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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Vicksburg . (search)
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 5.76 (search)
The Confederate gun-boat Arkansas.
by her commander, Isaac N. Brown, Captain, C. S. N.
After the Appomattox capitulation, the observance of which, nobly maintained by General Grant, crowns him as the humane man of the age, I took to the plow, as a better implement of reconstruction than the pen; and if I take up the latter now, it is that justice may be done to the men and the memory of the men of the Arkansas.
On the 28th of May, 1862, I received at Vicksburg a telegraphic order from y, a Missourian of nerve and equal to the duty, took the wheel, and I ordered him to keep the iron-clad ahead.
All was going well, with a near prospect of carrying out my first intention of using the ram, this time at a great advantage,
Captain I. N. Brown, C. S. N. From a photograph. for the stern of the Carondelet was now the objective point, and she seemed to be going slow and unsteady.
Unfortunately the Tyler also slowed, so as to keep near his friend, and this brought us within easy r
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., Confederate torpedoes in the Yazoo . (search)
Confederate torpedoes in the Yazoo. by Isaac N. Brown, Captain, C. S. N.
It was rather by inference than by any direct orders that after the sacrifice of the Arkansas I was left to guard the Yazoo River.
At this juncture Messrs. McDonald (or McDonough) and Ewing, acting masters in the Confederate navy, offered to aid me with torpedoes.
So poor in resources were we, that in order to make a beginning I borrowed a five-gallon glass demijohn, and procuring from the army the powder to fill it gun-boat off the mouth of the Yazoo, under flag of truce, and met there an old messmate and friend, and said banteringly to him, Tom, why don't you go up and clean out the Yazoo?
I would as soon think of going to----at once, was the answer, for Brown has got the river chock-full of torpedoes.
I also made a contract with Dr. Fretwell and Mr. Norman, then at Yazoo City, for fifty or more of these destructives on Dr. Fretwell's plan — automatic action on being brought in contact with a vessel