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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews 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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arragansett, Dacotah, Iroquois, Wyoming,and Seminole had been placed in commission. These shipswere of the highest developed type of construction and com-pared favorably at that time with any war vessels in the world. Summing uf) the serviceable navy, we find that it con-sisted of two saihng frigates, eleven sailing sloops, one screwfrigate, five screw sloops of the first class, three side-wheelsteamers, eight screw sloops of the second class, and five screwsloops of the third class. Available, but laid up in variousyards, were other vessels, including eighteen propelled by sailalone, five screw frigates, one screw sloop, and three or fourside-wheel steamers. Yet, in spite of all this showing, at theopening of the year 1861 there was presented to the Nationa remarkable condition of affairs—a condition that it is almostunbelievable that it should have existed. The country stoodaghast at its own unpreparedness. There were but two shipsavailable to guard the entire Atlantic coast! (481
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REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. WITH ALL SAILS SET Despite the presence of magnificent force and might in the great modern vessel of war that rates from twelveto twenty thousand tons, there is little that suggests the romance of the sea about the huge mass of steel,magnificent and formidable though it may appear. The modern shijj is sexless, or rather masculine.But no one would apply to such a fine old war-vessel as is pictured here, the training-ship Saratoga,anything less than the sailors half-endearing term of femininity. Ships, just as we see this one, foughtin the War of the Revolution, and, with hardly a change, the Saratoga appears here as in theMediterranean she forged ahead in chase of one of the Barbary pirates, or maneuvered to escape from aBritish seventy-four in the War of 1812. In the older days, she would not ha^e had the handy doubletopsails which give her one more yard to each mast. Perhaps with single topsails she looked still hand-somer. It required seamanship in those days t

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