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Identifier: abrahamlincolnba01newy (find matches)
Title: Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Generals Generals
Publisher: (New York, N.Y.) : (The Century Co.)
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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commission, and the iron-clad hntisiana, mounting sixteen heavy gunsand heavily armored, was hurried towardcompletion. JJesides these vessels there weretwo other powerful iron-dads building at New the South will seem marvelous when comparedwith what was done by the North during thesame jjeriod of time; for among all the shipsthat were sent to Farragut there was not onewhose sides could resist a twelve-pound shot.Considering the great resources of the North-ern States, this supineness of the Governmentseems inexcusable. Up to the time of thesailing of the expedition, only one small iron-clad, the Monitor, had been commenced ; andit was only after her encounter with the Mer-rimac that it was seen hoVuseful vessels of thisc;lass would be for the attack on New Orleans,l>artici.ilarly in contending with the forts onthe banks of the iMississi))pi. Mag-fjfticer larragut did not arrive at ShipIsland with the /far/fan/ until the 20th of THE OPENING OF THE LOWER AflSSlSS/PPl. 931 BMIfPHSi™
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COMMANDER DAVID D. PORTER (NOW ADMIRAL U. S. N.),— IN COMMAND OF THE MORTAK-FLttT AlFORTS JACKSON AND ST. PHILIP. February, 1862, he having been detained forsome time at Key West, where he commencedarranging his squadron for the difficult taskthat lay before him. The vessels which had been assigned tohis command soon began to arrive, and bythe middle of March the following ships andgun-boats had reported: Hartford, 25 guns,Commander Richard \\ainwright; Brooklyn,24 guns. Captain T. T. Craven ; Ricltmond, 26guns, Commander James Alden ; Mississippi,12 guns. Commander Melancton Smith; Pc::-saco/a, 24 guns, Captain H. W. Morris; Qjyu- i^a, 6 guns, Lieutenant-comg N. B. Harrison;Oneida, 9 guns, Commander S. P. Lee; / arnna,ID guns. Commander Charles S. Boggs; Ka-tahdin,^ guns, Lieutenant-comg Ccorge H.Preble; Kineo, 4 guns, Lieutenant-comgGeorge M. Ransom; Uissahickon, 4 guns,Lieutenant-comg A. N. Smith; Witwna, 4guns, Lieutenant-comg E. T. Nichols^; Itasca,4 guns, Lieutenant-comg C. H.

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