e Mississippi the fleet of the enemy was found disposed as a phalanx, but the heroic commander of the Arkansas moved directly against it; though in passing through this formidable array he was exposed to the broadsides of the whole fleet, the vessel received no other injury than from one eleven-inch shot which entered the gun room, and the perforation in many places of her smokestack.
The casualties to the crew were five killed, four wounded—among the latter was the gallant commander.
General Van Dorn, commanding the department, in a dispatch from Vicksburg July 15th, states the number of the enemy's vessels above Vicksburg, pays a high compliment to the officers and men, and adds:
All the enemy's transports and all the vessels of war of the lower fleet (i.e., the fleet just below Vicksburg), except a sloop of war, have got up steam, and are off to escape from the Arkansas.
A vessel inspiring such dread is entitled to a special description.
She was an ironclad steamer, one h
289-93.
Communications to foreign cabinets concerning Confederate States, 312.
Comparison with state government, 382-84.
Subjugation of state governments, 384-87.
Military domination of Northern States, 402-22, 416-17.
Statistics of Federal Army, 598-99.
Statistics of public debt, 599.
Conduct of war by Federal Army, 599-606.
Address of attorney general to president, 640; instances stated, 640-41.
Upton, General, 589.
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Vallandigham, Clement L., Trial and sentence, 421.
Van Dorn, Gen. Earl, 39, 40, 204, 328, 330, 332, 338, 356.
Varuna (boat), 185.
Vaughan, General, 340, 588.
Venable, Col. C. S., 278, 437-38, 557, 558.
Vicksburg, Miss.
Attempts to advance against, 331-35.
Preliminary battles, 335-44.
Siege and fall, 344-49, 352, 353.
Viele, General, 82.
Virginia. Preparations for McClellan's advance on Richmond, 67-68; the advance, 68-105.
Jackson's activity in the Valley, 90-98. Seven Days Battle, 111-29.
Formation of West Virginia, 255-57.
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