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Title: Abraham Lincoln : a history
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901 Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint author
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Presidents
Publisher: New York : 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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A. J. Smith with the SixteenthCorps came next, and the Thirteenth held the left.The right soon invested Fort Blakely; the left hadalready invested the so-called Spanish Fort somethree miles further south. The navy moved upand crossed Dog River Bar and opened on theRebel works with five ironclads and the double-ender Octorara. So thorough a search had beenmade for torpedoes that the navy felt comparativelysafe; but their confidence was misplaced. TheMilwaukee was sunk on the 28th, the Osage thenext day; the light draft Rodolpli, coming to raisethe Milwaukee, was herself sunk the 1st of April;and at a later period, after the campaign wasended, four other vessels were lost by the sameeffective means. On the evening of the 8th of April, the prepara-tions having been completed, all the batteries fromland and bay opened upon Spanish Fort, and aterrible fire was kept up until nearly midnight,when the guns of the fort were silenced, and theplace being no longer tenable, the garrison in great
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CAPTAIN TUNIS A. M. CRAVEN. MOBILE BAY 241 part escaped in the darkness. The Union troops chap.x.entered the fort immediately and succeeded incapturing over six hundred prisoners and thirtyheavy guns. As soon as the sun rose on the 9th Apr., lses. — the sun whose rising saw Sheridan athwartLees front at Appomattox, and whose setting sawthe Confederate banners furled forever in Virginia — preparations were promptly made for the finalassault upon Fort Blakely, which was to close thewar in Alabama. At half-past five in the afternoon, Steele orderedhis forces to assault the fort. It was a strongwork, surrounded with every obstacle which theConfederates had been able in a years leisure toplace before it; but the Union troops, flushed withsuccess, went at it with such spirit that neitherditch, abatis, nor a storm of grape and canistercould keep them out. The colored troops on theright of the line especially distinguished them-selves by their courage and conduct in this finalgrapple with

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