... Tennessee and penetrate Alabama. Foote had already hurried back to Cairo with the Cincinnati, Essex, and St. Louis, to prepare mortar-boats for the new enter-prise, leaving Commander Walke, of the Carondelet , in charge of a portion of his flotilla at Fort Henry. With the spirit of the old Puritans (from whom he was descended ), who were everr eady to fight or pray, as circumstances might require, he we...