. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . m by Farragut, and it is safe to say that theywere successful only because under his immediate supervision. THE ATTACK ON VICKSBURG THE attack on Vicksburg on the 22d of May, 1862,by the Union forces, by the navy from the frontand the army under Grant from the rear, had notbeen successful. The 42,000 Confederate
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. Deeds of valor : how America's heroes won the medal of honor : personal reminiscences and records of officers and enlisted men who were awarded the congressional medal of honor for most conspicuous acts of bravery in battle : combined with an abridged history of our country's wars . m by Farragut, and it is safe to say that theywere successful only because under his immediate supervision. THE ATTACK ON VICKSBURG THE attack on Vicksburg on the 22d of May, 1862, by the Union forces, by the navy from the frontand the army under Grant from the rear, had notbeen successful. The 42, 000 Confederate troops un-der Pemberton kept their ramparts. On the 27th of May a request from the armyreached Admiral Porter to send some gunboats downthe river to clear out a battery of two guns whichwas said to hamper the extension of General Sher-mans right flank. The Cincinnati, thirteen guns, under command of Lieutenant George N. Bache, wasdetailed for the work. She started the next morningdown the river to seek out the small battery men-tioned in General Shermans request and destroy it.The Confederates had on a blufE a strong batteryconsisting of eleven heavy guns commanding this whole stretch of the river downto the small battery. The commander of this work. Colonel Higgins, formerly a. THOMAS E. CORCORAN, Landsman, U. S. S. Cinelnimti. Boi-n atDublin, Ireland, 1839.