The powder was exploded and the plan was successful in so far that it blew several hundred men into eternity, but when the attacking column reached the cavity in the ground its men became confused, giving the Confederates time to reform and to pour in a terrible fire upon the Union men concentrated in the broken ground below. The result was terrible carnage of United States troops. The “Crater” had become a death trap. Nearly three thousand men were killed in it in thirty minutes, the most disastrous loss the Federal forces suffered in so short a time during the war.
The “Crater” to-day is a peaceful spot glorified by tall trees which keep the scene in continual gloom. The depression in the ground is ten feet or more in depth and about two hundred feet in diameter. A short walk brings one to the entrance to the tunnel where the lines of the United States were stretched.
[INDEX]
Adams, Fort, Newport, R. I., [222-231]
Alamo, Texas, [279-284]
Allen, Ethan, [63], [70]
Amsterdam, Fort, [37]
André, Major, [156]
Andros, Edmund, Royal Governor of Mass., [29], [107]
Annapolis Royal, [2], [84-92]
Arnold, Benedict, [64], [82];
his treason, [154] et seq., [169], [171], [238]
Atares Castle, Havana, [206]
Baltimore, Fort at, [180-189]
Battery, The, New York City, [46]
Belfast, Me., [90]
Belle Rive, Louis St. Ange de, Commanding Chartres, [12];
stationed at Vincennes, [14];
surrenders Chartres to English, [14]
Boston, Fort at, [25-35]
Boston Tea Party, [31]
Bourbon, Fort, on the Mississippi, [263]
Bowie, James, inventor of Bowie knife, [281]
Braddock, [18];
his march and death, [19], [53], [127]
Bradford, Wm., [106]
Brownsville, Pa., [21]
Burgoyne, General, [64]
Burnet, Governor of New York, [122], [123], [124]
Cadillac, La Motte, [132]
Caen, Emery de, [75]
Canseau, Nova Scotia, expedition against, [2];
fleet arrives at, [7]
Castine, Baron Vincent de, [103], [104]
Castle Garden, New York City, [46]
Castle St. Louis, Quebec, [72], [77], [82]
Castle William, Boston, [25], [35]
Castle Williams, New York Harbor, [46]
Champlain, Memorial Light House, [67]
Champlain, Samuel, [49], [50], [51], [52], [60], [72], [73];
dies at Quebec, [76]
Charles, Fort, Me., [107]
Charleston, South Carolina, Fort at, [241-250]
Chartres, Fort, site selected, [11];
disastrous expedition leaves, [12];
second fort built, [12];
surrenders to English, [14]
Chebucto Bay, [93], [94], [97]
Chicago, Illinois, [21];
historical Society, [23]
Cincinnati, Ohio, [24]
Citadel of Halifax, [93-97]
Citadel of Quebec, [72-83]
Clark, Fort, Illinois, [24]
Clark, George Rogers, [23], [24], [144], [145]
Clinton, Fort, New York City, [46]
Clinton, Fort, New York, [148], [149]
Columbus, Fort, New York, [36-48]
Constitution, Fort, New Hampshire, [161-166]
Constitution, Fort, New York, [150]
Cornbury, Governor of New Amsterdam, [41]
Covington, Fort, [187]
“Crater,” The, near Petersburg, Virginia, [303]
Crevecœur, Fort, [15]
Crockett, Davy, falls at Alamo, [283]
Crown Point, [53], [66-71]
Damariscotta, [3]
Davenport, Captain Richard, [28]
Davis, Jeff, cell at Fort Monroe, [235]
Dearborn, Fort, [21], [22], [23]
Dearborn, General, Secretary of War, [35]
Defiance, Mount, [64]
De Soto, [142], [201]
Diamond, Fort, [45]
Dieskau, [54], [55], [56], [69]
Donop, Count, [177]
Dorchester, Mass., [32]
Douglas, Fort, Utah, [289] et seq.
Drake, Sir Francis, menaces Havana, [203]
Duchambon, successor to Duquesnel, [8]
Dufferin Terrace, Quebec, [72], [83]
Dummer, William, Governor of Mass., [29]
Dumplings, Fort, near Newport, R. I., [231]
Duquesne, Fort, erected, [18];
falls to England, [19]
Duquesne, Governor-General of Canada, [18]
Duquesnel, Commandant of Louisburg, [2]
Edward, Fort, New York, [57]
Erie, Pa., [20]
Falls of Minnehaha, [268]
Federal Hill Fort, Baltimore, [188], [189]
Fetterman, Wyoming, [288] et seq.
Franklin, Pa., [21]
Frederick, Fort, Maine, [105-112]
Frenchman’s Bay, Me., [88]
Frontenac, in command at Quebec, [77], [78], [79], [110]
Frontenac, Fort (Kingston, Canada), [114], [127]
Gage, Fort, [23], [24]
George, Fort, at mouth of Columbia River, Ore., [292]
George, Fort, Me., [98-104]
George, Fort, New York City, [37]
Gettysburg, [302]
Governor’s Island, New York Harbor, [36], [37], [41], [42], [43], [44-48]
Griswold, Fort, Conn., [167-172]
Hamilton, Fort, New York, [45]
Havana, Cuba, Forts at, [201-206]
Heald, Captain Nathan, [22], [23]
Heights of Quebec, [72-83]
Hennepin, Friar Louis, and his map, [114]
Holmes, Major, [140]
Holmes, Fort, Michigan, [131-140]
Howe, Sir William, [59]
Independence, Fort, Boston, [25-35], [148]
Irving, Washington, [36]
Jackson, Fort, Louisiana, [263-267]
Jay, Fort, New York, [36-48]
Johnson, William, of New York, [53], [54], [55], [56], [69], [104], [117], [119]
Johnston, General Albert Sidney, [284]
Kaskaskia, Illinois, [143]
Keogh, Fort, Montana, [289]
Key, Francis Scott, [180], [187]
Kirke, Admiral Sir David, attacks Quebec, [74]
Kosciuszko, [151]
Lafayette, Fort, [45]
La Fuerza, Cuba, [201-206]
Laramie, Fort, Wyoming, [273-278]
Larrabee, Captain Lieutenant John, [30]
La Salle, Robert Cavelier, [114], [131]
Laurel Moat, Havana, [206]
Leavenworth, Fort, Kansas, [287] et seq.
Le Bœuf, Fort, [20], [21]
Lee, Robert E., [181];
resigns from U. S. Army, [284]
Lescarbot, Marc, [86]
Louisburg, Nova Scotia, importance of, [1];
incentives to attack, [2];
preparations against, [4];
a novel plan, [5];
expedition sails, [6];
strongest outlying work, [8];
siege progresses, [10];
restored to France, [10]
Louis de la Mobile, Fort, Alabama, [257]
McHenry, Fort, Maryland, [180-189]
McHenry, James, Secretary of War, [184]
McKenzie, Sir William’s experiment in Nova Scotia, [88], [89]
M’Lean, Colonel Francis, [100]
Mackinac Island, State park commission, [140]
Marion, Fort, Florida, [190-200]
Marion, General Francis, [199]
Marquette, Father, [131-132]
Massac, Fort, Illinois, [21], [141-146]
Matanzas Inlet, Florida, [192]
Menendez, Juan, de Aviles, [193]
Mercer, Fort, New Jersey, [175]
Mermet, Father, [142], [143]
Metropolis, Illinois, [141]
Michillimackinac, Michigan, [131-140]
Mifflin, Fort, Pa., [173-179]
Monitor and Merrimac, seen from Fort Monroe, [240]
Monroe, Fort, Virginia, [232-240]
Montcalm, Marquis de, [57], [59], [60], [62], [69], [127], [128]
Montgomery, Fort, Alabama, [212]
Montgomery, Fort, New York, [148], [149]
Montgomery, Richard, [82], [83]
Montmagny, Governor of Canada, [76]
Monts, Sieur de, discovers Annapolis basin, [82]
Morgan, Fort, Alabama, [257], [262]
Morro Castle, Cuba, [201-206]
Moultrie, Fort, South Carolina, [200], [241-250]
New London, Conn., [167] et seq.
Newport, R. I., Forts at, [222-231]
Newport Artillery Co., [222]
Niagara, Fort, New York, [113-121]
Nonsense, Fort, [170]
Ontario, Fort, New York, [122-130]
Ordre de la Bon Temps, [86]
Osceola, Monument at Fort Moultrie, [244]
Oswego, New York, [122], [130]
Pell, S. H. P., of New York, restores Ticonderoga, [65]
Pell, William F., of New York, acquires Ticonderoga, [65]
Pemaquid, Maine, [105], [106], [111]
Pensacola, Florida, Fort at, [207-214]
Pentagoet, or Castine, [103], [105], [107]
Peoria, Illinois, [24]
Pepperell, William, of Kittery, Maine, chosen to head expedition, [5];
home still standing, [5], [30], [125]
Phil Kearney, Fort, [285] et seq.
Philadelphia, Fort at, [173-179]
Phips, Sir William, [29], [78], [79], [90], [108], [109]
Pickens, Fort, Florida, [213]
Pike, Lieutenant C. M., secures Fort Snelling reservation, [269]
Pipon, Captain John, [29]
Pitt, Fort, Block-house at Pittsburgh, [17]
Plains of Abraham, [81]
Port Henry, New York, [68]
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Fort at, [161-166]
Potrincourt, Baron, founds Annapolis Royal, [84], [85], [87]
Presidio of San Francisco, Cal., [215-221]
Presque Isle, a memorial of, [20]
Principe Castle, Havana, [206]
Pulaski, Fort, Georgia, [251-256]
Putnam, Fort, [152]
Putnam, General Israel, [148], [151]
Quebec, [49], [51], [62];
Historic Forts at, [72-83]
Redstone Old Fort, [21]
Renault, Phillippe Francois de, introduces negro slavery to Illinois, [11]
Revere, Lieutenant Colonel Paul, [33], [100], [163]
Ribaut, Jean, [192]
Richelieu Cardinal, [73]
Robinson, Col. Beverly, [156]
Roxbury, Mass., [32]
St. Augustine, Florida, Fort at, [190-200]
St. Clair, General Arthur, [64]
St. Denis, Juchereau de, [141], [142], [143]
St. Frederic, Fort, New York, [67], [68], [69], [70]
St. Louis, Fort, [14]
St. Paul, Minn., foundation, [272]
St. Philip, Fort, Louisiana, [263-267]
Sam Houston, Fort, Texas, [279-284]
Samoset sells land at Pemaquid, [106]
San Antonio, Texas, Forts at, [284-289]
San Carlos, Fort, Florida, [207-214]
Sandusky, Ohio, [21]
San Francisco, Cal., Presidio at, [215-221]
San Marco, Fort, [197], [198]
Scott, Fort Winfield, San Francisco, [220]
Screven, Fort, Georgia, [254]
Shippen, Margaret, [157-158]
Shirley, William Governor of Mass., organizes expedition against Louisburg, [3];
his list of instructions, [6], [53], [116], [125]
Smith, Capt. John, sees Hampton Roads, [236]
Snelling, Fort, Minn., [268-272]
Stanwix, Fort, [129]
Star Spangled Banner, [188]
Starved Rock, Ill., [14]
Stony Point, New York, [158-160]
Sumter, Fort, South Carolina, [241-250]
Ticonderoga, New York, [49-65], [147]
Tracy, Uriah, [137]
Travis, Col. William B., of the Alamo, [280]
Trumbull, Fort, Conn., [167-172]
Turnbull, Col. John, [33]
Valesca, Luis de, his settlement at Pensacola Bay, [207]
Valley Forge, [179]
Vancouver, Fort, Washington, [290-294]
Van Twiller, Wouter, or Walter, Governor of New Amsterdam, [37], [38]
Vauban, [1], [56], [79]
Vaudreuil, last Governor of New France, [81]
Vaughan, William, of Damariscotta, suggests attack on Louisburg, [2];
his career, [3];
captures grand battery, [8], [9]
Venango, [21]
Vicksburg, Miss., [301]
Vincennes, Ind., [12]
Wadsworth, Peleg, [100], [102]
Walker, Admiral Sir Hovenden, [81]
Warren, Fort, [35]
Washington, Fort, Valley Forge, Pa., [300]
Washington, Fort, Cincinnati, Ohio, [24]
Washington, George, [18], [32], [33], [129], [155], [157], [168], [176], [226], [228]
Waterford, Pa., [20]
Wayne, “Mad” Anthony, [145], [159]
Wentworth, Sir John, Governor of New Hampshire, [162]
West Point, New York, [147-160]
White Hall, New York, [55]
Wilkinson, James, [145]
William Henry, Fort, Mass., [109], [110]
William and Mary, Fort, New Hampshire, [161-166]
William Henry, Fort, New York, [54], [56], [57], [58], [59], [119]
Winthrop, Fort, Boston, [26]
Winthrop, Governor of Mass., [27], [34]
Wolcott, Fort, Torpedo Station, [231]
Wolfe, captures, Quebec, [81]
Yorktown, Va., [64]
Yuma, Fort, Cal., [295-298]
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