. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . argest and best vessel of theWestern flotiUa), the Essex, and a few smaller and partly armored gun-boats. Plag-Otficer Foote arrived in St. Louis on September 6th, and assumedcommand of the Western flotilla. He had been my fellow-midshipman in 1827,on board the United States ship Natchez, of the West India squadron, and wasthen a promising young officer. He was transferred to the Hornet, of thesame squadion, and was appointed her sailing-master. After he left the Natchez,we never
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . argest and best vessel of theWestern flotiUa), the Essex, and a few smaller and partly armored gun-boats. Plag-Otficer Foote arrived in St. Louis on September 6th, and assumedcommand of the Western flotilla. He had been my fellow-midshipman in 1827,on board the United States ship Natchez, of the West India squadron, and wasthen a promising young officer. He was transferred to the Hornet, of thesame squadion, and was appointed her sailing-master. After he left the Natchez,we never met again until February, 1861, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, wherehe was the executive officer. Foote, Schenck, and myself were then the onlysm-vivors of the midshipmen of the Natchez, in her cruise of 1827, and nowI am the only officer left. Duiing the cruise of 1827, while pacing the deck at night, on the lonely seas,and talking with a pious shipmate, Foote became convinced of the truth ofthe Christian religion, of which he was an earnest professor to the last. He 360 THE GUN-BO ATS AT BELMONT AND FORT THE GUNBOATS TILEE ASD LEXINGTON ENGAGING THE BATTERIES Ol COLCMBC^. KT., DrRDiGTHE BATTLE OF BELMONT. AFTER A SKETCH BY REAB-ADMIBAL WALKE. In a letter written early in January, 18G2, General Polksays of the works at Columbus : We are still quiethere. I am employed in making: more and more ditfieulttlie task to take this place. ... I have now, mountedand in position, all round my works, 140 cannon of various calihers. and they look not a little this, I am pavins the bottom of the river withsubmarine batteries, to say nothing of a tremendous,heavy chain across the river. I am planting mines outin the roads also. rendered importaut service while in command of the brig Pern/, on the coastof Africa, in 1849, in suppressing the slave-trade, and he greatly distinguishedhimself by his skill and gallantry in the attack upon the Barrier Forts, nearCanton (1856)
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