The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860 - '65 : Its Causes, Incidents, and Results Intended to Exhibit Especially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union. II |
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... gun- boats with supplies from below . He found the river , however , at an un- usually low stage for the season- barely four feet ; while the gunboats required six or seven ; beside which , the Mound City , which attempted the ascent ...
... gun- boats with supplies from below . He found the river , however , at an un- usually low stage for the season- barely four feet ; while the gunboats required six or seven ; beside which , the Mound City , which attempted the ascent ...
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... gunboats , four of them partially iron - clad . Leaving Cairo " with some 15,000 men on steam transports , he moved up the Ohio to the mouth of the Tennessee , then as- cended that stream to within ten miles of Fort Henry , where his ...
... gunboats , four of them partially iron - clad . Leaving Cairo " with some 15,000 men on steam transports , he moved up the Ohio to the mouth of the Tennessee , then as- cended that stream to within ten miles of Fort Henry , where his ...
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... gunboats in fighting condition . Floyd , however , not concurring in that view of the matter , decided to assume at once a vigorous offensive , while his men were elated with their defeat of the gunboats . Massing heavily on his extreme ...
... gunboats in fighting condition . Floyd , however , not concurring in that view of the matter , decided to assume at once a vigorous offensive , while his men were elated with their defeat of the gunboats . Massing heavily on his extreme ...
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... gunboats , being built at the river - side , were prepared for instant conflagration ; and the magnificent and costly railroad and wire suspen- sion - bridges over the Cumberland were likewise made ready for speedy destruction - a fate ...
... gunboats , being built at the river - side , were prepared for instant conflagration ; and the magnificent and costly railroad and wire suspen- sion - bridges over the Cumberland were likewise made ready for speedy destruction - a fate ...
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... gunboats Conestoga , Tyler , and Lexington , steamed up the Ten- nessee to Florence , Ala . , at the foot of the Muscle Shoals , where he cap - ready to the 4th Ohio cavalry , Col. tured two steamboats , and constrained the Rebels to ...
... gunboats Conestoga , Tyler , and Lexington , steamed up the Ten- nessee to Florence , Ala . , at the foot of the Muscle Shoals , where he cap - ready to the 4th Ohio cavalry , Col. tured two steamboats , and constrained the Rebels to ...
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