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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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I will go down and make sure, Dewey an-swered; and down he went into the wardroom, atthe risk of his life, and saw that everything wasablaze. When he returned to the deck and reported, thecaptain was satisfied, and then the two officers leftin the last boat and passed down to the Richmondunder the fire of the batteries. When the flames had sufficiently lightened theMississippi she floated off, swung round into the cur-rent, and drifted down stream, bow foremost. The port battery, which had been loaded but notfired, now went off, sending its shot toward the ene-my, as if the old craft knew herself and wanted todo her duty to the last. At half past five oclock inthe morning the fire reached her magazine, and theterrific explosion that followed not only blew the I04 THE HERO OF MANILA. vessel to fragments, but was heard and felt at a dis-tance of several miles. She had lost sixty-four of hercrew, some of whom were killed by shot, somedrowned, and some made prisoners when they swamashore.
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Removing the wounded. CHAPTER IX. THE CAPTURE OF FORT FISHER. The port of Wilmington, North Carolina, on CapeFear River, about twenty miles from its mouth, wasone of the most difficult to blockade, and when theother ports of the Southern States had been closedone after another, this became the Confederacys mainreliance for such supplies as had to be imported.Hence the desire of the national administration andmilitary authorities to seal it up. This could be doneonly by capturing its defenses, and the principal ofthese was Fort Fisher, the strongest earthwork thenin existence. This fortification, with its outworks,occupied the end of the narrow peninsula betweenCape Fear River and the ocean. It mounted thirty-eight heavy guns; the parapets were twenty-five feetthick and twenty feet high; there were heavy traverses,bombproofed; ditches and palisades surrounded it; andoutside of these were buried torpedoes connected withelectric batteries in the casemates. The garrison con-sisted of abou

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