Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the RebellionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 |
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Actg Acting Ensign Acting Rear-Admiral Thatcher April arrived batteries Brigadier-General Cairo Captain Foote Colonel Columbus Comdr commanding officer commanding U. S. S. Commanding West Gulf Commodore Conestoga crew dispatch Donelson E. R. S. CANBY enemy enemy's February fire Flag-Officer Foote flotilla Fort Donelson Fort Henry Frémont Galveston GIDEON Gulf Blockading Squadron gunboats guns Halleck HEADQUARTERS honor instant Ironclad Island land Letter Lexington Lieut Lieutenant Commanding Lieutenant-Commander Louis Madrid Major-General Major-General Canby March Metacomet miles Mobile Bay mortar boats Naval Forces NAVY DEPARTMENT obedient servant ordnance Orleans Paddle wheel Paducah Pensacola Bay Phelps Pittsburg Rear-Admiral H. K. THATCHER rebel received regarding regiment Report of Acting respectfully rifled schooner Screw Secretary sent shell ship shore shot steamer Stembel Stern wheel Telegram troops U. S. Army U. S. FLAGSHIP U. S. GUNBOAT U. S. Navy vessel Washington West Gulf Blockading West Gulf Squadron Western Waters
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Página 276 - I have the honor to be, captain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, J.
Página 596 - Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.
Página 131 - States, do hereby make known that, if, after a reasonable time shall have elapsed for intelligence of this proclamation to have reached any foreign country in whose ports the said privileges and immunities shall have been refused, as aforesaid, they shall continue to be so refused, then- and...
Página 563 - The slight resistance at Fort Henry indicates that the best open earthworks are not reliable to meet successfully a vigorous attack of iron-clad gunboats, and, although now supported by a considerable force, I think the gunboats of the enemy will probably take Fort Donelson without the necessity of employing their land force in co-operation, as seems to have been done, at Fort Henry.
Página 428 - This was no ordinary shock of arms; it was a long and trying contest, in which our troops fought by detachments, and always against superior numbers. The 7th of November will fill a bright page in our military annals, and be remembered with gratitude by the sons and daughters of the South.
Página 41 - SIR: I have the honor to report that, in obedience to your orders, I...
Página 596 - SIR: — In consideration of all the circumstances governing the present situation of affairs at this station, I propose to the Commanding Officer of the Federal forces the appointment of Commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation of the forces and fort under my command, and in that view suggest an armistice until 12 o'clock to-day.
Página 177 - All existing military and naval orders in any manner restricting internal, domestic, and coastwise commercial intercourse and trade with or in the localities above named, be, and the same are hereby, revoked, and that no military or naval officer in any manner interrupt or interfere with the same, or with any boats or other vessels engaged therein under proper authority pursuant to the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury. "ANDREW JOHNSON.
Página 651 - Columbus, the Gibraltar of ,„ , , the West, is ours, and Kentucky is free, thanks to the brilliant strategy of the campaign by which the enemy's center was pierced at Forts Henry and Donelson, his wings isolated from each other and turned, compelling thus the evacuation of his stronghold of Bowling Green first, and now Columbus.
Página 131 - although, on the other hand, they have not at any time failed to protest against and declare their dissatisfaction with the same. In the view of the United States no condition any longer exists which can be claimed to justify the denial to them by any one of...