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Yazoo River (United States) (search for this): chapter 78
Doc. 72.-destruction of the Cairo. Letter from Lieutenant Alford. Off the mouth of the Yazoo, December 12. yesterday we were ordered up the Yazoo again, and were accompanied by the gunboats Signal, Pittsburgh, Cairo, and ram Queen of the West. We hove anchor at six in the morning and got under way. Our boat was in the advance. We had proceeded about eighteen miles unmolested, when in rounding a point we descried a skiff containing a white man and a negro. We fired a shot and brought them about and took them aboard. We examined them, and from the negro we got the information that the rebels had placed a large number of torpedoes and infernal machines all along up the Yazoo River to their battery on Drumgool's Bluff. Accordingly we kept a bright look-out, and at half-past 11 A. M. discovered one. We were nearly on it before we saw it. We backed down-stream and lowered our cutter to examine, and found an inch-line made fast to a large root on the bank on the left-ha
Cairo, Ill. (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 78
quite out of water, throwing the water fifty feet high and scattering pieces of glass on our decks. One of our pilots picked up a handful of the glass. The devil (whom we picked up) who has helped set these torpedoes, we have on board in double irons. We will fix him. The secesh down here are desperate. There is no Union feeling here, nothing but bitter hatred to all Northern men. The loss of the Cairo is a serious one to us. She cannot be replaced for less than three hundred thousand dollars, but the loss is the want of her just at this particular time. Coming down-stream, we shelled the woods, buildings, and every habitation we could see. From my battery we fired sixty-four shots, and we made some of them count. I think we will be ordered to Cairo with despatches; also to take up the crew and officers of the Cairo. The weather is pleasant and warm. Very little rain of late. River rising slowly from above. The general health of the crews is very good. Yours, E. A.
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Doc. 72.-destruction of the Cairo. Letter from Lieutenant Alford. Off the mouth of the Yazoo, December 12. yesterday we were ordered up the Yazoo again, and were accompanied by the gunboats Signal, Pittsburgh, Cairo, and ram Queen of the West. We hove anchor at six in the morning and got under way. Our boat was in the advance. We had proceeded about eighteen miles unmolested, when in rounding a point we descried a skiff containing a white man and a negro. We fired a shot and brought them about and took them aboard. We examined them, and from the negro we got the information that the rebels had placed a large number of torpedoes and infernal machines all along up the Yazoo River to their battery on Drumgool's Bluff. Accordingly we kept a bright look-out, and at half-past 11 A. M. discovered one. We were nearly on it before we saw it. We backed down-stream and lowered our cutter to examine, and found an inch-line made fast to a large root on the bank on the left-han
Alford (search for this): chapter 78
Doc. 72.-destruction of the Cairo. Letter from Lieutenant Alford. Off the mouth of the Yazoo, December 12. yesterday we were ordered up the Yazoo again, and were accompanied by the gunboats Signal, Pittsburgh, Cairo, and ram Queen of the West. We hove anchor at six in the morning and got under way. Our boat was in the advance. We had proceeded about eighteen miles unmolested, when in rounding a point we descried a skiff containing a white man and a negro. We fired a shot and brought them about and took them aboard. We examined them, and from the negro we got the information that the rebels had placed a large number of torpedoes and infernal machines all along up the Yazoo River to their battery on Drumgool's Bluff. Accordingly we kept a bright look-out, and at half-past 11 A. M. discovered one. We were nearly on it before we saw it. We backed down-stream and lowered our cutter to examine, and found an inch-line made fast to a large root on the bank on the left-han
December 12th (search for this): chapter 78
Doc. 72.-destruction of the Cairo. Letter from Lieutenant Alford. Off the mouth of the Yazoo, December 12. yesterday we were ordered up the Yazoo again, and were accompanied by the gunboats Signal, Pittsburgh, Cairo, and ram Queen of the West. We hove anchor at six in the morning and got under way. Our boat was in the advance. We had proceeded about eighteen miles unmolested, when in rounding a point we descried a skiff containing a white man and a negro. We fired a shot and brought them about and took them aboard. We examined them, and from the negro we got the information that the rebels had placed a large number of torpedoes and infernal machines all along up the Yazoo River to their battery on Drumgool's Bluff. Accordingly we kept a bright look-out, and at half-past 11 A. M. discovered one. We were nearly on it before we saw it. We backed down-stream and lowered our cutter to examine, and found an inch-line made fast to a large root on the bank on the left-han