. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . st of the scjuadron had passed the forts antldaylight was coming fast. Undaunted, Lieutenant Edward Tatnall Nichols of the Winonapressed on, a fair mark for the gunners of Fort Jackson. The first shot from the fort killed oneman and wounded another; the third and fourtli shots killed or wounded the entire gun-crewof her 30-pounder except one man. Still Lieutenant Nichols pressed on to Fort St. his vessel and the Itasca became the center of such a terrific storm of shot thatCommander David D. Porter, of the mortar-boat
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . st of the scjuadron had passed the forts antldaylight was coming fast. Undaunted, Lieutenant Edward Tatnall Nichols of the Winonapressed on, a fair mark for the gunners of Fort Jackson. The first shot from the fort killed oneman and wounded another; the third and fourtli shots killed or wounded the entire gun-crewof her 30-pounder except one man. Still Lieutenant Nichols pressed on to Fort St. his vessel and the Itasca became the center of such a terrific storm of shot thatCommander David D. Porter, of the mortar-boat flotilla, signalled tlie two little vessels toretire. The Itasca had to be run ashore below the mortar-boats. The Winona hadbeen hulled several times, and the decks were wet fore and aft from the spray of the fallingshot. She survived to run the batteries at ^icksburg with Farragut. She exchanged afew shells with Fort Morgan in Mobile Bay while on blockade duty there, August 30, 1862. ii;;//;//jf7jjf/^^JJj/fi// f n-T-TT- \^^\^^^^^^^■^^^^^^^^^ v \.vwv^ vttt. THE HARTFORD AFTER PASSING THE FORTS A SECOND TIME The photographic chronicling of the most daring deed would remain incomplete without this presentment of the gallant Hartfordas she paused at Baton Rouge on a second and peaceful -idsit in 1882. The rule against the inclusion of any but war-time scenes intliis Photographic History has therefore been suspended in favor of this striking photograph—pre^dously unpublished like the people of New Orleans who remembered the Hartford in 1862 would hardly have recognized her when, twenty years after-ward, she once more steamed up the river and dropped her anchor off the levee. Her appearance, it is seen, was greatly changed;her engines had been altered and she was a much faster vessel than before. When she had passed through the iron hail from the forts,[202]
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