. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . 53 — A CONSPICUOUS MARK FOR BULLETS. HUGH MOLLOY, Ordinary Seaman, U. S. S. Fort In Comerford, Ireland, Sept. 25, 1841. /~ the 29th of February, 1864, a fleet of five gun-^-^ boats and a monitor—the Osage—started upthe Red River, the Black River, and the WashitaRiver successively, to break up some re
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . 53 — A CONSPICUOUS MARK FOR BULLETS. HUGH MOLLOY, Ordinary Seaman, U. S. S. Fort In Comerford, Ireland, Sept. 25, 1841. /~ the 29th of February, 1864, a fleet of five gun-^-^ boats and a monitor—the Osage—started upthe Red River, the Black River, and the WashitaRiver successively, to break up some rebel campsthat were being fortified around and near Harrison-burgh, La. Arriving at the town of Trinity, thejunction of the Little and the Washita Rivers, onMarch 1st, they were attacked by a battery of12-pounder guns and some sharpshooters underGeneral Polignac. The ships immediately openedfire and in a few minutes drove the rebels from thetown. The next morning the fleet started up the Wash-ita in the following order: The Osage, Fort Hindman,Conestaga, Cricket, Washita, and Lexington, and when within about two miles of Harrisonburgh Polignac again attacked it, direct-ing his 12-pounder rifled guns chiefly at the Fort Hindman, she being the and shell crashed into her with frightful rapidity, a
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