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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I am going for her. They were not to finish the breakfast, however much they needed it,and however well they had earned it. They were hardly seated when theTennessee was reported approaching again, and all hands were called toduty. The flag-ship got under way, and the monitors were signaled todestroy the ram. The Monongahela, Ossipee and Lackawanna were alsobrought into actiou, ami soon the Tennessee was fired upon and encircledby all Union boats and rammed until disabled. Admiral Buchanan re-ceived a wound from an iron splinter, breaking his leg, and twentyminutes later her flag was hauled down. At 10 oclock the flag of theNation floated over the rebel ram, and the forts of Mobile Harbor had noother than land defences. That afternoon the Chickasaw shelled Fort Powell for an hour, and inthe night following the fort was evacuated and blown up. On August6ththe Chickasaw shelled Fort Gaines, which was surrendered on the 7th.The strongest fort remained to be taken. The, army under General
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74 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. Granger was transferred from Dauphin Island to Mobile Point, and asie^e train sent from New Orleans, which was landed three miles in therear of the fort on the 17th. Batteries were constructed, and thirty-fourguns put in position. At daylight on Monday, August 22d, bombard-ment of the fort began, aud the guns of the batteries, of the monitors,and of the ships inside and outside of the bar, sent shot and shell againstthe last defence of the harbor all day. On the 23d the fort surrendered.The Gulf squadron held the bay of Mobile, and the port was closed. The reduction of the city could have been easily made then had anyland force been there to co-operate in each a movement. No such forcecould then be spared, and, as Ave have recorded on another page, the re- ■duction of Fort Blakeley and Spanish Tort, the land defences of Mobile,was among the very last engagements of the war, occurring on April 8and 9, 1865. The squadron assisted in the siege of Mob

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