Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . e hope was generalthat they would be able to float pastundiscovered, and, when an hour ofintense stillness went by, the watch-ers and listeners began to breathemore freely, though their anxietywas only partly lifted. Suddenly two crimson lines offire flamed along the river front, andthe earth trembled under the stu-pendous explosion. The ships had been detected, and the river was swept bya tempest of shot and shell that it se
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . e hope was generalthat they would be able to float pastundiscovered, and, when an hour ofintense stillness went by, the watch-ers and listeners began to breathemore freely, though their anxietywas only partly lifted. Suddenly two crimson lines offire flamed along the river front, andthe earth trembled under the stu-pendous explosion. The ships had been detected, and the river was swept bya tempest of shot and shell that it seemed must shatter to fragments every oneof the craft. It should be remembered that these batteries extended for a longdistance along the shore, and they opened one after the other, as the ships cameopposite. Thus the fleet became the target of battery after battery, and hada continuous and extended gantlet to run before reaching safety. The gunboats returned the fire as they swept by, and many of their shotswere eifective, but in such a duel the advantage is always with the land of the transports was disabled, and another, directly behind her, had to. DAVID G. FABBAGUT. 336 ALMINLSTRATION OF LINCOLJS. stop to avoid running into the injured craft. The crew of the former, findingthemselves the centre of a terrific fire, launched the yawl, and, leaping into it,pulled for the shore. They had scarcely left their vessel when it was fired bya shell, and, aflame from stem to stern, it drifted down stream. Meanwhile, thetransport that had grounded was towed out of danger. With this exception,the whole fleet got safely past, the loss being only one man killed on Porters flagship. General Grant was greatly pleased with this success. A few nights latera second attempt was successful. He was thus enabled to send supjjlies to thearmy, with which he intended to attack Vicksburg on the south. Graduallyshifting his own position, he reached a point opposite Grand Gul
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