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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in 1862. lii> retired to Port Hudson, i tliirty miles farther up the river, and l)y the middle of August the fortifying of that place was well advanced, j the object being to hold the Mississippi l)etween this point and Vicksburg, so that sui)plies coming from ;Arkansas l)y way of the Red River would not be cut off from the Confederacy. Within the heavy parapets, twenty feet tliick, the Confederates mounted twenty siege-guns along the bluff, completely commanding , the river. It was therefore no light task that Farragut took u))on himself when on the niglit of March ;14th he attempted to run by these batteries with his fleet. Five of his seven vessels were disabled, theMississippi running aground and being abandoned and burned by her commander. Farragut, in the famous Hartford,-with the A Ihalross lashed to her side, barely escaped running agrotuid under the guns of the bat- ; teries in the darkness. Finally he got safely by, and the objett of the gallant fight was accomplished. !
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COLLECTION OF FREDERICK COPYRIOHT, l»lt, REVIEW OF KEWIEM8 CO. THE WELL-PLANTED BATTERIES Confederate Siege-fjiin Mounted in the River Fortifications at Port Hudson. Twenty of these great piecestliundered at Farraguts fleet till long after midnight on March 14, 186.(. Although the objective was notso im))ortant to the Federals as in the famous fight at New Orleans, the engagement at Port Hudson wa.sscarcely less brilliant, and its outcome was more costly to the navy, which lost the valiial)le steam corvetteMississippi, mounting nineteen gims. The fleet lost 113 men in action. Farragut had tlic superiority innuml)er and weight of metal, 1)ut this was more than offset by the advantageous position of the Confed-erates. A successful shot from the ship could do little more than tear up the earth in the fortificationson the bluff, while every siiot from the shore that told might mean the )Mercing of a boiler or the disal)lingof a rudder, rendering a ship helpless. To add to the disadvantag

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