"The Jayhawker and the Conductor: The Combahee Ferry" Topic
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Tango01 | 19 Mar 2023 8:44 p.m. PST |
… Raid, 2 June 1863 "It was dark as three Union Army steamboats left St. Helena Sound off the coast of South Carolina and headed up the Combahee River. The black waters, cut by the ships' blunt prows, parted and flowed along their hulls and through the paddlewheels while the rhythmic chugging of the engines vibrated through the decks. At the rails, the soldiers quietly watched the indistinct shoreline shape shift in the darkness as they passed. They were nervous but excited to be going into action. Their commander, Colonel James Montgomery, did not doubt his men's readiness for battle.
On board the gunboats John Adams and Harriet A. Weed, and the transport Sentinel, were men of two units: the 2d South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment (African Descent) and a section of Battery C, 3d Rhode Island Heavy Artillery. The gunners of the 3d were at action stations manning the ships' cannons. They also brought along two of their 12-pounder field howitzers for good measure.
Colonel Montgomery was an ardent abolitionist. He was born in Ohio and moved first to Kentucky and Missouri as a young man. He then moved again, this time to Kansas, where he became a "Jayhawker," one of those involved in the violent struggle over whether Kansas would be a free or slave state —a conflict that left the region known as "Bleeding Kansas."…"
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Brechtel198 | 20 Mar 2023 10:17 a.m. PST |
Colonel Montgomery was responsible for the looting and destruction of Darien, Georgia which had not resisted and his actions were reported by Colonel Robert Shaw, the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Shaw's father contributed to the rebuilding of Darien after the war as a tribute to his dead son, killed in the night assault on Battery Wagner in July 1863. Montgomery today would be treated as a war criminal and terrorist. |
Tango01 | 20 Mar 2023 3:46 p.m. PST |
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