Identifier: abrahamlincolnba02newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1887 (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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expect uswith a dozen guns to check theirfurther advance ? I saw there wasno use risking life for nothing, soI fired the vessel and skipped.The fault rests with those who kept them there.Had regular naval officers, instead of beingkept in the mud forts on the creeks in Virginia,and in the woods of the Carolinas cuttingtimber to build iron-clads, been sent to thesevessels even at the eleventh hour, they wouldhave proven very formidable. The Confederates had in all thirteen vessels,and but thirteen of Farraguts vessels passedthe forts.* The former lost a fine opportu- 8-inch guns, for distribution in the fleet. Add thirty-eight32-pounders, and nineteen 13-inch mortars on boardthe bombers and twenty-nine 12-pounderhowitzers,one to each of twenty-four vessels, the five larger oneshaving two, both in their tops, and we find they had inall, three hundred and sixty-nine guns, of recent con-struction, fully equipped with latest improvements, andcommanded and handled by trained men. Excepting
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StFhffip. CHART OF THE FIRST MOVEMENTS OK THE VARUNA ANDMOORE. them. Not one of them to my knowledge,nor was it ever reported, availed itself of oneof these advantages, for when they saw the en-emy approaching, those having steam tried toipe, whilst others that did not have it wereset afire where they lay, as I myself witnessed.Not one of them made the feeblest offensiveor defensive movement, excepting in the ac-ofthe Stonewall Jackson nearlythree hours after, as I shall relate. Had they • The Navy Register of January, 1863, gives MagOfficer Farrago) n vessels one hundred and ninety-three gun--, and Commander Porters seven ves--ixty-fivc guns. The frigate Colorado, being unableto cross the bar, transferred April nth her 24-)),underhowitzer to the Sciota : or the 6th of April four 9-inchguns to the Oneida and Iroquoil; and on April 9th,threeofficers, 142 men, and her spar-deck battery of twenty GOVERNOR FIGHTING FARRAGUT BELOW NEW ORLEANS. 447

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