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Excerpt from Our Living and Our Dead, Vol. 4: Devoted to North Carolina Her Past, Her Present and Her Future; March, 1876
On the first day of January, 1868, an attack was made by Gen. Magruder, commanding the land, and Commodore Smith, com manding the naval forces, upon the town and harbor of Galves ton, in Texas. The enemy held the town by a land force of sev eral hundred infantry, which was supported by a ?eet of eight armed vessels, mounting upwards of thirty guns. The naval force brought down the river by Commodore Smith, consisted of two steamers so fitted up with cotton bales as to render them im pervious to cannon shot. The attack was made just before the dawn of day. The assault was nearly simultaneous by land and sea, and was attended with brilliant success. One steamship and two barques were among the captures, besides the destruction of the enemy's ?agship by being blown up; with all the land forces as prisoners of war, with an immense amount of military stores. The remnant of the Federal ?eet escaped to sea, and Gen. Magru der published to the world that the blockade was raised and the port of Galveston open to the commerce of the world.
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