. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . % Illinois. But the time was too short. The boats w^ere unfinishedat the end of sixtj^-five days. The Government refused to 2)ayfor them. And the builder, Eads—what did he do? He wentahead and used uj) his own fortune to finish those gunboats, [-210] _J:iv-.:Ji:C0. On the night of April -t, 1802, the Confederate garrison of the battery on Island No. 10, peering thi-ough the darkness out on the Mississippi, caught sight of the flicker of flames from the smoke-stacks of a steamer proceeding down the river. They knew at once that the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . % Illinois. But the time was too short. The boats w^ere unfinishedat the end of sixtj^-five days. The Government refused to 2)ayfor them. And the builder, Eads—what did he do? He wentahead and used uj) his own fortune to finish those gunboats, [-210] _J:iv-.:Ji:C0. On the night of April -t, 1802, the Confederate garrison of the battery on Island No. 10, peering thi-ough the darkness out on the Mississippi, caught sight of the flicker of flames from the smoke-stacks of a steamer proceeding down the river. They knew at once that the attempt of the Federal gunboats to pass down to the support of General Popes crossing of the river below had begun. The men on shore leaped to their guns, and the crash of cannon and the rattle of musketry broke forth across the bosom of the river. Aiming through the darkness at the luminous tops of the smoke-stacks the gunners poured in their vindictive fire, but the Confederates had elevated their guns too high and only two of their shots sped home. The Carondelct, for it was she, held on her way, and her commander, Henry Walke, would not permit his men to send a single answering shot. Walke had begged to be the first to take his vessel by the dreaded batteries on Island No. 10. In the pilot-house he directed the dar
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