 The Department will perceive, from this (my) report, that the forts can be passed, and we have done it, and can do it again as often as may be required of us. It will not, however, be an easy matter for us to do more than silence the batteries for a time,...  Blue and Gray: The Patriotic American Magazine - Stran 311894Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | United States. Navy Dept - 1863 - 536 strani
...required of us. It will not, however, be an easy matter for us to do more than silence the butteries for a time, as long as the enemy has a large force...hills to prevent our landing and holding the place. (ieneral Williams has with him about three thousand men, and, on the occaeion of our attack and passing,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1863 - 972 strani
...an may be required It will not, however, be an easy matter for us to do more than silence ittcries for a time, as long as the enemy has a large force behind the hills vent our landing and holding the place. neral Williams has with him about three thousand men, and,... | |
 | Charles Brandon Boynton - 1868 - 664 strani
...Winona, and Pinola were on our quarter. . . The Department will perceive from this (my) report, that the forts can be passed, and we have done it, and...hills to prevent our landing and holding the place. General Williams has with him about three thousand men, and, on the occasion of our attack and passing,... | |
 | 1889 - 408 strani
...not however be an easy matter for us to do more than silence the batteries for a time, äs long äs the enemy has a large force behind the hills to prevent our landing and holdiug the place.«*) Trotz aller Requisitionen Farragut's, etwa 15,000 Manu Truppen zu senden, konnte... | |
 | Loyall Farragut - 1879 - 632 strani
...Commanding CH Baldwin, of the Clifton. " The Department will perceive, from this (my) report, that the forts can be passed, and we have done it, and...hills to prevent our landing and holding the place. distracting the raking fire from us while running up ; but the fort, having a plunging fire upon them,... | |
 | Loyall Farragut - 1879 - 632 strani
...(my) report, that the forts can be passed, and we have done it, and can do it again as often as may oe required of us. It will not, however, be an easy matter...hills to prevent our landing and holding the place. distracting the raking fire from us while running up ; but the fort, having a plunging fire upon them,... | |
 | Loyall Farragut - 1879 - 632 strani
...us. It will not, however, be an easy matter for us to do more than silence the batteries for a tune, as long as the enemy has a large force behind the...hills to prevent our landing and holding the place. distracting the raking fire from MB while running up ; but the fort, having a plunging fire upon them,... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1892 - 376 strani
...my instructions to the best of my ability. . . . The Department will perceive from this report that the forts can be passed, and we have done it, and...hills to prevent our landing and holding the place." " I am satisfied," he says again, " it is not possible to take Vicksburg without an army of twelve... | |
 | George Morley Vickers - 1896 - 626 strani
...from the enemy's fire, although she steamed at the lowest rate of speed, and anchored above Vicksburg at six o'clock in the morning. In writing to the Department,...said : •' General, my officers oppose my running by Vicksburg as impracticable. Only one supports me. So I must give it up for the present. In ten days... | |
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