Identifier: ournavyintimeofw00matt (find matches)
Title: Our navy in time of war (1861-1898)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Matthews, Franklin, 1858-1917. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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r, and thirty-two died of their woundsor the scalds from the steam. The regiment, however,which had been landed, carried the earthworks bystorm, and the gunboats that were uninjured wentsixty-three miles farther up the river and opened it.Davis was then made a rear admiral. Early in January, 18G3, a force was sent up theArkansas River to capture a fort called Arkansas Post.Xearly five thousand troops were taken along, but l)e-fore they were landed the vessels of the expedition,on January Dth and 10th, shot the earthworks topieces and they surrendered. General (Jrant had arrived opposite Yicksburg onJanuary 30, 1863, and he and Porter formed a planto get control of the Mississippi between Vicksburgand P(>rt Hudson, which had by this time been wellfortified. Porter sent Colonel Charles P. Ellet withthe ram Queen of the West down past Yicksburg onthe morning of February 2d. On the way down, andunder a heavy fire, Ellet stopped and ranmied the TURNING OPERATION TICKS13U11G CAMPAIGN1863
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90 OUR NAVY IN TIME OF WAR. steamer Yieksburg, which was moored to the bankdirectly under the forts, and then passed on withoutlosing a man. A few days later Porter then sent theNorthern vessel Indianola down. Ellet about thistime took the Queen of the West up the Red River,and had to al)andon his vessel while attacking a fortnear Gordons Landing. lie escaped in a prize he hadcaptured. The Southerners fixed up the (Jueen of theWest, which had been abandoned because a shot hadburst its steam pipe, and with two or three of theirrams went after the Indianola, which was trying toescape up the Mississippi to Porters fleet. A fight oc-curred between the Indianola on one side and theQueen of the West and the Wel)b on the other, andthe Indianola was run ashore to keep her from sink-ing. T\w Southern forces took ))ossession of the In-dianola and were repairing her when Porter played anamusing trick on them, lie took a coal barge andplaced some pork barrels on her to resemble smoke-stacks, buil

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