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Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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TheLafayette had the stronger armament, carrying two 11-inch Dahlgrens forward, four 9-inch guns in the broadside, and two 24-pound howitzers, with two 100-pound Parrott guns astern. She and the Choctaw were the most important acquisitions to Portersfleet toward the end of 1862. The Lafayette was built and armed for heavy fighting. She got her first taste of it on the night ofApril 16, 1863, when Porter took part of his fleet past the Vicksburg batteries to support Grants crossing of the river in anadvance on Vicksburg from below. The Lafayette, with a barge and a transport lashed to her, held her course with difficultythrough the tornado of shot and shell which poured from the Confederate batteries on the river front in Vicksburg as soon as themovement was discovered. The Lafayette stood up to this fiery christening and successfully ran the gantlet, as did all the othervessels save one transport. She was commanded during the Red River expedition by Lieutenant-Commander J. P. Foster.
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FARRAGUT AT THE PINNACLE OF HIS FAME Leaning on the cannon, Commander David Glasgow Farragut and Captain Percival Drayton, chief of staff, stand on the deck of the Hartford, after the victory in Mobile Bay. of August. 18G4. When Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, proposedthe capture of New Orleans from the southward he was regarded as utterly foolhardy. All that was needed, however, to make Foxsplan succcssfid was the man with spirit enough to undertake it and judgment sufficient to carry it out. Here on the deck of the fine newsloop-of-war that had been assigned to him as flagship, stands the man who had just accomplished a greater feat that made him a worldfigure as famous as Nelson. The Confederacy had found its great general among its owti people, but the great admiral of the war,although of Southern birth, had refused to fight against the flag for which, as a boy in the War of 1S12, he had seen men die. Fullof the fighting spirit of the old navy, he was able to ach

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