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Page 105
... Vicksburg , determined to put the plan in operation ; though all the naval and mili- tary means concerned made such a plan im- possible of execution in 1862. Amphibious forces -fleets and armies combined - were essential . There was no ...
... Vicksburg , determined to put the plan in operation ; though all the naval and mili- tary means concerned made such a plan im- possible of execution in 1862. Amphibious forces -fleets and armies combined - were essential . There was no ...
Page 106
... Vicksburg , four hundred miles above New Orleans . The nearest Federal army had been halted by the Confederate defenses above Memphis , another four hundred higher still . There were several reasons why Farragut should not have gone up ...
... Vicksburg , four hundred miles above New Orleans . The nearest Federal army had been halted by the Confederate defenses above Memphis , another four hundred higher still . There were several reasons why Farragut should not have gone up ...
Page 107
... Vicksburg , five hundred miles from the Gulf , against a continuous current , and right through the heart of a hostile land . Finding that there were thirty thousand Confed- erates in , near , or within a day of Vicksburg he and General ...
... Vicksburg , five hundred miles from the Gulf , against a continuous current , and right through the heart of a hostile land . Finding that there were thirty thousand Confed- erates in , near , or within a day of Vicksburg he and General ...
Page 108
... Vicksburg from the north under Flag Officer Charles H. Davis . So once more the fleet worked its laboriously wasteful way up to Vicksburg , where it passed the forts with the help of Porter's flotilla of mortar - boats on the twenty ...
... Vicksburg from the north under Flag Officer Charles H. Davis . So once more the fleet worked its laboriously wasteful way up to Vicksburg , where it passed the forts with the help of Porter's flotilla of mortar - boats on the twenty ...
Page 109
... Vicksburg bluffs , whence she might run out and ram the Union vessels below . Farragut therefore ran down himself , hoping to smash her by succes- sive broadsides in passing . But the difficulties of the passage wasted the daylight , so ...
... Vicksburg bluffs , whence she might run out and ram the Union vessels below . Farragut therefore ran down himself , hoping to smash her by succes- sive broadsides in passing . But the difficulties of the passage wasted the daylight , so ...
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