. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ected above Decatur, Ala., Dec. li, 18C4. On the 22d the General Thomas had a brush with some Confederate troops near thesame place and they returned her fire with fury. Early in January of I8G0 the Grant, single-handed, silenced Confederate batteriesat Guntersville and Beards Bluff, .\la. Returning a few days later, she destroyed the entire town of Guntersville as punishment forhostile demonstrations against the gunboats. Thus these little vessels were kept busily at
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ected above Decatur, Ala., Dec. li, 18C4. On the 22d the General Thomas had a brush with some Confederate troops near thesame place and they returned her fire with fury. Early in January of I8G0 the Grant, single-handed, silenced Confederate batteriesat Guntersville and Beards Bluff, .\la. Returning a few days later, she destroyed the entire town of Guntersville as punishment forhostile demonstrations against the gunboats. Thus these little vessels were kept busily at work till the close of the war. The GeneralSherman was commanded by Acting Master J. W. Morehead; her executive officer was G. L. McClung, by whose courtesy thesefine pictures appear here. The vessels shown above, as they lay in the Tennessee near Bridgeport in March, 1865, are, from leftto right, the General Sherman, No. CO; the General Thomas, No. 01; the General Grant, No. 02; and the General Burn-side, \o. ; all named after the military leaders whose strategy had resulted in the recovery of Tennessee to the .Z.—7.^ •^=^*,-^»;;./>^ ^^yf,^^ :.-•^^fek:.-.*-C.:^>>»-
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