemy, which had taken little part in
the defence, had gone up the Tombigbee.
The navy at once began to remove the obstructions in the main ship
channel and lift the torpedoes, which were numerous. While doing the
latter duty, two tugs, the Ida and Althea, and a launch of the
ironclad Cincinnati were blown up. By these accidents 8 were killed
and 5 wounded. The gunboat Sciota was also sunk in the same manner on
the 14th of April, the explosion breaking the spar deck beams and
doing much other damage. Her loss was 6 killed and 5 wounded.
The rebellion was now breaking up. Lee had laid down his arms on the
9th, and Johnston on the 24th of April. On the 4th of May General
Richard Taylor surrendered the army in the Department of Alabama and
Mississippi to General Canby; and the same day Commodore Farrand
delivered the vessels under his command in the waters of Alabama to
Admiral Thatcher, the officers and crews being paroled. Sabine Pass
and Galveston, which had never been retaken after their loss early in
1863, were given up on the 25th of May and the 2d of June.
In July, 1865, the East and West Gulf Squadrons were merged into one
under Admiral Thatcher. Reasons of public policy caused this
arrangement to continue until May, 1867, when the attempt of the
French emperor to establish an imperial government in Mexico having
been given up, the Gulf Squadron as a distinct organization ceased to
be. Thus ended the last of the separate fleets which the Civil War had
called into existence. The old cruising ground of the Home Squadron
again became a single command under the name, which it still retains,
of the North Atlantic Squadron.
FOOTNOTES:
[22] Report of the United States Ordnance Officer of Department, dated
October, 1864.
[23] Report of the United States Ordnance Officer of Department, dated
October, 1864.
[24] See Appendix.
[25] Of these guns twelve 32-pounders were at the southwest angle of
the covered way. This is believed by the writer to be the battery known
to the fleet as the lighthouse battery.
[26] 24-pounder smooth-bore guns rifled.
[27] In a paper read in 1868, before the Essayons Club, at Willett's
Point, N.Y., by Captain A.H. Burnham, U.S. Engineers, it is stated that
there were three VII-and VIII-inch rifles in this battery. If this is
correct, they had probably been moved from the barbette of the main
work.
[28] The Richmond, while at Pensacola, built a regular barricade of
sand-bags, extending from the port bow round the starboard side to the
port quarter, and from the berth to the spar-dock. Three thousand bags
of sand were used for this defence which was in places several feet
thick.
[29] For particulars of batteries, see Appendix.
[30] Sixty pounds; one hundred pounds have since been used in these
guns.
[31] The evidence for this singular and striking incident is, both in
quality and quantity, such as puts the fact beyond doubt. The same
sounds were heard on board the Richmond. The tin torpedoes were poorly
lacquered and corroded rapidly under the sea-water. There is good
reason to believe that those which sunk the Tecumseh had been planted
but two or three days before. A story recently current in the South,
that she was sunk by a torpedo carried at her own bow, is wholly
without foundation.
[32] Farragut was in the port main rigging of the Hartford, Jouett on
the starboard wheel-house of his ship, so that there were but a few
feet between them.
[33] This was told the writer by the officer himself.
[34] Commander Stevens had given up the command of the Oneida at the
request and in favor of Commander Mullany, whose own ship was not
fitted for such an engagement, and who had heretofore been less
fortunate than his friend in having opportunities for distinction
thrown in his way by the war. Stevens, being an old ironclad captain,
took the command of the Winnebago, which was vacant.
[35] This was said in the hearing of Lieutenant-Commander (now Captain)
Kimberley, the executive officer of the Hartford. Commodore Foxhall A.
Parker (Battle of Mobile Bay) mentions that Farragut had written in a
note-book after the engagement: "Had Buchanan remained under the fort,
I should have attacked him _as soon as it became dark_ with the three
monitors." The statements are easily reconciled, the latter
representing the second thought.
[36] Lieutenant-Commander Perkins and the executive officer of the
Chickasaw, Volunteer Lieutenant William Hamilton, were going North from
other ships on leave of absence, the latter on sick leave, but had
offered their services for the battle. The fire of the Chickasaw was
the most damaging to the Tennessee. In her engagement with the ram she
fired fifty-two XI-inch solid shot, almost all into the stern, where
the greatest injury was done. The Metacomet went to Pensacola that
night under a flag of truce with the wounded from the fleet and the
Tennessee, and was taken out by the pilot of the latter. He asked
Captain Jouett who commanded the monitor that got under the ram's
stern, adding: "D----n him! he stuck to us like a leech; we could not
get away from him. It was he who cut away the steering gear, jammed the
stern port shutters, and wounded Admiral Buchanan."
[37] It is not easy to fix the exact times of particular occurrences
from the notes taken in the heat of action by different observers, with
watches not necessarily running together; yet a certain measure of
duration of the exciting events between 7 and 10 A.M. in this battle
seems desirable. From a careful comparison of the logs and reports the
following table of times has been compiled:
Fort Morgan opened 7.07 A.M.
Brooklyn opened with bow guns 7.10 A.M.
Fleet generally with bow guns 7.15 A.M.
Fleet generally with broadside guns 7.30-7.50 A.M.
Tecumseh sunk 7.45 A.M.
Hartford took the lead 7.52 A.M.
Hartford casts off Metacomet 8.05 A.M.
At this time the rest of the fleet were about a mile astern of the
flag-ship, crossing the lines of torpedoes, and the Tennessee turned to
attack them.
Tennessee passed rear ship (Oneida) 8.20 A.M.
Hartford anchored 8.35 A.M.
Tennessee sighted coming up 8.50 A.M.
Monongahela rammed 9.25 A.M.
Lackawanna rammed 9.30 A.M.
Hartford 9.35 A.M.
Tennessee surrendered 10.00 A.M.
[38]
Killed. Wounded.
Hartford 25 28
Brooklyn 11 43
Lackawanna 4 35
Oneida 8 30
Monongahela 0 6
Metacomet 1 2
Ossipee 1 7
Richmond 0 2
Galena 0 1
Octorara 1 10
Kennebec 1 6
[39] The Tensaw branches off from the Alabama thirty miles up, and the
whole really forms a bayou, or delta, system.
APPENDIX.
BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF VESSELS AT NEW ORLEANS, APRIL, 1862.
-------------------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
|XI- |X- |IX- |VIII-|32- |100-|80- |50- |30- |20- |
|in. |in. |in. |in. |pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|
NAMES | sm.-bore. | rifled. |
-------------------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
Hartford | | | 22 | | | | | | | 2 |
Brooklyn | | | 20 | | | | 1 | | 1 | |
Richmond | | | 22 | | | | 1 | | 1 | |
Pensacola | 1 | | 20 | | | 1 | 1 | | | |
Mississippi | | 1 | | 15 | | | | | | 1 |
Oneida | 2 | | | | 4 | | | | 3 | |
Iroquois | 2 | | | | 4 | | | 1 | | |
Varuna | | | | 8 | | | | | 2 | |
Cayuga[40] | 1 | | | | | | | | 1 | |
Clifton | | | 2 | | 4 | | | | 1 | |
Jackson[41] | | 1 | 1 | | 4 | | | | | |
Westfield | | | 1 | 4 | | 1 | | | | |
Harriet Lane | | | 3 | | | | | | | |
Miami | | | 2 | | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | |
-------------------+----+----+----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF VESSELS[42] AT PORT HUDSON, MARCH,
1863.
-------------------+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+
| XI- | X- | IX- | 32- | 150- | 100- | 30- |
| in. | in. | in. | pdr. | pdr. | pdr. | pdr. |
NAMES | smooth-bore. | rifled. |
-------------------+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+
Monongahela | 2 | | | 5 | 1 | | |
Genesee | | 1 | 4 | | | 2 | |
Albatross | | | | 4 | | | 1 |
-------------------+-----+-----+-----+------+------+------+------+
BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF VESSELS AT MOBILE, AUGUST, 1864.
---------------+----+----+----+----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
|XV- |XI- |X- |IX- |32- |150-|100-|60- |50- |30- |20- |
|in. |in. |in. |in. |pdr. |pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|
NAMES | sm.-bore. | rifled. |
---------------+----+----+----+----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
Tecumseh | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
Manhattan | 2 | | | | | | | | | | |
Winnebago | | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
Chickasaw | | 4 | | | | | | | | | |
Hartford | | | | 18 | | | 2 | | | 1 | |
Brooklyn | | | | 20 | | | 2 | 2 | | | |
Richmond | | | | 18 | | | 1 | | | 1 | |
Lackawanna | | 2 | | 4 | | 1 | | | 1 | | |
Monongahela | | 2 | | | 5 | 1 | | | | | |
Ossipee | | 1 | | | 6 | | 1 | | | 3 | |
Oneida | | 2 | | | 4 | | | | | 3 | |
Galena | | | | 8 | | | 1 | | | 1 | |
Seminole | | 1 | | | 6 | | | | | 1 | |
Port Royal | | | 1 | 2 | | | 1 | | 2 | | |
Metacomet | | | | 4 | | | 2 | | | | |
Octorara | | | | 3 | 2 | | 1 | | | | |
Itasca | | 1 | | | 2 | | | | | | 2 |
Kennebec | | 1 | | | 2 | | | | | | 2 |
---------------+----+----+----+----+-----+----+----+----+----+----+----+
BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON, AUGUST[43], 1862.
-------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
| | | | | Army | | |
| | | | | 42's | | |
| X- | IX- | VIII-| 32- | 70- | 50- | 30- |
| in. | in. | in. | pdr. | pdr. | pdr. | pdr. |
NAMES | smooth-bore. | rifled. |
-------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
Benton | | 2 | | 8 | 4 | 2 | |
Cairo | | | 3 | 6 | 3 | | 1 |
Carondelet | | | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Cincinnati | | | 3 | 6 | 2 | | 2 |
Louisville | | | 3 | 6 | 2 | | 2 |
Mound City | | | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Pittsburg | | | 3 | 6 | 2 | | 2 |
St. Louis | | | 3 | 6 | 2 | | 2 |
Essex* | 1 | 3 | | 1 | | 2 | |
Conestoga | | | | 4 | | | |
Lexington | | | 4 | 1 | | | 2 |
Tyler | | | 6 | | | | 3 |
Eastport* | | | | 4 | | 2 | 2 |
Gen. Bragg* | | | | 1 | | | 1 |
Sumter* | | | | 2 | | | |
Price* | | | | | | | |
Little Rebel | | | | | | | 1 |
-------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+------+
* Rams.
BATTERIES (EXCEPT HOWITZERS) OF MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON, JANUARY, 1863.
---------------+----+----+-----+-------+-----+----+----+----+----+----+
| | | | |32- | | | | | |
|XI- |IX- |VIII-|42- |pdr. |100-|80- |50- |30- |20- |
|in. |in. |in. |pdr. |sm.- |pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|pdr.|
NAMES | sm.-bore. |rifled.|bore.| rifled. |
---------------+----+----+-----+-------+-----+----+----+----+----+----+
Benton | | 8 | | | 4 | 2 | | 2 | | |
Cairo | | | 3 | 1 | 6 | | | | 1 | |
Carondelet | | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | | | 1 | 1 | |
Cincinnati | | 3 | 2 | | 6 | | | | 2 | |
De Kalb[44] | | | 4 | | 12 | | | | | 2 |
Louisville | | 2 | 2 | | 6 | | | | 2 | |
Mound City | | 3 | 3 | | 3 | | 2 | | 3 | |
Pittsburg | | 2 | 3 | | 6 | | | | 2 | |
Tuscumbia | 3 | | | | | 2 | | | | |
Indianola | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | | |
Choctaw | | 3 | | | | 1 | | | 2 | |
Lafayette | 2 | 4 | | | | 2 | | | | |
Chillicothe | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
Black Hawk | | | | | 4 | | | | 2 | |
---------------+----+----+-----+-------+-----+----+----+----+----+----+
RETURNS OF THE ARMAMENT OF FORT MORGAN, MOBILE HARBOR.
-----------------------------+--------+--------+-----------+-------------
| | |Confederate| Report of
|January,|January,| return, |U.S. Ordnance
| 1863. | 1864. | January, | Officer,
| | | 1864. | October,
| | | | 1864.
-----------------------------+--------+--------+-----------+-------------
X-inch Columbiad | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7
VIII-inch Columbiad | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3[44]
32-pounder smooth-bore | 30 | 18 | 16 | 11
24-pounder smooth-bore | 4 | | 4 |
VIII-inch rifle | | 2 | 2 | 2
VII-inch rifle | 1 | | | 2
6.5-inch rifle | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7
5.82-inch rifle | | 4 | 3 |
30-pounder rifle, R.P.P. | 1 | | | 1
24-pounder rifle (Dahlgren) | | | | 1
Whitworth (calibre 2.71) | 1 | | | 1
-- Rifles (calibre not given)| 2 | | |
| | | |
WATER BATTERY | | | |
X-inch | 4 }| |{Not |}
VIII-inch | 1 }|Not |{separately|}Not
6.5-inch rifle | 2 }|given. |{given. |}mentioned.
-----------------------------+--------+--------+-----------+------------
The return for January, 1863, is taken from a captured Confederate
plan showing position of the guns at that date, concerning which
Captain M.D. McAlester, U.S. Engineers, says that he found some
changes, but not material, when he inspected the works within a week
after the surrender, and while nothing had yet been disturbed.
January, 1864, is from reports of deserters to officers of United
States fleets verified by reconnoissances from tugs on clear days and
by reports of spies. The indications seem to be that the lighter guns
were partially withdrawn, perhaps for the landward defences of Mobile,
and their place supplied by heavier and rifled guns. The estimate in
the text gives for all the forts one hundred cannon, including flank
howitzers. General Grant's report as Commander-in-Chief, December,
1864, says one hundred and four pieces of artillery were taken; there
were a few field pieces.
FOOTNOTES:
[40] Batteries of Katahdin, Kennebec, Kineo, Owasco, Pinola, Sciota,
Winona, and Wissahickon were the same as of Cayuga. The Itasca had a
X-inch instead of XI-inch.
[41] The Jackson carried also one VI-inch Sawyer rifle.
[42] The other vessels not having been North are assumed to have had
the same batteries as in the preceding April.
[43] The batteries in January, 1862, are given in the text, pp. 16-17.
[44] The De Kalb's battery was changed before the end of the month. See
p. 122.
[45] Two of these are inventoried as "smooth-bore Brooke,
double-banded," which seems unlikely.
* * * * *
INDEX.
Alabama, the, 108
Albatross, the, 134 et seq., 152, 165 et seq.
Alden, Commander James, 54, 134, 136, 229
Alexandria, dam built at, 203 et seq.
Alice Vivian, the, U.S. transport, 197
Althea, the, 249
Apalachicola, Fla., 3
Arkansas Post (Fort Hindman), 120, 161
Arkansas, the, Confederate ram, 98 et seq.;
destruction of, 105, 119
Arizona, the, 164, 166 et seq., 187
Augur, General, 167
Averett, Lieutenant, 35
Bache, Lieutenant George M., 121, 147, 170, 178, 191, 197, 212
Bacon, Lieutenant George B., 68
Bailey, Captain Theodorus, 53, 72, 82, 86 et seq.
Bailey, Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph, builds a dam at Alexandria, 204 et
seq., 207;
promoted to Brigadier-General, 209, 211
Baldwin, Lieutenant Charles H., 56
Banks, General, succeeds Butler in Gulf Department, 109, 139, 153;
toward Alexandria, 164 et seq., 176, 183;
sent to Texas, 185 et seq., 194 et seq.;
on the Red River, 198 et seq., 204;
relieved by Canby, 211
Baron de Kalb, the, see De Kalb.
Batey, the, Confederate steamer, 129, 131
Baton Rouge, La., surrender of, 90, 104 et seq., 109
Batteries: Chalmette, the, 60, 83, 85;
McGehee, the, 60, 85
Beauregard's evacuation of Memphis, 47
Bell, Captain H.H., 54, 66, 77, 187
Belmont, Mo., Union victory at, 19, 21
Bennett, Lieutenant J.W., 220
Benton, the, Union gunboat, 15;
before Island No. 10, 31, 42, 44 et seq., 47 et seq., 51, 103, 107,
116, 123, 155 et seq., 160 et seq., 166, 169 et seq., 191
Black Hawk, the, U.S. steamer, 114, 121, 123, 191
Blake, Lieutenant, 5
Blockade, purpose of, 3 et seq.
Blodgett, Lieutenant, of the Conestoga, 50
Blue Wing, the, U.S. transport, 120, 122
Boggs, Commander Charles S., 54, 82
Bois, Frank, 170
Bowling Green, Ky., 21
Brand, Lieutenant-Colonel, 129, 131
Breckenridge, General, commands an attack on Baton Rouge, 105 et seq.
Breese, Lieutenant-Commander K.R., 163, 168, 191
Brent, Major J.L. (afterward Colonel), 129, 131, 201 (note) et seq.
Brooklyn, U.S. sloop, 53 et seq., 76 et seq., 83, 85, 90, 94 et seq.,
104, 228 et seq., 237, 244 (note)
Brown, Commander Isaac N., 99 et seq.
Brown, Lieutenant-Commander George, of the Indianola, 126, 128 et
seq., 229
Browne, Lieutenant G.W., 191
Bryant, Lieutenant N.C., of the Cairo, 42
Buchanan, Admiral Franklin, 220, 235 et seq., 239 et seq.;
wounded, 242 et seq.
Buchanan, Lieutenant-Commander, 109
Buell, Major-General, 37 et seq.
Burnham, Captain A.H., 220 (note)
Burnside, General, 183
Butler, General B.F., at New Orleans, 85, 87;
succeeded by General Banks in Department of Gulf, 109
Cairo, Ill., 9 et seq.
Cairo, the, Union gunboat, 14, 42, 48, 117
Caldwell, Lieutenant C.H.B., 54, 66 et seq.;
before New Orleans, 72 et seq., 133, 168
Calhoun, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 109, 164
Canal, cut by Pope, 31;
around Vicksburg, 141
Canby, General, commands Department of West Mississippi, 211, 225,
246, 249
Carondelet, the, Union gunboat, 14, 21, 24;
before Donelson, 26 et seq.;
her passage to New Madrid in thunder-storm, 32 et seq., 36, 42, 44
et seq., 48, 51;
fights with the Arkansas, 99 et seq.;
losses on, 102, 123, 147, 154 et seq., 157, 160, 168, 170, 191, 194,
207, 215 et seq.
Cayuga, U.S. gunboat, 53 et seq., 72 et seq., 80, 82 et seq., 85, 105
Chickasaw, the, 226 et seq., 229, 242 et seq., 245, 247
Chillicothe, the U.S. vessel, 111 et seq., 123, 142 et seq., 145 et
seq., 191, 194 et seq., 207
Choctaw, the, U.S. vessel, 111, 113, 163, 172, 177, 192
Churchill, General, surrenders to McClernand, 122
Cincinnati, the, Union gunboat, 14, 21 et seq., 42 et seq., 103, 120
et seq., 147;
loss of, 170, 172, 177 et seq., 249
Clifton, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 95 et seq., 164, 187
Collins, John, 233
Colorado, flag-ship, 5, 53, 57
Columbus, Ky., fortified by Confederates, 11, 18, 21;
fall of, 28 et seq.
Conestoga, the, Union gunboat, 12, 18, 21, 27, 50
Confederate navy, commanded by Hollins, 40;
fourteen river steamboats seized for, 41 et seq.;
spirited attack by, 43 et seq.;
ten vessels before New Orleans, 60 et seq.;
condemnation of, 84 et seq.
Cooke, Commander A.P., 164
Cornay, Captain, 202 (note)
Cornyu, Colonel, 182
Corpus Christi, Texas, 108
Cotton, the, Confederate steamer, 109
Couthony, Lieutenant S.P., 191
Covington, the, 182, 209 et seq.
Cox, General, 183
Craven, Captain Thomas T., 54;
commands a fleet from New Orleans, 90, 96;
heroic death of, 231
Craven, Commander T.A.M., 229
Cricket, the, 178, 191 et seq., 195, 199 et seq.
Crocker, Lieutenant Frederick, 187
Crosby, Lieutenant Pierce, 54, 66, 248
Cummings, A. Boyd, 136
Curtis, General, 49, 107
Dahlgren, Acting-Master C.B., 172
Dana, General, 188
Davis, Captain Charles H., 40, 47, 49;
made flag-officer, 51;
in the Yazoo, 97 et seq.;
follows the Arkansas, 102 et seq.;
arranges an expedition, 107;
relieved in command, 110
Davis, Jefferson, 131
De Camp, Commander John, 54, 89
Defiance, the, Confederate vessel, 85
DeKalb, the, U.S. ironclad, 118, 120 et seq., 142, 145 et seq., 169,
171, 177.
See the St. Louis.
De Soto, the, 126 et seq.
Donaldson, Lieutenant Edward, 54, 229
Donelson, Fort, see Fort Donelson.
Doubloon, the, Confederate steamer, 81
Dove, Commander, of the Louisville, 27
Drayton, Captain Percival, 229, 240
Duncan, General, 60, 88
Dunnington, Colonel, surrenders to Admiral Porter, 122
Eads, James B., 12
Eastport, the, Confederate gunboat, 24 et seq., 191 et seq., 198 et
seq., 203
Elfin, the, 214
Ellet, Colonel Charles, jr., 46 et seq., 119 (note)
Ellet, Colonel Charles Rivers, 119, 124 et seq.;
rashness of, 127 et seq., 140
Ellet, Lieutenant-Colonel A.W., of the Monarch, 48, 97, 103, 122;
reckless daring of, 140
Ellet, Lieutenant-Colonel John A., 140
Emory, General, 195
Enoch Train, the, Confederate ram, 5 et seq.
Era No. 5, the, 127 et seq.
Erben, Lieutenant Henry, 42
Essex, the, 15, 21;
disaster to, 23 et seq., 103, 105, 133, 135, 167 et seq., 190
Estrella, the, 109, 164 et seq., 188
Fairplay, the, 215
Farragut, Flag-Officer David G., commands the Western Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 8, 35 et seq.;
before New Orleans, 40, 42;
at Vicksburg, 51 et seq., 54, 62;
prompt action of, 86, 90 et seq.;
in the Yazoo, 97 et seq., 101 et seq.;
on the Gulf, 107 et seq., 124, 126;
moves up the river, 133 et seq.;
his advice respecting the Ellet family, 139 et seq., 144;
Porter communicates with, 151 et seq., 158;
in the Red River, 164 et seq.;
returns to Gulf, 174, 183, 187;
resumes command, 218, 221;
begs for co-operation, 223, 226 et seq.;
in action, 232 et seq.;
his attack on the Tennessee, 240 et seq.;
goes North, 246
Fawn, the, 212 et seq.
Featherstone, brigade of, 149
Ferguson, Colonel, 148 et seq.
Fitch, Colonel, 50
Fitch, Lieutenant-Commander Le Roy, 180 et seq., 213 et seq.
Foote, Flag-Officer A.H., 15 et seq.;
his views on manning ships, 17 et seq.;
promotion of, 20 et seq.;
returns to Cairo, 24 et seq.;
wounded, 28, 31, 35 et seq.;
at Fort Pillow, 39 et seq.
Forest Queen, the, 155, 157
Forest Rose, the, 123, 141 et seq., 171
Forrest, General, 181, 214
Forrest, Lieutenant Moreau, 213, 216
Fort Donelson, Ky., 23;
plan of attack on, 25 et seq., 90, 161, 180
Fort Henry, Ky., expedition against, 21 et seq., 161, 180
Fort Hindman, see Arkansas Post.
Fort Hindman, the, 191 et seq., 194 et seq., 199 et seq., 206 et seq.
Fort Jackson, 58 et seq., 63, 66, 69 et seq., 76, 78 et seq., 87, 89
Fort McRae, 8
Fort Pickens, 8
Fort Pillow, 31, 39 et seq.;
force at, 42 et seq., 45
Fort St. Philip, 58, 60, 62 et seq., 69, 72, 75 et seq., 78 et seq.,
87 et seq.
Fort Sumter, 144
Foster, Lieutenant-Commander Joseph P., 142, 191
Franklin, General, 187, 190, 194 et seq., 204
Fremont, General, 17 et seq.
Fry, Captain Joseph, 50
Fulton, the, U.S. ram, 143
Gabaudau, Mr., 153
Gaines, the, Confederate gunboat, 220, 239
Galena, the, 229, 236, 244 (note)
Galveston, Tex., 3, 8;
disaster at, 108 et seq., 188, 249
Gamble, Lieutenant-Commander William M., 247
Gazelle, the, 191
General Beauregard, the, Confederate ram, 47 et seq.
General Bragg, the, Confederate ram, 43, 47;
capture of, 49, 101, 107, 116
General Lovell, the, Confederate ram, 47 et seq.
General Price, the, Confederate ram, 44, 47 et seq., 155 et seq., 166, 170
General Quitman, the, Confederate vessel, 61, 84
General Rusk, Confederate steamer, 8
General Sumter, the, Confederate ram, 44, 47;
capture of, 49, 102, 105
General Thompson, the, Confederate ram, 47;
destruction of, 49
General Van Dorn, the, Confederate ram, 44, 47, 49
Genesee, the, 134 et seq.
Gherardi, Lieutenant-Commander Bancroft, 229
Gillis, Lieutenant-Commander James H., 247
Gilmore, Theodore, 33
Glide, the, 122 et seq.
Gorman, General, 122
Gorringe, Master H.H., 191, 200
Governor Moore, the, Confederate vessel, 61, 81 et seq.
Grand Era, the, Confederate tender, 129
Grand Gulf, 11, 163 et seq.
Granger, General, 34, 215, 227, 245, 248
Granite City, the, 187 et seq.
Grant, Captain of the General Quitman, 61, 84 (note)
Grant, General U.S., commands military district about Cairo, 18 et seq.;
at Fort Donelson, 25 et seq.;
at Pittsburg Landing, 36 et seq.;
at Vicksburg, 123 et seq., 139;
orders the levee cut, 141, 153, 157, 161;
at Grand Gulf, 163, 168 et seq., 172, 176, 178;
directions to Steele, 190, 211
Greene, Lieutenant-Commander Charles H., 229
Greene, General Thomas, 197
Greer, Lieutenant-Commander James A., 155, 191
Gregory, Acting-Master, 43
Guest, Lieutenant John, 56
Gunboats, contract for seven, given to Eads, 12 et seq.;
delay in equipping for lack of money, 15
Gwin, Lieutenant, of the Tyler, 21;
invaluable service at Pittsburg Landing, 28 et seq., 37 et seq.;
in the Yazoo, 99;
mortally wounded, 118 et seq.
Haines's Bluff, 119, 148
Halleck, General, his orders unsatisfactory to Captain Foote, 16 et
seq., 25;
orders to Foote, 28;
withdraws Pope's forces from Fort Pillow, 40, 49, 91, 186, 189
Hamilton, Lieutenant William, 242 (note)
Harding, Colonel, 180
Hart, Lieutenant-Commander, John E., 134, 165 et seq.
Harrell, Lieutenant A.D., 56
Harriet Lane, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 88, 94 et seq., 108
Harrison, cavalry of, 197
Harrison, Commander George W., 220
Harrison, Lieutenant Napoleon B., 54
Hartford, the, U.S. flag-ship, 52 et seq., 68, 72, 77, 85, 90, 134 et
seq., 139, 151 et seq., 165, 228 et seq., 231 et seq., 236, 238 et seq.
Hastings, the, U.S. transport, 197
Hatteras, the, 108
Helena, Ark., 49 et seq., 110, 116
Henry Clay, the, 155, 157
Henry, Fort, see Fort Henry.
Herron, General, 177
Hickman, Ky., fortified by Confederates, 11, 18, 29 et seq.
Higgins, Colonel, 60, 65;
condemns Mitchell's course, 70 et seq., 87, 155 (note)
Hill, plantation of, 148, 150 et seq.
Hoel, Lieutenant William R., 33, 147, 155, 160, 191
Hollins, Commodore George N., 7, 35;
commands Confederate navy, 40 et seq.
Hood, General, 213, 215 et seq.
Hospital fleet, at Pilot Town, 57
Howard, Lieutenant Samuel, 191
Huger, Thomas B., mortally wounded, 83
Hurlburt, General, 37;
report of, 39
Ida, the, 249
Illinois, her devotion to the Union, 9
Illinois, regiment of: Forty-second, 32
Imperial, the, 173
Indianola, the, U.S. vessel, 111 et seq., 123, 126, 128 et seq., 152, 165
Iowa, regiment of: Twenty-third, 176
Iroquois, the, U.S. corvette, 54, 77 et seq., 83, 89, 94 et seq.
Island No. 10, 28 et seq., 31 et seq.;
surrender of, 34;
disappearance of, 36, 39 et seq., 124
Itasca, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 66 et seq., 71 et seq., 77, 79, et
seq., 90, 229
Ivy, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 166
Jackson, Fort, see Fort Jackson.
Jackson, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 61, 81
Jackson, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 95
Jenkins, Captain Thornton A., 184, 227, 229, 235
Johnson, Acting-Master Amos, 67
Johnson, Master J.V., 32
Johnston, Commander J.D., 223, 239;
surrenders, 243 et seq., 249
Jones, Acting-Master Edmund, 67, 72 et seq.
Jones, Lieutenant-Commander M.P., 247
Jouett, Lieutenant James E., burns schooner Royal Yacht, 8, 229, 233,
239, 242 (note)
Juliet, the, 123, 199, 201 et seq.
Katahdin, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 73, 95, 105
Kennebec, U.S. gunboat, 54, 77, 80, 95, 229, 237, 244 (note)
Kennon, Beverley, of the Governor Moore, 61;
encounter with the Varuna, 81 et seq.
Kentucky, neutrality of, 17
Key West, description of, 1
Key West, the, 214
Kickapoo, the, 247
Kilby, Commander A.H., 42, 50
Kimberley, Captain, 240 (note)
Kineo, U.S. gunboat, 54, 73, 76 et seq., 85, 105, 134 et seq., 183
King, Lieutenant, 214 et seq.
Kinsman, the, 109
Kirkland, Lieutenant-Commander W.A., 247
Lackawanna, the, 228 et seq., 237, 240 et seq., 244 (note)
Lafayette, the, U.S. vessel, 111, 113, 155 et seq., 160 et seq., 166,
191 et seq.
Lancaster, the, 102, 140
Langthorne, Lieutenant A.R., 191
Lee, Admiral S. Phillips, 54, 82, 90, 211, 216 et seq.
Lee, General Robert E., 249
Le Roy, Commander William E., 229, 243 et seq.
Lexington, the, Union gunboat, 12, 18 et seq., 24, 28, 37 et seq., 50,
121, 178 et seq., 191, 193 et seq., 197 et seq., 206
Liddell, General, 197
Lincoln, President A., 94 (note)
Linden, the, 123, 171
Lioness, the, U.S. ram, 107, 119, 123, 143
Little Rebel, the, 47;
taken into Union fleet, 49
Livingston, the, Confederate gunboat, 40
Lord, Lieutenant, 210
Loring, General, 145
Louisiana, the, Confederate vessel, 61, 69 et seq., 79 et seq., 85 et
seq., 88
Louisville, the, Union gunboat, 14;
injury sustained by, 27, 51, 103, 120 et seq., 147, 151, 155 et
seq., 160, 191, 194, 207
Lovell, Colonel, 84 (note)
Lovell, General, 41 et seq.;
at New Orleans, 59 et seq., 81
Low, Lieutenant-Commander W.W., 247
McCann, Lieutenant-Commander William P., 229
McClernand, General, 20, 116;
at Vicksburg, 120 et seq.
McCloskey, Captain, 129
McCulloch, General, 176
McGunnegle, Lieutenant, 46 (note), 48, 50
McIntosh, Captain, 88
McKean, Flag-Officer W.W., succeeds Mervine, 5;
commands an indecisive affair in Pensacola Bay, 8;
at Ship Island, 52
McKinstry, Captain J.P., 134, 137
Macomb, Commander William H., 134
McRae, Fort, see Fort McRae.
McRae, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 61, 83 et seq.
Maitland, pilot, 201 et seq.
Manassas, the, Confederate ram, 61, 75, 78, 83, 84 (note), 100
Manhattan, the, 226 et seq., 229, 232, 242 et seq., 245
Marchand, Captain John B., 229
Marmora, the, U.S. gunboat, 117, 123, 142, 178
Maurepas, the, Confederate gunboat, 40
Memphis, Tenn., 47 et seq.;
surrender of, 49
Mervine, Flag-Officer William, 4 et seq.
Metacomet, the, 229, 232 et seq., 238 et seq., 242 (note), 244 (note), 248
Mexico, Gulf of, 1 et seq.
Miami, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 87, 95
Milwaukee, the, 247 et seq.
Mississippi, doubtful allegiance of, 9
Mississippi River, Government's object in entering, 3;
Union humiliation in, 5 et seq.;
description of, 9 et seq.;
importance of controlling, 11 et seq.;
successes on, 23 et seq.;
encounter between gunboats on, 43;
Confederate rams, 43 et seq.;
Confederate fleet conquered, 49 et seq.;
naval forces from Gulf and upper river meet in, 51;
obstructions in, 64 et seq.;
cleared by Caldwell, 68 et seq.;
unhealthiness of, 104;
controlled by Confederates from Vicksburg to Port Hudson, 106;
change of commanders in, 110;
successes and disasters in, 125 et seq.;
open from Cairo to Gulf, 173
Mississippi, the, tonnage of, 54, 71, 73 et seq., 76, 83, 86, 134, 137
et seq.
Missouri, doubtful allegiance of, 9
Missouri, the, U.S. ship, 138
Mitchell, Commander, 61, 69 et seq., 88
Mitchell, Lieutenant-Commander J.G., 191
Mobile, Ala., 3, 218 et seq.
Monarch, Union ram, 48 et seq., 107, 122 et seq.
Monongahela, the, 134 et seq., 184, 188, 229, 237, 240 et seq., 244 (note)
Montgomery, Captain, 41 et seq., 47
Moose, the, 183
Morgan, General J.H., daring raid of, 182
Morgan, Lieutenant, 210
Morgan, the, Confederate gunboat, 220, 239
Morning Light, the, 108
Morris, Captain H.W., 54
Morton, Acting-Master Gilbert, 215
Mosher, the, Confederate tug, 61, 76
Mound City, the, Union gunboat, 14 et seq., 42, 44 et seq.;
catastrophe to, 50, 107, 123, 147, 155 et seq., 160, 162, 168, 170,
191, 194, 207
Mullany, Commander J.R.M., 229, 238
Murphy, Lieutenant J.M., 147, 149, 155
Murphy, Lieutenant P.M., 220
Napoleon III., unfriendly attitude toward the United States, 185, 249
Natchez, surrender of, 90
Naumkeag, the, 212 et seq.
Naval, operations, extent of, 1
Nelson, General, 37 et seq.
Neosho, the, 191, 194 et seq., 200, 202 et seq., 206 et seq., 216
New Madrid, Mo., 20;
taken by Pope, 30 et seq.
New Orleans, 2, 59 et seq.;
bombardment of, 69 et seq.;
surrender of, 86 et seq.
Niagara, the, 8
Nichols, Lieutenant Ed. T., 54
Nicholson, Commander J.W.A., 229
Nields, Ensign H.C., 233 et seq.
Octorara, the, U.S. steamer, 95, 97, 229, 244 (note), 247 et seq.
Oneida, the, U.S. corvette, 54, 73, 76, 81 et seq., 94, 96, 229, 234
et seq., 238, 244 (note)
Osage, the, 191 et seq., 194 et seq., 197, 199, 202, 206 et seq., 247
Ossipee, the, 229, 237, 240, 243 et seq.
Ouachita, the, 191, 193
Owasco, the, U.S. gunboat, 55, 95, 188
Owen, Lieutenant-Commander E.K., 121, 147, 155, 191
Ozark, the, 191, 194, 206 et seq.
Paducah, Ky., seized by Grant, 18, 21
Palmer, Captain James S., of the Iroquois, 95;
of the Hartford, 134
Palmer, Commodore of the Hartford, 167;
left in command, 246, 248
Parker, Commodore Foxhall A., 240 (note)
Paulding, Lieutenant, of the St. Louis, 21;
before Donelson, 27
Pearce, Lieutenant John, 191, 200
Pendergrast, Flag-Officer G.J., commands Home Squadron, 4
Pennock, Captain Alexander M., 179, 211
Pensacola Navy Yard, 3, 5, 8, 52, 60, 90, 107, 227 et seq., 242
(note), 246
Pensacola, the, U.S. vessel, 52 et seq., 73, 75, et seq., 78, 85, 100
(note)
Perkins, Lieutenant-Commander George H., 229, 242 (note), 247
Petrel, the, U.S. steamer, 142 et seq., 171
Phelps, Lieutenant-Commander S.L., of the Conestoga, 18, 21, 24 et
seq., 28;
of the Benton, 42;
commands an expedition from Helena, 107, 179, 182;
at Grand Ecore, 195, 198, 200 et seq.
Pickens, Fort, see Fort Pickens.
Pierce, Captain, 129
Pillow, Fort, see Fort Pillow.
Pinola, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 66 et seq., 71, 77 et seq., 80 et seq., 95
Pittsburg Landing, 36 et seq.
Pittsburg, the, Union gunboat, 15, 27, 34, 42, 44, 117, 123, 147, 155,
157, 160 et seq., 166, 191, 194, 207
Point of Rocks, 158, 161
Polk, the, Confederate gunboat, 40
Ponchartrain, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 50
Pope, General, at New Madrid, 30 et seq., 34, 36;
at Fort Pillow, 39 et seq.
Porter, Admiral David D., 53, 79, 85, 87;
relieves Captain Davis, 110;
his orders to Walke, 116;
Colonel Dunnington surrenders to, 122 et seq.;
success and disasters in Mississippi, 126 et seq.;
hopes frustrated, 132, 139 et seq.;
undertakes to reach the Yazoo, 147 et seq.;
before Vicksburg, 154, 158, 161;
at Grand Gulf, 163, 165 et seq.;
assumes command of river, 174;
inaugurates raids, 177, 179, 189 et seq.;
in the Red River, 194 et seq., 200 et seq., 204;
at Red River Dam, 206;
relieved by Porter, 211
Porter, Commander William D., 15, 21, 23, 88, 90 et seq., 94;
ordered to Hampton Roads, 97, 103 et seq.
Port Hudson, 11, 173
Port Royal, the, 229
Portsmouth, the, U.S. sloop, 80, 87
Preble, Lieutenant George H., 54
Preble, the, sailing sloop, 5, 7
Prentiss, General, 176
Princess Royal, the, 183
Pritchett, Lieutenant-Commander, 175 et seq.
Queen City, the, 212 et seq.
Queen of the West, Union ram, 48, et seq., 84 (note);
"lives to fight another day," 99 et seq., 103 et seq., 117, 123 et
seq., 140, 151, 165
Ramsay, Lieutenant-Commander F.M., 163, 172
Ransom, Lieutenant George M., 54
Rattler, the, 121 et seq., 142 et seq., 145
Read, Abner, 184
Reed, Acting-Master J.F., 172
Reynolds, Master, 44
Richmond, steam sloop, 5 et seq., 54, 77, 90, 94 et seq., 134 et seq.,
138, 153, 167, 217, 227 et seq., 232 et seq., 237, 244 (note)
River Defence Fleet, 42 et seq., 47, 49, 60 et seq., 81, 84 et seq.
Roberts, Colonel, 32
Rob Roy, the, 197
Rodgers, Commander John, 12;
relieved by Captain Foote, 16
Rodolph, the, 248
Roe, Lieutenant, 75
Royal Yacht, Confederate schooner, 8
Romeo, the, 123, 142 et seq.
Russell, Lieutenant J.H., 5, 54
Sabine Pass, 106
Sachem, the, U.S. schooner, 87, 187
St. Charles, 50 et seq.
St. Clair, the, 181
St. Louis, the, Union gunboat, 15, 21;
injury sustained by, 27, 42, 45, 48, 50 et seq., 118, 177.
See the DeKalb.
St. Philip, Fort, see Fort St. Philip.
Samson, the, U.S. ram, 107, 114
Santee, U.S. frigate, 7 et seq., 42
Schofield, General, 215
Sciota, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 77 et seq., 95, 249
Selfridge, Lieutenant-Commander, 117, 172, 177 et seq., 191, 197 et seq.
Selma, the, Confederate gunboat, 220, 239
Seminole, the, 229
Shepperd, Lieutenant, F.E., 145
Sherman, General W.T., at Haines's Bluff, 119;
directed to support Porter, 148, 150 et seq., 163, 168, 170, 173;
confers with Banks, 189 et seq.;
at Alexandria, 203, 225
Sherman, of the tug Mosher, 77
Shirk, Lieutenant J.W., of the Lexington, 21;
gallant service at Pittsburg Landing, 37 et seq.;
at Memphis, 50, 155, 213 et seq.
Ship Island, 52
Signal, the, U.S. gunboat, 117, 123, 142, 171, 207, 210
Silver Wave, the, U.S. transport, 155
Smith, Colonel Giles A., 150
Smith, Commander Melancton, 54, 134, 138
Smith, General A.G., 190, 192 et seq., 211
Smith, General M.L., 69
Smith, General T. Kilby, 194, 196 et seq.
Smithland, Ky., seized by Grant, 18
Smith, Lieutenant Albert N., 54
Smith, Lieutenant-Commander Watson, 121, 143
Sproston, Lieutenant, 5
Squadron, Atlantic, 4, 249
Squadron, East Gulf, 8, 249
Squadron, Home, 4, 249
Squadron, Mississippi, 55, 107, 211, 216 et seq.
Squadron, Western Gulf Blockading, 8, 52, 187, 249
Squadron, West India, 4
Squires, Captain, 60
Star of the West, the, 144
Steele, General, 168, 189 et seq., 212, 246
Stembel, Commander, of the Lexington, 18 et seq., 21;
of the Cincinnati, 42;
dangerously shot, 44
Stephenson, Captain, 61
Stevens, Commander Thomas H., 229, 232, 238
Stevens, Lieutenant, 105
Stevenson, General, 132
Stonewall Jackson, the, Confederate vessel, 81 et seq.
Stringham, Flag-Officer, commands Atlantic Squadron, 4
Strong, Captain James H., 188, 229, 237
Sumter, Fort, see Fort Sumter.
Switzerland, the, Union ram, 49, 123, 140, 151 et seq., 166 et seq.
Tallahassee, Fla., 3
Tawah, the, 214
Taylor, General Richard, 129, 164, 167;
engages a negro brigade, 176 et seq., 249
Tecumseh, the, 226 et seq., 244 (note)
Tennessee, the, Confederate ram, 220 et seq., 231, 236 et seq., 240
et seq.
Terry, Lieutenant-Commander Edward, 167
Thatcher, Master Charles, 191
Thatcher, Rear-Admiral H.K., 246, 248 et seq.
Theron, Monsieur, French Consul in Texas, 185 et seq.
Thomas, General, 216
Thomas, Lieutenant-Commander N.W., 137
Thompson, Lieutenant E., of the Pittsburg, 27, 42
Tilghman, General, surrenders Fort Henry to Union fleet, 23
Tinclads, description of, 110
Tiptonville, Tenn., 29 et seq., 35
Todd, Captain, 94 (note)
Torpedoes, 117, 224
Townsend, Captain, 41
Townsend, Commander Robert, 190
Tuscumbia, the, U.S. vessel, 111 et seq., 155, 157, 160 et seq., 168
Tyler, the, Union gunboat, 12, 19 et seq., 24, 27 et seq., 37 et seq.,
99 et seq., 123, 175, 212 et seq.
Undine, the, 214
United States Navy, anomalous position of, 17, 20 et seq.;
seventeen vessels in, and their tonnage, 54;
six gunboats, 55 et seq.;
tinclads, 110 et seq.
Varuna, U.S. corvette, 54 et seq., 73, 81 et seq.
Velocity, the, 108
Vicksburg, Miss., 11, 51, 90 et seq.;
description, 93 et seq.;
surrender of, 173
Vicksburg, the, 125, 151
Vincennes, the, sailing-sloop, 5 et seq.
Virginia, the, 188
Virginius, the, Confederate steamer, 50
Wade, Colonel, 163
Wainwright, Commander Richard, 54
Wainwright, Lieutenant Jonathan M., of the Harriet Lane, 56
Walke, Commander Henry, of the Tyler, 19 et seq.;
commands the Carondelet, 26;
his gallant passage down the river, 32 et seq., 42;
in the Yazoo, 99 et seq.;
at Helena, 110;
in the Yazoo, 116 et seq., 139, 155;
at Alexandria, 166 et seq.
Walker, General, 192
Walker, Lieutenant-Commander John G., 118, 121 et seq., 142, 169, 171;
sent to Yazoo City, 177
Warley, Lieutenant A.F., commands the Enoch Train, 5, 61, 84 (note)
Warner, the, 209 et seq.
Water Witch, the, steamer, 5, 7
Watson, captain, 201
Watters, Lieutenant-Commander John, 134, 183
Weaver, Lieutenant-Commander, 183
Webb, the, Confederate gunboat, 128 et seq., 217
Welles, Secretary of Navy, 88
Wells, Lieutenant-Commander Clark H., 229
Westfield, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 95, 108
Wharton, General, 181
Wharton, Lieutenant, 231
Wheeler, General, 181
Williams, General, at Baton Rouge 104 et seq.
Wilson, Charles, 33
Wilson, Lieutenant Byron, of the Mound City, 147, 155, 191
Wilson, Lieutenant-Colonel James H., 142 et seq.
Winona, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 77, 80, 95, 183
Winnebago, the, 220 et seq., 229, 232, 234, 238, 242 et seq., 247
Winslow, Lieutenant Francis, holds his ground in Water Witch, 7
Wisconsin, regiment of: Fourth, 204
Wissahickon, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 73, 76, 85, 90, 95
Woods, Colonel, 107
Woodworth, Lieutenant Selim E., 56, 155 et seq.
Woolsey, Commander, 183
Yankee, the, Confederate gunboat, 18
Yazoo Valley, description of, 115 et seq., 141 et seq.
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September, 1862.
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PALFREY, Bvt. Brigadier Gen'l, U.S.V., and formerly
Colonel 20th Mass. Infantry; Lieut. Col. of the 20th
Massachusetts at the Battle of the Antietam; Member of the
Military Historical Society of Massachusetts, of the
Massachusetts Historical Society, etc.
From the appointment of McClellan to the general command,
September, 1862, to the end of the battle of Fredericksburg.
=_VI.--Chancellorsville and Gettysburg._= By ABNER
DOUBLEDAY, Bvt. Maj. Gen'l, U.S.A., and Maj. Gen'l,
U.S.V.; commanding the First Corps at Gettysburg, etc.
From the appointment of Hooker, through the campaigns of
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, to the retreat of Lee after the
latter battle.
=_VII.--The Army of the Cumberland._= By HENRY M. CIST,
Brevet Brig. Gen'l U.S.V.; A.A.G. on the staff of Major
Gen'l Rosecrans, and afterwards on that of Major Gen'l
Thomas; Corresponding Secretary of the Society of the Army
of the Cumberland.
From the formation of the Army of the Cumberland to the end of
the battles at Chattanooga, November, 1863.
_=VIII.--The Mississippi.=_ By FRANCIS VINTON GREENE,
Lieut. of Engineers, U.S. Army; late Military Attaché to
the U.S. Legation in St. Petersburg; Author of "The Russian
Army and its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-78," and of "Army
Life in Russia."
An account of the operations--especially at Vicksburg and Port
Hudson--by which the Mississippi River and its shores were
restored to the control of the Union.
_=IX.--Atlanta.=_ By the Hon. JACOB D. COX, Ex-Governor
of Ohio; late Secretary of the Interior of the United
States; Major General U.S.V., commanding Twenty-third Corps
during the campaigns of Atlanta and the Carolinas, etc.,
etc.
From Sherman's first advance into Georgia in May, 1864, to the
beginning of the March to the Sea.
_=X.--The March to the Sea--Franklin and Nashville.=_ By the Hon.
JACOB D. COX.
From the beginning of the March to the Sea to the surrender of
Johnston--including also the operations of Thomas in Tennessee.
_=XI.--The Shenandoah Valley in 1864. The Campaign of Sheridan.=_
By GEORGE E. POND, Esq., Associate Editor of the
_Army and Navy Journal_.
_=XII.--The Virginia Campaign of '64 and '65. The Army of the
Potomac and the Army of the James.=_ By ANDREW A.
HUMPHREYS, Brigadier General and Bvt. Major General,
U.S.A.; late Chief of Engineers; Chief of Staff, Army of
the Potomac, 1863-64; commanding Second Corps, 1864-'65,
etc., etc.
_=Statistical Record of the Armies of the United States.=_ By
FREDERICK PHISTERER, late Captain U.S.A.
This Record includes the figures of the quotas and men actually
furnished by all States; a list of all organizations mustered
into the U.S. service; the strength of the army at various
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The complete Set, thirteen volumes, in a box. Price, $12.50
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