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,0r»i+-< FOREST GROVE PRESS, F O R E S T _ G R O V E , OREGON, THURSDAY, A PRIL It), 1913. Forest Grove = Steam Laundry W ood, C o ld C o a l, S to ra g e and Ice. MERTZ & LATTA Cor. 5th Ave. and 2nd St., Forest Grove, Ore. W. F. HARTRAMPH Feed Mill will run every day in the week. The War Fifty Years Ago A Battle Royal Between Fort Sumter and Federal Iron clads-—Nine New and Powerful Monitors Steam Within 1,300 Yards— A Fierce Rain of Confederate Shells—-Batteries Adjoining the Old Fort Lend Aid Against the Monitors---Over 5 0 0 Shots Land on the T a rg e t-S ix Ironclads Disabled— One Riddled Like a Colander— Little Damage to the Fort— Lincoln Reviews the Army of the Potomac In Camp. L. K I L M E R . L«ts U. ». V. N April 7. 1803, a Federal fleet made the first uttem pt to re cover F o rt Sum ter. The officers and sailors of the fleet were stim ulated by a latent desire to see the old flaw floating once more from the stuff where it had beeu humiliated April 14. 1801, but th at was not the sole end in view. T h e genesis of tills a tta ck on Fort Sum ter was the Invention o f the Iron- clad. IJlg guns will b atter down con- crete parapets If they get near enough, but wooden floating batteries were use less under the tire which the Confed erates could pour upon an attacking B y C io ltln CEO. O mostly ricochet shots, which glanced from the w ater over the fo rt and to the right or left of It. T h e battle casu alties on both sides were slight. Five men were wounded In Sum ter, four killed and four wounded lu Wagner by accident and one killed In Moultrie. Lincoln at the Front. President Lincoln reviewed the In fantry corps o f the Army o f the Poto m ac on a Held near the g re at camps along the Rappahannock on April 9. This was a novel and in terestin g epi sode of the execu tive's relationship to the army. T h e “lady of the White House” witnessed the parade of the troops from a barouche draw n up on the edge o f the review ing Held. By the president's side when he rode aloug the line o f soldiers was his third son, “T ad .” mounted on a pony. tired when they saw the signal to re This w a s the third uppenrnuce of treat. It w as then 5 o’clock p. m. T h e Mr. Lincoln in cam p Ju st at the time Keokuk w as found to be the w orst of what w as described In those days hurt o f them all. “She w as riddled ns "a bitter feelin g” on the part of like a colander and th e w orst mauled the army tow ard the adm inistration. ship one ev er saw ,” w rote Dupont's The first was at H arrison's Lnudlng, In ch ie f of staff. H er hull was pierced Ju ly 1802, a fte r the disastrous expe by thirteen holes, and her tu rret had riences In the Cbiekahouiiny swamps been bored through and through. I le r before Richmond. The second was at gallant com m ander. C ap tain Itlilnd, Antietam soon a fte r the b a ttle and the cam e forw ard bleeding and lim ping proclamation of em ancipation. from a wound received th at day. He Many o f the soldiers thought that anchored his ship, but she soon w ent the disasters o f the peninsula had been to the bottom. brought on by in terferen ce a t W ash On all o f the ships th e m echanics ington; also th a t the victory of forcing worked the whole night to repair the Lee to abandon M aryland w as a vindi damage In anticipation o f a renew al of cation of the arm y and its leader and G ILTNER’S RO CERY ••• Phone Main 701 South Main Street, Forest Grove, Ore. 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T h e a tta ck in g guns must be protected by iron walls, and Admiral S. I*\ Dupont, the Federal fleet com mander, waited for an Ironclad fleet to be created before m aking the first dash a t Sum ter. In order to test the new class ships Dupont sent the M ontauk to batter at the mud walls of Fort M cA llister. The fort was not severely harmed, but tlio Ironclad stayed for hours under a rain of shots which barely dented her arm or. Fleet of New Ironclads. Seven of the nine Ironclads In D u pont's fleet were monitors, each carry ing one eleven inch and one fifteen Inch gun In a single turret. T h ese were the M ontauk, C atskill, W eehaw ken, I ’a- tapseo, N antucket, P assaic and Nn- hant. In the fleet also were two e x perim ents In Ironclads, the Keokuk mid the New ironsides. T h e New Iron sides w as an arm ored battleship, som e Tinning and Plumbing, Sheet thing a fte r the pattern o f the Confed erate ram Merrimuc. S h e was not Metal Work and Re armed with a ram , and her roof was flat Instead of sloping. Her arm am ent pair Shop. were tw o lotl pounder pivot rifles and fourteen eleven inch guns In broad side. T h e Keokuk was a double turret monitor of extra length and width. North First Avenue, between Main and T h e fleet was to enter n channel “ A ” Streets; phone Sli.'t. planted with obstructions as well as torpedoes and there face the lire of sixty nine guns which swept the sea. Dupont's orders w ere to concentrate the lire of the ships upon the cen ter em brasure o f Sum ter. T h e walls of the fori rose forty live feet above high w ater and were built of gray brick laid with m ortar, a con crete o f |»>und- ed oyster shells and cem ent. A still firm er concrete had been used for the em brasures, which alw ays get the hardest blows iu a light. In thickness the w alls varied from live to ten feet. W M . W E IT Z E L From the preparing of the food to a b s o lu te the serving, cleanliness and painstaking care is observ ed by the Forest Grove Oyster House Everything to Eat O y sters and Shellfish a Specialty. Open Day and Night ED. BOOS, Proprietor — y — r BUTTER WRAPPER P R IN T IN G FOREST GROVE PRESS 100 for $1.25 25 0 for $1.75 500 for $2.25 Publishing Co. IRO N C LA D A TTA C K . the attack in the morning. B u t aay* a rebuke to th eir critics. And some, light revealed the fleet’s hopeless con Including prom inent and influential o f dition, and the b attle was postponed. ficers, didn’t w ant to fight an "ab o li The purpose o f the a tta ck on the 7th tion w ar.” was to reconnolter the channel and All of the execu tiv e excursions to test the ships. All the ship com m and camp had been well timed. T h is may ers agreed with the adm iral th at the or may not have been due to delibera forts were stronger than ironclad tion. One thing Mr. Lincoln could a l ships. ways depend upon, “even bank o n "— The W eehaw ken w as stru ck fifty- that was the popular affection fo r and three tim es and her deck sm ashed so 1 Im perishable faith In "Old Abe.” that the w ater ran through, while her O f Mr. Lincoln absen t the soldiers tu rret could scarcely be revolved, ow could have "h itte r" thoughts. F a ce to ing to the dents o f heavy blows. The face he w as alw ays “F a th e r A bra l'a ssa lc received thirty-five hits, one ham.” (The w riter was present on the gun was disabled »and the turret Jam three occasions cited and well rem em med so as to be Immovable. One rifle bers th a t Mr. Lincoln’s appearance shot broke eleven plates o f the turret somehow alw ays allayed th a t "b itte i and upset the pilot house. The Pa- . feeling.”) tapsco was stru ck forty-seven times. The N antucket w as struck flft.v-one ; Little “Tad” on Horseback. tim es and her turret was. disabled, j I t was a new view o f " F a th e r A bra T h e N ahant received thirty-six shots, j ham " which the arm y had th a t su and her tu rre t was disabled. The Mon perb April day on the broad slopes of tauk and Catsl^ill w ere bit many tim es, j Stafford. T h e president, Mrs. Lincoln but not disabled. T h e ironsides was j and "T a d ” had been a t the fro n t three The Keokuk n Floating Wreck. W hile the Ironsides lay d riftin g in the current M oultrie directed all Its Are upon her. T h is w as answ ered by a broadside, th e only shots tired at Moultrie. M eanw hile the other ships ran th eir ceu rss tip to the obstructions, opened Are as directed and only ra Is O u r M o tto and we endeavor to live up to it at all times. W hen we fail to deliver a job of printed work which entirely satisfies, we are prepared to make it right. job turned out of this A office must be correct in every par ticular. Bring your work to the P re s s P u b lish in g C o . and be assured of securing some thing which is typographically H H IH correct, tasty in construction and neat in appearance. ¡É fe i ELECTRIC Old Fort Moultrie Opens Fire. T h e batteries at the en tran ce to the channel paid no attention to the ad vancing fleet as It passed silently on. steering for Sum ter, but when the W eehaw ken cam e within range o f Fort Moultrie a salute of thirteen gipis a n nounced the opening of S u m ter's new career as a Confederate. It was then It o 'clo ck . Fort Moultrie tired the first shot, which the W eehaw ken answered. Then Sum ter, B attery Bee and Battery Beauregard. Cumm lng's Point and B attery W agner opened lire. The first adventures cam e to the m onitor W eehaw ken. which ran close up to som e o bstructions In the channel I>etween Sum ter and M oultrie and got In the first shot. Finding Ids ship In danger o f being snared by the obstruc tions. the cap tain turned her about, lighting from the stern As the ves sel turned a to rivd o exploded under her bow, but did no serious damage. Dupont's flagship. Ironsides, proved unwieldy In action. She steam ed within 1.500 yards of Sum ter, but was at the mercy o f the current, which carried her directly over a torpedo holding 2.000 pounds o f powder and connected with B attery W agner by an electric wire. T h e Confederate elec trician In W agner was accused o f treachery for not sending her to the bottom , but the wire was proved to ho “out o f ord er" at the time. Neat printing POWER P R E S ID E N T LIN CO LN AND "T A D ," U 1S SON. hit ninety-five times, but with little damage During the battle the balls could be distinctly seen iu their course with the naked eye. days. T h eir presence was general ly -known. It brought the color of home Into the cheerless camps. "T a d " was a child In spite o f his zouave cap and Ja ck e t and "Is sits and spurs.” His Slight Effect on the Fort. m ilitary outfit w as a home fad. Now T h e iron, lad tire damaged Fort Sum for once, he was a soldier am ong sol ter In a few places, particularly on the diers, even having an "o rd erly " duly outer wall or sea front, where two equipped, to ride a fte r him. T lie or monitor shells from fifteen Inch and derly was a real soldier, being a bugler eleven In. li guns strm k together, n ia k -• at the headquarters of General Sickles lug a c ra te r six feet high and eight "T a d ” was ten years old and his or feet wide In another plaee the p ara derly about the sam e-age. pet « a s loosened for a space o f tw en T h e task la-fore Mr. Lincoln, this ty five feet. The ironclads fired 151 time fifty years ago, was to Inspire the shots at the fort, ami fifty live hit the confidence o f the arm y as a whole tn mark. his new appointee for com mander. The array Sum ter's guns fired SH> shots, and G eneral Joseph ILioker. the surrounding batteries fired 1,390. well knew o f the one personal falling Out o f 2.200 shots fired at the Iron of Hooker which all but defeated his clads 520 Inn.led on the vessels, and candidacy for leadership. Surprise six out of nine ships were practically rath er than bitterness followed hts ap disabled In action. The vessels stood pointment. H owever, during the two off L.'liM to 1 4(io yards from Sum ter months th at had elapsed, surprise had and a greater distance from the other given way to m Inclination !s make batteries. The Federal shots were the best o f I t Cheapest and Best W ashington-Oregon Corporation.