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THE BATTLE OF FORT PILLOW, MAY 10, 1862 (LOOKING NORTH). AFTER A SKETCH BY REAR-ADMIRAL WALKE.

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two of our ram squadron, the Queen of the West (Colonel Charles Ellet ) lead-ing, and the Monarch (Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Ellet, younger brother of theleader). These vessels fearlessly dashed ahead of our gun-boats, ran for theenemy’s fleet, and at the first plunge succeeded in sinking one vessel and dis-abling another. The astonished Confederates received them gallantly andeffectively. The Queen of the Wsst and Monarch were followed in line of battleby the gun-boats, under the lead of Flag-Officer Davis, and all of them openedfire, which was continued from the time we got within good range until theend of the battle—two or three tugs keeping all the while a safe distance astern.The Queen of the West was a quarter of a mile in advance of the Monarch,and after having rammed one of the enemy’s fleet, she was badly rammedby the Beauregard, which then, in company with the General Price, made adash at the Monarch as she approached them. The Beauregard, however,missed the Monarch and struck the General Price instead on her port side,cutting her down to the water-line, tearing off her wheel instantly, andplacing her hors de combat. The Monarch then rammed the Beauregard,which had been several times raked fore and aft by the shot and shell ofour iron-clads, and she quickly sank in the river opposite Memphis . TheGeneral Lovell, after having been badly rammed by the Queen of the West,was struck by our shot and shell, and, at about the same time and placeas the Beauregard, sank to the bottom so suddenly as to take a consider-able number of her officers and crew down with her, the others being savedby small boats and our tugs. The Price, Little Rebel (with a shot-hole