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NAVY OF THE U. S. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



repulsed, with the loss of Commander Ward, 

 killed, and four wounded. (See WAED, and 

 MATTHIAS POINT.) 



On the 21st of July, a battalion of marines, 

 under the command of Major John G. Rey- 

 nolds, was present and took part in the battle 

 of Bull Run. (See BULL RUN.) 



On the 25th of July, Lieutenant Crosby, with 

 five launches and four boats from Fortress Mon- 

 roe, proceeded up Back River, a small stream, 

 not far from the fortress, and destroyed ten 

 vessels. They also brought back a schooner 

 heavily laden with corn, provisions, and other 

 articles. 



On the 10th of August, Galveston, in Texas, 

 was bombarded by Commander Alden. (See 

 GALVESTON.) 



On the 15th of August, the gunboats Reliance 

 and Resolute were despatched to make a recon- 

 noissance of Matthias Point. A boat was sent 

 with a small party to capture another boat seen 

 on the Virginia shore. As the former ap- 

 proached the shore they were fired on from the 

 bushes, and three of the boat's crew were in- 

 stantly killed and one wounded. The gunboats 

 opened fire upon the covert and drove the ene- 

 my out, when the boat's crew was brought off 

 by assistance from one of the vessels. 



On the 26th of August, the naval and mili- 

 tary expedition to Hatteras Inlet sailed from 

 Hampton Roads. (See EXPEDITIONS.) 



On the 10th of September, the gunboat Con- 

 estoga, Lieutenant S. E. Phelps, opened fire on 

 a Confederate battery at Lucas Bend, a few 

 miles below Cairo on the Mississippi River. 

 There were sixteen pieces of field artillery and 

 one heavy piece in the battery. Some of the 

 guns were rifled. In a short time the gunboat 

 Lexington, under Commander Stembel, arrived. 

 The guns of the battery constantly changed 

 their position on the shore, and the boats moved 

 up or down in like manner. As the former 

 were silenced at one spot they reappeared at 

 another until they were finally silenced. Sev- 

 eral shots were also fired at a Confederate gun- 

 boat, which retired to Columbus. The object 

 of the movement of the gunboats was to 

 accompany a body of troops marching down 

 the Missouri side of the river. 



On the 13th of September, the schooner Judah 

 was destroyed as she lay at the Pensacola navy 

 yard. (See PENSACOLA.) 



On the 14th of September, the fort on Beacon 

 Island, at Ocrocoke Inlet, was destroyed and 

 twenty -two guns disabled. 



On the 16th of September, a naval force under 

 Commander Melancthon Smith occupied Ship 

 Island. 



On the 5th of October, the gunboat Monti- 

 cello, Lieutenant D. L. Braine, shelled a Con- 

 federate force on Hatteras Island and the 

 steamers from which they had landed. (See 

 HATTERAS ISLAND.) 



On the 5th of October, an attempt was made 

 to cut off two boats and twenty-three men be- 

 longing to the steamer Louisiana, which had 



been sent to destroy a schooner at Chincoteague 

 Inlet, Virginia. The schooner was destroyed, 

 and four of the Federal force were wounded. 

 The injury to the Confederates is unknown. 



On the llth of October, a large schooner was 

 destroyed in Quantico (or Dumfries) Creek by 

 a Federal force in two launches under Lieuten- 

 ant A. D. Harrall. It was dark at the time, 

 and the attacking party was fired upon by a 

 considerable Confederate force on the shore. 



On the llth of October, a Confederate bat- 

 tery at Lynnhaven Bay was silenced by the 

 propeller Daylight, Commander Samuel Lock- 

 wood. The battery had opened fire upon an 

 American ship, which, during a gale, had drag- 

 ged within reach of its guns. 



On the 13th of October, the affair at the 

 Passes of the Mississippi took place. (See LOU- 

 ISIANA.) 



On the 21st of October, a skirmish at long 

 range took place between the steamer Massa- 

 chusetts, Captain Smith, and a Confederate 

 steamer of light draft and great speed, in Mis- 

 sissippi Sound. The Massachusetts was struck 

 by a 68-pounder shell, but continued the en- 

 gagement until her ammunition was exhausted. 



On the night of October 27", a boat expedition 

 from the steamer Louisiana destroyed a schooner 

 at Swan's Bug Creek, near Chincoteague Inlet, 

 Virginia. 



About October 30, Lieutenant Phelps with 

 three companies of an Illinois regiment in the 

 gunboat Conestoga, attacked a Confederate 

 force at Eddyville, up the Tennessee River, 

 62 miles from Paducah. Forty-four prisoners 

 were taken, and also stores. 



On the 7th of November, the batteries at 

 Port Royal were captured. (See EXPEDITIONS.) 



On the 9th of November, the gunboats Tay- 

 lor, Commander Walke, and Lexington, Com- 

 mander Stembel, participated in a disastrous 

 attack on the batteries at Belmont on the Mis- 

 sissippi River. On the same day a schooner 

 was burned at Curritowan Creek, Va., by a force 

 from the gunboat Cambridge, Commander W. 

 A. Parker. 



On the 14th of November, the gunboat Cor- 

 win had a conflict with a Confederate steamer 

 at Hatteras Inlet. 



A number of exploits were performed before 

 the close of the year by the gunboats of the 

 navy. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE is one of the New Eng- 

 land States, and one of the original members 

 of the Confederation. It is situated between 

 lat. 42 41' and 45 11' N., and long. 70 40' 

 and 72 28' W. from Greenwich. Its length 

 from north to south is 176 miles; extreme 

 breadth, 90 miles ; average breadth, 45 miles ; 

 area, 9,280 square miles, or 5,939,200 acres. The 

 population in 1860 was whites, 325,622; free 

 colored, 450 ; total, 326,072. It is bounded north 

 by Lower Canada, east by Maine and the Atlan- 

 tic, south by Massachusetts, and west by Ver- 

 mont, from which it is separated by the Con- 

 necticut River. It is divided into ten counties. 



