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Island number10.
This island lies in a sharp bend of the Mississippi River, about 40 miles below Columbus, and within the limits of Kentucky.
At the beginning of the Civil War it was considered the key to the navigation of the lower Mississippi.
To this island some of the troops and munitions of war were transferred when General Polk evacuated Columbus, and all the troops there were in charge of Beauregard.
On March 8, 1862, he sent forth a proclamation in which he called for bells with which to make cannon, and there was a liberal response.
In some cities, wrote a Confederate soldier, every church gave up its bells.
Court-houses, public institutions, and plantations sent them.
And the people furnished large quantities of old brass—andirons, candlesticks, gasfixtures, and even door-knobs.
These were all sent to New Orleans to be used in cannon foundries.
There they were found by General Butler, sent to Boston, and sold at auction.
Beauregard had thoroughly fortified t
Monitor and Merrimac.
At the moment when the Confederates evacuated Manassas a strange naval battle occurred in Hampton Roads.
The Confederates had raised the sunken Merrimac in the Gosport navy-yard and converted it into an iron-clad ram, which they called the Virginia, commanded by Captain Buchanan, late of the United States navy.
She had gone down to Hampton Roads and destroyed (March 8, 1862) the wooden
Map of Hampton Roads. sailing frigates Congress and Cumberland, at the mouth of the James River, and it was expected she would annihilate other ships there the next morning.
Anxiously the army and navy officers of that vicinity passed the night of the 8th, for there appeared no competent human agency near to avert the threatened disaster.
Meanwhile another vessel of novel form and aspect had been constructed at Greenpoint, L. I., under the direction of the eminent engineer, Capt. John Ericsson (q. v.). It was a dwarf in appearance by the side of the Merrimac.
It presen
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