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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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WHERE THE CONEEDERATES FOUGHT FARRAGUT SHOT FOR SHOT From these walls the gunners of Brigadier-General Richard L. Page, C. S. A., sighted their pieces and gave the Federal vessels shotfor shot. It was a fight at close range, since the obstructions in the channel compelled the fleet to pass close under the guns of thefort. During the hour while the vessels were within range, the fort fired 491 shots, about eight a minute. When the fight was thickest theConfederate gunners fired even far more rapidly, enveloping the vessels, and especially the Hartfordand the Brooklyn, in a veritablehail of missiles. The fort was an old five-sided brick works mounting its guns in three tiers. It was built on the site of the little redoubt(Fort Bowyer) that had repelled the British fleet in 1814. Within the fort were mounted thirty-two smooth-bores and eight rifles.(244)
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INTERIOR OF FORT MORGAN, MOBILE BAY, IN 1864 The entire front wall was reenforced by enormous piles of sand-bags to enable its four feet eight inches of solid brick to withstandthe broadsides of the fleet. Although the other fortifications at the entrance to Mobile Bay surrendered the day after the battle,it took more than Farraguts broadsides to reduce Fort Morgan. A siege-train had to be brought from New Orleans and a landattack made by the troops under General Gordon Granger, August, 22, 1864. Not till 3,000 missiles had been hurled into andaround the fort by the combined guns of the army and navy did the brave garrison of Fort Morgan surrender after a gallantdefense of twelve hours. In the picture some of the damaging effects of the terrific gunnery of the fleet are evident in the sea wall.

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