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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ENTRAPPED AHOVE THE FALLS—GLOOMY DAYS OF WAIIING AND NARROW ESCAPES Here lies a part of the iiiilurky fleet that Admiral Porter came near losing in the fruitless expedition up the Red River, which imi)irilledsome of the most valuable gunboats possessed by tlie Federal navy. First in line is the tow-boat lirown ; next the steamer Rmi-til,whoseescape the month before was hair-breadth; then the tugDahlia, the tenderto Porters flagshi)). while tlie ironclads Neoshoand Chillicothe bring up the rear. The expedition on the part of the navy was umlertaken in the assurance that the Red Riverwould, according to its custom, rise at this season of the year. For twenty years it had never failed to rise, but now, in 18G4, it didexactly the opposite. Only the light-draft gunboats could be run above the falls by the end of March. Since it was rwmorcil (hatthe Confederates had some formidable ironclads up the Red River, the gunboat Eastport was at last hauled over the rocks of therapids by main stre

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