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Vicksburg to light up the scene and direct his fire.

About 12.45, one of our steamers, "Henry Clay," took fire and burned for three-quarters of an hour. The "Henry Clay" was lost by being abandoned by her captain and crew in a panic, they thinking her to be sinking. The pilot refused to go with them, and said if they would stay they would get her through safe. After they had fled in the yawls, the cotton bales on her deck took fire, and one wheel became unmanageable. The pilot then ran her aground, and got upon a plank, from which he was picked up four miles below.

The morning after Admiral Porter had run the Vicksburg batteries, I went with General Grant to New Carthage to review the situation. We found the squadron there, all in fighting condition, though most of them had been hit. Not a man had been lost.

A few days after the running of the Vicksburg batteries, General Grant changed his