. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . hills. The fort appeared tohave been evacuated. After firing ten shellsinto it the 6Vzr^«</<f/<?/dropped down the river * For a description of the capture of Fort DonelsonGeneral Lew Wallace in The Ckntury for Dccemljcr, On the 13th a dispatch was received fromGeneral Grant, informing me that he had ar-rived the day before, and had succeeded ingetting his army in position, almost entirelyinvesting the enemys works. Most of ourbatteries, he said, are established, and theremainder soon will be. If you will advancewitli your gun-boat a
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . hills. The fort appeared tohave been evacuated. After firing ten shellsinto it the 6Vzr^«</<f/<?/dropped down the river * For a description of the capture of Fort DonelsonGeneral Lew Wallace in The Ckntury for Dccemljcr, On the 13th a dispatch was received fromGeneral Grant, informing me that he had ar-rived the day before, and had succeeded ingetting his army in position, almost entirelyinvesting the enemys works. Most of ourbatteries, he said, are established, and theremainder soon will be. If you will advancewitli your gun-boat at ten oclock in the morn-ing, we will be ready to take advantage of anydiversion in our favor. 1 immediately complied with these in-structions, and at 9:05, with the Carondeletalone and under cover of a heavily woodedpoint, fired one hundred and thirty-nine sev-enty-pound and sixty-four-pound shells at thefort. We received in return the fire of all the by the army under (Ic-ncral Grant, sec the paper by1884. OPERATIONS OF THE WESTERN ELOTILLA. 433. THE GLN-BOATS AT FORT DONELSON.— THE LAND ATTACK DISTANCE. (DRAWN BY HARRY FENN, AFTER A CON TEMPORARY SKETCH BY ADMIRAL WALKE. enemys guns that could be brought to bearon the Caiviidekt, which sustained but Httledamage, except from two shots. One, a128-pound sohd, at 11:30 struck the cor-ner of our port broadside casemate, passedthrough it, and in its progress toward thecenter of our boilers glanced over the tem-porary barricade in front of the boilers. Itthen passed over the steam-drum, struck thebeams of the upper deck, carried away therailing around the engine-room and burst thesteam-heater, and, glancing back into the en-gine-room, seemed to bound after the men,as one of the engineers said, like a wildbeast pursuing its prey. I have preservedthis ball as a souvenir of the fight at FortDonelson. When it burst through the sideof the Carotidelet, it knocked down andwounded a dozen men, seven of them se-verely. An immense quantit
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