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Identifier: ournavyintimeofw00matt (find matches)
Title: Our navy in time of war (1861-1898)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Matthews, Franklin, 1858-1917. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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)osite tlie first battery on the islandthe soot took fii-e and Idazed up and became a flamingtorch. It made the boat a splendid target for theSouthern gunners. The cannon roared. The flashesof the guns mingled with the flashes of lightning.The booming of the guns was added to the peals ofthunder. Walke did not reply to the shots, and final-ly slipped 2)ast the island in safety. At one timeduring the journey a flash of lightning showed to thepilot and the leadsman, the only two men Avho stoodout in the o))en, that the shi)^ was about to rnn ashore.Had it not been for this lightning flash, the Caron-dolet would have been aground in a few seconds,directly under the guns of a battery. Island No. 10surrendered in a few days with five thousand nuMi.The next fortification <»n the Mississippi was at
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84 OUR NAVY IN TIME OF WAR. Fort Pillow, halfway between Island Xo. 10 andMemphis, but before an attack w^as made on it twoof the small vessels of Footes flotilla, the Tvler andthe Lexington, went np the Tennessee River far be-yond Fort Henry to Pittsburg Landing, where theyhelped (Jrant out of a tight place on April 6tli.Grant was outnumbered, and his troops were beingswept back in confusion from their base on the river.Tlie advancing Southern forces had to go through aravine, and the Tyler and Lexington hurled theirshells into this ravine furiously and checked theSouthern soldiers. Hundreds of men Avere killed.Tlie two boats kei)t throwing shells into the camp ofthe Southern men all night long. The battle was re-newed the next day, and the Southern troops retreated.It was on A)ml 14, 1802, that Footes flotilla an-choicd six miles above Fort Pillow. Fvery day Footesent a mortar l)oat down the rivci, with a Avar ship toguard it, to shell Fort Pillow. On May 9tli Footeswound had become

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