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the wheel were wound-
ed, but Lieut. Bache es-
THE IRON-CLAD
CINCINNATI
aped unbarmed.
Ox this page we pub-
picture of the
iron-clad gun-boat Ctn-
cinnati, as she appeared
the
" She started up the
river, as she made
great deal
rounded again the po
oppo-
before she
recen
site Vicksburg,
struck by a plunging 10-
inch smooth-bore or 7-
burg, where she was
sunk. Our picture is
İfled shot; she
commenced t
om a photograph
Lieut
who writes
of 27th Ma
lius H. Krohl
and her captain ran her
inshore, where she sank
to her hammock netting
The officers and crew
saved nothin
" This morning the so-
called iron-
nati, Lieut. Bache com-
manding, went down the
riv
on the top of a blu
above
could not be silenced
ccording to
captain the Cincinnate
lost about thirty men in
nce
nded, an
illed and
5 to 20 drowned.
" The Cincinnati was
one of the Western riv
en
er-built boats. She h
nto action, rounded t
the rebel batteries,
ere not
idle, and all the guns
that could be brought to
bear-rifled and smooth-
2 -inch iron plating for.
ward, extending aft to
about amidships; the
after-part was entirely
unprotected. The pho-
send I took
aft-
but the latte
rday before
bore
ned
r-part was covered with
Her tiller - ropes were
she got
bales of h
cinnati only returned
last Sunday from Cairo,
been re-
had a tower
some
her sides.
ot
The pilot was
ere she
led at the whee
pa
comma
THE IRON-CLAD GUN-BOAT "CINCINNATI," SUNK AT VICKSBURG [FRoM A PHOTOGRAPH
r riflemen
place. All the men a
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