 | 1881 - 596 Seiten
...the Province of Maryland, the rebels consisting only of 4 Companies militia under a Colonel Rumsey1 fled without firing a shot. The troops hutted with...it were cutting channels through it for each other. 21th. The storm continuing most of the morning the order for marching was countermanded. The roads... | |
 | James Gabriel Montrésor, John Montrésor - 1882 - 644 Seiten
...A hard squall with very heavy rain and sharp lightning and thunder which continued from 8 till 1 2 this night and the whole night distressingly hot and...it were cutting channels through it for each other. wars boat and midshipmen taken by the rebels, the men being on East shore for milk &c. The Galley fired... | |
 | United States. Naval History Division - 1964 - 1198 Seiten
...Admiralty Court Papers, 177&-8S, HSP. JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN JOHN MONTRESOR l 26th [August, Elk River] The Shoalness of the Elk convinced the Rebels that...it were cutting channels through it for each other. 1. Scull, ed., The Montresor Journal:, 442. WILLIAM PACA TO SAMUEL CHASE * [Extract] [Chestertown,... | |
 | Thomas J. McGuire - 2006 - 422 Seiten
...any very large Merchant ship above Swan point before this." Montresor observed with admiration that "the Shoalness of the Elk convinced the Rebels that...ships on it were cutting channels through it for each other."207 Gen. James Grant, by no means easy to please, paid His Lordship a very high compliment,... | |
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Battalion, very little fresh stock collected, and imperfect accounts of the situation of the Enemy. Inhabitants in numbers and well dressed at Cecil Court House Point. Troops landed with sixty Rounds per man. 26th. No motion — no inhabitants having... 