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Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Personal Experience of a Union Veteran (search)
f many an upheaval; but I question if New Orleans, as a whole, ever before, or since, got into such a scrape, or had so happy an issue out of a deplorable condition. Of course the gallant action of our fleet in forcing its way past these forts, and dealing with the rebel crafts above, was a theme on which it was our delight to dwell, and from which we gathered inspiration. The gunboat Varuna sunk or disabled six of her antagonists before she received her mortal wound; but the gallant Captain Boggs ran his sinking ship to the bank and tied her to a tree, and saved every soul aboard. The trucks of the bow gun-carriage were under water when the gun fired its last shot. When I climbed to her half-submerged deck a few months afterwards, I instinctively took off my cap in salute of the flag that once proudly floated at her peak, but was not hauled down in token of surrender. But the tangible reminder of all the gallant deeds performed in connection with the capture of the forts render
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Index (search)
Bartlett, Hon., Josiah, 39, 65. Bartlett, Samuel, 97. Baton Rouge, 53. Beacon Street. Boston, 27. Beauties of the Bible, 101. Belknap, Ruth, 65. Bennett, Clark, 47. Bennett, John, 68. 71. Berkshire County, Mass., 85. Betsey, 23. Bigelow, Dr., 13. Bigelow, Samuel. 100. Bingham Hospital for Incurables, 2. Blackford, Christfr., 85, 86. Blanchard, Mr., 96. Blanchard, Nathan, 98. Blaney, John, 84. Blodgett, Mehitable, 20. Blood, Mr., 45. Blossom (ship), 88. Boggs, Captain, 53. Booker, Simeon, 92. Bonner, Miss, Eliza, 47. Bonner, William, 47. Boston, Mass., 1, 6, 10, 26, 38, 77, 79, 80, 81, 83, 86, 87. Boston Branch Library, 65. Boston Club, The, 2. Boston & Maine R. R., 78. Bowers, Hannah, 87. Bowers, Jerathmeel, 87. Boylston, Sarah, 89. Brackenbury, Annie (Anderson), 80. Brackenbury, John, 80. Brackenbury, Katherine, 80. Bradley, Mary, 80. Breed, Eben, 21. Breed, Captain, Eben, 82, 84. Breed, Ebenezer, 85. Breed's Island, 84. Bre