. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Mobile Bay, of August, 186-1. When Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Xa\y, proposedthe capture of X^evv Orleans from the soutliward he was regarded as utterly foolhardy. All that was needed, howe\er, to make Foxsplan successful was the man with si)irit enough to imdertake it and judgment sufficient to carry it out. Here on the deck of the fine newsloop-of-war that had been assigned to him as flagship, stands the man who had just accomplished a greater feat that made him a worldfigure as famous as Nelson. The Confederacy h
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Mobile Bay, of August, 186-1. When Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Xa\y, proposedthe capture of X^evv Orleans from the soutliward he was regarded as utterly foolhardy. All that was needed, howe\er, to make Foxsplan successful was the man with si)irit enough to imdertake it and judgment sufficient to carry it out. Here on the deck of the fine newsloop-of-war that had been assigned to him as flagship, stands the man who had just accomplished a greater feat that made him a worldfigure as famous as Nelson. The Confederacy had found its great general among its own people, but the great admiral of the war,although of Southern birth, had refused to fight against the flag for which, as a boy in the War of 1812, he had seen men die. Fullof the fighting spirit of the old navy, he was able to achieve the first great victory that gave new hope to the Federal Drayton was also a Southerner, a South Carolinian, whose brothers and uncles were fighting for the South.[e-^16]. WHERE THE CONEEDERATES FOUGHT FARRAGUT SHOT FOR SHOT From these walls the gunners of Brigadier-General Richard L. Page, C. S. A., sighted their pieces and gave the Federal vessels shotfor shot. It was a fight at close range, since the obstructions in the channel compelled the fleet to pass close under the guns of thefort. During the hour while the vessels were within range, the fort fired 491 shots, about eight a minute. When the fight was thickest theConfederate gunners fired even far more rapidly, enveloping the vessels, and especially the Hartfordand the Brooklyn, in a veritablehail of missiles. The fort was an old five-sided brick works mounting its guns in three tiers. It was built on the site of the little redoubt(Fort Bowyer) that had repelled the British fleet in 1814. Within the fort were mounted thirty-two smooth-bores and eight rifles.[244]
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