. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . OF f^£Vl£.^ AFTER A SHOOTING-TRIP ASHORE—OFFICERS ON THE DECK OF THE MIAMI From the time she ran the forts below New Orleans with Farragut, the Miami was ever on the go. During 1863-i, under theredoubtable Lieutenant-Commander C. W. Flusser, she was active in Carolina waters. In the Roanoke River, April 1, 1864, shemet her most thrilling adventure when she and the Southfield were attacked by the powerful Confederate ram Albemarle. TheSouthfield was sunk, but the Miami in a plucky running fight made her escape down the river
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . OF f^£Vl£.^ AFTER A SHOOTING-TRIP ASHORE—OFFICERS ON THE DECK OF THE MIAMI From the time she ran the forts below New Orleans with Farragut, the Miami was ever on the go. During 1863-i, under theredoubtable Lieutenant-Commander C. W. Flusser, she was active in Carolina waters. In the Roanoke River, April 1, 1864, shemet her most thrilling adventure when she and the Southfield were attacked by the powerful Confederate ram Albemarle. TheSouthfield was sunk, but the Miami in a plucky running fight made her escape down the river and gave the COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. AN INDEFATIGABLE GUNBOAT—THE MIAMI eagerness to see what damage had been inflicted, a man crawledout of a hatch on the sloping topsides of the ram while she wasso close that she was grating along beneath the Brooklynsguns. A quartermaster, standing in the fore chains, hove thelead at him and knocked him overboard. Undaunted, the ram turned upstream again, and the Mis-sissippi and the Kinco, clearly outlined now in the glare of thebm-ning fire-rafts, swung out into the channel and turned tomeet her. If either had struck her fair they would have rolledher over like a log. Cleverly she eluded the onslaught andturned inshore; reaching the river bank, her crew swarmed outof her like ants. Just then the Mississippi gave her a broadsidetliat knocked her into deejier water. A few minutes later, allon fire, she passed Porters mortar vessels, and blew up with afaint exijlcsion. When the larger vessels came within the zone of fire andoj^ened their broadsi
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