Identifier: ournavyintimeofw00matt (find matches)
Title: Our navy in time of war (1861-1898)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Matthews, Franklin, 1858-1917. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nto a tomb. The smoke, however,protected the vessels of the first division of the fleetfrom serious damage, and they ran by the forts with-out much dififtculty. It was after they got above theforts that they had their exciting time. It was just before four oclock in the morningwhen Farragut, leading the second division, sweptpast Fort St. Philip. The smoke was so thick that, ashe discharged a broadside, he received little damagein return. Soon a more terrible enemy appeared. Itwas a fire raft pushed hy a tug called the Mosher.Farragut tried to sheer oft, but the current caughtliim, and ran his frigate hard and fast on a mud bank.He was so close to Fort St. Philip that the gunnerscould be heard talking in the fort. His ship was rec-ognized by his flag on the mizzenmast, but the vesselwas so close to the fort that the shots that Avere firedat him nearly all passed over him. The flamesfrom the fire raft, however, leaped up the side of hisvessel, into the portholes and up the rigging, and
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