The killings and abuse Bodily_harm of the civilian population continued until 18 October , when troops guarding Patrolling a group of civilians forced them to walk Self_motion into a minefield at gunpoint and then opened Openness fire upon them .

The battle Hostile_encounter was marked Recording by Farragut 's seemingly rash but successful run through Motion a minefield that had just claimed Statement one of his ironclad monitors Scrutiny , enabling Preventing_or_letting his fleet Military_operation to get Getting beyond the range of the shore-based guns .