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r way towards Port Hudson for the purpose of making a demonstration and distracting the attention of its garrison, while Farragut was attempting with his fleet to steam up the river past the rebel batteries. This the admiral succeeded in doing witg which the Mississippi got aground, and was set on fire and blown up by her own crew to save her from the rebels. Thus Farragut became, to a certain extent, master of the river from Port Hudson to Vicksburg. Banks was afterwards blamed by Hallecall succor; and then either to invest it and capture it, or to join General Grant's forces at Vicksburg. The passage of Farragut's boats past Port Hudson in March rendered this feasible; and Banks succeeded admirably in carrying out this plan of camhe bend above Port Hudson lay the Hartford, Albatross, Sachem, Estrella, and Arizona; and below lay the Monongahela, now Farragut's flagship, the Richmond, Genesee, and the iron-clad Essex, together with the mortar boats. All of which fleets did gre
han C., 14. Eastern Primary School, Cambridge, 38. East Somerville, 29. Edgerly, Emma F., 68, 69. Edgerly, Jerome B., 69. Edgerly, L. C., 68, 69. Edgerly, M. A., 68, 69. Edlefson, Charles E., 14. Eighty-ninth, The, 6. Eleventh Penn., 6. Elliot, Charles D., 49, 65, 77, 86. Elm Street, Somerville, 32. Emerson, Samuel, 14. Emory, General, 59. Essex, The, 60. Estrella, The, 60. Everett, Mass., 31. Fairchild, Willard C., 14. Farmileo, William, 68. Farmville, 11. Farragut, 52, 53. Farrar, Bathsheba Burt, 34. Farrar, Calvin, 31, 34. Farrar, Daniel, 34. Farrar, George A., 14. Farrar, Luther, 34. Farrar, Samuel, 34. Fay, Walter, 14. Felch, Lieutenant, 5. Felker, Samuel O., 14. Fellows, Charles C., 14. Fellows, John, 44. Female Seminary, Charlestown, 40. Fenno, Elizabeth S., 74. Fenley, Charles, 46. Fenley, Mary, 46. Fifth Corps, 5. First Baptist Society, Somerville, 66. First Congregational Society in Somerville, The, 74. First Univer