Book/Printed Material Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two wars: 1861-1865; 1870-1871.
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Image 7 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … CAMP COURT AND SIEGE A NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL ADVENTURE AND OBSERVATION DURING TWO WARS 18611865 18701871 By WICKHAM HOFFMAN ASSISTANT ADJGEN US VOLS AND SECRETARY U 8S LEGATION AT PARIS NEW YORK…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
- Date: 1877
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Image 8 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1877 by HARPER BROTHERS In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 9 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … Dedication TO Tue Hon E B WASHBURNE MINISTER OF THE U S AT PARIS THESE PAGES ARE CORDIALLY DEDICATED IN ADMIRATION OF THE STERLING QUALITIES OF MANHOOD DISPLAYED BY HIM DURING THE…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
- Date: 1877
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Image 10 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two …- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 11 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … CONTENTS CHAPTER I Hatteras Black Drink Fortress MonroeGeneral Butler Smallpox LIsle des ChatsLightningFarragutTroops iar surTengerOL WOTie 0 os vew sok ae Oeramieee bee Sa Page 11 CHAPTER II New OrleansCustomhouseUnion PrisonersThe Calaboose…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 12 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 6 CONTENTS CHAPTER V T W Sherman Contrabands Defenses of New Orleans Ex change of PrisonersAmenities in WarPort HudsonRecon noissance in ForceThe FleetOur LeftAssault of May 27th Sherman woundedPort Hudson surrenders Page…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 13 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … CONTENTS Is sustained but too lateLevees destroyed by FloodsConflict of JurisdictionAction of President JohnsonSheridan abolishes Canbys Provost Marshals DepartmentCanby asks to be recalled Is ordered to WashingtonTo GalvestonTo RichmondTo CharlestonIs murdered by…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 14 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … nnn ee IEEE EERE 8 CONTENTS Government of National DefenseTrochu at its HeadJules Si monUnited States recognizes Republic Washburnes Address Favres AnswerEfforts for PeaceJohn L OSullivan Page 159 CHAPTER XIV Belleville DemonstratesRadical…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 15 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … CONTENTS 9 Le Bourget taken by French Retaken by Prussians French Naval OfficersBelleville National GuardTheir PoetryBlun deringSheridans Opinion of German Army Page 207 CHAPTER XVIII The National GuardIts Composition The American Ambulance…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 16 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … Io CONTENTS ied InsurgentsBitterness of Class HatredIts Probable Causes United States Postoffice at VersaillesThe Archbishop of Par is Attempts to save his Life Washburnes Kindness to him BlanquiArchbishop murderedUltramontanismBombard ment by GovernmentMy…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 17 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … CAMP COURT AND SIEGE CHAPTER I Hatteras Black DrinkFortress MonroeGeneral Butler Smallpox LIsle des ChatsLightningFarragutTroops landSurrender of Forts In February 1862 the writer of the following pages an officer on the staff…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 18 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 12 CAMP COCET AND SIEGE The history of Hatteras is curious There can be little doubt that English navigators penetrated into those waters long before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth But the…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 19 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … BLACK DRINK 13 mal driven along the beach on a stormy night The effect was that of a vessel riding at anchor Other vessels approached and were soon unpleasantly aware of the…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 20 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 14 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE stition with the maladie de mer It would so com fort us in our afiliction But we were not to stay long on this enchanted isle Butler…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 21 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … GENERAL BUTLER 15 for the capture of New Orleans Without him New Orleans would not have been taken in 1862 and a blow inflicted upon the Confederacy which the Lon don ZYimes…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 22 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 16 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE and three old regimentsthe Fourth Wisconsin the Sixth Michigan and the Twenty first Indiana designated to accompany them At the last mo ment MClellan opposed the departure…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 23 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … SLGh Be OF CATS 17 climate and no black drink a low sandy island in the Gulf off Mobile This part of the Gulf of Mexico was discovered and settled by the…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 24 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 18 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE We remained at the Isle of Cats about six weeks the life monotonous enough The beach offered a great variety of shellfish devilfish horse shoes and seahorses…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 25 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … FARRAGUT 19 guns horses all had arrived Butler became impa tient for the action of the navy He went to the Southwest Pass where Farraguts fleet was lying and urged his advance…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 26 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 20 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE for the action of the fleet Farragut after an idle bombardment of three days by the mortar boats which he told us he had no confidence in…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 27 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … SURRENDER OF FORTS ae had assisted in building forts St Philip and Jack son knew the ground well Under their guidance we embarked first in lightdraught gunboats then in barges and made…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 28 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 22 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE flag had been hauled down from the Mint by a mob headed by that scoundrel Mumford and dragged through the mud I heard Butler swear by all…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 29 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … NEW ORLEANS 23 CHAPTER II New OrleansCustomhouseUnion PrisonersThe Calaboose Them LincolnitesThe St Charles Grapevine Telegraph New Orleans Shopkeepers Butler and Soulé The Fourth WisconsinA New Orleans MobYellow Fever On the evening of…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 30 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 24 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE with instructions for them to land at once and fall into the rear of the column I passed through the mob without difficulty gave the orders and…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 31 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … THE CUSTOM HOUSE 25 tant of the Fourth Wisconsin and asked if he had any axes in his regiment He at once ordered up two or three men We found the weakestlooking…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 32 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 4 26 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE Pretty well tired out with the labor and excite ment of the day I was just making myself tolerably comfortable for the night when the officer…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 33 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … UNION PRISONERS 27 dered his release and took him with me to the Cus tomhouse for he was afraid to return home Being on the spot it occurred to me that it…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 34 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 28 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE relish it The prison was quiet locked up for the night We hammered away at the door till we got the officers up went in examined the…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 35 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … NEW ORLEANS SHOPKEEPERS 29 one of the generals aidsengaged in a hot dis cussion with our rebel friends I asked him What use in discussing these matters and turning to the rebs…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 36 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 30 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE the shopkeepers he issued an order that all shops must be opened on a certain day or that he should put soldiers in and sell the goods…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 37 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … BUTLER AND SOULE 31 with one orderly to the levee and there surrounded by the crowd awaited her landing As regards the former we never heard of any wellauthenticated attempt to assassinate…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 38 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 32 CAMF COURT AND SIEGE Butler undoubtedly got the better of the argument Perhaps the fact that he had thirteen thousand bay onets to back his opinions gave point to his remarks…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 39 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … A NEW ORLEANS MOB 33 The orders were to take no notice of what was said but to permit no overt act I was sitting one day in my office the general…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
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Image 40 of Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two … 34 CAMP COURT AND SIEGE been so well governed so clean so orderly and so healthy as it was under Butler He soon got rid of the Pluguglies and other ruffian bands…- Contributor: Hoffman, Wickham
- Date: 1877
About this Item
Title
- Camp, court and siege; a narrative of personal adventure and observation during two wars: 1861-1865; 1870-1871.
Names
- Hoffman, Wickham, 1821-1900.
Created / Published
- New York, Harper & Brothers, 1877.
Headings
- - Hoffman, Wickham,--1821-1900
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
- - Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- - Southwest, Old--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- - France--History--Second Empire, 1852-1870
- - France--History--Occupation and evacuation, 1871-1873
- - Paris (France)--History--Commune, 1871
Notes
- - The writer served successively on the staffs of Generals T. Williams, T.W. Sherman, and W.B. Franklin, 1862-1864 and E.R.S. Canby, 1865 in Louisiana and the lower Mississippi Valley; and was assistant secretary and secretary of the U.S. legation at Paris, 1866-1871.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 285 p. 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E601 .H69
Library of Congress Control Number
- 11021725
OCLC Number
- 3820618
Online Format
- online text
- image