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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—the naval war. (search)
r-boats and the transports, and in obtaining supplies for the fleet, delayed the time when Farragut saw all his forces united below Vicksburg, on the 27th of June. His fleet consisted of five sloops-of-war, the Hartford, bearing the commodore's pennant, the Iroquois, the Oneida, the Richmond and the Brooklyn; six gun-boats, the Kennebeck, the Katahdin, the Wissahickon, the Scioto, the Pinola and the Pinola, forming the first division; six other gun-boats, the Octorara, the Westfield, the Clifton, the Jackson, the Harriet Lane and the Owasco, which, with sixteen mortar-boats, constituted the second division, under David Porter; Williams' division of infantry, about three thousand strong, was on board. The latter was evidently too weak to attempt any demonstration against the works of Vicksburg, whose garrison numbered eight or ten thousand men; it could only protect the depots of the fleet against a surprise. On the evening of the 27th, everything was ready for an attack. While
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book VII:—politics. (search)
n the 26th of October two of his gun-boats. the Westfield and the Clifton, took possession of the village of Indianola, in the Bay of Matagoumbiads, four sixtyeight-pounder howitzers and two rifle-guns; the Clifton, also carrying two nine-inch columbiads, four forty-two pounder hoerefore, that the two largest Federal gun-boats, the Westfield and Clifton, anchored outside of Pelican Island, had not yet been able to taken. The transport Boardman tried in vain to extricate him, and the Clifton, after losing much precious time in similar efforts, left him to gnt an officer, with a prisoner from the Harriet Lane, on board the Clifton, to demand a capitulation. This clumsy stratagem proved a complete success. Lieutenant Law, commanding the Clifton, left his vessel to communicate the demand of the enemy to Renshaw; but instead of waitingt fallen into the hands of the enemy with their crews. Whilst the Clifton, the Owasco, the Sachem and the Corypheus were steaming out of Gal