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Identifier: historictownsofsou00powe (find matches)
Title: Historic towns of the Southern States
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Powell, Lyman P. (Lyman Pierson), b. 1866
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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the22d Fort Morgan was completely invested byarmy and navy. The discipline of the garrisoncontinued perfect, standing the test of an un-broken bombardment, whose thunders wereheard at Mobile, thirty miles away. Manyshells were thrown into the fort, the citadelfired, and at last the walls were breached inseveral places. Further defence was impos-sible, and after spending a night in destroy-ing everything capable of destruction GeneralPage surrendered. General J. E. Johnston is said to have pro-nounced Mobile the best fortified city in theConfederacy. If the fortifications on or nearthe Tensaw River could be taken, however,transports, if not vessels of the fleet, could besent behind the torpedoes and obstructions tothe city wharves. Therefore Canby, with forty-five thousandtroops, including a column under Steele fromPensacola, undertook to overcome about fivethousand Confederates in Spanish Fort, whichwas named from the bastion built by Galvezalmost a century before. Randall L. Gibson,
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374 Mobile since Senator from Louisiana, was there in com-mand, reporting — like Lidell at Blakeley —by telegraph to D. H. Maury at Mobile. Gib-son handled his fifteen hundred men admirablyfrom Fort McDermett on the right, Red Fortin the centre, and along the line to the swamp,which was relied on to protect his left. Theprincipal gun in his Red Fort was an eight-inch Columbiad, cast at Selma in 1863, andmanned by Louisiana artillery, commanded bySlocum. This gun did terrible execution, anddismantled a whole fortification. But, whilethe sand-bags were still removed for that shot,Federal gunners dismounted her, and killedseveral men at their posts by her side.^ Span-ish Fort held out thirteen days against overthirty thousand men. The riflemen in theopposing pits even became friendly, and ex-changed yarns and courtesies. The fleet, af-ter three vessels had been sunk by torpe-does, picked up enough torpedoes to getwithin range, and the discovery of a passagethrough the swamp made it n

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