. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . riffith, Sat ah Bruin, HenryJames, Dan. Smith, Raur, and the Sea Foam. Commander Porters flagship was the steamerHarriet Lane, i, which was accompanied bv theguuboat Oicasco, 5, Lieutenant Guest. Tbo land forces, embracing about 9,000 on the following transports: Mississippi, with General Butler and staff,
. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . riffith, Sat ah Bruin, HenryJames, Dan. Smith, Raur, and the Sea Foam. Commander Porters flagship was the steamerHarriet Lane, i, which was accompanied bv theguuboat Oicasco, 5, Lieutenant Guest. Tbo land forces, embracing about 9,000 on the following transports: Mississippi, with General Butler and staff, tkiTwenty-sixth and Thirty-first Massachusetts Regi-monts, nnder Colonels Jones and Gooding, andEveretts Sixth Massachusetts Battery. Great Republic, General WillianiB, with theFourth Wisconsin, Sixth Michigan, and Twenty-Brat Indiana Regiments, nnder Colonels and MeMillen. North America, the Thirtieth MassnchusetlsRegiment, Colonel Dudley, and a company each <■(Durivagea and Poods Cavalry. ifatantas, General Phelps, with the Ninth Con-necticut Regiment, Colonel Cahill, aud HolcombtSecond Vermont Battery. Will Farley, the Twelfth Connecticut, ColonelDoming. The Confederates sent down several of their tire-rafts dining the afternoon and night of the 17th,. BURNING OF CONFEDERATE GUNBOATS, RAMS . AND ALQIEHB, ON THE APPltOAOFJ OF TUB FEDERAL FLEKT. «m. -Tom the Mason nnd Slid oil capture, necessitated a> mango in tho contemplated movements. Titoresult of their conference was tho selection of NewOrleans as the ii™t most important objective pointin lieu of Mobile, and when the decision was laidbefore President Lincoln, it met with his imme-diate approval. Tho Department of tho Gulf was created, nndGeneral Butler placed at its head. On tho 25th , 18C2, Butlor embarked at HamptonElondp, nboard the steamship Mississippi, with hiswife ami staff, and reached Ship Inland on tho 25thid March, after a protracted and dangcroiia passago,especially alon
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