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March 12th (search for this): chapter 7
n the trenches of the besiegers. These guns were placed in position on the 12th of March, not without losses from the fire of the Confederates, at eight hundred metue that a small body of cavalry was operating below Columbus, which, on the 12th of March, had captured from the Confederates an insignificant post at Paris, in Tennh upon Savannah. He only received orders to undertake this movement on the 12th of March. But on the 17th his progress was checked at Columbia by Duck River, whiching the closing hours of the war. The Federal fleet left Hatteras on the 12th of March, and on the day following, the transport-ships landed Burnside's three brigmpt such a difficult enterprise. It could only promise him for the 10th or 12th of March, an auxiliary which might prove useful, but upon which it would have been he mean while, politics continued to interfere in military affairs. On the 12th of March a Washington journal published an order of Mr. Lincoln depriving General Mc
March 14th (search for this): chapter 7
se to the Federal fleet. This obstacle consisted of schooners sunk in the river, with the masts projecting obliquely, according to the current of the water, the tops of which were either pointed with iron or surmounted by a shell ready to explode as soon as brought into contact with any hard substance. The Confederate artillery at this point consisted of forty-six guns of large calibre and a great number of field-pieces. The Federals appeared before these works on the morning of the 14th of March, when, deploying along the edge of the woods which had concealed them until then from the enemy, the fighting at once commenced along the whole line. The firing thus continued for more than two hours without results. The assailants, being obliged to uncover themselves, and exposed to the fire of a numerous artillery, sustained more loss than their adversaries. The naval howitzers kept up the unequal fight with difficulty, and those who served them had to be constantly replaced, while
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