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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 5 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
e stream at a place called Dunn's Bayou opened fire upon the Union vessels, and hit them several times, without, however, being able to stop them. But while Lieutenant Yoist with his two pieces, rapidly limbered up, runs them up the best he can on the bluff, a little lower down Lieutenant Lyne, in command of the other section, isnder the left bank, in the hope that the bend of the river and the high bluffs which border it on the right will protect them from Lyne's fire. But at this moment Yoist arrives with his section, and, running it boldly up within less than four hundred yards of the enemy's vessels, riddles them with shots. The Federals are bewildered and make a feeble reply; their pieces cease to work. Lyne joins his fire to Yoist's; Major's soldiers, posted on the bluff, keep up such a lively fusillade that the Federals imagine themselves in presence of a whole division. Seeing their vessels riddled, and not being able either to manoeuvre or to defend them, they set them