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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 24 (search)
be undeceived until the Lexington, Lt. G. M. Bache, got them under a raking fire of canister, which soon strewed the banks for a mile with their bodies. Porter reports their loss here at 500. Kilby Smith's land force of course cooperated with the gunboats in the contest. The lesson was so impressive that 5,000 Rebels, who were hastening to intercept the fleet at a point below, concluded, on hearing of it, to defer the enterprise. Meantime, our fleet pursued its arduous voyage till, at Compte, April 13. several being hopelessly aground, Porter hastened down to Gen. Banks, at Grand Ecore, six miles below; when troops were sent up to their relief; and they were brought down without further annoyance. At Grand Ecore, Porter found most of his larger vessels aground — several of them drawings a foot more water than there was on the bar at that point. While he was getting them over, the Eastport, which had gone eight miles farther down, was sunk ; and several days' hard work wer