Identifier: presidentssoldie02hard (find matches)
Title: Presidents, soldiers, statesmen... with a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hardesty, Hiram H., 1834-1898, pub. 2n
Subjects: United States
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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and exploded,killing her captain and nearly all on board, some two hundred, mostlyescaped slaves, who were scalded to death. About noon next day thetwo boats left above the batteries started down, the Juliet, only partiallyrepaired, taken alongside by the Hindman, the remaining pump-boatfollowing. First the Juliet struck a snag, and sprung a leak. Whenthis was repaired, and the boats again in motion, a shot passed throughthe pilot-house of the Hindman, cutting the wheel-ropes and renderingthe boat unmanageable. Both boats fell off broadside to the stream, anddrifted down under fire, striking first one shore then the other. They,however, escaped capture and twelve miles below the battery met theNeosho, which Porter had sent to their relief. The pump-boat wascaptured with all the crew. The squadron was at length reassembled at Alexandria, only to findthe worst of their trouble before them. Ten gunboats and two tugs wereabove the rapids. Seven feet of water was the least that would take
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e : A GUNBOAT FIGHT. 58 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. them down below the falls and they had only three feet four inches.Porters release from this position is due to an army officer, Lieut.-Col.Joseph Bailey of the Fourth Wisconsin Infantry, under whose instruc-tions some Maine soldiers, who had been lumbermen at home, proceededto dam the river and pen in water enough to give the necessary depthover the rapids. The work was begun on May 1st and completed ineight days. In four more the boats were through and in the river below,thanks to Yankee ingenuity. For this service Colonel Bailey waspromoted brigadier-general and received a vote of thanks from Congress.While the army and navy were detained at Alexandria, the enemv passedround the city and appeared on the banks below. They attacked twolight gunboats, the Covington and Signal, which had the transportWarner with them. The Covington was riddled and burned, the twoother boats with their crews and soldiers captured. The transport Ci

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