Clifton (left) is captured at Sabine Pass along with USS Sachem
English: The Union gunboats USS Clifton and USS Sachem are captured by Confederate forces during the Second Battle of Sabine Pass. Description from Flickr follows: Identifier: soldierinourcivi02lesl (find matches) Title: The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife Year: 1893 (1890s) Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880 Mottelay, Paul Fleury, b. 1841, ed Campbell-Copeland, T. (Thomas), ed Beath, Robert B. (Robert Burns), 1839-1914 Vandervoort, Paul. History of the Grand Army of the Republic Avery, I. W. (Isaac Wheeler), 1837-1897. History of the Confederate Veterans' Association Davis, A. P. History of the Sons of Veterans Merrill, Frank P. History of the Sons of Veterans Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Navy Grand Army of the Republic United Confederate Veterans Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Publisher: New York Atlanta : Stanley Bradley Pub. Co. Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: en. At about 10 oclock in tho evening the expeditionreached the vicinity of Fort Sumter, and thecrews of three of the boats scaled the ruins inexpectation of completely surprising tho garrison.They, however, counted without tlioir host, forMajor S. Elliott had received intimation of whatwas going on, nnd oa the Federals advanced theywere met by a perfect sliowcr of mu&oCt-balls nndliand-gronudes from the garrison, as well as by tholiro from neighboring batteries. The Federals werecompelled to fall bac!c to their boats, which had intho menntimo been attacked and been made to suf-fer by Confederates on board of vessels, who cap-tured many prisoners nnd colors, nnd prevented theescape oC more than half the original number. Nothing else of moment occurred in CharlestonITarbor, iLtide from the continual and very de-structive bombardment of Fort Sumter, until ths5th of the folloiving month, when Lieutenant Glas-scll, with the cigar-shaped torpedo boat Davia THE SOLDIER JN i^UR IfJL VAA. Text Appearing After Image: The soldier in our c/iil W.-ir. igi niaat viaa huilcd (it a (juartcr paet 9 oclockin tlio evening, but fiiilcd to iinswer, nnd im-inedintoly discharged a torpedo^ wbicli, how-ever, cannctl bnt littlo damage. Einelly throe weeks after the laat-iiamcdnttempt the Federals opened upon Fort Snm-mr from tbcir batteries on Morris Island, inrunjiinctioD with a croBs-fire from the heavygiiiiB on Doard the Lehiijh and Iulapsco. Oniho 0th of December the Weehawken sankivhilo attached to one of the mooriiig-hiioys olTMorris laltind. This was owing to the builtrim in which she wna left after the iiddition,f rpiitc ft henvy woiglit of iimmunition, and in■unBoqiicnco of which ft hirge vohime of water■xnn admitted throngh the ports ns well asriTider tlio turret. The Wtf/iawl-eii cnrriL-dilown witli her 4 ofliccrs and 20 men beforellio pro()or assistance conld reach the sinking Tbo opcrntionB in Charl Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.