He felt then, as most of us have felt since, that whatever happened the American navy would never fail.
"I hear the ships are going to bombard," said Warner.
"I heard so, too," said Pennington, "and I heard also that they will have to do it under the most difficult circumstances.

The water in front of Grand Gulf is so deep that the ships can't anchor.

It has a swift current, too, making at that point more than six knots an hour.

There are powerful eddies, too, and the batteries crowning the cliffs are so high that the cannon of the gunboats will have trouble in reaching them." "Still, Mr.Pessimist," said Dick, "remember what the gunboats did at Fort Henry.

You'll find the same kind of men here." "I wasn't trying to discourage you.