{"id":"01KG8AJKCSFPGGGE7T8FNE7E1S","cid":"bafkreidrsyeiiojxqi7jp7y6waebvlvmmkvlx666tpzk4fytak6dug24vu","type":"segment","properties":{"description":"# FRIDAY’S GREAT EVENT!\n## Overview\nThis is a segment of text extracted from a larger file, specifically lines 688-746 of `battle_pieces_and_aspects_of_the_war.txt` ([01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8]). It is part of the poem within [Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War.](arke:01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9), a poetry collection by Herman Melville. The segment is labeled \"FRIDAY’S GREAT EVENT!\" and describes events related to the Battle of Fort Donelson.\n\n## Context\nThe segment is part of a larger collection of Melville's complete works, found in the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. It is preceded by the segment [FURTHER.](arke:01KG8AJKCQXPFPDA279EN2YZQE) and followed by [LATER.](arke:01KG8AJKCSKR8RQG2XRNFGPW6Y), forming a sequence of reports or updates on the battle's progress. The text was extracted automatically using a structure-extraction-lambda function.\n\n## Contents\nThe segment primarily consists of a poem describing the events of a Friday during the Battle of Fort Donelson. It recounts a victory where \"THE ENEMY’S WATER-BATTERIES BEAT!\" and \"WE SILENCED EVERY GUN!\" The poem then shifts to describing the arrival of reinforcements for Grant, the extent of the enemy's field-works, and a fierce fight between gun-boats and the Fort, including damage to the Louisville. The segment concludes with a brief mention of artillery exchanges and an unknown plan afoot as Friday closes around Donelson.\n","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:23.784Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"FRIDAY’S GREAT EVENT!","end_line":746,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:35.910Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"FRIDAY’S GREAT EVENT!","source_file":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","start_line":688,"text":"FRIDAY’S GREAT EVENT!\r\n\r\nTHE ENEMY’S WATER-BATTERIES BEAT!\r\n\r\nWE SILENCED EVERY GUN!\r\n\r\nTHE OLD COMMODORE’S COMPLIMENTS SENT\r\nPLUMP INTO DONELSON!\r\n\r\n“Well, well, go on!” exclaimed the crowd\r\nTo him who thus much read aloud.\r\n“That’s all,” he said. “What! nothing more”\r\n“Enough for a cheer, though--hip, hurrah!”\r\n“But here’s old Baldy come again--”\r\n“More news!”--And now a different strain.\r\n\r\n(Our own reporter a dispatch compiles,\r\n  As best he may, from varied sources.)\r\n\r\nLarge re-enforcements have arrived--\r\n  Munitions, men, and horses--\r\nFor Grant, and all debarked, with stores.\r\n\r\n  The enemy’s field-works extend six miles--\r\nThe gate still hid; so well contrived.\r\n\r\nYesterday stung us; frozen shores\r\n  Snow-clad, and through the drear defiles\r\n\r\nAnd over the desolate ridges blew\r\nA Lapland wind.\r\n               The main affair\r\n  Was a good two hours’ steady fight\r\nBetween our gun-boats and the Fort.\r\n  The Louisville’s wheel was smashed outright.\r\nA hundred-and-twenty-eight-pound ball\r\nCame planet-like through a starboard port,\r\nKilling three men, and wounding all\r\nThe rest of that gun’s crew,\r\n(The captain of the gun was cut in two);\r\nThen splintering and ripping went--\r\nNothing could be its continent.\r\n  In the narrow stream the Louisville,\r\nUnhelmed, grew lawless; swung around,\r\n  And would have thumped and drifted, till\r\nAll the fleet was driven aground,\r\nBut for the timely order to retire.\r\n\r\nSome damage from our fire, ’tis thought,\r\nWas done the water-batteries of the Fort.\r\n\r\nLittle else took place that day,\r\n  Except the field artillery in line\r\nWould now and then--for love, they say--\r\n    Exchange a valentine.\r\nThe old sharpshooting going on.\r\nSome plan afoot as yet unknown;\r\nSo Friday closed round Donelson.\r\n\r","title":"FRIDAY’S GREAT EVENT!"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJ6FNQ0XKWBY52P8DRPC9","peer_type":"poetry_collection","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1G8S4TRWXNCBRKCRKS8","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AJKCQXPFPDA279EN2YZQE","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AJKCSKR8RQG2XRNFGPW6Y","peer_type":"segment","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:36.857Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:24.011Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}