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Title: The hero of Manila; Dewey on the Mississippi and the Pacific
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931
Subjects: Dewey, George, 1837-1917 Manila Bay, Battle of, Philippines, 1898 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ived or sur-prised. ^ Hardly was the fleet under way when tworockets rose into the air from the right bank of theriver, and then the first of the shore batteries dis-charged its guns. At the same time several greatbonfires were lighted, and then everything on theriver was in plain sight until the battle had gone onlong enough to produce a great pall of cannon smoke.The other shore batteries opened in rapid succession,and the mortar schooners promptly began their work.The great thirteen-inch shells, with their burning fuses,rose in beautiful curves and passed overhead like me-teors, to fall and explode within and around the fortifi-cations. As the several ships came within reach of theenemy they opened fire, and in a little time thesmoke was so thick that the gunners could only aimat the flashes. But they forged ahead steadily, doingtheir best under a terrific fire from the batteries onthe bluff and the constant rifle practice of sharp-shooters on the western bank. The Hartford and her
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THE BATTLE AT PORT HUDSON. 99 gunboat got by, losing only one man killed and twowounded; but, though she had two of the most skill-ful pilots, she grounded directly under the enemysguns, and for a little while was in danger of destruc-tion. By skillful handling of the gunboat she wasbacked off, and then continued up stream beyond therange of fire. The Admiral now looked for his othervessels, and they were nowhere to be seen. The Richmond, which had almost run into theHartford when she grounded, had reached the lastbattery, and in a few minutes would have been be-yond the reach of its guns, when a shot struck hersteam pipe near the safety valves and disabled her.The gunboat was not able to take her farther againstthe strong current, and they were obliged to dropdown stream out of the fight. They had lost threemen killed and twelve wounded. A cannon shot tookoff the leg of the executive officer, and he died a fewdays later. An attempt was made to blow her upwith a torpedo, but at the mo

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