. The naval history of the Civil War . ed off pretty much as slaves weretransported in former days. This was the liberty promised theSouthern people by their leaders when theystarted on their wild crusade against the Union. Had they succeeded, there wouldhave been such a depotism established inthis country as was never dreamed of. Lieutenant - Commander Phelps deter-mined to try and break up these conscriptionraids if possible, and as he could not landparties of sufficient force to cope with theenemy, he made an arrangement with Lieu-tenant-Colonel Breckenridge at Fort Henryto supply a body of
. The naval history of the Civil War . ed off pretty much as slaves weretransported in former days. This was the liberty promised theSouthern people by their leaders when theystarted on their wild crusade against the Union. Had they succeeded, there wouldhave been such a depotism established inthis country as was never dreamed of. Lieutenant - Commander Phelps deter-mined to try and break up these conscriptionraids if possible, and as he could not landparties of sufficient force to cope with theenemy, he made an arrangement with Lieu-tenant-Colonel Breckenridge at Fort Henryto supply a body of cavalry for the purpose. There was a conscription party at Linden,Tennessee, which had made itself particu-larly odious, and it was arranged that Col-onel Breckenridge should be landed with hismen at a certain point, and the gun-boatsshould be spread along the river, so that thetroops could retreat to them in case theenemy was too strong to be resisted. The gun-boats being placed at night inthe positions assigned them, Phelps dropped. LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER S. LEDYAED PHELPS. down to Decatursville, where he took onboard Colonel Breckenridge and fiftymounted men and landed them on the op-posite side of the river. At daybreak Colonel Breckenridge reachedLinden, twelve miles from the river-bank,and completely surprised the enemy. Thelatter made little resistance, and onljT threeof their number were killed. These menwere evidently not anxious to fight them-selves, but were looking for others to fightin their places. The small Union- force returned to thegun-boats with one lieutenant-colonel, onecaptain, four lieutenants, and forty privatesas prisoners, besides fifty horses and equip-ments, two transportation wagons, arms,etc. The Court House, which was the ren-dezvous of the conscriptors, was burnedwith a quantity of arms and stores. The OF THE CIVIL WAR. 341 Union party lost only a horse killed. Thiswas the end of the conscription husiness inthat quarter. In the latter part of June
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