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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e to turn our left, ami get pos-session of the landing, transports, etc. Again, Much is due to thepresence of the gunboats. The Confederate commander in that battlealso spoke of the falling back of our infantry under the guns of thegunboats, which opened a tierce and annoying tire with shot and shell ofthe heaviest description. After the fall of Island No. 10 Footes flotilla passed down beyond NewMadrid. On the loth of April he encountered five Confederate gun-boats, which retreated before him after exchaugim_r a few shots. Hal-leeks withdrawal of all of Popes forces except some 1,500 men put anend for the time to aggressive work for the fleet. On May !)th Foote leftthe boats in temporary command of Capt. Chas. II. Davis, and wentNorth, hoping to recover from his wounds received at Fort Donelson.But his honorable career of tbrtv years afloat was ended with the excel-lent service rendered from Donelson to island No. 10. He was not againable to resume dutv, and lived onlv a year longer.
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34 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. The Confederates had gathered together eight gunboats which theystvled the River Defence Fleet, and which, at the time Foote left oursquadron, were lying under the guns of Fort Pillow. The boats of oursquadron were hugging the banks of the river above, four on the Arkan-sas shore—the Mound City, Cincinnati, St Louis and Cairo, and threeon the Tennessee shore, the Benton, Caroudelet and Pittsburg. FortPillow was not far below, and it was the daily custom for one of our gun-boats to tow a mortar boat down where it could throw its shells into FortPillow, and remain on guard Over it for twenty-four hours. On theiuornhi- of May 10th the Cincinnati took mortar boat No. 16 down forthis daily exercise, and the usual routine was somewhat varied. The boatsof the Defence Fleet came out and attacked the Cincinnati, the GeneralBrawo1 leading. She came up the Arkansas shore and, rounding, struckthe Cincinnati at full speed on the starboard quarter, a powerful b

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