. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE ARMYS CHIEF RELIANCE ON THE RIVER—THE DOUBLE-TURRETED MONITOR ONONDAGA While Admiral Porter and his squadron were absent on the Fort Fisher expedition, it was of thegreatest importance that an adequate flotilla should be left in the James to preclude the possibilityof the Confederate gunboats getting down past the obstructions and making a bold and disastrousattack on City Point, the army base. Ha\ing left this huge ironclad fighting-vessel behind. AdmiralPorter felt at ease. But the undaunted Confederate Flag-Officer J. K. Mit
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE ARMYS CHIEF RELIANCE ON THE RIVER—THE DOUBLE-TURRETED MONITOR ONONDAGA While Admiral Porter and his squadron were absent on the Fort Fisher expedition, it was of thegreatest importance that an adequate flotilla should be left in the James to preclude the possibilityof the Confederate gunboats getting down past the obstructions and making a bold and disastrousattack on City Point, the army base. Ha\ing left this huge ironclad fighting-vessel behind. AdmiralPorter felt at ease. But the undaunted Confederate Flag-Officer J. K. Mitchell was not to bedeterred from making one last attempt to strike a telling blow with the ^irginia and her con-sorts. On the night of January 23, 1865, he came down to the Federal obstructions and attemptedto get by. ^^^len the movement was discovered, contrary to all expectations the great Onondagaretreated down the river. The moment might well have been one of the greatest anxiety for theFederals, but in maneuvering, the Virginia and the Richmond both g
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