Pages

▼
Showing posts with label USS Hartford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USS Hartford. Show all posts
Sunday, May 31, 2020

Major-General Benjamin F. Butler to Edwin M. Stanton, May 16, 1862

›
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,       New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Hon. E. M. STANTON, Secretary of War: SIR: Since my dispa...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

George S. Denison to Salmon P. Chase, February 7, 1863

›
(Private) New Orleans , February 7th, 1863. Dear Sir : I wrote you by the last steamer expressing a wish to receive the office of “Com...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, January 11, 1862

›
Unofficial Flag Ship 'Wabash'                               Port Royal Harbor S.C.                        January 11 l862 ...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Commandant Samuel F. DuPont to Gustavus V. Fox, December 21, 1861

›
Private Dec. 21. Port Royal Str Wabash. My Dear Sir I have applied for an ordnance Lieut. Will you do me the favor to order Lt. A. ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Commandant Samuel F. DuPont to Gustavus V. Fox, November 25, 1861

›
Wabash Port Royal St r Nov. 25th 61.   My Dear Mr. Fox I don't think there is much use in writing private above, after your sen...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: Sunday, March 15, 1863

›
Terriffic cannonading begun at mid-night and continued until four o'clock in the morning, reveille was sounded at five o'clock, whe...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: March 8, 1863

›
General Banks went up the river to Baton Rouge, and next day the Mississippi and Hartford. SOURCE: Abstracted from George G. Smith, ...
Saturday, July 2, 2016

Diary of Sergeant George G. Smith: Capture and Occupation of New Orleans.

›
Of course I have not the time and space to give an account of the passing of the forts as it was described in the papers at that time and a...
Friday, May 6, 2016

Diary of Colonel William F. Bartlett: Tuesday, March 17, 1863

›
Ben and I took a bath in a stream back of our camp. Banks publishes in orders that “the Hartford and Albatross passed the fort safely, and ...
Saturday, April 30, 2016

Diary of Colonel William F. Bartlett: Tuesday, March 17, 1863

›
Ben and I took a bath in a stream back of our camp. Banks publishes in orders that “the Hartford and Albatross passed the fort safely, and ...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Eliza Walter Smith, July 11, 1863

›
VlCKSBURG, July 11, 1863. My Dear Mother: I have just debarked on my return from Port Hudson and finished my report to General Grant....
Saturday, September 28, 2013

How New Orleans was Taken

›
The following graphic account, and the only one we have seen of the taking of the city of New Orleans, was transmitted by telegraph on Mond...
Friday, August 9, 2013

From New Orleans

›
NEW YORK, May 7. The steamer Columbia has arrived from Havana, the 3d. The gun boat Daniel Smith arrived at Havana on the 30th, fro...
Friday, April 5, 2013

The Next Naval Expedition

›
The next naval expedition, which is now preparing at New York and other points, is to be commanded by Com. Farragut, and reports are abroad...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

From the Lower Mississippi

›
NEW YORK, March 28. Intelligence by the steamer Constitution from Fort Monroe states that Com. Farragut’s fleet numbers 23 vessels, includi...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

From Ship Island

›
BOSTON, March 6. The gunboat Saxon, from ship Island Feb. 22, arrived here this morning. The health of the regiments at Ship Island was go...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Incidents of the Naval Fight on the Mississippi

›
The following incidents of the fight, from the correspondence of the Boston Journal, are very interesting: CUTTING THE CHAIN ACROSS THE RI...