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Title: Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ...
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
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Publisher: New York : Mrs. F. Leslie
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Burnside was on the Picket a screw , the smallest in the fleet on which General Burnside had established his head quarters... Reference Sunk September 1862 in the Tar River, Washington, N.C. Reference USS Picket (1862)
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BURNSIDE EXPEDITION—THE FLEET AND TRANSPORTS OFF HATTERAS DURING THE STORM—THE GENERAL GIVING ORDERS. Never had any expedition in the history of the world to pass through a severer ordeal ; everything seemed to conspire against it—nature with her storms, and human nature with her villainy. In addition to the warring elements there was the subtle treachery of Northern traitors who deliberatelyperiled the lives of thousands for the sake of gain. Compared to such men as the New York contractors whom the gallant Burnside anathematized inthe bitterness of his heart even Judas Iscariot becomes human. Our correspondent wrote that one of the most exciting scenes during this trying crisis was when, off Hatteras, General Burnside sprang up the rigging of the vessel to give his directions.
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The New York Times, January 29, 1862, Page 1 From Our Special Correspondent.
BURNSIDE'S EXPEDITION; Its Arrival at Hatteras Inlet. GREAT DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED. PERPETUAL GALES OF WIND. Shoal Water on the Inner Bars and the Too Great Draft of Water of the Vessels Delay Operations Loss of the Steamer City of New-York, the Propeller Gunboat Zouave, the Floating Battery Grapeshot, the Steamer Pocahontas with 100 Horses, and aCoal Schooner....Damage to Other Vessels.Drowning of Col. J.W. Allen and ofSurgeon F.S. Weller, of the NewJersey Ninth Regiment. Health of the Command Difficulties Overcome.FINAL HOPEFUL STATE OF THE EXPEDIION Official Report of Gen. Burnside to the War Department. SAILING OF THE FLEET. LOSS OF THE GRAPESHOT. LOSS OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK. THE FLEET INSIDE. THEORY OF HATTERAS STORMS. WHERE IS THE WATER TO COME FROM THE HEALTH OF THE COMMAND. THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE SIXTH TO EXCHANGE PLACES WITH COL. HAWKINS' ZOUAVES DEATH OF SEVERAL PRIVATES. THE OFFICERS AT PORT HATTERAS. HOTEL D'AFRIQUE AND THE CONTRABANDS. FORT HATTERAS. BURIAL OF THE DECEASED OFFICERS OF THE NINTH NEW-JERSEY REGIMENT CHAPLAIN
HATTERAS INLET, N.C., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1862.
The Burnside Expedition, which has occupied so large a share of public attention, which has cost so much in time ad in means, and which has deservedly encouraged the hopes of the patriotic of the country for what it was to accomplish for the cause of the Union, has reached this historically stormy part of the coast, and here, and in this vicinity, is to be the theatre of its operations, and may we hope -- of its triumphs.

The large majority of the vessels composing the expedition, consisting of gunboats, steamers and sailing transports for the troops, tenders, horse transports, coal vessels, etc., have arrived and anchored safely in the Inlet, or are lying at anchor north of the bar, while some are seen still under way coming in.

The auspices under which we have commenced operations are certainly not very encouraging, though they are not of a nature to discourage one so hopeful and energetic as the Commanding General is known to be; or, it is hoped, to seriously impede our progress. We have encountered one heavy blow from the Southwest -- directly ahead -- on our way down the coast, and have rode out, at our anchors, one of the heaviest Northeast gales which are known to prevail on this proverbially windy coast. Disasters of a somewhat serious, and some of a very melancholy character have also occurred which will cause regret with the public, and mourning in Northern homes. One ship, the screw-steamer City of New-York, from New-York, loaded with ordnance stores, went ashore on the bar on Monday, and now lies a total wreck, with a cargo of two hundred thousand dollars in value lost to the Expedition. No lives lost. One gunboat, the Zouave, has been sunk in the inlet, caused by overrunning her anchor during the storm, which knocked a hole in her bottom' thus causing her to sink. Her guns were saved. One schooner, loaded with coal, is also sunk.

One canal-boat or floating battery has gone ashore, Several collisions have occurred among the overcrowded vessels of the fleet, causing damage of a not serious description. Two or three of the steamers are ashore, and must sustain severe injury, though they will not be permanently lost to the fleet.

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