Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . BEFOKE THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 193. ADMIRAL FOOTE. highest credit on the skill of the Union commandersand on the bravery of the Union troops. It was notuntil a canal had been cut acrossDonaldsons Point, between Is-land No. 8 and New Madrid, thatthe Nationals had any hope ofdislodging- the enemy. The canal was twelve mileslong and fifty feet wide, andnineteen days were consumedin cutting it from point to pointand making It navigable for thelargest of the gunboats. Commander Foote reportedto his Government th
Life and deeds of General Sherman, including the story of his great march to the sea .. . BEFOKE THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 193. ADMIRAL FOOTE. highest credit on the skill of the Union commandersand on the bravery of the Union troops. It was notuntil a canal had been cut acrossDonaldsons Point, between Is-land No. 8 and New Madrid, thatthe Nationals had any hope ofdislodging- the enemy. The canal was twelve mileslong and fifty feet wide, andnineteen days were consumedin cutting it from point to pointand making It navigable for thelargest of the gunboats. Commander Foote reportedto his Government that Island No. lo was harder toconquer than Columbus, its shores being lined withforts, each fort commanding the one above it. Beauregard telegraphed to Richmond that theNational i^uns had thrown three thousand shellsand burned fifty tons of gunpowder, his batteriesbeing uninjured and only one man killed. The canalmade a complete change in the situation. NewMadrid had been evacuated on the 12th of March,and on the 8th of April, four days after the com-pletion of the canal, Island No. 10 had ceased to bea Confederate st
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