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The Daily Dispatch: April 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], The brave defenders of the Mississippi Valley (search)
The brave defenders of the Mississippi Valley --The army correspondent of the Savannah Republican, alluding to the defence of Island No.10, on the Mississippi, says: Rucker's battery is situated on the shore of the main land, somewhat in advance of the island batteries. The enemy have made every effort to destroy it, having brought as many as eight gun boats and six mortar boats to play upon it for nine successive days and nights. The battery mounts only — guns, but they are rifled guns; and the men have to stand in the water up to their knees all the time they are working them — sometimes from six to twelve hours before they are relieved. The ammunition is carried through the water by hand. The Mississippi is within one foot of high-water mark, and the banks and adjacent bottoms are overflowed in many places for miles. Are not the brave fellows who thus stand up to their work in water and ice, and sleet and rain, worthy of a warm place in the hearts of their coun