. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . k of his flagshipHartford. From the firing of the first gun on New Orleans a rain of iron fellupon the forts. During the first twenty-four hours Captain David Porters gunnersdropped fifteen hundred bombs in and around the forts. The night was hideouswith fiery meteors and the day dense with smoke and flame. The roar of theartillery was deafening and shattered the windows in the houses for many six days and nights the terrific bombardment raged. When Farragutattempted to run the gauntlet to th
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . k of his flagshipHartford. From the firing of the first gun on New Orleans a rain of iron fellupon the forts. During the first twenty-four hours Captain David Porters gunnersdropped fifteen hundred bombs in and around the forts. The night was hideouswith fiery meteors and the day dense with smoke and flame. The roar of theartillery was deafening and shattered the windows in the houses for many six days and nights the terrific bombardment raged. When Farragutattempted to run the gauntlet to the metropolis of the gulf he swept the shoreswith a continuous fire of twenty-six thousand shells—a million and a half poundsof metal. The Confederates pushed a fire raft down the river to the daringadmirals flagship and the Hartford burst into flame. While one part of thecrew fought the fire, the others poured metal from her guns onto the the twenty-sixth day of April, Farragut entered the harbor to NewOrleans and on the twenty-ninth unfurled the Stars and Stripes in the THE heaviest battery of artilleryever mounted in the world,up to 1862, was before York-town when the Union armywas maneuvering to enter Richmondfrom the south. The intention was toshell the Confederates out of astrongly intrenched position by over-whelming fire. This photograph wastaken inside of the fortification thatthreatened to annihilate an entirearmy. In it were huge demons ofdeath—that were hitherto unknownin warfare—capable of throwing goopounds of iron at one broadside intothe lines of the enemy. There werefive 100-pounder and two 200-pounderParrot rifled cannon. The topographyof the country would not admit ofengagements with unfortified Confederates concentrated theirforces in the woods. The Unioncommanders at first despised picksand shovels. They insisted that alldefenses except those naturally avail-able were beneath a soldiers battles of the East and West
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