. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . .S6 wounded. Citizens, 12 killed. 33.—Co. A 8th U. S. Infantry captured atSan Antonio, Tex., by a company of or-ganized citizen volunteers. 11. MAY, 1861. -Arkansas seceded. -Camp Jackson, Mo., occupied by , seized by Union 1st, 3d, and Ith!Mo. Reserve Corps, 3d Mo. V^ols. 639militiamen taken prisoners. -St. Louis, Mo. Collision of Union 5thMo., U. S. Reserves, with citizens of Losses: Union 1 killed. Citi~cns27 killed. ■Xorth Carolina eded. -Col. E. Elmer Ellsworth, 11th X. , killed by a civilian
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . .S6 wounded. Citizens, 12 killed. 33.—Co. A 8th U. S. Infantry captured atSan Antonio, Tex., by a company of or-ganized citizen volunteers. 11. MAY, 1861. -Arkansas seceded. -Camp Jackson, Mo., occupied by , seized by Union 1st, 3d, and Ith!Mo. Reserve Corps, 3d Mo. V^ols. 639militiamen taken prisoners. -St. Louis, Mo. Collision of Union 5thMo., U. S. Reserves, with citizens of Losses: Union 1 killed. Citi~cns27 killed. ■Xorth Carolina eded. -Col. E. Elmer Ellsworth, 11th X. , killed by a civilian while removinga Southern flag from the roof of theMarshall House, Alexandria, Va. [346] THE THREATENED FORT Fort Pickens, guard-ing the entrance toPensacola Bay, was a perilousposition more gallant-ly held than was FortPickens by LieutenantA. J. Slemmer and Mslittle garrison fromJanuary to May, large force of Con-federates were con-stantly menacing thefort. Slemmer discov-ered a plot to betraythe fort into the handsof a thousand of them. on the night of Aprilnth. Attempts toseize the fort by Con-federates gathered inforce for the piuposewere held off only bythe timely arrival ofgunl)oats with reen-forcements from theNorth. All the effortsto take Fort Pickensfailed and it remainedm the hands of theFederals throughoutthe war. In the lowerpicture we see one ofthe powerful Confed-erate batteries at Fort]\IcRee, which fired onPickens from acrossthe ciiannel.
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