SIR : I have the honor to inform the department that yesterday morning a little after seven o'clock the rebel squadron, consisting of eight iron-clad steamers, four of them, I believe, fitted as rams, came around the point at the bend above Fort Pillow... Thieves of Mercy: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea - Page 118by James L. Nelson - 2009 - 480 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| United States. President - United States - 1862 - 848 pages
...morning a little т seven o'clock the rebel squadron, consisting of eight iron-clad steamers, four them, I believe, fitted as rams, came around the point at the bend above Fort low and steamed gallantly up the river, fully prepared for a regular engageât. ['he vessels of this... | |
| United States. Navy Dept - Naval art and science - 1863 - 536 pages
...11, 1862. SIR : I have the honor to inform the department that yesterday morning a little after seven o'clock the rebel squadron, consisting of eight iron-clad...the river, fully prepared for a regular engagement. The vessels of this squadron were lying at the time tied up to the bank of the river, three on the... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1863 - 892 pages
...Лгагу .• SIR : I have the honor to inform the Department that yesterday morning, a little after seven o'clock, the rebel squadron, consisting of eight iron-clad...— four of them, I believe, fitted as rams — came round the point at the bend above Fort Pillow, and steamed gallantly up the river, fully prepared for... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1863 - 972 pages
...yesterday morning a little even o'clock the rebel squadron, consisting of eight iron-clad steamers, four m, I believe, fitted as rams, came around the point at the bend above Fort and steamed gallantly up the river, fully prepared for a regular engagevessels of this squadron were... | |
| Frank Moore - United States - 1868 - 872 pages
...squadron, consisting of eight ron-clad steamers — four of them, I believe, fitted as rams — came round the point at the bend above Fort Pillow, and steamed...the river, fully prepared for a regular engagement. The vessels of this squadron were lying at the ;ime tied up to the bank of the river — three on :he... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - United States - 1886 - 934 pages
...Navy : SIH — 1 have the honor to inform the department that yesterday morning, a little after seven o'clock, the rebel squadron, consisting of eight iron-clad...the river, fully prepared for a regular engagement but little more correct in his account:1 "although the Confederate vessels made great holes in the... | |
| John Thomas Scharf - United States - 1894 - 934 pages
...¿Vary : SIR — I have the honor to inform the department that yesterday moraiug, a little after seven o'clock, the rebel squadron, consisting of eight iron-clad steamers — four of them, I believe, fitted ae rams — came around the point at the bend above Fort Pillow, and steamed gallantly up the river,... | |
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