. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . -pounders and 1 9-inch sheU-gun; thesteamer Jackson, Lieutenant F. B. Eenshaw, mounting 2 32-pounders; theiron-clad ram Manassas, Lieutenant A. F. Warley, mounting 1 32-pounder(in the bow); and two launches, mounting each one howitzer. Two steamershad been converted into Louisiana State gun-boats, with pine and cottonbarricades to protect the machinery and boilers: the Governor Moore, Com-mander Beverley Kennon, and the General Quitman, Captai
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers, based upon "The Century war series." . -pounders and 1 9-inch sheU-gun; thesteamer Jackson, Lieutenant F. B. Eenshaw, mounting 2 32-pounders; theiron-clad ram Manassas, Lieutenant A. F. Warley, mounting 1 32-pounder(in the bow); and two launches, mounting each one howitzer. Two steamershad been converted into Louisiana State gun-boats, with pine and cottonbarricades to protect the machinery and boilers: the Governor Moore, Com-mander Beverley Kennon, and the General Quitman, Captain Grant. All:lie above steamers, being converted vessels, says Commander Mitchell,were too slightly built for war purposes. The River Defense gun-boats, consisting of six converted tow-boats under;he command of a merchant captain named Stephenson, were also ordered:o report to Commander Mitchell; but they proved of little assistance to \ The finding of the Confederate Court of Inquiry, December 5th, 1863, states that CommanderMitchell assumed command of the Louisiana at New Orleans, April 20th.— Editors. 32 THE OPENING OF THE LOWER liTAK-SCHOONEUS ENGAGED AGAINST FOKT JACK Distance of leacliug scliooner from tlie fort, 2850 yards. Duration of Are, six days. Total numberof shells fired, 16,800. him owing to the insubordination of their commander. All of the abovevessels, says Commander Mitchell, mounted from one to two pivot 32-pounders each, some of them rifled. Their boilers and machinery were allmore or less protected by thick, double pine barricades, filled in vdi\\ com-pressed cotton. They were also j^repared for ramming by flat bar-ironcasings around their tows. The Confederate fleet mounted, all told, 40 guns, of which 25 were32-pounders, and one-fomth of them rifled. It is thus seen that our wooden vessels, which passed the forts carrying192 guns, had arrayed against them 126 guns in strongly built works, and 40guns on board of partly armored vessels. | I
Size: 1391px × 1795px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidbattlesleade, bookyear1887
