. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . or their armament of one hundred and seven erful stronghold, was performed by vessels furnished large guns. The fact that such a work was done is foui or five months previous by the same contractor, nobler praise than any that can be bestowed by words, and at the time unpaid for. EDITORS. ^ It was stipulated in the contract that the gun-hoats should part due to lack of funds and iu part to the necessity of alter- bc delivered, October loth, at Cairo. As a matter of fact, they atio
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . or their armament of one hundred and seven erful stronghold, was performed by vessels furnished large guns. The fact that such a work was done is foui or five months previous by the same contractor, nobler praise than any that can be bestowed by words, and at the time unpaid for. EDITORS. ^ It was stipulated in the contract that the gun-hoats should part due to lack of funds and iu part to the necessity of alter- bc delivered, October loth, at Cairo. As a matter of fact, they ation in the design of tlie vessels. Had they been completed were not sent to Cairo until the latter part of November, and in the time specified, the Mississippi campaign, from Lsland considerable work still remained to he done before their com- Number Ten to Vicksburg, would probably have been over pletion. They were finished and accepted. January 15tb, before Farragut passed the forts at New , and put in commission the next day. The delay was in EDITORS. 340 RECOLLECTIONS OF FOOTE AND THE THE DE KALE, FORMERLY THE ■MOUND CITY, I. (Tvi-E OF nil: ■ • CAIRO, AND •• 1;T. CINCINNATI,IKOM A PHOTOGRAPH. LOUISVILLE. a central wheel with which the boat was to be propeUed. This wheel wasturned by the original engines of the snag-boat, each of the engines havingformerly turned an independent wheel on the outside of the twin Inthis manner the Benton became a war vessel of about seventy-tive feet beam,a gieater breadth, perhaps, than that of any war vessel then afloat. She wasabout two hundred feet long. A slanting casemate, covered with ii-on plates,was placed on her sides and across her bow and stern; and the wheel wasprotected in a similar manner. The casemate on the sides and bow was cov-ered with iron Pii inches thick; the wheel-house and stern with lighter plates,like the first seven boats built by me. She carried 1
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