. The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865 . tire day. Several of the gun-boats were disabled andthe earthworks were badly damaged. Night came onbefore Pope was ready to assault the intrenchmentswith infantry, and with it a terrible storm of rain andelectricity. When morning dawned, it was found thatthe Confederates had abandoned New Madrid, leavingall their heavy artillery, thousands of small arms, a vastmagazine of ammunition, and a large quantity of storesof every description. The men had been transportedacross the river, and ordered to make their way to Isl-and No. 10, and the gun-boa
. The Civil War and the Constitution, 1859-1865 . tire day. Several of the gun-boats were disabled andthe earthworks were badly damaged. Night came onbefore Pope was ready to assault the intrenchmentswith infantry, and with it a terrible storm of rain andelectricity. When morning dawned, it was found thatthe Confederates had abandoned New Madrid, leavingall their heavy artillery, thousands of small arms, a vastmagazine of ammunition, and a large quantity of storesof every description. The men had been transportedacross the river, and ordered to make their way to Isl-and No. 10, and the gun-boats had withdrawn to a pointbelow Point Pleasant. Pope^s entire loss in this brill-iant movement did not exceed sixty men. He estimatedthe loss of the Confederates as much larger, but no ex-act report of the same was ever made by anybody. Pope began at once his operations for the reduction ofIsland No. 10. He dragged the heavy guns capturedfrom the Confederates down the river to a point oppo-site the extremity of dry ground on the Tennessee ■ 0 1 2 New Madrid and Island Number Ten. ISLAND NO. 10 315 and planted them here in battery, in order to preventany communication frOm below with Island No. 10 bymeans of a road which led from this pointon the Tennessee shore up to a point on the tione agametsame shore opposite the island. On theeast side of this road lay the dismal Reelfoot Lake andswamps, which cut off all land retreat from Island , except over the road, the lower extremity of whichPope now closed by means of his artillery on the oppo-site bank. The Confederates saw the trap which Popewas preparing, and their five gun-boats attacked the bat-tery with great determination, but were driven off, withthe loss of one of the boats, and with much damage totwo others. Upon the advice of his most capable engineer. GeneralSchuyler Hamilton, Pope now ordered his engineer regi-ment, commanded by Colonel J. W. Bissell, to cut acanal across the neck
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