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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 1. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the first autumn. (search)
On the 6th, Grant embarked upon three transport-ships, with five regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, and a section of artillery, three thousand one hundred and fourteen men in all, forming two small brigades, under General McClernand and Colonel Dougherty. In the mean while, demonstrations were made upon both sides of the river, one from Bird's Point and the other from Fort Holt, but they were undertaken by such small parties, obliged to stop at a distance so remote from the enemy, that thealready unmoored under the fire of the Confederates, who were rapidly approaching, when he appeared at the water's edge. A simple plank was thrown to him in haste, over which he passed on horseback, with a few officers who accompanied him. Colonel Dougherty, while endeavoring to rally the Seventh Iowa, whose officers were nearly all disabled, was seriously wounded and taken prisoner. As the steamers were getting under way they were riddled with balls by the enemy, who was only fifty metres f