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Title: Popular history of the civil war
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Cheney, C. Emma (Clara Emma)
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Publisher: Boston : Estes and Lauriat
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e enemys gunboats. Instantly Captain Jouett cutloose from the Hartford, and with the Metacomet startedfor them. Three others followed. By nine oclock in tlieevening the Selma was captured, the Gaines was burned, andthe Morgan ran under the guns of Fort Morgan, whither theTennessee had already gone for repairs. The latter steamedout again to attack the Hartford; and the Monongahelamade a rush at her with such force as to knock men offtheir feet on each vessel. Then the Lackawanna and theHartford rammed the Tennessee, pouring shot and shellupon her that rattled harmlessly off her iron sides. For anhour the Tennessee held the whole Union fleet at bay. Atlast the Lackawanna and the Hartford came into collision,nearly cutting the flagship in two. Boats were lowered, andthere was a cry, Save the admiral ! But the stanch oldcommander, refusing to go over the side, ordered the Hart-ford to ram the Tennessee again, when a white flag on theTennessee proclaimed her surrender. Her smoke-stack was
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^^^ FARRAGUT IN THE SHROUDS. 1864.) They that go doivu to the Sea in Ships. 485 gone, her steering-apparatus broken, and her commander,Captain Buchanan, was wounded; but she had made agallant fight. By the next afternoon the Union vessels werepatched up, and just before sunset they opened upon PortGaines. After a few shots the admiral invited Colonel An-derson and his staff to come on board the Hartford undera flag of truce. They went, and Farragut convinced thecommander of Fort Gaines that it would be a needless sacri-fice of life to try to hold it against bombardment. ColonelAnderson agreed to surrender Fort Gaines the next morning,and he kept his word. General Page, however, declined togive up Fort Morgan : so Grangers troops were landedbehind it, and on the 22d of August the bombardment wasbegun by both army and navy. Fort Morgan held out till its citadel took fire, its wallswere broken, its guns disabled, and its magazines in danger.When the flames could be no longer resisted, th

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