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— Heroes

until a newspaper " Mahan " discovered that we ought to have towed the whole Federal fleet up to New Orleans in

triumph

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CHAPTER

VIII

— Commodore — Appointed aide-de-camp to the commodore — Island — New Madrid — The Swamp Fox of Missouri — Masked batteries — Wanted to challenge a major — U.S. ironclads pass Island No. 10 — Stung — New Madrid and Island No. discipline 10 evacuated — "Savez" Read administers a lesson to the volunteers — Gunboats pretty badly cut up by shore bat— Go back to New Orleans — Fort Jackson under heavy — Commodore Hollins bombardment from Porter's mortar — Death command — Farragut passes the relieved from

The McRae made

flagship of the Mississippi flotilla

Hollins No. 10

in

teries

fleet

his

of Captain

forts

Huger and sinking

of the

McRae

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CHAPTER IX

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Mob threatens to kill his officers at New Orleans Farragut threatens to who demand the surrender of the city destroy the city if a hair of their heads is hurt Pierre Soule's

Farragut's

fleet

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— — take to the swamp — The "Irreconcilable Home Guard" — Reach General time Lovell's camp at Amite — Reach Norfolk the evacuation — Richmond — The battle between the U.S. Ironclads Galena, Monitor, and Naugatuck and Drewry's Bluff batteries — Battle Seven Pines (Fair Oaks) — Seven Days' Battle hypnotic fore-finger saves the

critical situation

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Charleston — Commodore Ingraham — CS. Ironclad Chicora — The looting of my home Baton Rouge — George Hollins dies of yellow fever — The Honorable George A. Trenholm — Naval " never unbutton coats " — Ordered abroad

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officers

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CHAPTER XI

— Ber— Commodore Wilkes's famous ship San Jacinto gives us a scare — Halifax — England in company with some of Her Majesty's —

Run through the U.S. blockading fleet Out of our reckoning muda Blockade-runners throw money into the street

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Sail for

Life

Guardsmen

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XII

Liverpool — London — Morton," near Rugby — Ordered to the C.S.S. Alexandra — Snubbed — Ordered to Paris — Ordered to London — Birthday properly celebrated — Damn the Visit " Hill