Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . he fleet ran the gaunt-let of fire from the fortsbelow New Orleans inApril, 1862, and forcedthe surrender of thatcity. The ship he w^asin belonged to CaptainBaile3^s di\dsion of thefleet which attackedFort St. Philip. The hottest fightthat the Mississippi everengaged in was her lastone, and this perhapswas as hot as any of thewar. In March, 1863,the fleet tried to run bythe Confederate batter-ies at Port of the ships gotas far as a narrow partof the channel, wherethe
Great Americans and their noble deeds; containing the lives of almost fifty of our nation's heroes and heroines .. . he fleet ran the gaunt-let of fire from the fortsbelow New Orleans inApril, 1862, and forcedthe surrender of thatcity. The ship he w^asin belonged to CaptainBaile3^s di\dsion of thefleet which attackedFort St. Philip. The hottest fightthat the Mississippi everengaged in was her lastone, and this perhapswas as hot as any of thewar. In March, 1863,the fleet tried to run bythe Confederate batter-ies at Port of the ships gotas far as a narrow partof the channel, wherethey met land batteries almost muzzle to muzzle, and then they wereforced to retreat. The Mississippi did not get as far as this. A foggyday had been chosen for the attempt, and this w^as soon made more ob-scure by the smoke of battle, and amid this the Mississippi lost her bear-ings and ran ashore. Her officers found that she had struck just under the guns of a bat-tery in the middle of the line of fortifications, and one of the strongest ofthe lot. In half an hour 250 shots struck the vessel, and she was riddled. ADMIRAL GEORGE DEW^Y—HERO OE MANILA. 167 tDMIRAL DEWEY. from end to end. There was no chance to told her, aad her crew took toSi^and landed on tlae opposite side of the river after setUn^g herI » ^ lightened bv the loss of the crew and by the fire, shedriffeTolrndELTaJ sahuing with bursting shells, she draftedtwn the river, until finally the fire reached her nragazmes, and her career ^ ntiVarneTaSldTthe steanr gunboat Agawan, of the NorthAtlantrbUading squadron, and he tooh part in the two attacks uaadeon Port Fisher in December, 1864, and January, 1865. In MarcH, I805,Z g^t hi commission as lieutenant commander and as -ch served on,! r .,c Kearsaee and on the Colorado, the flagship of the Euro;tnT;adron, ^Zs, when he was sent for service to the NavalAcademy at Annapolis, Maryland. PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF first command was in 1870, when he had the
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