. Pictorial history of the great Civil War : embracing full and authentic accounts of battles by land and sea ... . the whole bonfires gave a brilliant but locallight, which was hemmed in, so tospeak, by the surrounding darkness,while what seemed meteors burstingnow from the batteries on the bluffs,and now from the vessels on the river,created a pandemonium-like picturemore honible than the onlooker, in hismost imaginative moods, ever beforeconceived. The batteries being high,the Confederates had all the was a most unequal struggle. Thefleet, however, kept moving on, vai
. Pictorial history of the great Civil War : embracing full and authentic accounts of battles by land and sea ... . the whole bonfires gave a brilliant but locallight, which was hemmed in, so tospeak, by the surrounding darkness,while what seemed meteors burstingnow from the batteries on the bluffs,and now from the vessels on the river,created a pandemonium-like picturemore honible than the onlooker, in hismost imaginative moods, ever beforeconceived. The batteries being high,the Confederates had all the was a most unequal struggle. Thefleet, however, kept moving on, vainlyreplying to the deadly fire, whichpoured like hail from the heights ontheir right. Grape, canister, shrapnel,shot, and the scarcely less destructivebullets of sharpshooters, swept murder-ously over the decks of the vessels asthey drew nearer and nearer the bluffsFor an hour and a half the terrific can-nonade continued. What had happenedin that space of time was known onlyon board the separate vessels. About one oclock the firing the Hartford and the Albatrosshad passed th^ batteries. Most of the.
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