. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^ beyond his expecta-tions. Not only were the Confederates mowed down by the fire from thefort, but the gunboat Tyler lying in the vwcvenfiladed the columns pouring through the ravinesto support the attack. It was impossible to with-stand the deadly rain of shell and shrapnel, andthe order was given to withdraw. On the field wereleft two thousand dead and wounded GENERAL SAMUEL RYAN CURTIS Most of the dead were buriedby the victorious Federals, andmore than a thousand woundedwere taken prisoners. Fort Curtis was name
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ^ beyond his expecta-tions. Not only were the Confederates mowed down by the fire from thefort, but the gunboat Tyler lying in the vwcvenfiladed the columns pouring through the ravinesto support the attack. It was impossible to with-stand the deadly rain of shell and shrapnel, andthe order was given to withdraw. On the field wereleft two thousand dead and wounded GENERAL SAMUEL RYAN CURTIS Most of the dead were buriedby the victorious Federals, andmore than a thousand woundedwere taken prisoners. Fort Curtis was named forGeneral Samuel Ryan Curtis,who assumed command ofllie Federal District of South-west Missouri at the closeof 1861. The battle at PeaRidge, or Elkhorn, Arkansas,near the Missouri border,March, 1862, was a Confed-erate reverse and was followedby the transfer of the prin-cipal Confederate commandswhich fought there to otherfields, leaving Curtis in con-trol. After a stubbornlycontested march across Ar-kansas he arrived on the j\Iis-sissippi, July 13, 1862, and be-gan to fortify Helena. Fromthat time it was held by the Federals undisputeduntil the attack of General Holmes. The day ofthe repulse at Fort Curtis, Vicksburg surrenderedto Grant; Port Hudson, Louisiana, on the eastbank, yielded to Banks five days later, after a siegeof six weeks, and the Mississippi passed foreverfrom the control of the Confederacy.
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