Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the RebellionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - United States |
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Acting Ensign Acting Master Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Anacostia anchor ANDW Aquia Creek Army Atlantic Blockading Squadron Baltimore battery boats Captain cargo cavalry Commandant Navy Yard COMMANDANT'S OFFICE Commander F. A. PARKER Commander Parker commanding First Division commanding Potomac Flo Commanding Potomac Flotilla commanding U. S. S. Commanding West India Commodore A. A. HARWOOD Commodore Harwood crew Currituck Division Potomac Flotilla enclose enemy fire FOXHALL Fredericksburg Freeborn G. V. Fox GIDEON gunboats guns Hampton Roads instant Jacob Bell letter Lieutenant Wyman Lieutenant-Commander Magaw M. T. W. T. F. Sat Maryland NAVY DEPARTMENT obedient servant PENDERGRAST Piankatank Piankatank River Point Lookout Potomac River R. H. WYMAN Rappahannock River rebel regarding Report of Acting Report of Commodore Report of Lieutenant respectfully SAMUEL MAGAW sent shell ship sloop station steamer Telegram tilla U. S. Navy U. S. S. JACOB BELL U. S. schooner vessels Washington West India Squadron
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Page 688 - President of the United States of America to all who shall see these presents, greeting...
Page 616 - Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, with a view to the same purposes before mentioned and to the protection of the public peace and the lives and property of quiet and orderly citizens pursuing their lawful occupations, until Congress shall have assembled...
Page 616 - ... the blockaded port, she will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port, for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize, as may be deemed advisable. And I hereby proclaim and declare that if any person, under the pretended authority of the said...
Page 565 - ... in such parts of the States of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and so much of Louisiana as lies east of the Mississippi river, as shall be embraced within the lines of national military occupation...
Page 616 - WHEREAS the laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed, in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 794 - Providence of abridging its calamities, that they exert themselves in preserving order, in promoting concord, in maintaining- the authority and efficacy of the laws, and in supporting and invigorating all the measures which may be adopted by the constituted authorities for obtaining a speedy, a just, and an honorable peace.
Page 617 - ... deemed it advisable to set on foot a blockade of the ports within the States aforesaid, in pursuance of the laws of the United States, and of the law of nations in such case provided.
Page 794 - States, and the instructions given them for the regulation of their conduct, that shall satisfy all damages done contrary to the tenor thereof by such vessel during her commission and deliver up the same when revoked by the President of the Confederate States. And...
Page 794 - ... the commander thereof for the time being, shall give bond to the Confederate States, with at least two responsible sureties not interested in such vessel, in...
Page 616 - ... enter or leave the blockaded port, she will be captured and sent to the nearest convenient port, for such proceedings against her and her cargo as prize as may be deemed advisable.