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Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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dwith him. In his official report of the battlehe said that his officers and men fought withthe greatest bravery until 1:50 p. m., whenseven of his eleven guns were disabled; and,finding it impossible to defend the fort, andwishing to spare the lives of his gallant men,after consultation with his officers he surren-dered the fort. It was reported at the time that, in sur-rendering to Flag-Ofificer Foote, the Confed-erate general said, I am glad to surrenderto so gallant an officer, and that Foote re-plied, You do perfectly right, sir, in surren-dering, but you should have blown my boatout of the water before I would have surren-dered to you. I was with Foote soon afterthe surrender, and I cannot believe that sucha reply was made by him. He was too muchof a gentleman to say anything calculated towound the feelings of an officer who had de-fended his post with signal courage and fidelity,and whose spirits were clouded by the adversefortunes of war. When I took possession of the fort the
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EATTUi OF VOKI llE.NRy. GUN-BOATS ST. I.OLis, CAKONUKLIl I,(DRAWN BY AUMIKAL WALKE.) AND CINCINNATI. OPERATIONS OF THE WESTERN FLOTILLA. 431 Confederate surgeon waslaboring with his coat offto reheve and save thewounded; and althoughthe officers and crews ofthe gun-boats gave threehearty cheers when theConfederate flag was hauleddown, the first inside viewof the fort sufficed to sup-press every feeling of exul-tation and to excite ourdeepest pity. On every sidethe blood of the dead andwounded was intermingledwith the earth and theirimplements of war. Theirlargest gun, a 128-pound-er, was dismounted andfilled with earth by thebursting of one of our shellsnear its muzzle; the carriageof another was broken topieces, and two dead menlay near it, almost coveredwith heaps of earth ; a rifledgun had burst, throwing itsmangled gunners into thewater. But few of the gar-rison escaped unhurt. General Grant, with hisstaff, rode into the fortabout three oclock on thesame day, and relieved meof the

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