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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
tured General Santa Anna. Renshaw appeared on the 4th of October with his flotilla at the entrance of the bay. After waiting in vain for an answer to his summons, he crossed the bar. A fort erected by the Confederates, at the extreme end of Galveston Island, opened fire upon him, but two or three well-directed shells soon silenced its guns. The battery on Pelican Island, from which the Federals had expected to receive numerous projectiles, was found to be only armed with bogus wooden cannon. nd deeming it safe to allow them to obtain provisions from the interior which could not be procured from New Orleans without great difficulty, he had consented, by a kind of tacit agreement, to the preservation of the large bridge connecting Galveston Island with the continent. This sort of truce was doomed to silence the guns of the steamer Harriet Lane, which was anchored between the bridge and the town, as well as those of a Confederate battery posted on the mainland, although these guns wer