The war with the south: a history of the late rebellion with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc, Volume 3Virtue & Yorston, 1867 - 738 pages |
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... gun - boat and four companies of infantry . We captured here the garrison of sixty men and its commander , two heavy guns in four miles below Barre's Landing , and that the expedition. through them , used his artillery until the last ...
... gun - boat and four companies of infantry . We captured here the garrison of sixty men and its commander , two heavy guns in four miles below Barre's Landing , and that the expedition. through them , used his artillery until the last ...
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... guns ( including one piece of the Valvado battery ) , taken ; and three gun - boats and eight trans- ports destroyed . " 7 . From Opelousas , General Banks con- tinued his rapid and almost unopposed progress to Washington and Alex- May ...
... guns ( including one piece of the Valvado battery ) , taken ; and three gun - boats and eight trans- ports destroyed . " 7 . From Opelousas , General Banks con- tinued his rapid and almost unopposed progress to Washington and Alex- May ...
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... guns fired from the flag - ship in rapid succession testified to the alacrity with which the wager of battle was accepted . " The return of the rebel fire by the Hartford was promptly followed up by a hot fire from the artillery pieces ...
... guns fired from the flag - ship in rapid succession testified to the alacrity with which the wager of battle was accepted . " The return of the rebel fire by the Hartford was promptly followed up by a hot fire from the artillery pieces ...
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... guns were the tools we principally worked with , our bow and stern chasers were idle . We soon opened with our bow eighty- pounder Dahlgren , which was followed up not long after by the guns astern , giving evidence to the fact that we ...
... guns were the tools we principally worked with , our bow and stern chasers were idle . We soon opened with our bow eighty- pounder Dahlgren , which was followed up not long after by the guns astern , giving evidence to the fact that we ...
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... gun . ' The gun was got ready and pointed , and was about to be discharged , when Lieutenant Terry called out : ' Hold on ; you are about to fire into the Hartford . ' And such was the fact ; for the flash of the Hartford's guns at that ...
... gun . ' The gun was got ready and pointed , and was about to be discharged , when Lieutenant Terry called out : ' Hold on ; you are about to fire into the Hartford . ' And such was the fact ; for the flash of the Hartford's guns at that ...
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