. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . bstinate stump. I think two and a half hours the next morning they started with one hundred men was the longest time ever expended upon any one, while about that number of minutes would dispose of * The Records of the War Department, which I have just seenfor the first time, contain a letter from General Pope to me. whichI never before heard of (dated the day I was on my way backfrom the gun-boat with the plan fully matured), asking if I couldnot dig a catuil, a mere ditch of a foot wide which the water ofthe river would soon wash out, from
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . bstinate stump. I think two and a half hours the next morning they started with one hundred men was the longest time ever expended upon any one, while about that number of minutes would dispose of * The Records of the War Department, which I have just seenfor the first time, contain a letter from General Pope to me. whichI never before heard of (dated the day I was on my way backfrom the gun-boat with the plan fully matured), asking if I couldnot dig a catuil, a mere ditch of a foot wide which the water ofthe river would soon wash out, from a point one mile aboveIsland Number Ten to a point one mile below. That land was atthis time ten feet under water.—J. W. B. some small ones when the saw was ready. In all ittook eight days to cut the two miles. When we reached the bayous the hard and wet workbegan. The river had begun to fall, and the water wasrunning very rapidly. We had to get rid of great driftheaps from the lower side with our machinery all on 3-6 memokaxjDA ox the civil the upj->er side. Small pieces of drift would be disposedof by the yawl-boats, or a single line and snatch-block would take them right out; but sometimes agreat swamp oak, three feet through, and as heavyas lignum vitae, lying right across our channel a footor so under water, would try our tackle. We had thento raise them up to the surface, and hold them theretill they could be chopped in pieces. In one case ittook eight lines from the four capstans to get one up. In one of the bayous for about two miles the cur-rent was so swift that all the men who were out onlogs, or in exposed places, had safety lines tied aroundthem; and as the timber was slippery, some were in-debted to these lines for their lives. During the wholework not a man was killed, injured, or taken sick. While all this was being done in front of the boats,Lieutenant Randolph was at work with his detachmentin the rear in improvising gun-boats to supply the lackof F
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