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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ter. The Choctaw and her si.ster-ve.s.sel, theLafayette, r((;uir(i! nine feet. The Choctaw mounted three O-inch smooth-bores and a rifled 1206) , REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE MONSTER IRONCLAD CHOCTAW lOO-pounder in her forward casemate. She had a second casemate forward of the wheel where shemounted two 24-pounder howitzers, and a third casemate abaft tlie wheel containing two SO-pounderParrott rifled guns. Under Lieutenant-Commander F. M. Ramsay, she was active in the flotilla co-operating witli General W. T. Sherman against Haynes Bluff and Drunigoulds Bluff, Mississii)pi, to dis-tract attention from Grants famous movement to the south of ^ickshurg. She accompanied the expeditionthat captured Yazoo City on May 21, 1863, and destroyed .^^.OOO.OOO worth of Confederate vessels, yards,mills, and other property. On June 7, 1863, she, with the little Lexington, drove off the Confederate at-tack on Millikens Bend, Louisiana. In 1864, she accompanied Admiral Porter on the Red River expedition.
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^.u THE RATTLER—LEADER OF TUE LAND CRUISE IN 1863 ,u > : This little tinclad Numbor 1, the Rattler, was the flagship of Lieutenant-Commander Watson Smith. AdmiralPorter sent liiiu to enter tlie Yazoo River through Moon Lake, Cold Water, anil the Tallahatchie Ri^•er to attackVieksburg from that side. This was the most daring and hazardous undertaking attempted by the river navy.The army engineers had cut the levee higher up the ^lississippi, but after the water was let in it took some daysfor it to attain a sufficient le\el in the vast area flooded. Late in February, Smith and his squadron started outwith transports carrying (i.OOO troops. Struggling against o^•erhanging trees and masses of driftwood, pausingto remove great trees which the Confederates had felled in their way, the gimboats managed to pick a channel,and approached Fort Pemberton on March 11, 18()3. Many of the gunboats had suffered severely from thisamphibious warfare. The Romeo had her stacks carried away, the

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