. Young folk's history of the war for the union . strong beaks,plated with iron, tobe used in rammingin the sides of anenemys Pope wassoon called away byGeneral Halleck, who was getting ready to march on Corinth,and Commodore Foote was left to carry on the siege alone. Hekept up a bombardment until May 9, when the painfulness ofhis foot, wounded at Donelson, obliged him to give up duty andhe was succeeded in the command by Commodore C. H, the next day after Foote Confederate gunboatsand rams attacked the Union fleet. The Cincinnati had herside stove in by the r
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . strong beaks,plated with iron, tobe used in rammingin the sides of anenemys Pope wassoon called away byGeneral Halleck, who was getting ready to march on Corinth,and Commodore Foote was left to carry on the siege alone. Hekept up a bombardment until May 9, when the painfulness ofhis foot, wounded at Donelson, obliged him to give up duty andhe was succeeded in the command by Commodore C. H, the next day after Foote Confederate gunboatsand rams attacked the Union fleet. The Cincinnati had herside stove in by the ram McRea, and the Mound City w\as badlyinjured by the ram Sumter. The ITuion gunboat Benton atlast sent a shell tlirough the boiler of the McRea, many of thecrew of which were scalded by the escaping steam. The ramfloated down with the current and succeeded in getting away,the Cincinnati and the Mound City being too much injured tochase her, and the Cincinnati soon after sunk. The remainderof the Confederate boats then left and the battle Stern-wheel Ram. 1862] CAPTURE OF MEMPHIS. 217 During the next three weeks a slow bombardment of thefort was kept up by the Union mortar-boats, and some rams,under command of Colonel Charles Ellet, Jr., were added to thefleet; but when Commodore Davis was ready for another fightno Confederate gunboats were to be seen. Fort Pillow, too, wasevacuated on the night of June 4, and the next morning thestars and stripes were hoisted over its walls. The Union fleetthen steamed down to Memj^his, where the Confederate fleet,consisting of eight rams and gunboats, was found ready foraction. The battle began at half-past five oclock in the morn-ing (June 6) and lasted only an hour and a half, ending in thedestruction or capture of seven of the eight Confederate vessels,only one, the Van Dorn, escaping. Of the others, the GeneralLovcll, the General Beauregard, and the General Price weresunk, the Jeff Thompson was blown up, the Little Eebel wasdisabl
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