Identifier: pictorialhistorywils (find matches)
Title: Pictorial history of the great Civil War : embracing full and authentic accounts of battles by land and sea ...
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Wilson, John Laird, 1832-1896
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Publisher: (New York, N.Y.?) : J.R. Jones
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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the whole scene.The bonfires gave a brilliant but locallight, which was hemmed in, so tospeak, by the surrounding darkness,while what seemed meteors burstingnow from the batteries on the bluffs,and now from the vessels on the river,created a pandemonium-like picturemore honible than the onlooker, in hismost imaginative moods, ever beforeconceived. The batteries being high,the Confederates had all the advantage.It was a most unequal struggle. Thefleet, however, kept moving on, vainlyreplying to the deadly fire, whichpoured like hail from the heights ontheir right. Grape, canister, shrapnel,shot, and the scarcely less destructivebullets of sharpshooters, swept murder-ously over the decks of the vessels asthey drew nearer and nearer the bluffsFor an hour and a half the terrific can-nonade continued. What had happenedin that space of time was known onlyon board the separate vessels. About one oclock the firing ceased.Only the Hartford and the Albatrosshad passed th^ batteries. Most of the
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