Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Great Rebellion, Vol. 2: A History of the Civil War in the United States
In the middle of July, the rebel ram Arkansas an iron plated vessel, came down the Yazoo, and passing triumphantly through our surprised ?eet, safely anchored under the guns of Vicksburg. Flag-officers Farragut and Davis, with Por ter, now held a consultation as to the best mode of destroy ing this powerful antagonist at its moorings. It was deter mined to make the attempt at four o'clock on the 22nd, by Farragut attacking the lower batteries and Davis the upper, while W. D. Porter, in the Essex, should move boldly and swiftly down on the steamer and crush it with one deadly blow.
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