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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Reminiscences of the Confederate States Navy. (search)
om New Orleans belonging to what was known as the Montgomery fleet. The State of Louisiana had appropriated as entrusted to a steamboat captain by the name of Montgomery, who afterwards played commodore of a portion of m of the United States navy. The officers of the Montgomery fleet were mostly river steamboat men, and of coua floating battery, and with the ram Manassas and Montgomery rams (six or eight of them), the McRae and a numbarge number of the heaviest guns. There were six Montgomery rams, one Louisiana ram called the Governor Mooreeping a steady rain of canister on them. Had the Montgomery rams fought, or towed the fire rafts out into thece, and that the rest of Hollins' fleet and eight Montgomery rams, then above Memphis, could soon descend the rs by land. At this time there were eight of the Montgomery rams at Fort Pillow; they had had an engagement wneral Jeff. Thompson was placed in command of the Montgomery fleet, and at once determined to see what they co