. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . fic musketry fire, and at adistance not exceeding one hundred yards. Shell-firing under the circumstances was almost great guns of the Osage were loaded with grapeand canister, and, when these were exhausted,with shrapnel having fuses cut to one second. Ourfire was reserved till the heads of the enemy wereseen just above the bank, when both guns werefired. Everything that was made of wood onthe Osage and Black Hawk was pierced with bul-lets. Upon the iron shield in the
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . fic musketry fire, and at adistance not exceeding one hundred yards. Shell-firing under the circumstances was almost great guns of the Osage were loaded with grapeand canister, and, when these were exhausted,with shrapnel having fuses cut to one second. Ourfire was reserved till the heads of the enemy wereseen just above the bank, when both guns werefired. Everything that was made of wood onthe Osage and Black Hawk was pierced with bul-lets. Upon the iron shield in the pilot-house ofthe latter were the marks of sixty bullets, a proof & This steamer was sunt, as stated in the text, on the had to be removed hefore the Confederates could re- 5th of April by Captain James McCloskey, acting under cover the use of the river.— orders of Generals E. K. Smith and Taylor. After 1 Not to be confounded with the naval steamer of the the return of the fleet to Grand Ecore, the obstruction same name, which remained at Alexandria.—Editors. 364 THE NAVY IN THE RED THE FIGHT AT BLAIRS PLANTATION. FROM A WAR-TIME SKETCH. of the hotness of the fire. This unequal contestcould not continue long, and after an hour and ahalf the enemy retreated with a loss of over fourhundred killed and wounded, as afterward ascer-tained. Among the former was General ThomasGreen, their foremost partisan fighter west of theMississippi. ]> The Osage sustained a loss of sevenwounded. Company A of the 90th Illinois were onboard and behaved most gallantly. The Confederates did not again molest the fleetuntil the 25th of April, when they attacked AdmiralPorter in the light-draught gunboat Cricket. Atthis late period the low condition of the river hadforced him to send the Osage and Xeosho down theriver, or the rebels would have suffered as severelyas at Blairs Plantation. The 15th of April found the squadron with itsfleet of transports safe back at Grand Ecore,
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