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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
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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coat offto reheve and save thewounded; and althoughthe officers and crews ofthe gun-boats gave threehearty cheers when theConfederate flag was hauleddown, the first inside viewof the fort sufficed to sup-press every feeling of exul-tation and to excite ourdeepest pity. On every sidethe blood of the dead andwounded was intermingledwith the earth and theirimplements of war. Theirlargest gun, a 128-pound-er, was dismounted andfilled with earth by thebursting of one of our shellsnear its muzzle; the carriageof another was broken topieces, and two dead menlay near it, almost coveredwith heaps of earth ; a rifledgun had burst, throwing itsmangled gunners into thewater. But few of the gar-rison escaped unhurt. General Grant, with hisstaff, rode into the fortabout three oclock on thesame day, and relieved meof the command. The gen-eral and staff then accom-panied me on board theCarojuielet (anchored nearthe fort), where he compli-mented the officers of the flotiUahighest terms for the gallant
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GENERAL LLOYD TILGHMAN, CONFEDERATE COMMANDER AT FORT HENRY. (FROMPHOTOGRAPH.) the mmanner inwhich they had captured Fort Henry. Hehad expected his troops to take part ina land attack, but the heavy rains hadmade the direct roads to the fort almost im-passable. The wooden gun-boats Concstoga^ Com-mander S. L. Phelps, Taylor, Lieutenant-Commander William Gwin, and Lexington,Lieutenant J. W. Shirk, engaged the enemyat long range in the rear of the iron-clads.After the battle they pursued the enemystransports up the river, and the Conestogacaptured the steamer Eastport. The news ofthe capture of Fort Henry was received withgreat rejoicing all over the North. On the 7th I received onboard the Caron-delet Colonels Webster, Rawlins, and Mc-Pherson, with a company of troops, and underinstructions from General Grant proceededup the Tennessee River, and completed the destruction of the bridge of the Memphis andBowling Green Railroad. THE GUN-BOATS AT FORT DONELSON. On returning from my expedit

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