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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Such ablockade could for the moment be only a paper one, as, tojustify the seizvn-e on the high seas of a neutral attem))tingto enter a 2)ort declared blockaded, there must be a force oft the2)ort sufficient to make entry dangerous. To enable capturesof such shijxs to be made, the Federal Government soon had toyield its theory of insurgency and treat the situation as oneof l)elligerency. The indecisive attitude of the administration during theperiod between the secession of South Carolina, December 20.1860, and the 4th of March, 1801, was of a character to encour-age the secessionist movement to the utmost. The only fortsof the South Avhich were garrisoned were jNIonroe and Sum-ter. Notwithstanding General Scotts report of inability togarrison the Southern forts for want of men, there can be no((uestion, from the returns of the War Department itself, thatthere was a number (;uite sufficient to hold them against anybut tried soldiers in large force. Two hundred men at each (22) X H ^e)
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUS, CO. A FIGHTING INVENTORREAR-ADMIRAL JOHN A. D.AHLCiREN ON BOARD THE U. S. S. PAWNEE IN CHARLESTON HARBOR Over the admirals right shoulder can be seen the ruins of the still unsurrendered Fort Sumter. It wasfor his services on land that Dahlgrcn was made rear-admiral, Feb. 7, 1863. He had been eniploj^ed onordnance duty between 1847-57. With the exception of a short cruise, he hail spent the ten years in per-fecting the Dahlgren gun, his own invention. In ISdi he was chief of the Bureau of Ordnance. Fromthis he stepped mto command of the South Atlantic blockading squadron, July 6, 1863. From that timeon he showed the qualities of a great commander in acti\e service. Not only did he bra^•ely and wiselydirect the naval activities in Charleston Harbor, but in February, 1864, he led the naval expedition up theSt. Johns River that was to cooperate with the troops in gainmg a hold in Florida. In December, 1864,he cooperated with General Sherman in the capture

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