The Galveston-Houston Packet by Andrew W. Hall

Author:Andrew W. Hall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Leon Smith, commander of the “cottonclad” flotilla at the Battle of Galveston. From Lubbock’s Six Decades in Texas.

On the hurricane deck of each boat, Smith arranged a pair of boarding devices, one on each side, to mimic the Roman corvus from classical times. Probably Smith used the boats’ own landing stages, fitted with small anchors or grapnels at the outer end, that could be released to crash down onto an enemy vessel’s deck and hold fast. In the heat of battle, men would use the landing stage to rush across to the enemy ship in hopes of capturing her; for now, they loomed high above the makeshift gunboats, poised menacingly against the early winter sky.

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