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Identifier: deedsofvalorhowa02beye (find matches)
Title: Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Beyer, Walter F Keydel, Oscar F. (Oscar Frederick), b. 1871
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Perrien-Keydel Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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forts to avoid contact with this dangerous foe she grounded on a shoal. Only the captains coolness and circumspection saved her from destruction. She was successful in backing off the shoal, freeing herself from the fireraft, and the crew extinguished the fire. All the other ships experienced similar precarious situations. But the skill and coolness of the Federal officers forced success. An hour and ten minutes after getting under way the three divisions were past the forts, with the exception of the Kennebec, Winona and Itasca, which on account of their slow speed had to suffer too long under the fire of the forts and were compelled to fall back. After the other ships had passed the mortar steamers withdrew from their position before the water battery, back behind the shelter of the bank, where the mortar schooners were anchored. After silencing the Chalmette batteries, farther up the river, Farragut anchored off New Orleans at noon of April 25th. His object was attained, as the Confederate
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— 21 — land forces had abandoned the city and left her defenseless at the mercy of the Federal fleet. Captain Porter, in the meantime, with his mortar vessels shelled Fort Jackson, whose resistance was broken on the 28th of April, on which day the Confederate commander communicated his willingness to capitulate. The capitulation was signed on the following day. On the 28th of April New Orleans surrendered. The Union fleet lost in this famous engagement one ship, the gunboat Varuna, 35 men killed and 128 men wounded. The ships which suffered most were the Pensacola, 37; Brooklyn, 35, and Iroquois 28. As to individual experience in this memorable action we have a graphic account by an eye-witness and combatant, Gunner Cornelius Cronin, then one of the crew of the Brooklyn. He says : The first bombardment continued, with intermissions, until the morning of April 24th, when, at 2 o'clock, after the display of a preconcerted signal from the flagship, which consisted of two vertical red lights a

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