. The naval history of the Civil War . s-port, was also disabled by the enemy, butshe was taken in tow by the Tuscumbia and conveyed safely through. The scene while the fleet was passing thebatteries was grand in the extreme, but thedanger to the vessels was more apparentthan real. Their weak points on the sideswere mostly protected by heavy logs whichprevented many shot and shells goingthrough the iron. Some rents were madebut the vessels stood the ordeal bravely andreceived no damage calculated to impairtheir efficiency. Texas would be cut off and they would haveto depend on what they could
. The naval history of the Civil War . s-port, was also disabled by the enemy, butshe was taken in tow by the Tuscumbia and conveyed safely through. The scene while the fleet was passing thebatteries was grand in the extreme, but thedanger to the vessels was more apparentthan real. Their weak points on the sideswere mostly protected by heavy logs whichprevented many shot and shells goingthrough the iron. Some rents were madebut the vessels stood the ordeal bravely andreceived no damage calculated to impairtheir efficiency. Texas would be cut off and they would haveto depend on what they could receive fromRichmond. General Steele had been sent up to theSteeles Bayou region to destroy all the pro-visions in that quarter, and Pemberton knewthat if Grants Army once got below Vicks-burg it would eat up everything in the wayof food between Warrenton and Bruens-burg. Although the squadron was under firefrom the time of passing the first batteryuntil the last vessel got by, a period of twohours and thirty minutes, the vessels were. THE MISSISSIPPI SQUADRON, UNDER ADMIRAL PORTER, PASSING THE BATTERIES AT VICKSBURG ON THE NIGHT OF APRIL 15. 1863. The management of the vessels on thisoccasion was virtually in the hands of thepilots, who handled them beautifully andkept them in line at the distance apartordered. The enemys shot was not well aimed;owing to the rapid fire of shells, shrapnel,grape and canister from the gun-boats, thesharpshooters were glad to lay low. and themen at the great guns gave up in disgustwhen they saw the fleet drift on apparentlyunscathed. They must have known that Vicksburgwas doomed, for if the fleet got safely belowthe batteries their supplies of provisions from struck in their hulls but sixty-eight timesby shot and shells, and only fifteen menwere wounded. At a. m., all the ves-sels were safely anchored at Carthage,ten miles below Vicksburg, where was en-camped the advanced division of the Armyunder General McClernand. The plantation at this p
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