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Info on the Tennessee (I) and the Eastport - civilwartalk. com The first CSN ironclad to be named the Tennessee and the Eastport, like many Confederate ships, are quite mysterious We know the Tennessee (I) was ordered in April 1862, and was still under construction at John T Shirley's yard at Memphis when she was burned to prevent capture on 5 June, but
Eastport | Shiloh Pittsburg Landing | American Civil War Forums Eastport as my ancestors knew it was wiped out when the river was dammed Thanks for posting about this as my roots are Tishomingo county and love any opportunity to bring light to this wonderful place
Confederate Gunboats on the Tennessee River Later, he explicitly mentions the Eastport at Cerro Gordo, so that accounts for one, and I think we are all on board with that identification The other two are where my query lies On January 19, 1862, Shirk take the Lexington up the Tennessee and mentions spotting two of the still-incomplete gunboats near the fort
Forgotten Forts Series - Fort Sullivan (ME) Eastport, which actually predates Fort Sullivan, is the easternmost city in the US and is the last bit of territory returned by the Brits There is very little left today, as you say: the old powder house and some barracks (the barracks now house the Border Historical Society which is trying to replicate and restore)
History of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment Eastport at that time was the home of wealth and culture, the head of all year navigation on the Tennessee River, and freight from all points for east Mississippi and west Alabama came to this port, where it was loaded on wagons and carried to its destination
CSS Mobile Ironclad | Naval War - At Sea Along Inland Waterways CSS Mobile as an ironclad Class: ironclad gunboat Type: Eastport Dimensions: 150ft OA x 28ft EX x 7 5ft D, 450tons One screw, speed 8 knots estimated Guns: 1 -8" MLR, 1 -32pd MLR, 1 -32pdr SB Armour: probably 2" over 12" timber on the casemate Design; I N Brown
List of Union Generals - American Civil War Forums Name DANA, Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Born April 15 1822, Eastport ME Died July 15 1905, Portsmouth NH Pre-War Profession Graduated West Point 1842, Mexican war, resigned 1855, banker, militia officer
Armies of the Tennessee - American Civil War Forums At Eastport, Miss , till May Moved to St Louis, Mo , May 15-17, thence to Rolla, Mo , June 20-26, and to Fort Riley, Kan , June 29-July 8 Powder River Expedition July to September Mustered out October 7, 1865 Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 28 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 191 Enlisted men by disease
Why Did Thomas In Nashville Refuse Grant’s Order To Attack Hood . . . Why Did Thomas at Nashville Ignore Grant's Order to Attack Immediately? This was not the first time Thomas had opposed Grant's peremptory order to attack After Grant arrived in Chattanooga he immediately began urging Thomas to attack Grant, above all else understood the paramount value of
Union Steamboats to Shiloh - American Civil War Forums "Before I arrived at Savannah, Sherman, who had joined the Army of the Tennessee and been placed in command of a division, had made an expedition on steamers convoyed by gunboats to the neighborhood of Eastport, thirty miles south, for the purpose of destroying the railroad east of Corinth "