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Title: The naval history of the United States
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934
Subjects: United States -- History, Naval To 1900
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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thehard knocks they had received in their excursion through the woodsBoats, davits, steam-pipes, and every thing breakable that rose above thelevel of the deck, had been swept away by the overhanging boughs, ordashed to pieces by falling trees. The smoke-stacks and wheel-houseswere riddled by the bullets of the Confederate sharp-shooters. The deckswere covered with rubbish of all kinds, and here and there was a fissurethat told of the bursting of some Confederate shell. The paint wasblistered, and peeling off, from the effects of the cotton-fire through whichthe fleet had dashed. On the shore blazed the camp-fires of Shermans troops; and about thehuge flaming piles the weary soldiers threw themselves down to catch amoments rest, while the company cooks prepared the evening meai.Many of the idle soldiers strolled down to the edge of the bayou, and,forming a line along the levee, began chaffing the sailors on the ludicrousfailure of their attempt to perform naval evolutions in a swamp.
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THE LAUNCHING OF THE BATTLESHIP IOWA BLUE-JACKETS OF 6i. 769 Whats gone with your boats, Jack? sung out one tall fellow incavalry garb. Been in dry-dock for repairs ? How do you like playing mud-turtle ? said another. Better stickto salt water after this. Dont go bush-whacking again, unless you have the soldiers with youYou look as if your mothers didnt know you were out. And at this a yel.of approval went up all along the line, while the badgered sailors growledand tried to make sharp retorts to the stinging ridicule of the landsmen. So ended this memorable gunboat expedition. It is unparalleled inthe history of warfare. The feats performed by the unwieldy iron-cladsin the narrow bayous gained for them, from Lincoln, the title of web-footed gunboats. They had traversed shallow and tortuous channels;they had cleared their path of trees, snags, and even bridges; they hadrun the gantlet of flaming cotton-bales and Confederate bullets. Aftermeeting and overcoming so many obstacles, their

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