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Acting Master anchor Arkansas arrived attack Baton Rouge battery Bayou boat Butler Captain captured cargo coal coast Colonel Comdg commanding U. S. S. Commanding Western Gulf Commodore Commodore Bell Confederate cotton crew destroy dispatch Donaldsonville enemy enemy's Essex fire flag Flag-Officer Davis Flag-Officer Farragut FLAGSHIP HARTFORD fleet Flotilla Galveston GIDEON Gulf Blockading Squadron guns H. H. BELL Harriet Lane Hatteras honor instant ironclad July Katahdin Kineo letter Lieutenant-Commander Major-General miles Mississippi River Mobile morning obedient servant officers Oneida Order of Rear-Admiral Orleans Pensacola Bay pilot port ram Arkansas Rear-Admiral D. G. FARRAGUT Rear-Admiral Farragut rebel received regarding Renshaw repairs Report of Commander respectfully rifle Sabine Pass Secretary sent shell Ship Island shore shot sloop soon steamer Sumter Texas troops U. S. Army U. S. GUNBOAT U. S. Navy U. S. STEAM SLOOP vessel Vicksburg Volunteers West Gulf Blockading Western Gulf Blockading wounded yards
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Page 678 - Thy people ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Page 71 - Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the thanks of Congress are hereby cordially tendered to Lieutenant Isaac N.
Page 205 - States, as may be delivered to the marshal of the district into which they are brought; "and to appoint a proper person or persons residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of color, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the slave trade by commanders of the United States armed vessels.
Page 821 - By virtue of the power vested in me by law, to declare the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in cities threatened with invasion ; "I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do proclaim that martial law is hereby extended over the city of Richmond and the adjoining country to the distance of ten miles.
Page 653 - SIR, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the...
Page 349 - ... with ground tackling, and often go ashore in the first gale of wind that occurs after their capture. Many of them have no copper on their bottoms, and when brought out of the creeks from whence they trade they are soon destroyed by worms. All of which is respectfully submitted by Your obedient servant, DG FARRAGUT, Rear-Admiral, Commanding Western Gulf Blockading Squadron.
Page 681 - I consider that I should be neglecting a most important duty should I omit to mention the coolness of my executive officer, Mr. Dewey, and the steady, fearless and gallant manner in which the officers and men of the 'Mississippi...
Page 646 - March 3, 1863. SIR : I have the honor to enclose for your information the copy of a correspondence which has just taken place between Lord Lyons and myself touching the conduct of the acting British consul at Mobile...
Page 642 - I suppose accidental causes have stopped them on their way out here.* My coal arrived just in time. All of which is respectfully submitted by your obedient servant, DG FARRAGUT, Flag- Officer Western Gulf Blockading Squadron. Hon. GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC ATTACK ON FORTS JACKSON AND ST.
Page 668 - The ships will each take a gunboat on the port side and secure her as well aft as possible, so as to leave the port battery clear for the enemy's battery on the port side of the river going up, after we round the point opposite Port Hudson. Each ship will Keep a very little on the starboard quarter of her next ahead, so as to give free range to her chase guns without risk of damage from premature explosion of shrapnel or shells.