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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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capture Baton Rouge in 18G2, he retired to Port Hudson,thirty miles farther up the river, and by the middle of August the fortifying of that i)lace was well advanced,the object being to hold the Mississip))i liotween this ))()int and Vicksburg, so tliat su;)plies coming fromArkansas In- way of the Red River would not be cut off from the Confederacy. Within the heavy parapets,twenty feet thick, the Confederates mounted twenty siege-guns along the lihifT, completely commandingthe river. It was therefore no light task that Farragut took upon himself when on the night of March14th he attempted to run by these batteries with his fleet. Five of his seven vessels were disabled, theMississippi riHuiing aground and being aliandoned and l)urned l)y her ct)nnnander. Farragut, in the famousHartford, ^\i\h (he Alhalross lashed to her side, barely escaped running aground under the guns of the bat-teries in the darkness. Finally he got safely by, and the object of the gallant fight was accomplished.
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THE WELL-PLANTED BATTERIES Confederate Siege-gun Mounted in the River Fortifications at Port Hudson. Twenty of these great piecesthundered at Farraguts fleet till long after midnight on March H, 1863. Although the objective was notso important to the Federals as in the famous fight at New Orleans, the engagement at Port Hudson wasscarcely less brilliant, and its outcome was more costly to the navy, which lost the valuable steam corvetteMississippi, mounting nineteen guns. The fleet lost 113 men in action. Farragut had the superiority innumber and weight of metal, but this was more than offset by the advantageous position of the Confed-erates. A successful shot from the sliip could do little more than tear up the earth in the fortificationson the bluflf, while every shot from the shore that told might mean the piercing of a boiler or the disablingof a rudder, rendering a ship helpless. To add to the disadvantages, Farraguts intention was discoveredat the outset. A river steamer approac

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