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Posted on 1/13/14 at 7:15 am to Litigator
Posted on 1/13/14 at 7:15 am to Litigator
The War Between the States is called the first modern day war because it saw a number of innovations in warfare, especially naval warfare, including these first Confederate torpedo boats. They carried spar torpedoes to attempt and counter the blockade. By WWI, self-propelled torpedoes were in common use, so the idea of an attack changed considerably. Good LINKs BTW.
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Posted on 1/13/14 at 8:50 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Thursday, 14 January 1864
Following in the footsteps of W.R. Browne and the USS Restless, Acting Master Sherrill and his USS Roebuck took over the task of terrorizing the salt suppliers of South Florida, or at least making life miserable for the parties transporting the valuable preservative. On this day, patrolling in Jupiter Inlet, Sherrill used small boats to pursue the British sloop Young Racer. This vessel, tragically for her captain, crew and owners, lived up to neither half of her name, and was overhauled in a short time. Before she could be captured, though, she was set on fire by her crew. Overloaded with salt, she sank rapidly.
The CSS Alabama, commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes, captured and burned the ship Emma Jane off the coast of Malabar, southwest India.
Having failed in efforts to pull the grounded USS Iron Age off the beach at Lockwoods Folly Inlet, the Federal blockaders applied the torch and blew her up. "As an offset to the loss...." reported Lieutenant Commander Stone, "I would place the capture or destruction of 22 blockade runners within the last six months by this squadron [the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron]."
The USS Union--a screw steamer built at Mystic, Connecticut, and commissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 16 May 1861, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Edward Conroy--captured the blockade running steamer Mayflower near Tampa Bay, Florida, with a cargo of cotton.
The blockade-runner, steamer schooner Cumberland, with a cargo of cotton from the coast of Florida, arrived at Havana, Cuba. She had been chased by the United States gunboat USS De Soto, a fast wooden-hulled, side-wheel steamship, but to no avail.
Major General R. B. Vance, made a raid toward Terrisville, Tennessee, and captured a train of twenty-three wagons. He was pursued by Colonel Palmer, who recaptured the wagons, and took one ambulance, loaded with medicines, one hundred and fifty saddle-horses and one hundred stand of arms. General Vance and his assistant adjutant-general and inspector general are among the prisoners captured.--General Grant's Report.
A force of about two hundred Confederates made an attack on a party of Union Cavalry, stationed at Three Miles Station, near Bealeton, Virginia, but were repulsed and driven off, after several desperate charges, leaving three dead and twelve wounded. The Federal casualties were two wounded, one severely.
The official correspondence between the agents of exchange of prisoners of war, together with the report of Mr. Robert Ould, Confederate chief of the bureau, was made public. Prior to the War, Ould was a District Attorney in Washington, DC, in which office one of his first duties was the prosecution of (later to be Union General) Daniel E. Sickles for the killing of Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key. Sickles defended himself by adopting a defense of temporary insanity, the first time the defense had been used in the United States.
The body of a Union soldier was found hanging at Smith Mills, Virginia, with the following words placarded upon it: “Here hangs private Samuel Jones, of the Fifth Ohio regiment, hung by order of Major General Pickett, in retaliation for private David Bright, of the Sixty-second Georgia regiment, hung December eighteenth, by order of Brigadier General Wild.”
The Richmond Examiner held the following language: “Surely British-protection patriots of the Emerald Isle here, have, we are credibly informed, recently shouldered their shillelaghs, and cut stick for the land of Lincoln. Sundry others, too, born this side of the Potomac, have wended their way in the same direction, all leaving their families behind them to sell rum or make breeches and other garments for the clothing bureau. When mothers and sisters, sweethearts and wives, thus intentionally, and by a cunning arrangement, left behind, present themselves at the clothing bureau for a job, they represent, with the most innocent faces imaginable, that their male protectors are in General Lee's army, and thus enlist sympathy, and sponge on the Confederacy. To poor females every kindness and aid should be extended as long as they and. those belonging to them are true to us; but it is past enduring that able-bodied fellows should go North, and leave as a charge here people whom we are under no obligations to support, and who, by false representations, shut out the wives and other female relatives of gallant fellows, who are confronting our ruthless enemies.”
Lieutenant Gates, with a party of the Third Arkansas cavalry, made a reconnaissance near Clinton, Arkansas, and succeeded in capturing twelve prisoners, whom he surprised at Cadson's Cave.
Following in the footsteps of W.R. Browne and the USS Restless, Acting Master Sherrill and his USS Roebuck took over the task of terrorizing the salt suppliers of South Florida, or at least making life miserable for the parties transporting the valuable preservative. On this day, patrolling in Jupiter Inlet, Sherrill used small boats to pursue the British sloop Young Racer. This vessel, tragically for her captain, crew and owners, lived up to neither half of her name, and was overhauled in a short time. Before she could be captured, though, she was set on fire by her crew. Overloaded with salt, she sank rapidly.
The CSS Alabama, commanded by Captain Raphael Semmes, captured and burned the ship Emma Jane off the coast of Malabar, southwest India.
Having failed in efforts to pull the grounded USS Iron Age off the beach at Lockwoods Folly Inlet, the Federal blockaders applied the torch and blew her up. "As an offset to the loss...." reported Lieutenant Commander Stone, "I would place the capture or destruction of 22 blockade runners within the last six months by this squadron [the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron]."
The USS Union--a screw steamer built at Mystic, Connecticut, and commissioned at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 16 May 1861, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Edward Conroy--captured the blockade running steamer Mayflower near Tampa Bay, Florida, with a cargo of cotton.
The blockade-runner, steamer schooner Cumberland, with a cargo of cotton from the coast of Florida, arrived at Havana, Cuba. She had been chased by the United States gunboat USS De Soto, a fast wooden-hulled, side-wheel steamship, but to no avail.
Major General R. B. Vance, made a raid toward Terrisville, Tennessee, and captured a train of twenty-three wagons. He was pursued by Colonel Palmer, who recaptured the wagons, and took one ambulance, loaded with medicines, one hundred and fifty saddle-horses and one hundred stand of arms. General Vance and his assistant adjutant-general and inspector general are among the prisoners captured.--General Grant's Report.
A force of about two hundred Confederates made an attack on a party of Union Cavalry, stationed at Three Miles Station, near Bealeton, Virginia, but were repulsed and driven off, after several desperate charges, leaving three dead and twelve wounded. The Federal casualties were two wounded, one severely.
The official correspondence between the agents of exchange of prisoners of war, together with the report of Mr. Robert Ould, Confederate chief of the bureau, was made public. Prior to the War, Ould was a District Attorney in Washington, DC, in which office one of his first duties was the prosecution of (later to be Union General) Daniel E. Sickles for the killing of Philip Barton Key, son of Francis Scott Key. Sickles defended himself by adopting a defense of temporary insanity, the first time the defense had been used in the United States.
The body of a Union soldier was found hanging at Smith Mills, Virginia, with the following words placarded upon it: “Here hangs private Samuel Jones, of the Fifth Ohio regiment, hung by order of Major General Pickett, in retaliation for private David Bright, of the Sixty-second Georgia regiment, hung December eighteenth, by order of Brigadier General Wild.”
The Richmond Examiner held the following language: “Surely British-protection patriots of the Emerald Isle here, have, we are credibly informed, recently shouldered their shillelaghs, and cut stick for the land of Lincoln. Sundry others, too, born this side of the Potomac, have wended their way in the same direction, all leaving their families behind them to sell rum or make breeches and other garments for the clothing bureau. When mothers and sisters, sweethearts and wives, thus intentionally, and by a cunning arrangement, left behind, present themselves at the clothing bureau for a job, they represent, with the most innocent faces imaginable, that their male protectors are in General Lee's army, and thus enlist sympathy, and sponge on the Confederacy. To poor females every kindness and aid should be extended as long as they and. those belonging to them are true to us; but it is past enduring that able-bodied fellows should go North, and leave as a charge here people whom we are under no obligations to support, and who, by false representations, shut out the wives and other female relatives of gallant fellows, who are confronting our ruthless enemies.”
Lieutenant Gates, with a party of the Third Arkansas cavalry, made a reconnaissance near Clinton, Arkansas, and succeeded in capturing twelve prisoners, whom he surprised at Cadson's Cave.
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