. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . hieli, areording to Admiral Porter, no private company would have completed within a men did it in eleven days and saved a fleet of Inion vessels worth $2, Never was there an instance where suchdifficulties were overcome so quickly and with so little preparation. The current of the Red River, rushinjj by at the rate of ninemiles an hour, thceateneil to sweep away the work of the S(;!diers as fast as it was performed. The work was commenced by buil
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . hieli, areording to Admiral Porter, no private company would have completed within a men did it in eleven days and saved a fleet of Inion vessels worth $2, Never was there an instance where suchdifficulties were overcome so quickly and with so little preparation. The current of the Red River, rushinjj by at the rate of ninemiles an hour, thceateneil to sweep away the work of the S(;!diers as fast as it was performed. The work was commenced by buildingout from the left bank of the river with large trees cross-tied with h<avv timber and filled in with brush, brick, and stone. We seethe men engaged upon this work at the right of the picture. Coal barges filled with brick and stone were sunk beyond this, whilefrom the right bank cribs filled with stone were built out to meet the barges. In eight days Baileys men, working like beavers underthe broiling sun, up to their necks in water, had backed up the current sufficiently to release three vessels. The very next[78]. THE MEN WHO CAPTURED THE CURRENT Copyright by Review of Reviews Co, morning two of the barges were swept away. Admiral Porter, jumpmg on his horse rode to the upper falls and ordered the Lfx,«3-ton 1„ ,ome down and attempt the passage of the dam. The water was rapidly falhng, and as the Z,cx»,sto», having squeezedthrough the passage of the falls, approached the opening in the dam through whieh a torrent was pourmg, a breathless silence seized thewatchers on the shore. In another instant she had plunged to safety, and a deafening cheer rose from thirty thousand throats Por-ter was afraid that Colonel Bailev would be too disheartened by the accident to the dam to renew work upon it ihe other threevessels were at once ordered to follow the Lexm(,to„-s example, and came safely through. But Bailey was undaunted and his noble-hearted seeing their
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