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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
r of another; at one time the fleet had to be divided in order to avoid collisions, and at another the heaviest gunboats had to be towed by the most powerful transports. When Green arrived on the 12th, about four, at Blair's Landing, the greater part of the ships of war had already passed this point, likewise all the transports with the exception of six. These were in a critical position: the Hastings had broken her rudder; the Clara Bell and the Emerald were trying in vain to drag the Alice Vivian off a sandbank; and, finally, the Rob Roy ran into the stern of the Black Hawk, which was engaged in raising the sunken monitor Osage. The gunboats Lexington and Neosho were less than a mile up the stream. Green boldly proceeded to bring his three guns into action on the bluffs, and, posting his skirmishers in the underbrush along the edge, he opened fire on the Federal vessels. There were some victims of these ambuscades among Smith's soldiers, surprised as they were by the sudden att