. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE FLAG-SHIP ST. LOUIS VIEWEDFROM ASTERN (■„P!jn,jht hy Rceicu- of LOUISVILLE—A FIGHTER ATTHE FORT by a fragment of the shell—a wound from which he never fully re-covered. Helpless now, the current swept the St. Loui.^; bow around,and past her consorts that were still fighting, she drifted down the streamand out of action; later, in convo3 of the Louisville, she returned toCairo, leaving the Carondelet and Pittsburgh to escort the on shore, Grant was earning his first laurels as a soldier ina big battle.

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE FLAG-SHIP ST. LOUIS VIEWEDFROM ASTERN (■„P!jn,jht hy Rceicu- of LOUISVILLE—A FIGHTER ATTHE FORT by a fragment of the shell—a wound from which he never fully re-covered. Helpless now, the current swept the St. Loui.^; bow around,and past her consorts that were still fighting, she drifted down the streamand out of action; later, in convo3 of the Louisville, she returned toCairo, leaving the Carondelet and Pittsburgh to escort the on shore, Grant was earning his first laurels as a soldier ina big battle. The disabling of the gunboats caused the Confederatesto make the fatal attack that resulted so disastrously for them. Assail-ing Grants right wing that held a strong position, on the 15th ofFebruary, 19,000 men were hurled against a force 8,000 greater in the repulse was complete. Shattered they retreated to their works,and in the morning of the 16th, the Confederate general, Buckner,surrendered. About prisoners were taken. The Federal losswas nearly 3,000, and that of the Southern cause about 1,000 less. F

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