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Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) | 10 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. | 5 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 3 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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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., 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 and an artillery friction tube to explode it, I set these two enterprising men to work with a coil of small iron wire which they stretched from bank to bank, the demijohn filled with inflammable material being suspended from the middle, some feet below the surface of the water, and so connected with the friction tube inside as to ignite when a vessel should come in contact with the wire.
Soon after it was put in position the iron-clad Cairo came up the river [December 12th, 1862], and, keeping
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Confederate army . (search)