. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Here the army is saving the navy by a Ijrilhant piece of engineering that prevented the loss of afleet worth $2,000,000. The Red River expedition was one of the most humiliating ever mider-taken by the Federals. Porters fleet, which had so boldly advanced above the falls at Alexandria,was ordered back, only to find that the river was so low as to imprison twelve vessels. Joseph Bailey, actmg engineer of the Nineteenth Corps, obtained permission to build
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Here the army is saving the navy by a Ijrilhant piece of engineering that prevented the loss of afleet worth $2,000,000. The Red River expedition was one of the most humiliating ever mider-taken by the Federals. Porters fleet, which had so boldly advanced above the falls at Alexandria,was ordered back, only to find that the river was so low as to imprison twelve vessels. Joseph Bailey, actmg engineer of the Nineteenth Corps, obtained permission to build a dam inorder to make possible the passage of the fleet. Begun on April 30,1864, the work was finished on the 8thof May, almost entirely by the soldiers, working incessantly day and night, often up to their necks in waterand under the broiling sun. Bailey succeeded in turning the whole current into one channel and thesquadron passed l)elow to safety. Not often have inland lumbermen been the means of saving a na\y.
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