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some of the enemy's vessels by land batteries having guns of rather light caliber. One by one successful conflicts between river boats and gunboats impaired the estimate which had been put upon the latter. The most illustrious example of this was the attack and capture of the Indianola, a heavy ironclad, with two eleven-inch guns forward, and two nine-inch aft, all in iron casemates. She had passed the batteries at Vicksburg, and was in the section of the river between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, which in February, 1863, was the only gate of communication which the Confederacy had between the east and west sides of the Mississippi. The importance of keeping open this communication, always great, became vital from the necessity of drawing commissary's stores from the trans-Mississippi. Major Brent, of General Taylor's staff, proposed, with the towboat Webb, which had been furnished as a ram, and the Queen of the West, which had been four or five days before captured by the lan
urg siege surrender losses surrender of Port Hudson some movements for its relief. Operatiosed the Mississippi and proceeded to invest Port Hudson. . . . A communication from General Kirby Scksburg by a movement to raise the siege of Port Hudson, which he regarded as feasible, while a dirment in the city. But, by the surrender of Port Hudson on July 9th, the enemy were in sufficient fnt to break the investment of Vicksburg. Port Hudson, which thus capitulated, was situated on a and had repulsed every assault, and yielded Port Hudson only when the fall of Vicksburg had deprive to hold the two positions of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. Though gunboats had passed the batteries e 10th received intelligence of the fall of Port Hudson, and some hours later learned that Vicksburf those events connected with the sieges of Port Hudson and Vicksburg, enough has been given to shofield of battle. The loss of Vicksburg and Port Hudson was the surrender of the Mississippi to the[8 more...]
, 514. Pittsburg (gunboat), 25. Pittsburg Landing, 39, 41-42, 58. Battle, 43. Pleasant Hill, Battle of, 457. Poindexter, Doctor. 122. Point Comfort, 7 Polignac, General, 455. Polk, General, Leonidas, 20, 40-41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 55, 192, 324, 359, 360, 361, 460, 466, 468, 496. Extract from report on battle of Shiloh, 51. Death, 469. Pope, Gen. John, 58, 59, 61, 114, 262, 265, 269, 270, 271, 275, 276, 498-99, 618, 630, 631,633, 634. Orders to devastate Virginia, 262-63. Port Hudson. Siege, 351-52, 353. Port Republic, Battle of, 94-96. Gen. Taylor's description, 95-96. Port Royal, S. C., 8. Porter, General, 114, 275, 283. Admiral, D. D., 23, 182, 184, 185, 332, 333, 347, 455-56, 458, 548, 581. Statement concerning Confederate use of torpedo naval defense, 174. Posey, General, 300. Powers, Maurice, 201. Powhatan (ship), 207-08. Prentiss, General, 48, 50. Preston, General, 361. Prestonburg, Battle of, 15. Price, General, Sterling, 39, 40, 326-27, 32