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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 114 (search)
Red. We could not help commiserating poor Northerners, shivering before coal-fires and freezing--on ice. When we returned we would willingly have exchanged positions. Late Friday night we anchored at the mouth of Black River, as before, the De Soto thrown out as our advance picket. Saturday morning, at daylight, we raised anchor and proceeded up the river. We had heard that the enemy had lately constructed fortifications at Gordon's Landing, eighty-five miles from the mouth, called Fort Taylor. We had heard also that there were heavy guns at Harrison-burgh, near the head of navigation on Black River, and for a time Colonel Ellet was undetermined which to attack. He finally settled upon the former, and we moved as rapidly as the tortuous nature of the stream and the ignorance of our pilots would admit, in the hope that we should reach the position and commence the attack before nightfall. The steamer Louisville, we also learned, had, just before we reached the mouth of the