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Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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east damage was done to the fort. The next day a boat withfour deserters came on board the Malvern, and Admiral Porter asked one of themabout it. Oh, it was terrible. Admiral; we all woke up from it, said he. On the morning of the 24th, Admiral Porter, according to agreement with Butler,proceeded with his fleet to the attack. Shortly before noon the bombardmentbegan, the ironclads Canonicus, Ironsides, Monadnock and Mahopac leading. Thenfollowed the Minnesota, Colorado and Montana; the Ticonderoga, Shenandoah^Tacony, Mackinac and Vanderbilt; the Osceola, Santiago de Cuba, Fort Jackson,Sassacus, Chippewa, Monticello, Rhode Island, Quaker City and Josco, in the ordernamed. They all reached their prescribed position with splendid, seaman-likequickness and accuracy, and by noon the pandemonium of battle had broken loosewith its utmost fury. The shot and shell crashed into the fort at the rate of 115 per RICHARB BINDER, Sergant of marines, U.S. S. Ticonderoga.Born In Germauy July 26, 1841.
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I-(/Jo a: o o \- illo z<I-tn a. <o — 83 — minute; it was impossible to stand such infernal fire. Two magazines blew up, thewoodwork of the works was in flames, and an hour and a quarter after the first shothad been fired into it the fort was silenced. As this was all the navy could do, theadmiral reduced the activity of his ships to moderate firing and waited for the army.At sunset General Butler arrived with a few transports. The tremendous fire of the fleet had so quickly chased the gunners in the fortunder shelter that not a single man on board had been injured by the enemy. Butthe 100-pounder Parrott guns proved treacherous weapons for those who workedthem. On not less than five ships of the fleet there were casualties from the burstingof these guns. One burst on the Yantic, killing an officer and two men; one on theJuanita, killing two officers and wounding ten men; one on the Ticonderoga, killingten men and wounding fifteen; one on the Mackinac, killing one officer and

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