Crossword-Solution: CAYUGA 6 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The three big ones of the starboard column--_Pensacola, Mississippi_, and _Oneida_--closed with the fort (so that the gunners on both sides exchanged jeers of defiance) and kept up a furious fire till the lighter craft astern slipped past safely and joined the _Cayuga_ above.

Meanwhile the _Cayuga_ had been attacked by a mob of Mississippi steamers, six of which belonged to the original fourteen blessed with their precious independence by Secretary Benjamin, "backed by the whole Missouri Delegation." So when the rest of the Federal light craft came up, "all sorts of things happened" in a general free fight.

The _Brooklyn_ was the flagship _Hartford's_ next-astern and the _Richmond's_ next-ahead, these three forming the main body of Farragut's own port column, which followed hard on the heels of the starboard one, so hard, indeed, that there were only twenty minutes between the first shot fired by the forts at the _Cayuga_ and the first shot fired by the _Hartford_ at the forts.

She had fully expected to pass by daylight through the Empire State, and she had thought with how much delight her eye would rest upon the grassy meadows, the fertile plains, the winding Mohawk, the drone-like boats on the canal, the beautiful Cayuga, and the silvery water so famed in song; but, in contrast to all this, she was shut up in a dingy car, whose one dim lamp sent forth a sickly ray and sicklier smell, while without all was gloomy, dark, and drear.

God save you, here, from the blue-eyed Indians!" He stopped, hesitated, then, softly smiting one fist within the other: "But now I think their doom is sounding--Seneca, lying Cayuga, traitorous Onondaga, Mohawk, painted renegade--all are to go down into utter annihilation.