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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews 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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EVIEW OF REVIE\/S CO. FORT MORGAN—A BOMBARDMENT BRA\ELY ANSWERED The battered walls of Fort Morgan, in 1864. tell of a terrific smashing by the Federal navy. But the gallant (onfederates returnedthe blows with amazing courage and skill: the rapidity and accuracy of their fire was rarely equalled in the war. In the terrible conflictthe Hartford was struck twenty times, the Brooklyn thirty, the Octorora seventeen, the Metacomet eleven, the Lacka-wanna five, theOssipee four, the Monongahela five, the Kennebec two, and the Galena seven. Of the monitors theChickasaw was struck three times, the Manhattan nine, and the Winnebago nineteen. The total loss in the Federal fleet was52 killed and 170 wounded, while on the Confederate gunboats 12 were killed and 20 wounded. The night after the l)attle the Meta-comet was turned into a hospital-ship and the wounded of both sides were taken to Pensacola. The pilot of the capturedTennessee guided the Federal ship through tlie torpedoes, and as she wa

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