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The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
Bombardment of Port Hudson.graphic description of the Engagement. It is rarely the public have an opportunity to get a correct idea of the manner of bombarding our forts on the Mississippi. The Port Hudson (La) correspondent of the Jackson Appeal gives a most graphic description of the bombardment of that place on the 14th inst. The bombarding fleet consisted of the steam sloops Hartford, 10 guns; Monongahela, 16; Richmond, 26; Mississippi, 12; gunboats Kinnes, 5 guns, and Tennessee. 5 guns. Shortly before midnight the boats, having formed the line-of-battle as described, their decks cleared for action, and the men at their quarters, the Hartford led the way and the others promptly followed her direction. At the moment of their discovery a rocket was to be sent up from the Admiral's flag-ship, as the signal for the Essex and her accompanying mortar boats, which were concealed around a point in the river, to commence the work. Our men were all at their guns. The letter says:
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
d. We believe the statement to be false, but admitting it to be true! what does Farragut propose to do with the boat, hemmed in as he is between Vicksburg and Port Hudson: Cincinnati, March 26--A dispatch from Memphis into the following order: Admiral Farragut's vessel discovered the Indianola at Hard Times Bend, and reded the Union arms, not at one point only, but in every quarter. Admiral Farragut a fleet of wooden ships-of-war have been beaten off by the rebel batteries at Port Hudson; of this there can be no longer any doubt. At least one ship (the steam sloop-of-war Mississippi) was destroyed, and two, if not three, other vessels more or lt. It will be a rare piece of luck of the escapes. The endeavors of Admiral Farragut to get past the batteries would seem to indicate that he wished to attack Port Hudson from above while Gen. Banks, with the land force, invested it from below. But the plan, whatever it was, has for the time miscarried. Nor is the news fro