. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . e what was going on as we advanced. On the poop were Captain Craven, Midshipman John Anderson, who hadvolunteered a few days before from the Montgomery, which did not takepart in the action, Captains Clerk J. Gf. Swift, afterward a graduate of WestPoint and a lieutenant in the army, and two quartermasters. There was asmall piece of ratline stuff carried around the poop, about waist-high. Cap-tain Craven stood at the forward edge of the poop with his hands on this line,and did not
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . e what was going on as we advanced. On the poop were Captain Craven, Midshipman John Anderson, who hadvolunteered a few days before from the Montgomery, which did not takepart in the action, Captains Clerk J. Gf. Swift, afterward a graduate of WestPoint and a lieutenant in the army, and two quartermasters. There was asmall piece of ratline stuff carried around the poop, about waist-high. Cap-tain Craven stood at the forward edge of the poop with his hands on this line,and did not move during the whole passage. I had the good fortune duringthe war to serve with many brave commanders, but I have never met in theservice, or out of it, a man of such consummate coolness, such perfect apparentindifference to danger as Admiral Craven. As I write, I hear the sad news ofhis death. At 2 oclock on the morning of the 24th two red lights were hoisted at thepeak of the flag-ship as a signal to get under way. All hands had been ondeck since midnight to see that everything about the deck and guns was. BEAK-ADMIRAL THOMAS T. CRAVEN, IN COMMAND OF THE BROOKLYN AT NEW ORLEANS. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. walked up and down the quarter-deck with thecommanding officer. He was very much exasper-ated that the department at Washington delayedsending vessels of proper draught to enter the river,and said that if he had half a dozen good vessels he would undertake to run by the forts and cap-ture New Orleans. Admiral Porter has alreadyrecounted in this work the prominent part thathe took in the opening of the Mississippi, and Itherefore omit further reference to it.— J. E. B. 62 THE •BROOKLYN AT THE PASSAGE OF THE FORTS.
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