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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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itcninK flame, anl It went dr>wn licfore the fierce attack of the firemen as r.apidly as it had sprungthr fljftmct li«J away the rni^inrn were b.irkcd Miard, and, as if proviflentially, the r.im Manassas struck the ship .a blow imder the counter. which thorrel ber W^m tn againit the l<ank, oiisinK her bow to slip on.•• iIk dew nailed to Ihelrpnn with renewed energy. The ship was again free; and a loud, spontaneous cheer rent the air. THE OPENING OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI. 945 fire of that batter)-. The mortars opened at feet and passed safely above. He was here the same moment with great fur)-, and the met by the enemys gun-boats, and, although action commenced in earnest. he was beset by several large steamers at Captain Bailey, in the Cavin^a, followed by the same time, he succeeded in driving them the other vessels of his division in compact off. The Oneida and Winuia came to the order, passed the line of obstructions without support of their leader, and by the rapid fire
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U. S. S. BROOKLYN ATTACKED BY CONFEDERATE RAM .MANASSAS. (The Afanassas was described by her commander. Lieutenant Warley, as a tuj;-lx)at that had been converted into a ram, covered «rith half-inchiron, and had a thirty-two-pounder carronade; her crew consisted of thirty-five persons, officers and men. She was perforated in the fight by shot andshell as if she had been made of paper. Admiral Melancton Smith thus describes his encounter with the ram (see page 946): . . • Having discovered the Manassns stealing up along the St. Philip side of the river behind me, I signaled Harragut for permission to attack,which was given. The Mississipfii turned in mid-stream and tried to run down the ram, barely missing her, but <lriving her a-shorc, when her crewescaped, fired at by the Kimo, which had not yet anchored. The rams engines were found to be still in motion, but the approach of a burningwreck compelled me to .abandon the idea of attaching a hawser. Her machinery was destroyed by m

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