. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . COMMANDER W. D. PORTER. as were twenty-seven others. Wrong-ly suspected of disloyalty at the outbreakof the war, Commander Porters conductduring the struggle gave the lie to suchcalumny. He recovered after Fort Henry,and was made Commodore in July, in command of the Essex he at-tempted unsuccessfully to destroy thedread Confederate ram Arkansas at Yicks-burg on July 22d. Porter and the Essexthen joined Farraguts fleet. His shellshelped the Union f
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . COMMANDER W. D. PORTER. as were twenty-seven others. Wrong-ly suspected of disloyalty at the outbreakof the war, Commander Porters conductduring the struggle gave the lie to suchcalumny. He recovered after Fort Henry,and was made Commodore in July, in command of the Essex he at-tempted unsuccessfully to destroy thedread Confederate ram Arkansas at Yicks-burg on July 22d. Porter and the Essexthen joined Farraguts fleet. His shellshelped the Union forces to repulse theConfederates at Baton Rouge, August 5th,and he witnessed the blowing up of theArkansas the following day. He diedMay 1, THE ESSEX TWO YEARS LATER. , I hr Jail cf iFnrt iintnt anit iFnrt Smtrlamt wmimwm With waving banners the divisions of Smith and McCler-nand marched across country on February 12th, arriving atnoon and encircling the doomed fort ere nightfall. Smith wasstationed on the left and McClernand on the extreme right,near the village of Dover. This left an open space in thecenter, to be filled by Lew Wallace, who arrived with his divi-sion the next day. On the 13th there was a continuous bom-bardment from morning till night, punctuated by the sharpcrack of the sharpshooters rifle. The chief action of the day that involved the infantry wasan attempt to capture a battery on a hill, near the center ofthe Confederate line of battle, known as Maneys Battery,commanded by Captain Maney, of Tennessee. This bat-tery had annoyed McClernand greatly, and he delegated histhird brigade to capture it. The charge was led by ColonelMorrison of Illinois, and a braver one never was made through-out the whole pe
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