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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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ril 4, 1872, which I received inanswer to my inquiry on the subject: Your mortar-vessels were placed in position onthe afternoon of the 17th of April, 1S62, and openedfire at once upon Fort Jackson, where my headquar-ters were established. The practice was excellent fromthe commencement of the fire to the end, and con-tinued without intermission until the morning of the24th of April, when the fleet passed at about fouroclock. Nearly every shell of the many thousandfired at the fort lodged inside of the works. On thefirst night of the attack the citadel and all buildingsin rear of the fort were fired by bursting shell, andalso the sand-bag walls that had been thrown aroundthe magazine doors. The fire, as you are aware, ragedwith great fury, and no effort of ours could subdue it.At this time, and nearly all this night, Fort Jacksonwas helpless; its magazines were inaccessible, and wecould have offered no resistance to a passing fleet.The next morning a terrible scene of destruction pre-
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•^ THE CONFEDERATE IRON-CLAD LOUISIANA ON THE WAY TO FORT ST. PHILIP. Mr. Wm. C. Whittle, who w.as third licutcn.-int on the Louisiana during the contest against Harraguts fleet in the Mississippi, has sent to theHditor the h\Uiw\nz &t4temcnt concernint; her armament ; — *■ The hull of the l^uijiana »;« almost entirely sulrnicrgcl. Uoon this were built her heavy upper works, intended to contain her battery, machinery,etc TWi extendci to within aU,ut twenty-five feet of hcrMcni and stern, leaving a little (!cck forward and aft. nearly even with the water, and sur-roumlcdbjr a iliifht tmlwark. The structure on the hull had its ends and sides inclincil inward and upward from the hull, at an anj,le of about forty-iire degree*, and covered with T railro.id iron, the lower layer l«ing firmly Ixjlted to the wood-wr,rk, and the upper layer driven into it from the end•o a* 10 form a ne-irly «<lid plate and a wmcwhat smo-.th surface. This plating rcsisterl the projectiles of

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