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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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ng. He wrote repeat-edly to Flag-Officer Foote, urging him to senddown a gun-boat past the enemys batteries onIsland Number Ten, and in one of his lettersexpressed the belief that aboat could pass downat night under cover of the darkness. Butthe flag-officer invariably declined, saying inone of his letters to General Pope that theattempt would result in the sacrifice of theboat, her officers and men, which sacrificeI would not be justified in making. During this correspondence the bombard-ment still went on, but was attended withsuch poor results that it became a subjectof ridicule among the officers of Popesarmy, one of whom (Colonel Gilmore, ofChillicothe, Ohio) is reported to have saidtliat often when they met, and incjuiry wasmade respecting the operations of the flotilla,the answer would generally ))e : Oh ! it is stillbombarding the State of Tennessee at longrange. And a Confederate officer said thatno casualties resulted and no damage was OPERATIONS OF THE WESTERN FLOTILLA. 441
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MAP OF MILITARY AND NAVAL OPERATIONS ABOUT ISLAND NO. TEN. (BASED ON THE TWO MAPS BY CAPTAIN A. B. GRAY,C. S. A., MADE IN MARCH, 1862, AND ON OFFICIAL REPORTS.) sustained at Island Number Ten from the fire army officers Avere becoming impatient, and it of the gun-boats. On March 20th Flag-Officer Foote con-sulted his commanding officers, through Com-mander Stemble, as to the practicability oftaking a gun-boat past the enemys forts toNew Madrid, and all except myself wereopposed to the enterprise, believing withFoote that the attempt to pass the bat-teries would result in the almost certaindestruction of the boat. I did not think so, was well known that the Confederates had anumber of small gun-boats below, and wereengaged in building several large and power-ful vessels, of which the renowned Arka?isaswas one. And there was good reason to ap-prehend that these gun-boats would ascendthe river and pass or silence Popes batteries,and relieve the Confederate forces on IslandNumber Ten and

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