English: A discharge of grape from Fort Jackson strikes the deck of the United States Gunboat "Iroquois" killing eight and wounding seven of a gun's crew of twenty-five men manning a Dahlgren gun. From a sketch by Wm. Waud.

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Title: The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880 Mottelay, Paul Fleury, b. 1841, ed Campbell-Copeland, T. (Thomas), ed Beath, Robert B. (Robert Burns), 1839-1914 Vandervoort, Paul. History of the Grand Army of the Republic Avery, I. W. (Isaac Wheeler), 1837-1897. History of the Confederate Veterans' Association Davis, A. P. History of the Sons of Veterans Merrill, Frank P. History of the Sons of Veterans
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Navy Grand Army of the Republic United Confederate Veterans Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Publisher: New York Atlanta : Stanley Bradley Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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PANORAMIC VIEW OF HEW URLEA-NS.—TILE FEDERAL FLEET AT ANCHOR UN THE RIVER, AfRLL. Stan. 1868.
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THE SOLDIER IN OUR C/T/L WAR. 301 tbej could release themselves and return to tlioirmoorings. The Ilasca had advanced bravely, but 11 lid ul tlio outset been pierced by several shots, oneof which bad entered her boiler, and caused such1111 escape of steam as to drive every one frombelow. Other shots hud struck ber below the water-line, and she was almost in n sinking condition,when Captain Caldwell reluctantly gave orders towithdraw. Thirteen vessels were thus jilnced within Farm-pits immediate reach above the forls, and close bythe Quarantine grounds, where the crippled Ca_t/natthad stopped, after silencing a battery on the westside of the river and capturing the companies ofClialmotto (Louisiana) Sharpshooters which wereguarding it under Colonel Szymanski. As soc^ as the last of the Meet had passed theoris, at the dawn of day, the ram Manassas, which. wsa (hen practically the only effective, remnant ofthe Confederate flotilla, was seen advancing towardthe Federal vessels. The Missis

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