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Title: The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery
Publisher: Hartford : O.D. Case & Co. Chicago : Geo. & C.W. Sherwood
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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r undoubt-ingly understood that he was notmerely to fit it out, but personallycommand it. So he did. Porter, with his war vessels, ar-rived on the 18th, and at once sentup the powder-boat Louisiana, intend-ing to explode her forthwith ; but, onButlers remonstrance that the landforces must be ready to follow np theexplosion with an assault, he counter- •manded the order. It appears thatthe Rebels were not aware of the pre-sence or imminence of the expedi-tion till the 20th—a few vessels moreor less in the offing, where severalblockaders were generally visible,not wearing any special significance.But now, as the wind was high andthe sea rough, with a prospect of stillworse weather, the transports putback YO miles to Beaufort, N. C, forwater, &c.; when a storm ensuedwhich prevented their return till the ^26th. Admiral Porter—who was not on terms of cordiality with Gen. Butler —set to work by himself. He had sent in the powder-boat Louisiana, Nov. 16. no THE AMERICAN CONFLICT.
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SKFKNBES OF ■WILMINOTOK. BUTLER AND WEITZEL DECLINE TO ASSAULT 711 Comr Rhind, at 10^ p. m. of the 23d;exploding her at If next morning,but to very little purpose—the mira-culous power which gave efficacyto the assault with ranis-horns onJericho not having been vouchsafed.Hhind and his crew did their work:following in (unperceived) a block-ader whose signals of amity were re-spected and answered by the fort.When all was ready, they escaped ina tender which had accomjianiedthem on their perilous errand, andwhich, having attained a considerabledistance, was scarcely harmed by theexplosion. The fort and its defend-ers seem to have been nowise dis-turbed by it—Col. Lamb supposingit to be merely the bursting of one ofthe great guns of our fleet. Porter had 33 war vessels, severalof them iron-clad, beside a reserveof 17 small ones. At 11^ a. m., hefollowed up the abortive explosionby an order to advance and bom-bard the fort: the Ironsides leading,closely followed by the Monadnock,Can

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