. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ed, it was in the enemys power. By 2 oclock in the morning of the ^ith, the intrepidLieutenant Cakhvell, mIio had suggested the expedition ofthe two gunboats that had broken up the obstruction, returnedto the fleet after a daring survey of the channel, and the flag-ship hoisted the ajipointed signal. In two divisions, the fleetpassed through the broken barriers and steamed into tlie zoneof fire. It was an enfilading fire, as soon the guns of botliforts were brought into play. There is not space here to gointo the details of th
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ed, it was in the enemys power. By 2 oclock in the morning of the ^ith, the intrepidLieutenant Cakhvell, mIio had suggested the expedition ofthe two gunboats that had broken up the obstruction, returnedto the fleet after a daring survey of the channel, and the flag-ship hoisted the ajipointed signal. In two divisions, the fleetpassed through the broken barriers and steamed into tlie zoneof fire. It was an enfilading fire, as soon the guns of botliforts were brought into play. There is not space here to gointo the details of the naval battle that followed with thebravely fought Confederate gunboats and the ram belongs to naval history. There were deeds of prowessj^erformed by vessels that flew eitlier flag; there were smallseparate actions whose relating would make separate storiesin themselves. Amid burning fire-rafts and a continuous roarfrom the opposing forts, the first division of the fleet underthe command of Captain Theodorus Bailey held its course. ^A [ i^M ]. COALING FARRAGUTS FLEET AFTER NEAV ORLEANS Coaling Farraguts Fleet at Baton Rouge. If a ship without a captain is like a man without a soul,as runs an old naval saying, a vessel dependent upon steam power with empty bunkers is as a man deprivedof heart-blood, nerves, or muscles; and a few days after New Orleans, Farraguts vessels faced a serious A. T. Mahan has summed it up in the following words: ... The maintenance of the coal supplyfor a large squadron, five Inmdred miles up a crooked river in a hostile country, was in itself no small anxiety,involving as it did carriage of the coal against the current, the provision of convoj-s to protect the supplyvessels against guerillas, and the employment of pilots, few of whom were to be found, as they naturallyfavored the enemy, and had gone away. The river was drawing near the time of lowest water, and theflag-ship herself got aground under very critical circumst
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