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Sewell Van Alstine diary, 1863-1864
1864-04-10, page 2
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59 river is getting very narrow, from 15 to 20 rods wide, current more rapid, the banks are not as high by ten or fifteen ft, have a good view of the country from the hurricane deck, is heavy timbered with a narrow strip of level land on one or the other side, cultivated, some places on both mostly planted to corn, found the cotton of each plantation burning, lately fired by the rebs, at 2.P.m, the boats in advance signaled by whistle, & the whole fleet stoped, & laid to, rumored there was a rebel battery ahead, troops were ordered ashore, some artillery landed, moved out a short distance formed in line, stacked arms, while a reconnaisance was made, reported that a large rebel transport, the Fall City, was sunk cross ways of the river effectively blockading our passage she reached from shore, to shore, probably had been loaded with brick or sand, had broke in the middle bow & stern resting on each shore, the center sunk to the hurricane deck, immediately commenced a retrograde movement, the smaller boats turning about larger ones dropping down backwards
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59 river is getting very narrow, from 15 to 20 rods wide, current more rapid, the banks are not as high by ten or fifteen ft, have a good view of the country from the hurricane deck, is heavy timbered with a narrow strip of level land on one or the other side, cultivated, some places on both mostly planted to corn, found the cotton of each plantation burning, lately fired by the rebs, at 2.P.m, the boats in advance signaled by whistle, & the whole fleet stoped, & laid to, rumored there was a rebel battery ahead, troops were ordered ashore, some artillery landed, moved out a short distance formed in line, stacked arms, while a reconnaisance was made, reported that a large rebel transport, the Fall City, was sunk cross ways of the river effectively blockading our passage she reached from shore, to shore, probably had been loaded with brick or sand, had broke in the middle bow & stern resting on each shore, the center sunk to the hurricane deck, immediately commenced a retrograde movement, the smaller boats turning about larger ones dropping down backwards
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