Civil_War_Quarterly_-_Early_Winter_2015_USA
River, New Orleans would panic and might be lost to the Union. Thus a naval stalemate developed off Mobile that was to last for ...
Admiral Mahan later correctly observed that if the Confederates had laid electrical torpedoes, they would have been able to clos ...
At 6:22 the Tecumseh, which had arrived at 2 AM, leading the monitor line, opened the battle, firing a ranging shot from each of ...
an earthquake shock.” For one brief, cor- uscating moment, sinking by the bow, her propeller could be seen racing madly in the a ...
caused the attempted ramming to fail. The Rebel gunboats, however, were hit- ting their enemies with a terribly accurate, method ...
every respect, surrendered. Boarding her, Union sailors found a complete mess. Fif- teen men lay mangled and one lieutenant, his ...
three Union monitors, exploiting their shallow draft and gigantic Dahlgrens, in attack against the Tennessee. Buchanan saved him ...
iron, but the solid shot merely dented the side and bounded harmlessly into the air. Incensed Yankee sailors fired revolvers int ...
herself in mid-career, and caromed into the helpless ram. Her skipper, Commander William LeRoy, a comrade from the old navy, hai ...
280, including Admiral Buchanan, whose leg would be saved. The Tennesseeand Selmawere captured, and the Gaineswas gutted. Fort M ...
about midnight the place was evacuated and blown up. On Dauphin Island, the Federal army had not lagged. After a fierce exchange ...
S eemingly from birth, William Haines Lytle was bound for glory. As the last surviving male offspring of one of Cincinnati’s lea ...
Harper’s Weeklyartist Alfred Waud’s battlefield sketch shows Confederate infantry advancing ominously through the trees toward U ...
returned the favor by toddling about the family mansion shouting “Jackson!” at the top of his lungs—an early indication of his o ...
strong support of the recent, controversial Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court, which rejected the notion of citizenship f ...
ahead a few steps before dropping dead. The regiment, fighting alone for the better part of an hour, pressed the Confederates ha ...
sword, by Confederate Captain W.T. Blakemore, an adjutant for Brig. Gen. Bushrod Johnson. Blakemore asked Lytle if he needed hel ...
Lytle’s brigade, spearheading the advance, was in the lead when the army reached the hamlet of Cowan, Tennessee, in early July. ...
breakthroughs of the entire war. An unread letter from Lily was stuffed into Lytle’s coat pocket. His orderly, Joseph Guthrie, t ...
Union Colonel Benjamin Grierson stuck his left foot into the stirrup and swung up into the saddle. Orders were quickly given, an ...
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