...is's flagship, got under way after Brown had passed, and followed him at her usual snail's pace, to borrow Davis's phrase, without overtaking him. In a few minutes the Arkansas was under the guns of Vicksburg . A week before, on the 7th of July, Farragut had written to the department that he hoped soon to have the pleasure of recording the combined attack by army and navy, for which we all so ardently ...