(CIVIL WAR NAVY) Description of a Confederate ship attempti

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(CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) Description of a Confederate ship attempting to run the Mississippi River blockade at the close of the war. Autograph Letter Signed as "Jes" to sister. 6 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on 2 sheets; separations at folds, crude tape repairs, minor chipping. New Orleans, 26 April [1865]

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A Union soldier describes one of the last naval incidents of the war, in which the CSS Webb made a desperate run down the Red River and the Mississippi in a bid for the open ocean, before finally being scuttled by its crew past New Orleans. The unidentified author devoted most of his long letter to a description of the pursuit: "All the men of war below us fired at her but did not hit her. She was going down the river at the rate of 30 miles an hour. There was a torpedo projecting from her bow. . . . The prevailing opinion here is that Jeff Davis or some other of the leaders of the Confederacy were on board."