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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 12 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 12 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
General Horace Porter, Campaigning with Grant 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 2: Two Years of Grim War. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 2 0 Browse Search
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Doc. 111. fight on the Tennessee River. Captain Foote's report. St. Louis, October 30, 1861. sir: The Conestoga, Lieut. Corn. Phelps, has again been up the Tennessee River as far as Eddyville, sixty-two miles distant from Paducah, with three companies of the Illinois regiment, under command of Major Phillips, and conjointly they have had a handsome and successful skirmish, in which the rebels broke and fled in every direction, leaving seven dead on the field. Our casualties consrs were taken from the enemy; also seven negroes and thirty-one horses, eleven mules, two transportation wagons, a large number of saddles, muskets, rifles, shot-guns, sabres, knives, &c. Lieut. Corn. Phelps, and the officers and crew of the Conestoga, as well as Major Phillips and his men, are deserving of the highest credit for their bearing in this expedition. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, A. H. Foote, Captain U. S. Navy, &c. A correspondent of
illery, however, merely changed position higher up the river, and opened again. This it did several times, and each time we silenced it, until it finally retreated down the river, and I think embarked on board a steamer which came from the direction of Columbus at the commencement of the engagement, under convoy of what is supposed to be the rebel gunboat Yankee; both boats, flying the rebel colors, kept well in under the batteries on the bluff above the latter place. The Lexington and Conestoga then ran down the bend, throwing a shell occasionally at the points from which they had been fired upon previously without eliciting a reply, until they reached a point which I estimated to be about two and a half miles distant from the Yankee. I then directed one of the eight-inch guns of the Lexington, charged with a fifteen-second fuzed shell, to be trained upon her, giving the gun its greatest possible elevation by removing the quoin, &c., and fired. I had the satisfaction of seeing