Identifier: presidentssoldie02hard (find matches)
Title: Presidents, soldiers, statesmen... with a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hardesty, Hiram H., 1834-1898, pub. 2n
Subjects: United States
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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he Sabine was only savedfrom foundering by throwing overboard her broadside guns. The Peer-less, an army transport, laden with stores. Mink, and her crew were res-cued by the steam sloop Mohican.. The Belvidere, Union and Osceolawere also disabled and did not join the met. There were transportingequipments and supplies, but uot soldiers. With the exception of these,the fleet was gathered at Port Royal before, aud on, the 7th, on which dayDupont opened the attack at niue in the morning, himself leading omhisflag-ship, the Wabash. The vessels taking part in this action were theWabash, Susquehanna, Mohican, Seminole, Pocahontas, Pawnee. Fna-dilla, Ottawa, Pembina. Seneca, Vandalia. Isaac Smith, Bienville, Au-gusta, Penquin, Curlew and R. B. Forbes. The last six were purchasedvessels, the others built for war purposes. The weather had cleared, andit was possible to maneuver the vessels at will, and all were kept in mo-tion during the engagement, so that the enemy at no time secured a per-
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14 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. feet aim, while the guns on the boats were so trained upon the rebel ibrtathat a rain of shells fell within them for the rive hour* of the engage-ment. At the eml of that time the forts were abandoned, and the battleended in victory for our forces. There were some 1,700 South Carolinatroops in the forts under command of Gen. T. F. Drayton, whose brother,Pereival Drayton, was commander of one of our vessels, the Pocahontas.The Confederate vessels were under command of Commodore Josiah Tat-nal, formerly of the U. S. Navy. There was also an additional land forceof 500 men, with a held battery not far from the forts. The first of theConfederate works abandoued were those at Hilton Head, at 1:15 p. m.An hour later the Union Hag was hoisted over Fort Walker by CaptainRodgers. The flag-ship auchored soon after, and before night this fortwas occupied by a brigade of our infantry under Gen. H. G. Wright.The last Confederate gun in this engagement was fired f

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