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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 110 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 134 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 135 (search)
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125.-destruction of the Indianola.
Rear-Admiral Porter's despatch.
U. S. Mississippi Squadron, Yazoo River, March 10, via Memphis and Louisville, March 13th. The Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy:
I have been pretty well assured for some time past that the Indianola had been blown up, in consequence of the appearance of a wooden imitation mortar, which the enemy sunk with their batteries.
The mortar was a valuable aid to us. It forced away the Queen of the West, and he Mississippi, as a coal-barge is magnified into a monster, and our authorities immediately order a boat that would have been worth a small army to us to be blown up. D. D. Porter, Acting Rear-Admiral Commanding Mississippi Squadron.
Rear-Admiral Porter's letter.
U. S. Mississippi Squadron, Yazoo River, Thursday, February 26, 1863.
my dear----: We are all in quite a state of excitement here, in consequence of the appearance of the ram Queen of the West at Warrenton, seven miles be
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 204 (search)
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194.-capture of Haines's Bluff.
Acting Admiral Porter's report.
flag-ship Black Hawk, Haines's Bluff, Yazoo River, Wednesday, May 20, 1863. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington:
on the morning of the fifteenth I came over to the Yazoo to be ready to cooperate with General Grant.
Leaving two of the iron-clads at Red River, one at Grand Gulf, one at Carthage, three at Warrenton, and two on the Yazoo, left me a small force; still I disposed of them to the best advantage.
On the eighteenth, at Meridian, firing was heard in the rear of Vicksburgh, which assured me that General Grant was approaching the city.
The cannonading was kept up furiously for some time, when, by the aid of glasses, I discerned a company of our artillery advancing, taking position, and driving the rebels before them.
I immediately saw that General Sherman's division had come on to the left of Snyder's Bluff, and that the rebels at that place had been cut off from joining th
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 210 (search)