. 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 . em mortally. Amongthe killed was Acting Second Assistant Engineer Turner, and the wounded includedthe commander, Lieutenant Conover, Paymaster Hills and Third Assistant EngineerBarry. The gunboat McDonough hastened to her relief as soon as the cannonade washeard, but she arrived too late. When the Isaac Smith cam
. 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 . em mortally. Amongthe killed was Acting Second Assistant Engineer Turner, and the wounded includedthe commander, Lieutenant Conover, Paymaster Hills and Third Assistant EngineerBarry. The gunboat McDonough hastened to her relief as soon as the cannonade washeard, but she arrived too late. When the Isaac Smith came in sight, the whiteflag was seen just being hoisted. Three heavy field batteries were firing upon theMcDonough, and she had to retire. So the Isaac Smith fell into the enemys hand, and all her survivors becameprisoners of war. Richard Stout, landsman, one of the unfortunate vessels crew, received theMedal of Honor for his bravery and devotion in this action. His right arm wastorn off by a rebel shot, but heedless of the pain and the orders to retire below, hemanaged with the assistance of a comrade to stop the rapid discharge of blood fromhis wound, and with the crippled arm stayed at his post and fought until the Smithsurrendered. — 44- HAULED THE FIRES AND SAVED THE SHIP. T JOSEPH E. VAN TINE, First-class Fireman, U. S. S. at Pliiladelphla, March, 1835. HE strengthening of the blockade of Southern portscompelled the Confederates to seek out new chan-nels through which to obtain necessary supplies fromabroad. The most important of these channels wasthe Mexican country, from where the contraband foundits way to the Confederate country east of the Missis-sippi and the Red Riv^er. The Red River joins theMississippi between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, whichtwo places had been strongly fortified by the Farragut recognized the imperativeness ofpreventing Confederates obtaining ammunition fromabroad through the Red River just after his victory atNew Or
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