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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century 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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at . -Fort Donelson changed -their dejection into joyand exultation. On the V^ On the morning of the 23d the flag-officermade a reconnaissance to Columbus, Ken-tucky, with four gun-boats and two mortar-boats, accompanied by the wooden gun-boatCo/ifsfoga, convoying five transports. Thefortifications looked more formidable thanever. The enemy fired two guns, and sent upa transport with the pretext, it was said, ofeftecting an exchange of prisoners. But atthat time, as we learned afterward from acredible source, the evacuation of the fort(which General Grants successes at FortsHenry and Donelson had madenecessary) was going on, and_—. the last raft and barge loads of all the movable muni-tions of war were de-i\ scending the river.
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following morningan order congratulat-ing the officers and menof the Carondelet was re-ceived from Flag-OfficerFoote. A i^w days later the Carondeletwas taken up on the ways at Cairo -,for repairs; and a crowd of carpenters workedon her night and day. After the repairs werecompleted, she was ordered to make the ex-periment of backing up stream, which proveda laughable failure. She would sheer fromone side of the river to the other, and withtwo anchors astern she could not be heldsteady enough to fight her bow-guns downstream. She dragged both anchors alter-nately, until they came together, and the ex-jjcriment failed completely. MORTAR-BOATS AT ISLAND NUMBER TEN. which, with a large quantity previously takenaway, could and would have been capturedby our fleet if we had received this informa-tion in time. On the 4th of March anotherreconnaissance in force was made with all thegun-boats and eight mortar-boats, and thefortress had still a formidable, life-like ap-pearance, caused by Quak

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  • bookyear:1886
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Generals
  • bookpublisher:_New_York__N_Y______The_Century_Co__
  • bookcontributor:Lincoln_Financial_Foundation_Collection
  • booksponsor:The_Institute_of_Museum_and_Library_Services_through_an_Indiana_State_Library_LSTA_Grant
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