Identifier: ournavyintimeofw00matt (find matches)
Title: Our navy in time of war (1861-1898)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Matthews, Franklin, 1858-1917. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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t failed and was nearly drowned him-self. He reached the shore and hid in a swamp all thenext day. At night he learned from a negro thatthe Albemarle had been sunk. Taking a smallskiff, he went down the river alone, and, halfdead, he reached the Northern vessels. He was theonly man of the party to escape. Two were drowned,and the rest were taken prisoners. Cushing againshowed his bravery in the attack on Fort Fisher, whenhe led a party of sailors up the beach against the fort.He was made a commander in 1872, being the young-est man holding that grade in the navy. He died inWashington in 1874. Some of the bravest men in the United Statesnavy in the civil war were the pilots in the river steam-boats on the upper Mississippi and its branches. Itwas in the action at Fort Henry that two pilots werekilled, Marshall H. Ford and James McBride. Inthe attack on Fort Donelson two more were killed,Frank Riley and William Hinton. Another pilot hadbeen killed down the river near Fort Donelson a day
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i* ^ BRAVERY IN THE NAVY IN THE CIVIL WAR. 105 before. These river pilots were brave because tlieyknew it was almost certain death to them to go intoaction. The cannon of the Southern forts were aimedat the pilot houses first of all, in the hope of killingthe men in them, thus disabling the vessels. Pilotswere wounded in scores of fights along the Mississippiand up the streams that flow into it, especially fromArkansas. Brave as these men were, there were others atvarious times during the war who showed their cour-age below decks when death seemed at hand, and therewas little chance for escape. One of these men was onthe Southern ram Arkansas, which passed through Far-raguts entire fleet above Vicksburg. A large shotfrom one of the I^orthern A-essels had entered the en-gine room of the Arkansas and set the ship on fire. Aman named Stevens seized a hose, ran down into theengine room, and fought the fire all by himself, with-out having given an alarm. Another such brave manwas Ensign Ge

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