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Posted on 10/9/13 at 4:52 am to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 10/9/13 at 4:52 am to BadLeroyDawg
Friday, 9 October 1863
United States Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles commended Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren on the work of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston, South Carolina the preceding month and cited Brigadier General Quincy Adams Gillmore's "brilliant operations" on Morris Island. Noting that, though the first step in the capture of Charleston was taken, the remainder would be full of risk, he added: "While there is intense feeling pervading the country in regard to the fate of Charleston . . . the public impatience must not be permitted to hasten your own movements into immature and inconsiderate action against your own deliberate convictions nor impel you to hazards that may jeopardize the best interest of the country without adequate results. . . ."
The CSS Georgia, commanded by Lieutenant W. L. Maury, captured and burned the ship Bold Hunter off the coast of French West Africa. She had been bound for Calcutta with a cargo of coal.
Two iron-plated rams, built on the Mersey, England, by the Lairds for the use of the Confederate States of America, were seized by order of the British government, upon a charge of an intention to evade the neutrality laws.
Major General J. G. Foster sent the following dispatch to the Federal War Department: “I have the honor to report that the expedition sent out on Sunday, under General Wistar, to break up or capture the guerrillas and boats' crews organized by the enemy in Matthews County, has returned, having in the main accomplished its object. Four rebel naval officers, twenty-five men, and twenty-five head of cattle belonging to the Confederacy, together with horses, mules, and arms, are the results. A large number of Rebel boats were destroyed. Our loss was one man killed. General Wistar reports the Fourth United States infantry (colored) making thirty miles in one day, with no stragglers.”
Fort Johnson, in Charleston Harbor, S. C., was again silenced. A well directed shot from the Union batteries entered an embrasure and dismounted the gun.
One of the two-hundred pounder batteries on Morris Island, that had been silent for a week, opened on Fort Sumter and the other Confederate forts.
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United States Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles commended Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren on the work of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off Charleston, South Carolina the preceding month and cited Brigadier General Quincy Adams Gillmore's "brilliant operations" on Morris Island. Noting that, though the first step in the capture of Charleston was taken, the remainder would be full of risk, he added: "While there is intense feeling pervading the country in regard to the fate of Charleston . . . the public impatience must not be permitted to hasten your own movements into immature and inconsiderate action against your own deliberate convictions nor impel you to hazards that may jeopardize the best interest of the country without adequate results. . . ."
The CSS Georgia, commanded by Lieutenant W. L. Maury, captured and burned the ship Bold Hunter off the coast of French West Africa. She had been bound for Calcutta with a cargo of coal.
Two iron-plated rams, built on the Mersey, England, by the Lairds for the use of the Confederate States of America, were seized by order of the British government, upon a charge of an intention to evade the neutrality laws.
Major General J. G. Foster sent the following dispatch to the Federal War Department: “I have the honor to report that the expedition sent out on Sunday, under General Wistar, to break up or capture the guerrillas and boats' crews organized by the enemy in Matthews County, has returned, having in the main accomplished its object. Four rebel naval officers, twenty-five men, and twenty-five head of cattle belonging to the Confederacy, together with horses, mules, and arms, are the results. A large number of Rebel boats were destroyed. Our loss was one man killed. General Wistar reports the Fourth United States infantry (colored) making thirty miles in one day, with no stragglers.”
Fort Johnson, in Charleston Harbor, S. C., was again silenced. A well directed shot from the Union batteries entered an embrasure and dismounted the gun.
One of the two-hundred pounder batteries on Morris Island, that had been silent for a week, opened on Fort Sumter and the other Confederate forts.
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Posted on 10/10/13 at 4:24 am to BadLeroyDawg
Saturday, 10 October 1863
Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles transmitted to Rear Admiral David D. Porter a War Department request for gunboat assistance for the operations of Major General William T. Sherman on the Tennessee River. Porter replied that the shallowness of the water prevented his immediate action but promised: "The gunboats will be ready to go up the moment a rise takes place. . . . " Ten days later, General Hiram U. Grant urged: "The sooner a gunboat can be got to him [Sherman] the better." Porter answered that gunboats were on their way up the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. "My intention," he wrote, "is to send every gunboat I can spare up the Tennessee. I have also sent below for light-drafts to come up. Am sorry to say the river is at a stand." By the 24th two gunboats were at Eastport to join Sherman's operations.
The USS Samuel Rotan, under Acting Lieutenant Kennison seized a large yawl off Horn Harbor, Virginia, with a large mercantile cargo including salt.
Early this morning one of General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry brigades, consisting of four regiments, attempted a reconnaissance on the south side of Robertson's River, when they were met by a body of General James Ewell Brown Stuart's Confederate cavalry. A fight ensued, which lasted about an hour, when the defeated Union cavalry fell back upon the infantry reserves. Another severe conflict ensued, which resulted in the giving way of the Union infantry and the surrender of a considerable number of them, as Stuart captured 250 of the Federals. Stuart then crossed the River in force and occupied James City.
Zollicoffer, Tennessee, was captured by the Union forces under General Shackelford.
Reported in the Richmond Whig about a DeKalb County, Georgia native this morning... Lieutenant Colonel George Washington Lee has recently returned from his deserter hunting trip into the mountains of North Carolina. He has captured between three hundred and four hundred deserters and Tories. Their leader, Colonel Busty, notorious for his daring outrages, was said to have about six hundred men under him. They were not, however, in a body, but scattered through the country, engaged in their treasonable work of stealing and destroying the property of the people, and carrying off cattle fattening for the army. With two hundred men, Colonel Lee pursued and drove him to Loudon, and captured fifty prisoners, among them two Yankee recruiting officers, and about seventy-five fine beef cattle.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of mechanics was held in Richmond, Virginia, at which the following resolution, among others, was adopted: Resolved, That, awakened to a sense of the abject posture to which labor and we who labor have been reduced, and to the privileges which as citizens and people the institutions of our country rest in us, we will not sleep again until our grasp has firmly clenched the rights and immunities which are ours as Americans and men, until our just demands have been met by the concessions of all opposing elements.
The Federal forces under General Burnside fought off the Confederates at Blue Springs, Tennessee.
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Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles transmitted to Rear Admiral David D. Porter a War Department request for gunboat assistance for the operations of Major General William T. Sherman on the Tennessee River. Porter replied that the shallowness of the water prevented his immediate action but promised: "The gunboats will be ready to go up the moment a rise takes place. . . . " Ten days later, General Hiram U. Grant urged: "The sooner a gunboat can be got to him [Sherman] the better." Porter answered that gunboats were on their way up the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. "My intention," he wrote, "is to send every gunboat I can spare up the Tennessee. I have also sent below for light-drafts to come up. Am sorry to say the river is at a stand." By the 24th two gunboats were at Eastport to join Sherman's operations.
The USS Samuel Rotan, under Acting Lieutenant Kennison seized a large yawl off Horn Harbor, Virginia, with a large mercantile cargo including salt.
Early this morning one of General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry brigades, consisting of four regiments, attempted a reconnaissance on the south side of Robertson's River, when they were met by a body of General James Ewell Brown Stuart's Confederate cavalry. A fight ensued, which lasted about an hour, when the defeated Union cavalry fell back upon the infantry reserves. Another severe conflict ensued, which resulted in the giving way of the Union infantry and the surrender of a considerable number of them, as Stuart captured 250 of the Federals. Stuart then crossed the River in force and occupied James City.
Zollicoffer, Tennessee, was captured by the Union forces under General Shackelford.
Reported in the Richmond Whig about a DeKalb County, Georgia native this morning... Lieutenant Colonel George Washington Lee has recently returned from his deserter hunting trip into the mountains of North Carolina. He has captured between three hundred and four hundred deserters and Tories. Their leader, Colonel Busty, notorious for his daring outrages, was said to have about six hundred men under him. They were not, however, in a body, but scattered through the country, engaged in their treasonable work of stealing and destroying the property of the people, and carrying off cattle fattening for the army. With two hundred men, Colonel Lee pursued and drove him to Loudon, and captured fifty prisoners, among them two Yankee recruiting officers, and about seventy-five fine beef cattle.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of mechanics was held in Richmond, Virginia, at which the following resolution, among others, was adopted: Resolved, That, awakened to a sense of the abject posture to which labor and we who labor have been reduced, and to the privileges which as citizens and people the institutions of our country rest in us, we will not sleep again until our grasp has firmly clenched the rights and immunities which are ours as Americans and men, until our just demands have been met by the concessions of all opposing elements.
The Federal forces under General Burnside fought off the Confederates at Blue Springs, Tennessee.
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