Re: Yazoo Pass Expedition
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:43 pm
Wingman,
Where did you get that? I would like to read more.
Where did you get that? I would like to read more.
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Re: Yazoo Pass Expedition
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:35 pm
Google Yazoo Pass Expedition.
Re: Yazoo Pass Expedition
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:53 pm
Did y'all see this?
A CURIOUS ACCIDENTAL SHOT.
This afternoon the Chillicothe was again ordered down to engage the rebel battery. She moved down promptly, and soon her heavy eleven-inch guns were heard, to which the enemy made a brisk response. The Chillicothe fired but seven rounds, during which she dropped three shells directly into the enemy works with good effect. At this juncture she met with a most unfortunate and disastrous accident. Her men were just loading her port gun, the charger being engaged at the moment in cutting the fuse of the shell which had already been placed in the muzzle of the gun, when a sixty-four pound shell from the rebels struck directly in her half open port, throwing apart and unshipping the heavy iron port shutters, one of which was thrown overboard, and, lighting directly upon the muzzle of the gun, exploded simultaneously with the shell that was being put in the piece. The casualties by this double explosion were fourteen in all — three killed and eleven wounded. The wounded were mostly but slightly hurt.
Re: Yazoo Pass Expedition
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:52 pm
fantastic!
Re: Yazoo Pass Expedition
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:46 pm
I've often wondered what it must have been like for Desoto. Can you imagine traversing MS in the 1500's? No bridges, no roads. Misquitoes and indians that had never seen a white man!
Re: Yazoo Pass Expedition
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:13 pm
My great great grandfather had 200 bales of cotten taken by the Yankee army from his "Gold Fob" plantation on the banks of the Tallahatchie near Lambert. After the war he travelled to Illinois and brought the issue to court for reimbursement. They reimbursed him $1200.00 for it...price must have gone way down by 1866. Any of you Lambert fellers ever heard of that plantation? Wonder if it's still around?
Re: Yazoo Pass Expedition
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:28 pm
Never heard of "Gold Fob".
Re: Yazoo Pass Expedition
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:49 pm
They are plucky, and will fight to the last.
Damn Right.
That was awesome. There ain't nothing like Civil War accounts and history.