. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . fortified the entrance to the bay so as to im-press upon them the term impregnable, and after they had built and launched theram Tennessee there, the strongest ironclad the Confederates ever possessed, theFederal authorities deemed it timely to determine upon the reduction of the place,in consequence whereof they
. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . fortified the entrance to the bay so as to im-press upon them the term impregnable, and after they had built and launched theram Tennessee there, the strongest ironclad the Confederates ever possessed, theFederal authorities deemed it timely to determine upon the reduction of the place,in consequence whereof they ordered Farragut to do it. After many vain endeavorsthe admiral succeeded in obtaining the addition of four monitors, the Tecumseh,Manhattan, Winnebago and Chickasaw, to his wooden fleet. On the morning ofAugust 5, 1864, subsequent to a reconnaissance undertaken with the little steamerCowslip, Farragut went ahead. Chief Quartermaster Cornelius Cronin, of the ship which earned the largest num-ber of medals in this fray, tells the story of the fight: In September, 1863, I joined the U. S. S. Richmond, Commanded by CaptainThornton A. Jenkins. We left New York in the month of October, making a quickpassage to New Orleans, thence taking up blockading duty off Mobile, which, as the. — 66 — sequel proven, was to last for the following ten months. In January, 1864, Aa-miral Farragut arrived with the flagship, the Hartford, and at once began to makepreparations for the capture of Forts Morgan, Gaines and Powell, as soon as thearmy was ready to co-operate. Several weary months passed, until late the follow-mg July, when, the army having perfected all its arrangements, and assurance beinggiven and received that conjointly in action an attack was to be made upon therebel defenses, the ships were sent to Pensacola, there to dismantle send spare sparson shore and otherwise to prepare for the conflict which was now to follow. In preparing for battle. Captain Jenkins ordered his ship
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