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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ADMIRAL DEWEY |!
(FROM HEARSTS MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER)
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Admiral harragut. the leonine fightiH - . who, in speaking of
the loss of many brave men and lhe Mississippi in the attempt
to pass Port Hudson, said he was sorry, Init yon could not make
an omelet without breaking eggs.
The autobiography of Admiral
Dewey has been followed as it
appeared in HEARST'S MAGA
ZINE with all the interest due
to an important historical doc
ument, written by one who par
ticipated in some of the country’s
most stirring events.
Included in the instalment in
HEARST’S MAGAZINE for
SEPTEMBER, now on sale al
the news stands, the admiral
gives a picturesque account of
the terrific battle of Port Hudson.
T, HE passage of Forts Jackson and
St. Philip had been lively enough
for the fleet, but that of running
the batteries of Fort Hudson wus to
prove a far more serious undertaking.
I have often said that in this action I
lived about five years in one hour.
At the beginning of the spring of '63
Grant's and Sherman’s armies were
pressing towaid Vicksburg. The far
ther that the Confederates fell back
'he more concentrated became their
forces and the more desperate theip
resistance. After Farragut had re
turned down the river (Mississippi) in
the fall they had become awakened to
the weakness of the river's defenses
and the necessity of keeping open com.
munications with the rich granary to
the west of the Mississippi In north
ern Louisiana Arkansas and Texas
Their natural strongholds were Vicks
burg and Port Hudson, and these they
fortified with all the guns that could
possibly he spared from other points.
They had not the facilities that the
North hid for making artillery Other-
by the plentiful distribution of
batteries on tin hanks of the river
«here it was narrow ami the current
swift. the problem fo> tip I'mon fleet
would hate been much worse than it
w as
To Shut Off Vicksburg.
Efforts at blockade with single de
tached Vessels had failed. owing to Hie
activity of improvised ram* and cun
boats which tl i < 'ollfi del at > s r ■ pt up
the tributaries I'irragul'* oi.i'.l in
trying to take the fleet above Port
Hudson was to shut 3'i.ksbuig off from
supplies on the river side, while the
army was shutting ft off on th. and
sid<
He needed every <vaiial>l> slop f<>i
his purpose, and he now concluded that
*he Mississippi was not too heavy
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action after the dreary monotony of
surveying from deck the wharves of
New Orleans.
As executive officer in charge of the
general details of the ship. I had aimed
to make the best of the recess and'
overcome the handicap of my youth by
my zeal in training the crew of three
hundred men. fol w hopi 1 was respon
sible to the captain In the same way
that the manager of a corporation is
responsible to Its president and board
of directors We had developed the dis
cipline of a regular force, and certainly,
if drill of the guns’ crews counted for
anything, we should prove efficient in
battle.
On March 14, 1863. we had anchored
otf Profits island, which is seven miles
below Port Hudson, a little town that
went into history because it happened
to mark a sharp bend in the river run
ning west southwest fora distance of a
mile or mote.
Beginning at the bend was a line of
bluffs on the cast bank, varying from
80 to lint feet In height. On the oppo
site bank there was a dangerous shoal
point. On the bluffs were heavy guns
that could beat the length of the bend
and cover this point. They had a
plunging fire on us, while we had to
fire upward at them There were also
guns at the base of the bluffs The
time chosen for the passage was night,
again much against the predilections of
Captain Smith.
To Ward Off Grounding.
First and last, the old Mississippi, on
account of Iter sidewheels, had been In
a class by herself in Farragut's fleet.
Now tin other big ships, the Hartford.
th< Monongahela and the Richmond,
each were to li:m a gunboat made fast
to the port side which was the oppo
site side from the batteries.
Tile object of this pairing was the as
sistance i : the gunboat In helping her
heavy draught companion off the bot
tom if she tan aground. Thus Far
ragut applied the prfticlph of the twin
screws' facility in making a short turn
la l .■. king with on,- -i rew and going
air ad with tlie other Hut the Mis
sissippi, being a sidewheeler bad to
malo the passag, without a consort.
’ 33 *■ had oil « \pei iem ed pilot at our ser
vo ■ .is had « verv sldp. He was in one
iof the cuttiis unde, the guns on the
i port sid. . wlu re h< would at the same
Him be .if,. ~r bis safely was most
important and mar enough to ( all his
. erection* to the man at the wheel.
Thus a r ver pilot had become a fae
’ | tor In lighting a ship which had been
I built to tight in tin-open sea with plen
■itv of loom f,.r maneuvering
' . St ir: Ing at I«•p. ni .liter the Hart -
ill-ord whiih led. • an ■ the Monongahela,
f and Hon he. Hi. Imiond, with tin Mis-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT XEWS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 21, 1912.
SOME FEATURES IN HEARST’S MAGAZINE FOR SEPTEMBER
Among other features of notable interest in Hearst’s Magazine for September
a re:
“The Story of George Hohn." by David Graham Phillips; “A Lorimer Case
iti Ancient Rome.’ by Gugliemo Ferrero; “The Xew Criminology." by Governor
i George P. W. Hunt; “The Inside of the Cup." by Winston Churchill:’ “Standard
Oil and the Judiciary;" “Captain Kidd in Wall Street." by George Randolph
Chester, and reviews of Stage, Books, Art, Science. Politics, Finance, by the best
writers.
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sissippi bringing up the rear. Possibly
Farragut realized that the Mississippi
would be the most likely of the four
to run aground and therefore assigned
her to a position where she would not
get in the way of any following ship
if she did run aground. The Hartford
was already past the first of the bat
teries before the enemy threw up a
rocket as a signal that she -was seen
and the whole crest of the. bluff broke
into flashes. Piles of cord wood, soak
ed with pitch, were lighted to outline
the ships to the Confederate gunners.
33 hen the Richmond, the second ship
in line, was in front of the last battery,
a shot tore into her engine room. Such
whs its chance effect that it twisted the
safely valve lever, displacing the weight
and quickly tilling the engine room, fire
room and berth deck with steam.
In short order the steam pressure
fell so low that she could not go ahead
tinder her own motive power. The
Genesee, her gunboat, was not able with
her own power, to make any headway
for the two vessels against the strong
current. There was nothing to do but
for the pair to make an expeditious re
treat down stream to safety.
As the Monongahela came along she
found herself in the range of musketry
from the low bank on the port side,
which was silenced by her gunboat, the
Kineo. But the Kineo received a shot
which Jammed her rudder post and
rendered the rudder useless. Ah a re
sult. the Monongahela had to do all the
steering. She ran aground and the Ki
neo. carried on by her momentum as
the Monongahela suddenly stopped, tore
away ail of her fasts by which she was
bound to the Monongahela except one.
Then the Kineo got a hawser to the
Monongahela, and. laboring desper
ately. under fire, succeeded after 25
minutes effort in getting the Monon
| gahela free of the bottom.
Bridge Shot Away.
Meanwhile Captain MeKlnistry. of
the Monongahela, had had the bridge
shot way from under his feet, and had
received such a fall in consequence that
he was incapacitated. Lieutenant Com
mander N. 33'. Thomas took command'
in his place The Kineo drifted on
down stream, while the Monongahela
proceeded on her way until a heated
crank pin stopped her engines Thus
become unmanageable, she had to drift
! back dow n stream under the fire of the
batteries. She sustained a heavy loss
in killed ami wounded.
I refer to the experiences of three
ships which had preceded the Missis
sippi in order to show the hazardous
nature of Fariagut's undertaking. His
flagship, the Hartford, and her i on
sort. the gunboat Albatross, were all
1 of his command whiih he had with him
the next morning, and it was many
i weeks before any of the other ships
could Join him
The Mississippi, bringing up the rear,
i was soon literally enveloped In the pall
of smoke 33 e went by the Mononga
hela when she was aground, without,
so far a.» 1 know, either seeing or be
ing seen by he. Both Captain Smith
ami my self. felt that out destiny that
night was in the hands of the pilot.
There was nothing to do but to fire
back at the flashes on the bluffs and
trust to his expert knowledge. It was
new experience for hiifl—guiding a
heavy draught ocean-going ship in the
midst of battle smoke, with the shells
shrieking in his ears. By the time that
the Mississippi came within range of
the batteries they were making excel
lent practice.
Hard Aground.
We were going very slowly, feeling
our way as we approached the shoal
point. Finally, when the pilot thought
that> we were past it, he called out:
"Starboard the helm! Full speed
ahead! As it turned out. we were
anything but past the point. We star
boarded the helm straight into it and
struck just as we developed a powerful
momentum. We were hard aground
and listing, and backed with all the
capacity of the engines immediately.
In order to bring the ship on an even
keel, we ran in the port battery, which,
as it faced away from the bluffs, was
not engaged.
Every precaution to meet the emer
gency was taken promptly;’ and there
was remarkably little confusion, thanks
to the long drills which we had had off
New Orleans, and to the fact that all
Things Worth Remembering
Captain A. C. Caines .of Swansea,
has invented a safely vessel which lie
claims to be unsinkable. The model,
which has taken him a year or moie to
construct, shows a kind of airtight
belt round the hull of the craft. The
belt, which brings out the hull in a
curve, consists of a range of airtight
compartments along its whole length,
and the inventor claims that if the
ship were cut in two it could not sink.
The new station at Leipzig, said to
be the largest in the world, covers a
surface of 96,000 square meters. There
are fourteen platforms. In order that
passengers will.not be inconvenienced
by porters rushing to and fro bag
gage will be handled underground.
There is a postal station with 32 lines.
• which will permit 132 postal vans be
ing despatched at the same time. The
cost of building the station is put at
$35,500,000.
The latest motor novelty in Paris is
a taxicab woman of an unusual kind.
She is a pretty little Japanese, who
drives as well as any man, and her cab
!« never empty from morning till night.
There was a crowd around her in the
Place de I'Opera recently. for her
fare." not content with giving her a
comfortable tin. bought a large bunch
of roses from a passing hawker. The
crowd cheered and shouted, as they al
ways shout now. "Vive I‘entente cor
dials! "
A remarkable feat of strength has
Just been witnessed at Eaton Socon,
Bedfordshire Mi Spurgeon Thornton
made a wager that he would haul to
Hempsford bridge and back, a distance
of six miles, an American buggy con
taining four of the heaviest men in the
district within an hour. H. lost the
wager, but took only just a little over
th' hour to perform his astonishing
task. He is not < hallenging any one to
repeat the feat,
but a few of the crew had already been I
underjire in passing Forts Jackson and |
St. Philip.
But no amount of training could al
together prepare' men for such a situa
tion as we were in. With our own guns
barking, and the engines pounding, and
the paddle wheels making more noise
than usual, because we were aground, it
was difficult to make commands heard.
In half an hour ths engines never
budged us, while steadfastly and even
unconcernedly the engine room force I
stuck to their duties. We were being
more frequently hit; the toll of our
dead and wounded was increasing. Nat- j
urally, too. gunners of the enemy, who
could see the ship outlined by the bon- '
fires on the bank on the opposite side of
us from the batteries, had not failed to ,
note that we were aground.
The advantages of training on a sta
tionary target allowed them to make !
the most of our distress, while the
flashes of our own guns, and the burst
ing of the enemy's shells, only made the
1 intervals of darkness the more baffling
to the eyes. 1 remember hunting about
the deck for Captain Smith and
finding him lighting another cigar with
; a flint, quite as coolly as if he were do
ing it when we lay anchored off New-
Orleans.
Young ladies in Russia are not at all
averse to long engagements, and use
all sorts of artifices to stave off the ’
wedding day as long as possible: but
in no country in the world are court-j
ships so abnormally long as in Bohe
mia. where engagements commonly last
from fifteen to twenty years. In fact,
there recently died there, at the age of
ninety-nine, an old man who had been
courting for seventy-five years, and
who was married on his death-bed.
How is a person to become the sis
ter-in-law of her grandmother and the
aunt of her own mother? This puzzle
has been successfully solved by a young
lady. Mlle. Antoinette Graulliere. at Lu
nas. in the Dordogne. She married M.
Stalling-Laumont. of Pleurae, and. as
he happened to be her grand-uncle and
the brother of her grandmother, slit
thereby became her grandmother's sis-1
ter-in-law. At tiie same time she was,
according to law. the aunt of her own!
mother.
The recent riot at the Federal build
ing. Los Angeles, will be reproduced at
the trial of those arrested by motion
picture films, and shown to the jury on
a screen It will be the first time in
the history of jurisprudence that such :
evidence will have been introduced ]
While the riot was at Its height a
moving picture company, with the new
est modi I machine, had an operator on
the scene, and his films show the entire
actions of those persons who are
charged with having caused the dis
turbance.
A number of the large Swiss hotel
keepers are about "partially to sup
press" the tyranny of the tip in their
establishments. The method to be em
ployed is to charge a certain sum on .
the bill for "special services.” which
include various) items such as transport
of luggage, cleaning boots and bring
ing hot water. The tourist will be fre°
to tip any of the hotc’ employees extra
who have been of special service to
him. I
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