Posted on 11/12/2021 4:56:01 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
CAIRO, Monday, Nov. 11.
Memphis papers received to-day contain dispatches from Savannah fully confirming the landing of the naval expedition at Beaufort, and capture of three forts at Port Royal, Hilton Head and Bay Point. The Federal forces had possession of the town of Beaufort. The rebels acknowledge their loss very heavy.
New-Orleans papers also received to-day speak of an immense fleet off Ship Island.
OUR DISPATCHES FROM FORT MONROE.
FORTRESS MONROE, Sunday, Nov. 10.
The steamship R. Spaulding arrived from Hatteras Inlet this morning with the Twentieth Indiana Regiment.
A deserter, who reached the Inlet in a small boat, stated that news had been received on the main land of the taking of two Rebel forts at Port Royal, and the landing of a large National force.
Beaufort had also been taken by our troops.
No particulars have arrived, but the main fact corresponds with the news received a few hours since from Norfolk by a flag of truce. Great excitement prevailed on the arrival of the news at Norfolk.
From the same source we have a rumor that the railroad above Beaufort has fallen into the possession of our troops, with an immense quantity of stores.
Five deserters who reached Newport's News this morning, state that the rebels up James River are in consternation, and also bring the improbable rumor, that our troops had advanced up the Railroad, as far as Charleston.
The captain of the United States gunboat Albatross reports that he discovered the Union ashore on the 6th inst., about eight miles to the eastward of Bogue Inlet, but, in consequence of the heavy weather had no communication with the shore until the following day, when he landed with a flag of truce, and learned from the captain of a rebel company the following particulars:
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The Great Rebellion: Glorious News from South Carolina – 2-3
Important from Missouri – 3-4
Beaufort and Port Royal Harbor: The Union Lodgment in South Carolina – 5
Editorial: The Southern Expedition-The Rumors of its Progress – 6
Editorial: Military Criticisms of the Newspaper Press – 6
Editorial: The New Gold and Silver Territories – 6-7
That means the war will be over by Christmas!!!!!
Woo hoo! We taught those rebels a lesson!
I live in the Beaufort area.
As I heard on various historical tours that Beaufort was spared from burning and looting at the hands of union troops because the community served as a hospital. Southern hospitality prevailed despite having been invaded.
The Confederacy was poorly formed, poorly led (except for a few good Generals in the Eastern theater), and poorly supplied and armed.
On the surface, Jefferson Davis had a better resume to be President than Abe Lincoln. Davis had a classical West Point education, led men in battle, was a Senator, and as Secretary of War had reformed and modernized the Regular Army. Abe Lincoln never went to school, had only been in a militia during the 1832 Blackhawk War (saw no action), and was a one-term Congressman who got voted out because he opposed the Mexican War.
Yet history shows that Lincoln was perhaps the greatest President we ever had after George Washington, while Jefferson Davis is either villified as a traitor (by Northerners at the time), or a bumbling thin-skinned micromanager.
It's important to remember that, as of November 1861, Davis is winning the war, by any reasonable metric.
Sorry: Of 63 major & minor engagements Confederates have won 29, lost 27, 7 inconclusive.
By the end of 1861 we can "predict" -- with wins in Oklahoma, Kentucky and Virginia -- those numbers will be more lopsided favoring Confederates.
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