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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews 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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TheLafayette had the stronger armament, carrying two 11-inch Dahlgrens forward, four 9-inch guns in the broadside, and two 24-pound howitzers, with two 100-pound Parrott guns astern. She and the Choctaw were the most important acquisitions to Portersfleet toward the end of 1862. The Lafayette was built and armed for heavy fighting. She got her first taste of it on the night ofApril 16, 1863, when Porter took part of his fleet past the Vicksburg batteries to support Grants crossing of the river in anadvance on Vicksburg from below. The Lafayette, with a barge and a transport lashed to her, held her course with difficultythrough the tornado of shot and shell which poured from the Confederate batteries on the river front in Vicksburg as soon as themovement was discovered. The Lafayette stood up to this fiery christening and successfully ran the gantlet, as did all the othervessels save one transport. She was commanded during the Red River expedition by Lieutenant-Commander J. P. Foster.
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THE BATTLE AVITII THE RIVER Colonel Baileys wontlerful dam—which, according to Admiral Porter, no private company would have completed within a year.Baileys men did it in eleven days and saved a fleet of Union vessels worth $2,000,000. Never was there an instance where suchdifficulties were overcome so quickly and with so little preparation. The current of the Red River, rushing by at the rate of ninemiles an hour, threatened to sweep away the work of the soldiers as fast as it was performed. The work was commenced by buildingout from the left bank of the river with large trees cross-tied with heavy timber and filled in with brush, brick, and stone. Vie seethe men engaged upon this work at the right of the picture. Coal barges filled with brick and stone were sunk beyond this, whilefrom the right bank cribs filled with stone were built out to meet the barges. In eight da.v.s Baileys men, working like beavers underthe broiling sim. up to their necks in water, had backed up the curren

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