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In the river-service, the mortar-boats were moored to the bank, and a derrick was set up in such a position that the shells could be hoisted up, and let fall into the yawning iron pot below. Foote had fourteen of these monsters pounding away at the Confederates, and the roar was deafening.
P'r'aps you know him, sir?" Whether or no, the name has had effect electrically on its hearer, who struggles frantically painfully hopelessly for speech. The officer says commiseratingly: "Poor devil! he's quite off his jaw"; and then, going to the open window, calls out to his mates of the river-service, below in the garden: "Keep an eye on the roof, boys." Then he goes out on the stair-landing.
Some were for the Union others would go with the Confederacy. Horace Bixby stood for the North, and in time was chief of the Union river-service. In the beginning a good many were not clear as to their opinions. Living both North and South, as they did, they divided their sympathies. Samuel Clemens was thoughtful, and far from bloodthirsty.
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