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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 427 5 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 290 68 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 128 4 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 89 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 49 1 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 40 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 32 2 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 29 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 28 2 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 28 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 13: the capture of New Orleans. (search)
forts and the ram Manassas, 334. fearful struggle of the Hartford, 335. a desperate naval battle, 336. capture of forts J1862. he called a council of captains in the cabin of the Hartford, when that measure was decided upon. General Butler, who become less dense. Farragut, in the fore-rigging of the Hartford, had been watching the movements of Bailey and Bell throurtress opened with a remarkable precision of aim, and the Hartford was struck several times. Farragut had mounted two guns enly upon him, all a-blaze. In trying to avoid this, the Hartford was run aground, and the incendiary came crashing alongsieavy cross-fire alone. Farragut pressed forward with the Hartford, and, passing the Cayuga, gave the batteries such destrucooklyn, and then the remainder of the fleet, followed the Hartford's example, and in the course of twenty minutes the batterl flag, General Butler arrived and joined Farragut on the Hartford; and, in his report to the Secretary of War on the 29th,
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
d not to wait until morning, but as silently as possible glide up the river in the gloom. The fleet moved accordingly, at a little past nine in the evening. The Hartford, Captain Palmer, led, with the Admiral on board, and the gun-boat Albatross lashed to her side. The other frigates followed, each with a gun-boat attached. But(known as Hickey's) at the foot of the bluff is a very difficult one, owing to the strong eddies, and the high banks extend a long distance from this point. the Hartford. She replied, and instantly the batteries along the Port Hudson bluff opened their thunders. The mortar-boats responded; and as the frigates and their gun-boatss the vessels went nearer the bluff, and when, at one o'clock in the morning, March 14, 1863. after a contest of an hour and a half, the firing ceased, only the Hartford and her consort, the Albatross, had passed by. The Mississippi had run aground abreast the central heaviest battery, where her commander (Melancthon Smith) fough
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 23: siege and capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. (search)
intrenchments. Weitzel, who had covered Banks's march from Alexandria, had arrived.and made the investment of the fort complete, for Admiral Farragut, with the Hartford, Albatross, and one or, two other gunboats above Port Hudson, and the Monongahela, Richmond, Essex, and Genesee, with mortar-boats under Commander C. H. B. Caldwvigorous attack, but it was long past noon before Auger in the center, and Sherman on the left, were fairly at work. The navy was fully up to time, and from the Hartford and Albatross above, and the Monongahela, Richmond, Essex, and Genesee below, and the mortar-boats, Farragut poured a continuous stream of shells upon the garriseneral Banks found comfortable quarters at the farm-house of Riley's plantation, not far distant, which had survived the storm of war. Farragut, with the veteran Hartford and the Albatross, moved down to Port Hudson, and received the cordial greetings of the troops. Banks's loss in men during the siege of forty-five days was ab