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Showing posts with label USS Benton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USS Benton. Show all posts
Monday, May 10, 2021

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: April 12, 1864

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Cloudy——rained in the afternoon. This is the anniversary of the first gun of the war, fired at Fort Sumter. It is still said and believe...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Major-General Henry W. Halleck to Brigadier-General Ulysses S. Grant, January 30, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSOURI,           Saint Louis, January 30 , 1862 . Brig. Gen. U.S. GRANT, Cairo, Ill.: SIR: You ...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote to Gideon Welles, February 15, 1862

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U. S. Flagship St. Louis ,                       Near Fort Donelson ( via Paducah), February 15,1862.         (Received February 16, 18...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

Brigadier-General Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, March 17, 1864

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Headquarters Div. Seventeenth Army Corps, Red River Expedition, Fort De Russey, Avoyelles County, Louosiana , March 17, 1864. My Dear...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

From Tennessee

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CAIRO, May 14. A deserter came on board the flag boat Benton, on the 12th and stated that the rebel rams and gunboats engaged in the en...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

First Session -- 37th Congress

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WASHINGTON, April 4. – HOUSE. – The House went into Committee of the Whole on the States of the Union, Mr. Webster in the Chair. On mot...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Latest from Island No. 10

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FLAGSHIP BENTON, ISLAND NO. 10, EVENING of April 3. At an early hour this morning a large object was seen moving up along the Island,...
Monday, February 4, 2013

Report of Com. Foote

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WASHINGTON, April 9. – The following was received at the Navy Department, this morning: “Flag Ship BENTON, Island No. 10, April 8, 18...
Friday, October 12, 2012

The Battle at Island 10

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FOURTH DAY. Monday, March 17. – Last night was one of unusual clearness and the river and shores were bathed in the most delicious moon...
Tuesday, September 11, 2012

First Day’s Fight at Island No. 10

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CAIRO, March 17, on board the Benton, Island No. 10, March 16. – Got under way at daylight this a.m. and dropped down to within range of t...
Monday, August 27, 2012

From Island No. 10

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CAIRO, March 18. – A messenger just from Island No. 10, says that our boats kept up a short range fire on the enemy’s works all day yester...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

WASHINGTON, April 9 [1862].

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The following was received at the navy department this morning: FLAGSHIP BENTON, ISLAND NO. 10, April 8. HON. G. WELLES, Secretary of Nav...
Friday, December 9, 2011

From Island No 10

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Special to the Chicago Times. CAIRO, April 6. The most exciting event of the siege occurred on Friday night.   At ten o’clock P. M. the gu...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

From Cairo and Below

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Special to the Chicago Journal. CAIRO, April 4. A boat arrived here from Island No. 10 at 12 o’clock last night.   Firing was resumed yest...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

From Island No. 10

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CAIRO, March 28 [sic]. A special to the Chicago Times , dated off Island No. 10, March 29, says: There are no indications of an immediate r...
Monday, September 12, 2011

From Island No. 10

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Special to the Chicago Tribune. CAIRO, March 20 – 3 P. M. I left the fleet above Island No. 10 yesterday at 1 o’clock p. m. the firing was...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Additional from Com. Foote

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ON BOARD THE FLAG-SHIP, TWO MILES ABOVE ISLAND NO. 10, Saturday, March 15, via CAIRO 16. The flotilla got under way at 5:30 this a. m., in ...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Our Fleet Shelling Island No. 10

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CAIRO, March 17. ON BOARD THE BENTON, Island No. 10, March 16. Got under way at daylight this A. M., and dropped down to within range of ...
Monday, July 4, 2011

From The Second Iowa Cavalry

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BIRD’S POINT, Mo., March 2, 1862. FRIEND SANDERS. – The papers reach us very irregularly here.   Those writing, or mailing for the 2d caval...