Our navy in time of war (1861-1898) . o commanded Fort Henry,surrendered, but more than twenty-five hundred ofhis men escaped across the country to Fort and his forces did not arrive until after the sur-render, and so it was a naval victory entirely. Someof the smaller boats of Footes flotilla then went upthe Tennessee and destroyed some Southern steamersand other property. Grants next move was against Fort was a very strong earthwork. Foote and hisfleet went around by the Ohio and came up the Cum-berland to help Grant. The (^irondelet, under com-mand of Captain Wa
Our navy in time of war (1861-1898) . o commanded Fort Henry,surrendered, but more than twenty-five hundred ofhis men escaped across the country to Fort and his forces did not arrive until after the sur-render, and so it was a naval victory entirely. Someof the smaller boats of Footes flotilla then went upthe Tennessee and destroyed some Southern steamersand other property. Grants next move was against Fort was a very strong earthwork. Foote and hisfleet went around by the Ohio and came up the Cum-berland to help Grant. The (^irondelet, under com-mand of Captain Walke, one of the bravest navaloflicers in the war, arrived on February 12th belowFort Donelson, and on that day and the next shelledthe earthworks while Grant Avas coming up on arrived on February 13th, Avitli the St. Louis,Louisville, and Pittsburg, and the next afternoonthe shi])s advanced to attack tlie fort. They wentup to within four hundred yards. A shot struck thepilot house of the St. Louis, and the flying splinters. 80 OUR NAVY IN TIME OF WAR. wounded Foote in the arm and foot. Another shotcut the tiller ropes of the Louisville, and soon the and Louisville drifted out of action. The Pitts-burg and Carondolet Avere also so badly damaged thatthe}^ had to retire. It was a naval defeat. Fifty-fourmen had been killed or wounded, and three out of thefour pilots on the ironclads were wounded captured the fort on February IGtli, and thefall of Fort Donelson was an army victory. The Ohio and the rivers flowing into it from thesouth were now in control of the Xorth, and thetime had come for an advance down the opposite the dividing line between Kentuckyand Tennessee, and in a bend of the river, was anishiiid ciilkd Island No. 10. Tlic Southern forces hadfallen back as far as this and had fortified it. A bar-rier of sunken vessels stretched from the island to theshore on the north side of tlie bend. On the southside of the is
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